Bracha L. Ettinger (b. 1948, Tel Aviv) lives and works in Paris. Deeply intertwined with her own writing, Bracha L. Ettinger’s intimately-scaled paintings represent an ongoing examination of the space of wounds, including those that are cultural, historical, as well as personal. Built through successive thin veils of paint and pointillist marks, often over the course of several years, her paintings adopt an almost holographic appearance, as spectral figures emerge from fields of movement. Organized in ongoing series or cycles that take their titles from mythological female figures, as well as art historical scenes like the Pietà, Bracha looks at the ways in which women have been made to be vessels for trauma, and carriers of grief across generations. Through abstraction, this space is not portrayed as a monolithic one, but a mutable one that connects memory and experience with healing, and builds a resonance across image, language, and emotion.

Earlier this year, Bracha's work was the subject of a seven day exhibition at the Hotel Metropole, Venice, coinciding with the opening of the Venice Biennale. Titled Bracha. The Room Is Shared, and curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, the exhibition transformed the room where Sigmund Freud partly wrote The Interpretation of Dreams between 1895 and 1899. In 2025, Ettinger's work was the subject of the exhibition Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger at K21, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany. In 2024, Andrew Kreps Gallery presented her solo show Bracha L. Ettinger, and the same year her work was the subject of the exhibition Eurydice—Kaddish—Medusa, Centre Pompidou, Paris. In 2023, the Castello di Rivoli, Turin presented Bracha’s Notebooks and her work was additionally included in Espressioni. The Proposition, on view simultaneously at the Castello di Rivoli. In 2021 her work was also included in the exhibition Psychic Wounds: On Art & Trauma, at The Warehouse, Dallas. Past solo exhibitions of Bracha’s work include UB Anderson Gallery, University of Buffalo, New York, 2018, Silesian Museum, Katowice, 2017, the Museum of the City of St. Petersburg, Russia, 2013, the Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Angers, France, 2011, the Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, 2010, Freud Museum, London, 2009, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, 2006, and The Drawing Center, New York, 2001, among others. Additionally, Bracha participated in the 2019 Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India, and the 14th Istanbul Biennial, SALTWATER: A Theory of Thought Forms, 2015. Her works are held in the permanent collections of Centre Pompidou, Paris, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, GAM, Turin, Museum of Angers, France, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv Museum of Art and Haifa Museum of Art, Israel, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland, among others. Bracha L. Ettinger is the author of numerous articles and books on art, psychoanalysis, aesthetics, and ethics including Regard et Espace-de-bord matrixiels, La lettre volee, 1999, The Matrixial Borderspace (essays from 1994-1999), University of Minnesota Press, 2006, Proto-Ética Matricial, Gedisa, 2019, And My Heart Wound-Space, 14 Istanbul Biennial / Wild Pansy Press, University of Leeds. 2015, Matrixial Subjectivity, Aesthetics, Ethics, Vol 1:1990-2000, edited by Griselda Pollock, Palgrave Macmillan 2020.