Our dear friend Yishay Garbasz passed away suddenly and unexpectedly at the age of 55. She was a renowned Berlin-based artist and photographer, a fierce activist for trans and queer people, and a loyal friend to many.

As we, her friends, mourn her loss, we also look ahead to the preservation of her immense body of work. We need your continued support for this endeavour, which will ultimately involve placing the work in a collection that respects her life and artistic practice.

As a marginalized artist, Yishay was often living on the edge of financial stability and fought many hard battles to keep her archive of cherished artworks. Many of them were recently returned to her from her gallery in New York, and remain in crates in her apartment. Our hope is that we can transport and store them temporarily, and eventually find a home for them, either in an institutional collection or amongst close friends.

Please help us to keep Yishay's memory alive through her work. We are now fundraising for the transportation, storage and preservation of her artworks on a long-term basis.

About Yishay Garbasz:

Over the span of her formidable, more than 20-year artistic career, Berlin-based, British Israeli artist Yishay Garbasz has amassed an impressive portfolio of photographic works, monographic books and internationally exhibited installations and performances. She presented her works worldwide—from her representation at Ronald Feldman Gallery in New York, to her participation in biennials and exhibitions in Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

Yishay's art practice explored the culturally specific inheritance of traumatic memories. She was driven by her desire to see the darkest parts of humanity and to use her practice to illuminate them. By working with marginalized communities and in areas affected by war and disaster, she engaged in a continual process of making the invisible visible, making the unsightly tenderly seen.

https://yishay.com/