Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson (born 1984, Moscow) is a multilingual visual artist who immigrated to Israel (1991), grew up in Jerusalem and since 2016 lives and works in Berlin. Her own hybrid identity drives her to inspect cultural self-definition in individuals and in communities. In her work she explores and contemplates manifestations of migration and integration processes through visualisation of language. Her artwork is site-specific and often leaning on existing poetry. She believes that connecting a specific text to a specific place is a form of art.

She studied in the Jerusalem High School for the Arts, Bezalel Academy of Arts, Jerusalem and in the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She creates interventions in the public space and site-specific murals in public locations such as Klingspor Museum, Offenbach am Main (2021), PHV, Heidelberg, in the frame of JMKT, the Muslim Academy i. G. and the University of Jewish Studies (2021), Antique Toy Museum (Mexico City, 2020), ZK/U Berlin (2019), Kindl Brauerei, Berlin (2019), The Jerusalem Biennale (2019) and JCC, Berkeley, California (2018). Works were shown in at Root Division gallery, San Francisco (2020), Literaturhaus Berlin (2019), The Altes Rathaus Marzahn, Berlin (2018), BB Galeria, Krakow (2017), Mazeh 9 Gallery, Israel (2017), Almacén gallery (2017), the Museum of Islamic and Near Eastern Culture, Israel (2016-2017), Jaffa Museum (2016-2017) and more. Work is included in the collection of Klingspor Museum, Offenbach am Main (2017). Her projects were funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe (2021), Kulturprojekte Berlin (2020) and others.

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