CURRICLUM VITAE

"From the very start of his artistic itinerary, Erez Israeli is confronted with the dilemma of the artist, who does not shun away from dealing with issues tending the risk of over emotionality and the immersion in clichés. His intensive oeuvre succeeds to awaken emotions which have dimmed, and puts life into images, that dealing with them, seems to have been exhausted to the surfeit. He acts, as he puts it, out of a feeling of “urgency to make a significant statement in the plastic art." His art deals with representations of death and beauty, pain and desire, while in addition he confronts issues that touch upon one’s identity and identification, immortalisation and oblivion, monumentality and putting it on hold as well." (Edna Mosenson, Israeli curator)

EREZ ISRAELI

Born in 1974 in Beer Sheva, Israel

Lives and works in Berlin

EDUCATION

2014 MFA, Advanced Studies Program in Fine Art, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel

2003 BED, Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit-Berl Academic College, Israel

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019 Black Milk, FALKENROT PRIZE, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

2018 Paris Photo November, Solo Presentation, Gallery Crone, Paris, France

2017 Die klare Sonne bringt’s an den Tag, Galerie Crone, Vienna, Austria

Birds, Art Academy of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
2015 The Difference Between OOOOH and AAAAH, Galerie Crone, Berlin, Germany

Erez Israeli at Viennacontemporary, Galerie Crone, Berlin, Vienna, Austria
2014 Firewall Mural, a wall painting project on the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2013 Berlin 2013, Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2012 Lowland, Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2012 Erez Israeli – Prints, Tel-Aviv Art Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
2010 Erez Israeli: Ashpara, candidate at the last stage for the Nathan Gottsdiner Award, the award for

Israeli Art, Tel-Aviv Art Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel

2009 Friday Night, Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2007 Love Song, Emergency Exit New Media Center, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel

2003 21 Self Exhibitions, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Selection)

2019 No Photos on The Dance Floor, C/O Berlin, Germany

Drop Dead Funny: Contemporary Art from Israel, The House of the Lords of Kunstat, Brno, Czech Republic

First Person Singular: Masculinities in Israeli Art, Ashdod Art Museum, Israel

Not the End. Artists interpret the Holocaust, Living History Forum, Stockholm, June 13 to August 24

The Case of Hiroshima, Museum of the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
2018 The Magic Kingdom, Uri Rami Nehostan Museum, Kibbuz Ashdot Yaakov, Israel

A Fist of Pure Emotion, Gallery Crone, Berlin, Germany

The Great Escape, New Art from Berlin, Pop/off/Art Gallery Moscow, Russia Body Talk, Circle1 Gallery, Berlin, Germany

About Heroes, Memorial Center Gallery Tivon, Kiryat Tivon, Israel

2017 Dreams and Dramas, New Zuzeum Art Center, Riga, Latvia

Izrael Banzai: Contemporary Israeli art, Hotel Bogota, Berlin, Germany

2016 Behold the Man: Jesus in Israeli Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

Impressions 6 - Return of the Paper / Thoughts on Drawing: The 6th Biennale for Drawing in Israel,

Artists House, Jerusalem, Israel
2015 Un Musée imaginaire, Collection Lambert in Avignon, France

Poland – Israel – Germany: The Experience of Auschwitz, MOCAK, Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow, Poland
Beuys, Beuys, Beuys, Artist House Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel
2014 Progress and Hygiene, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland

Back to Berlin, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel

Concrete, Bulimia, Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center, Tel Aviv, Israel

The Winners, 2013,The Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel

2013 Blood of the Maccabees: Memory and Bereavement in Israeli Art, the Negev Museum of Art, Beer Sheva, Israel

Print Time, Tefen Museum, Tefen, Israel
End Foretold, p8 Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
War Game, Horanim Gallery, Kiryat Tivon, Israel

2012 Beyond Memory, Museum on The Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
The Absent Body, Beit Hatfutsot – The Museum of The Jewish People, Tel Aviv, Israel

Bronner Residency: Die Stipendiaten, Kit Museum, Dusseldorf, Germany

2011 Erez Israeli – Gili Avissar, Museum Goch, Germany
Body without Body. Georg-Kolbe-Museum, Berlin, Germany

Wreaths, permanent work at the Tel-Aviv Art Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel

Nimrod’s Descendants, The Jerusalem Artists’ House, Jerusalem, Israel

2010 Susan Hiller: A Work in Progress, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

Tachycaria – Tribute to Francis Bacon, Sommer Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

Shelf Life, Haifa Art Museum, Haifa, Israel
Family Files, The Jewish Museum, Munich, Germany
The Silence Before the Storm, Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art Moscow, Russia

2009 Flesh and Blood, Rachel and Israel Pollak Gallery, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel Four Openings in Israeli Art, Bezalel Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

Family Traces, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

Second Show: Contemporary Art from The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Mani House, Tel Aviv, Israel

2008 Israeli Contemporary Art, Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Italy

First Show Contemporary Art from The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Mani House, Tel Aviv, Israel Real Time, Art in Israel, 1998-2008 The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Art of the State, Contemporary Photography and Video Art from Israel, Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Territorial Bodies, Contemporary Sculpture from Israel, Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, The Netherlands
Depletion, Works from the Doron Sebbag Art Collection, ORS Ltd., Tel Aviv Museum of Art,
Tel Aviv, Israel

2007 Prize in Art and Design from the Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Israel

Engagement: Israeli Photography Now, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
BoysCraft, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
Young Israeli Art Recipients of the Legacy Heritage Fund Prize, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Pavillion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
News 2007: New Acquisitions, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel

2006 Mixed Emotions, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel

Mini Israel, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Salame 006, Graduation Show, Bazalel Academy of Art and Design, Tel Aviv, Israel Flowering of the Nightpot, Kibbutz Be’eri Gallery, Israel
Young Israeli Art: the Morasha Foundation Award,
Helena Rubinstein Pavillion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Art Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel

2006 Life Saver, The 10th International Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy
News: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

2005 The New Hebrews: A Century of Art in Israel, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany Passages, The Artists’ House, Tel Aviv, Israel

Orlando, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem, Israel

2004 Critically Correct, Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

Rose C’est La Vie: On Flowers in Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

Time Depot, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Petach Tikva, Israel
2003 Day by Day, Year after Year, Memorial Center Gallery, Tivon, Israel

Youth and Longing, Omanut Haaretz Art Festival, Reading Power Station Compound, Tel Aviv, Israel

AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

2012   Award of the Israeli Minister of Culture
2011   Goethe-Institut Artist Residence Exchange, Israel
2010    The Beatrcie S. Koliner Award for Young Israeli Artists, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

2009   Keren Sandel Foundation and the Sandel Family Foundation‘s Award for Sculpturing,Tel Aviv Museum
2007   Award of the Morasha Foundation, Tel Aviv Art Museum
2007 The Legacy Heritage Fund Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2006   The Hadassah and Rafael Klatchkin Prize for Art, America-Israel Cultural Foundation

Young Artist Award, Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport, Jerusalem, Israel

2005 America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship

The Rich Foundation Award for Education, Culture and Welfare, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Tel Aviv, Israel
Isracard and Tel Aviv Museum of Art Prize for an Israeli Artist, Tel Aviv, Israel

2004 Creativity Grant Promotion, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel

2003 Excellence Scholarship, Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit-Berl Academic College, Israel

Berl Katznelson Excellence Scholarship for Installation, Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit-Berl Academic College, Israel
2002 America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship

Excellence Scholarship, Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit-Berl Academic College, Israel

COLLECTIONS (Selection)

Deutscher Bundestag Collection, Berlin, Germany
Hamburger Bahnhof / Neue Nationalgalerie Collection, Berlin, Germany Tel-Aviv Art Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
The Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Petach Tikva, Israel
Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Haaretz Art Collections, Tel Aviv, Israel
Ors Collection, The Doron Sebbag Art Collection
Living Bauhaus Collection, Berlin, Germany