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Oren Eliav

fs — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 04:08:16 +0000

The Israeli painter Oren Eliav, born 1975 in Tel Aviv, lives and works in Tel Aviv. He received his education at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design as well as the Cooper School of Art, New York. Besides a solo exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art Eliavs works were presented in group exhibitions in Israel and Europe. In 2010 he received the Rappaport Prize for a Young Israeli Painter and has also been awarded various scholarships.

Eliav’s paintings are usually large, sumptuous and saturated with color and detail. When seen from a distance, they tempt you to come closer, in order to see better, because although the image seems identifiable, it nevertheless escapes you, becoming dimmer like a distant memory. When one

eventually gets closer, the image renders itself only to the material, matter-of-fact paint strokes that have created it. The viewer is then left with no choice but to step back and then move close again in a dance-like search for the fleeting image. Eliav’s paintings, like mirages, do not leave us with an object we can hold on to, but rather with the memory of ourselves looking at it – a fata-morgana. Was or was not? His paintings remind us that looking with the eyes always involves other senses and that in our mind’s eye, we always complement what is lacking. His work constantly challenges vision’s authority and encourages us to engage all our senses in order to grasp that which is beyond conceptualization.

Hila Cohen Schneidermann

Ilit Azoulay in Berlin

fs — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 06:35:32 +0000

First collaboration between schir, The SIP, and KW Institute of Contemporary Art in Berlin
The project combines studio visits, a residency program and an exhibition at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. The Israeli artist Ilit Azoulay was invited to this unique project.
schir initiated this important collaboration between the two leading art institutes KW Institute for Contemporary Art from Berlin and The Shpilman Institute for Photography from Tel Aviv. During their visit in Israel KW’s director Gabriele Horn and chief curator Ellen Blumenstein conducted studio visits accompanied by Mr. Shalom Shpilman, Dr. Aya Lurie, Ms. Orit Bulgaru, Mrs. Friederike Schir and Dr. Christina Thesing. Following these meetings the guests decided to invite the artist Ilit Azoulay for a residency with a period of six months in Berlin, a solo exhibition at KW and curatorial support from their behalf. The project will be supported by the three parties involved.

Residency@Berlin | curators

fs — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:47:05 +0000

schir – art concepts invites curators living in Israel to apply for a residency in Berlin in spring 2013. The residency offers the opportunity to connect to the art scene in Berlin and to develop a future project including artists from Berlin. The residency provides accomodation, travel costs to Berlin and in Berlin, entrance to museums and cultural institutions, guidance in Berlin and possible support in further developing the suggested project.

Program 1: independent curators
From April, 22nd 2013 | 4 weeks
Program 2: curators working in an exhibition institution in Israel
From May, 20th 2013 | 2 – 4 weeks
Application Deadline:
March, 2nd 2013

Call for applications

Achim Lengerer

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Achim Lengerer is an artist living in Berlin and London. Lengerer works with questions concerning language, which are addressed in performances, installations and publications. In the last years Lengerer founded different collaborative projects such as freitagsküche (with Michael Riedel) and voiceoverhead, with Israeli artist colleague Dani Gal. Since 2009 Lengerer runs the travelling showroom and instant publishing house Scriptings, which functions as a discursive platform parallel and additional to Lengerer’s solo-projects. Artists, writers, graphic-designers, performers as well as publishers are invited – all of which are working with the formats of “script” and “text” within their processes of production. Lengerer is currently working on his PhD project at Goldsmiths University of London, UK, researching the relationship between voice, notation and live performance.

www.scriptings.net

Welcome to the jungle

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Sorry, this entry is only available in Deutsch.

specter

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Maya Gold

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The Israeli painter Maya Gold (*1978 in Jerusalem) lives and works in Tel Aviv. She received her education at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Jerusalem and Tel Aviv as well as the Slade School of Fine Art, London. Since 2003 Maya Golds’ works were presented in solo and group exhibitions in Israel and the United States.

Maya Gold‘s paintings we sometimes observe a grid of horizontal and vertical lines. This grid, reminiscent of a painterly apparatus meant to aid artists in organizing their canvas, is brought in Gold‘s paintings to the fore. Rather than disappear behind the painting‘s surface, it is suggested by the objects and landscapes on view. This somewhat playful materialization of the painting‘s scaffolding may also imply that the realm represented therein has willingly succumbed to the rules of

the perspectival net cast over it.(…)

Most of all, in Gold‘s paintings it is a flat, cleverly structured sfumato of clouds that hinders the materialization of an accountable universe. Whether hinted at by their ominous shadows cast on firm ground or watery surfaces, or suggested by their reflection in glass; or whether painted directly — as in the thick nebulous formation enveloping two lonely ship masts above a stormy sea — it is often the clouds that are at the basis of both the doing and undoing of what is encrypted in the paintings. Thus, even a series of fantastic views in different shades, with sparse clouds hanging above an idyllic lake, offers less of a romantic escapade and more of an equivocal yet melancholic play on the reversibility of planes.

Hemda Rosenbaum

ida | Hanover 2013

fs — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 08:13:14 +0000

schir – art concepts together with Susanne and Jörg Maaß invite artists living and working in Israel to apply for a residency in Hanover in 2013.

The aim of the residency program is to provide time and space for reflection and the development of projects, which in the day to day often are lacking. Furthermore the stay creates possibilities for exchange and networking with artists, curators and cultural actors in Hanover and beyond.

The selected artist will receive living quarters and a studio space at a little house close to the city center of Hanover. A network of local culture institutions will assist the artist in practical aspects of the stay and introduce him/ her to the art scene. Members of the ida-network are for example the Kunstverein Hanover, the Sprengel Museum, the Culture Office of the city Hanover, the artist´s house, the Kunsthalle Faust, the creative center e.V. of Hanover and the department of culture, art and media at the Leuphana University in Lüneburg. In addition, the artists’ work will be exhibited in a group exhibition in 2014. Further events in Germany will be planned together with the selected artist.

ida 2013 artists:
Liat Livni (April-June)
Roy Menachem Markovich (July-September)
Ido Michaeli (October-December)

video by h1 TV about the project (in German)

Kindly supported by:

Ritutim

fs — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:18:53 +0000

VIDEO ART BY SHACHAF DEKEL YARON
INSPIRED BY THE WRITING OF AHARON APPELFELD

Screening and Discussion panel: 12.10.12 | 2 pm | Tel Aviv Cinematheque.

In this project, Shachaf Dekel Yaron is presenting three short films created in dialog with the writing of Aharon Appelfeld (Israeli Literature prize winner) and a film of an interview with Appelfeld. Shachaf’s video works correspond with the subjects of film, music and dance and create a story despite the lack of dialogue. her seductive films have mesmerizing beauty but leave the viewer breathless with a sense of danger. Original score was especially created for the films by Karni Postel and Tom Darom. the cast consists of first-rate actors from leading Israeli theaters (Lani Shahaff, Eyal Shecter, Michal Weinberg), the Israeli dance legend, Rina Sheinfeld and German dancer, Andreas Merk.

preview of the project:
https://vimeo.com/49469365

Orly Hummel

fs — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 06:31:05 +0000

Orly Hummel was born in Tel Aviv in 1975 and studied at the University of Haifa, where she received her BFA in 2001. Since 2007 Orly Hummel showed her works in various group and solo-exhibitions in Israel, Italy, and Great Britain. Accompanying these shows, several catalogues were published. The artist was honored with different prizes and scholarships, among them one by the European Cultural Foundation, Netherlands 2012.

Website of the artist: www.orlyhummel.com