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Herzliya Museum Of Contemporary Art
The Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art ( he, מוזיאון הרצליה לאמנות) is contemporary art museum. History The museum was established in 1965 in Herzeliya, Israel. The museum's main focus is on Israeli and international contemporary art. The museum building was designed by the architect Yaakov Rechter. The museum does not have a permanent collection, and hosts painting, sculpture, video, installation, photography and architecture exhibitions, as well as video installations and digital media exhibitions. The museum has an educational program MUZA – A Place for Visual Experience. It holds different activities in the fields of video art and photography, including workshops and courses. The museum is known for promotion of collaboration between Israeli and Palestinian artists by showing group exhibitions and organizing meetings and workshops for artists to work together. Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art also exhibits art from different continents, showing works ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herzliya
Herzliya ( ; he, הֶרְצְלִיָּה ; ar, هرتسليا, Hirtsiliyā) is an affluent city in the central coast of Israel, at the northern part of the Tel Aviv District, known for its robust start-up and entrepreneurial culture. In it had a population of . Named after Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism, Herzliya covers an area of . Its western, beachfront area is called Herzliya Pituah and is one of Israel's most affluent neighborhoods and home to numerous embassies, ambassadors' residences, companies headquarters and houses of prominent Israeli business people. History Herzliya, named after Theodor Herzl, was founded in 1924 as a semi-cooperative farming community (moshava) with a mixed population of new immigrants and veteran residents. During that year, 101 houses and 35 cowsheds were built there, and the village continued to grow. The 1931 census recorded a population of 1,217 inhabitants, in 306 houses.Mills, 1932, p13/ref> Upon the establishment of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miki Kratsman
Miki Kratsman is an Israeli photographer, photojournalist and activist. Biography Miki Kratsman was born in Argentina in 1959. He immigrated to Israel with his family in 1971. He studied photography at Kiryat Ono College. His spouse is Israeli fashion designer Dorin Frankfurt. Photography career He worked as photojournalist in ''Hadashot'' newspaper until 1993, when the newspaper was closed. Kratsman joined ''Haaretz'' newspaper, where he worked until 2012. Kratsman taught at Camera Obscura College of Photography in Tel Aviv from 1997 to 1999; School for Geographic Photography of Tel Aviv from 1998 to 2006; Department of Art in Haifa University from 2002 to 2006. In 2006, Kratsman was appointed Head of the photography department in Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and chaired the department until his retirement in 2014. In addition to exhibiting his own works, Kratsman curates exhibitions for galleries and museums in Israel. Works The main theme of Kratsman's work is t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Museums In Israel ...
Below is an incomplete list of Israeli museums, some of which are located in East Jerusalem. References External links Israel's official national museum portal{{in lang, en * Museums Israel Museums Museums Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aziz + Cucher
Aziz + Cucher, consisting of Anthony Aziz and Sammy Cucher, are American artists working collaboratively since meeting in graduate school in 1990 at the San Francisco Art Institute. They are considered pioneers in the field of digital imaging and post-photography, with projects exhibited at numerous international venues, including the 46th Venice Biennale in 1995, the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Anthony Aziz Anthony Aziz was born in 1961 in Lunenburg, Massachusetts; he is third generation Lebanese American. His paternal grandparents emigrated to the U.S. from Jezzine, Lebanon. Aziz received his BA degree from Boston College in 1983 and then went on to earn his MFA degree from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1990. He holds the titles of Professor of Fine Arts and Associate Dean of Faculty at Parsons School of Design in New York. Sammy Cucher Sammy Cucher was born in 1958 in Lima, Peru, and was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maya Zack
Maya Zack ( he, מאיה ז"ק; born in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1976) is an artist-filmmaker who creates video art and installations. Biography Maya Zack studied at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. Her work has been exhibited internationally and earned film awards and art prizes, among them the Isracard and Tel Aviv Museum Prize for an Israeli Artist, Idud Hayetzira Prize – Israeli Ministry of Culture, Adi Prize (Adi Foundation and the Israel Museum Jerusalem), Celeste Kunstpreis Berlin, Israel Lottery Council of the Arts, CCA Tel Aviv. Solo/group exhibitions include Moscow Biennial for Young Art 2012, MLF Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch Rome, Alon Segev Gallery Tel Aviv, Galerie Natalie Seroussi Paris, The Jewish Museum New York, LACE L.A., The Jewish Museum Berlin, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, The Israel Museum Jerusalem, California Center for the Arts Museum Escondido, Figge von Rosen Galerie Cologne. Zack's videos, installations, drawings and computer-generated vis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cliff Evans (artist)
Cliff Evans (born 1977) is an American multidisciplinary artist of Australian origin. Biography Evans was born in New South Wales in Australia. He grew up in East Texas. He received his BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Evans lives and works in Arbutus and Baltimore. Exhibitions Solo * 2006 "The Road to Mount Weather," curated by Pieranna Cavalchini, Location One, New York, NY * 2007 "Cliff Evans: The Road to Mount Weather," curated by Chris Coleman, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR * 2007 “Cliff Evans: Empyrean,” curated by Pieranna Cavalchini, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA * 2008 “Empyrean,”curated by Stephan Stoyanob, Luxe Gallery, New York, NY. * 2008 “Empyrean,” curated by Jason Hughes and Andrea Pollan, The Library, Baltimore, MD * 2008 “The Road to Mount Weather,” curated by Cory Knedler, The University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD * 2008 “The Road to Mount Weather,” curated by Andrea Pollan, Curator’s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uriel Miron
Uriel Miron ( he, אוריאל מירון; born 1968) is an Israeli artist and sculptor. Biography Uriel Miron was born in Tel Aviv in 1968. His grandmother is Dvora Schocken, An Israeli art collector. For many years he lived with his father, the literary critic Dan Miron, in the United States. In the 1980s he learned Literature at Yale University. in the 1990s he returned to live in Israel and studied Art at Bezalel. Many of his sculptures based on hybrid skeletons and anatomies originate in such ordinary objects and materials as plastic lawn chairs or cardboard boxes.seeUriel Miron's web site 2015 Gallery File:Miron u memento mobili r.jpg, Momento Mobili, 1999, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem Collection File:Uriel Miron March 030.JPG, A Bone's Throw 3 (Roll), 2013 Education *1986–1990 Yale University, B.A. in literature, magna cum laude, with distinction in the major *1990–1995 Bezalel, Jerusalem, art, graduated with Honors *1996–1998 School of Visual Arts, New York, M.F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilit Azoulay
Ilit Azoulay (born 1972) is an Israeli artist of Moroccan origins based in Berlin. Life and career Azoulay was born in the Jaffa district of Tel Aviv, Israel. Her parents both emigrated from Morocco to Israel in the 1940s and 1950s. She attended the photography department of Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem where she later went on to teach at. She lives and works in Berlin. Work Azoulay received a classical training in photography, but ever since she completed her MFA she has critically confronted the norms of photography imposed by a paradigm, developed in a male-dominated industry, that the medium should capture a decisive moment. On the one hand her post-produced images inscribe the photographic process in duration, while on the other it alters the photographic perspective induced by the use of a single lens. Azoulay is best known for pioneering a photography technique aimed at recomposing an image according to the data issued from a thorough research proc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parastou Forouhar
Parastou Forouhar (born 1962 in Tehran) is an Iranian installation artist who lives and works out of Frankfurt, Germany. Forouhar's art reflects her criticism of the Iranian government and often plays with the ideas of identity. Her artwork expresses a critical response towards the politics in Iran and Islamic Fundamentalism. The loss of her parents, Dariush and Parvaneh, fuels Forouhar's work and challenges viewers to take a stand on war crimes against innocent citizens. Forouhar's work has been exhibited around the world including Iran, Germany, Russia, Turkey, England, United States, and more. Biography Early life and education The daughter of political activist Parvaneh Forouhar (née Eskandari) and politician Dariush Forouhar, Parastou was born in 1962 in Tehran, Iran. Her father critiqued the Iranian government and he founded and led the Hezb-e-Mellat-e Iran (Nation Party of Iran), which was a far-right secular opposition party in Iran. Her parents were stabbed to death in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kendell Geers
Jacobus Hermanus Pieters Geers, commonly known as Kendell Geers, is a South African conceptual artist. Geers lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. Biography Kendell Geers was born in Leondale, a working-class suburb on the East Rand outside Johannesburg, South Africa, into an Afrikaans family during the time of apartheid. At the age of 15 he ran away from home and an abusive alcoholic father to join the anti-apartheid movement. The apartheid government had a policy of compulsory conscription for young white men from 16 years old. Geers applied to the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg in order to avoid conscription into the South African Defense Force.Warren Siebrits, States of Emergency 1985–1990, "Irrespektiv." BOM / Actar, 2007. At art school he met fellow artist Neil Goedhals and they formed the Performance Art group KOOS with Marcel van Heerden, Gys de Villiers, Megan Kruskal and Velile Nxazonke. KOOS sang Post Punk Industrial Music Ballads, base ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olaf Breuning
Olaf Breuning (born February 16, 1970)SIK ISEAOlaf Breuning/ref> is a Swiss-born artist, born in Schaffhausen, who lives in New York City. Works *''Home 1/Home 2'' (2004/7)--30 minute video starring Brian Kerstetter. ''Home 1'' is presented as a double-projection, where the main character can no longer distinguish the difference between reality and fiction. He wanders around a hotel room telling stories about himself and other people to the camera. As he tells the stories, they are simultaneously seen on the opposite screen. In '' Home 2'' Brian Kerstetter plays an ignorant tourist staggering around the world from Switzerland to Africa and Japan to Papua New Guinea, crashing his western mentality upon the exotic places he goes. *''Ugly Yelp'' (2000), ''Apes'' (2001), ''King'' (2001), ''Hello Darkness'' (2002)--With these installations, Breuning creates theatrical atmospheres using sound, video and light. These installations have been shown in many museums and are owned by col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uri Gershuni
Uri Gershuni is an Israeli photographer and educator. Biography Uri Gershuni was born in Raanana in 1970. He is son of Israeli painter Moshe Gershuni and sculptor and jewelry designer Bianca Eshel Gershuni. Gershuni graduated from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design’s Photography Department, holding BFA and MFA. He teaches at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and in WIZO Haifa Academy of Design and Education. He works and lives in Tel Aviv. He was a photographer for Yedioth Ahronoth from 2003 and 2007. From 2009 he is a photographer for Haaretz. Uri Gershuni works are in permanent collections of Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel Museum, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Shpilman Institute of Photography. He is gay. Exhibitions Israel Worldwide Curatorial projects * 2010 Sofia, Solo Exhibition of Bianca Eshel Gershuni, Inga gallery, Tel Aviv * 2011 Hatima Tova, Group Exhibition, Inga gallery, Tel Aviv * 2012 Incident Light, solo exhibition of Sas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
