Biographical Notes
1956 Born in Israel, Afulla
Lives and works in Tel Aviv
Since 11/2009 - Curator of Hamidrasha gallery, Tel Aviv
Since 2007 - Teaches art at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
Since 2001 - Teaches art at the Midrasha School of Art, Beit Berl Academic College, Israel
1983- 2005 - Teaches art at the Thelma Yellin High School of the Arts, Givatayim, Israel
1993-2004 - Teaches art at Camera Obscura School of Art, Tel Aviv
1995-1996 - Studied at the New Seminar for Visual Culture, Criticism and Theory, Camera Obscura School of Art, Tel Aviv
1978-1982 - Studied art at the Avni School of Art, Tel Aviv
One-Person Exhibitions
2009 - Kings of Israel, Rosenfeld gallery, Tel Aviv
- Hitler and I, virtual exhibition, Bezalel's History&Theory website
(http://bezalel.secured.co.il/zope/home/he/1252746792/1253422292)
- Screenings, Tegen 2 Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2008 - OI VA’AVOI, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
2007 - "Boaz Arad: VoozVooz," The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (cat.)
1986 - Mapu Gallery, Tel Aviv
1985 - Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009 - HOMONYM, Moltkerei Werkstatt, Köln, Germany, Curator: Maayan
Amir
- Hulululu (abroad-road-road), P8 gallery, Tel Aviv, Curator: Rakefet
Viner Omer
- Fucking Tourists, Hotel Galini, Athens, Greece, Curators:
konstantinos Dagritzikos & Yael Messer
- Entartung, “Degenerate Art”, Dan Gallery, Curator: Maayan Amir
- “Starter”, Ironi H Gallery, Curators: Eli Barak, Ofra Harnam, Naama
Ben yosef
- Your Cat is Dead, Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv, Curator: Doron
Rabina
- 2009 Tel Aviv Time, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Curator: Nili Goren
2008 - Good Kids, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
- "Self Portrait", Cabri Gallery of Israeli Art, Israel
- ART OF THE STATE, Contemporary Photography and Video Art
from Israel, The Jewish Historical Museum Amsterdam
- Minshar for Art, Art School and Culture Center
- "Real Time – Art in Israel 1998-2008", Israel Museum Jerusalem
(cat.)
- "Access to Israel I & II– Israeli Contemporary Art, Stadt Frankfurt
Am Main (Cat.)
- "Mamma’s Boy", Bait Banamal, Tel Aviv (cat.)
- "Dead End", Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
2007 - "Food for Thought: A Video Art Sampler," The Jewish Museum,
New York
- "Surrealism and Beyond," The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
- "This is Not Israeli Art," Tmuna Theater, Tel Aviv, Curator: Maayan
Amir
- "Dateline Israel: New Photography and Video Art," The Jewish
Museum, New York
- "Temporally," The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Curator:
Hadas Maor; (cat.)
2006 - "Storytellers," The Art Gallery, University of Haifa, Curator: Ruti
Direktor (cat.)
- "Untitled," The Art Gallery, University of Haifa (with Miki Kratsman),
Curator: Ruti Direktor (cat.)
- "Equal and Less Equal," Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem
(with Miki Kratsman) Curator: Raphie Etgar
- "Double Exposure: Middle-Eastern Rooftops," Makor Gallery,
New York (with Tsibi Geva and Miki Kratsman)
- "Wanderland: Israel – Palestine," Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld,
Germany (with Miki Kratsman), Curator: Martin Hentschel (cat.)
- “Canal Street" as part of "VideoTrip”, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
- "Five Wall Paintings," The Midrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv, Curator:
Doron Rabina
2005 - "Alphabet: Contemporary Israeli Art," Kristinehamns konstmuseum,
Sweden (with Miki Kratsman)
- "Etched Voices," Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Curators: Yehudit
Shendar and Sorin Heller
- "Why Don't You Say It?," Herzliya Museum of Art, Curator:
Michal Heiman
- "1889 (Braunau, Austria) - 1945 (Berlin, Germany)," Rosenfeld
Gallery, Tel Aviv
- "November 4, 1995: Assassination in Retrospect," Bezalel Gallery,
Tel Aviv (with Miki Kratsman), Curator: Dana Arieli-Horowitz
- "Blanks," The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (with Miki Kratsman) Curators: Joshua Simon and Sergio Edelsztein (cat.)
2004 - "Alphabet: Contemporary Israeli Art," Stockholmsmässan (Stockholm International Fairs) (with Miki Kratsman)
- Recipients of the Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport Prizes exhibition, Haifa Museum of Art
- "Everything Could Be Seen," Umm el-Fahem Art Gallery (with Miki Kratsman) Curator: Ariella Azoulay
- "What is it that makes contemporary houses so different and so charming?" Kav 16 Gallery, Tel Aviv (curator: Galia Yahav)
2003 - "Wonderyears: New Reflections on the Shoah and Nazism in Israeli Society," NGBK, Berlin; Künstraum Kreuzberg / Künstlerhaus Bethanie,
Berlin (cat.)
- "Mifkad," Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv (with Miki Kratsman)
- "Gordon and I," as part of "VideoTrip”, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
- "Border Counter," 50th Venice Biennale (with Miki Kratsman)
- "Border Counter," Roomade Gallery, Brussels (with Miki Kratsman)
- Art Focus 4 International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Museum of the Underground Prisoners, Jerusalem (with Miki Kratsman) Curators:
Suzanne Landau and Yigal Zalmona (cat.)
2002 - "Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery / Recent Art," The Jewish Museum, New York Curator: Norman L. Kleeblatt (book)
- "Something Local," Contemporary Art Project, Weizman Square, Holon, Israel
2001 - "A4," Alon High School, Ramat Hasharon, Israel
- "Storytellers," Pe'er Gallery – Hamidrasha, Tel Aviv
- "Igal Amir's Victory," Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
- "Portrait," Bezalel Gallery, Tel Aviv
2000 - "The Erection in Israeli Art," Pe'er Gallery – Hamidrasha, Tel Aviv
- "The Angel of History," Herzliya Museum of Art, Israel, Curator: Ariella Azoulay
- "The Disaster of Love," Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Curator: Galia Yahav
- "The 33rd Year," Beit Ha'am Gallery, Tel Aviv, Curators: Aïm Deüelle Lüski. Roee Rosen, Tamar Getter
1997 - "The Museum of Irony and Love of the Land," Beit Uri and Rami Nehushtan, Kibbutz Ashdot Yaacov
- "Black Box," Camera Obscura Gallery, Tel Aviv
1994 - "Israeli Art," The Broadcasting Authority Headquarters, Hanover
1990 - Sara Levi Gallery, Tel Aviv
Video Screenings
2009 - Travelling in Rennes, France, curator: Brent Klinkum
2008 - 24th International Short Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany (Gefilte Fish, 2005)
2006 - "The Sound of the Word," The Jerusalem Khan Theater, Jerusalem (The Annunciation, 100 Beats, Safam, Hebrew Lesson, Marcel Marcel)
2005 - "Alphebet: Israeli Contemporary Art," Kristinhams Konstmuseum, Sweden (21:40)
- "Homesick Home," Zentrum fur kulturproduktion, Bern (Until When?)
- "Homemade: An Israeli Video Art Compilation," R.R Cultural Center, Buenos Aires (Marcel Marcel)
2004 - "Local time 7," Tel Aviv Cinematheque (Dual Movie with Elyasaf Kowner)
- Israeli Video Art in Poland, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (Marcel Marcel)
- Vienna Jewish Film Week, The Jewish Museum, Vienna (21:40, Great Inner Peace)
- VideoZone2: The 2nd International Video-Art Biennial in Israel, Tel Aviv Cinematheque (Until When?)
2003 - The 2nd Annual Detroit International Video Festival, Detroit (Marcel Marcel)
- Art In General, New York (21:40)
- Tel Aviv Cinematheque (Lattice with Miki Kratsman and Tsibi Geva)
- "Phil Collins Selection of Documentary Films by Contemporary Artists," Barbican Center, London (21:40)
- "Ontology of a Conflict," Seminar for Political Documentary Film, Ma'alot, Israel (21:40)
- Sala1 Gallery, Rome (Immense Inner Peace)
- Foundation Modern Art Centre, Lisbon (21:40)
- International Video Festival, Manchuria, China (21:40)
- Homemade: Video Art in Poland, Cytryna Cinema, Lodz, Poland (Marcel Marcel, Canal Street)
- Screenings of The New Foundation for Cinema and Video Art, Tel Aviv Cinematheque (21:40 with Miki Kratsman)
2002 - "Zoom In Zoom Out,” Art In General, New York (Immense Inner Peace)
- ”Black Box,” Argos, Brussels (Immense Inner Peace)
- Video Art from Israel, Orensanz Foundation Center, New York (Marcel Marcel)
- VideoZone1: The First International Video-Art Biennial in Israel, Tel Aviv Cinematheque (21:40); Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv (Loop)
2001 - "Local Time 4," Tel Aviv and Jerusalem Cinematheques (Canal Street)
- Jerusalem Film Festival (Marcel Marcel, Hebrew Lesson, 100 Beats)
- "Novalog," Stadtbank, Berlin (Immense Inner Peace)
2000 - "Local Time 3," Tel Aviv Cinematheque (Immense Inner Peace)
1999 - "Local Time 2," Tel Aviv Cinematheque (The Man)
Prizes and Awards
2006 - The Petach Tikva Museum of Art Prize
2004 - Prize to Encourage Creativity, The Israeli Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport
Videography
2006 - The Annunciation, 5 min
2005 - Gefiltefish, 11 min
2004 - Until When?, 4:30 min
2003 - Dual Movie, with Elyasaf Kowner, 12 min
- 21:40, with Miki Kratsman, 6:30 min
- Gordon and I, 4:30 min
- Lattice, with Tsibi Geva and Miki Kratsman, 53 min
- Kelev Andalusi, 15 min (after Salvador Dalם and Luis Buסuel's Un Chien Andalou)
2002 - Loop, unlimited duration
- Canal Street, 2 min
- Untitled, with Miki Kratsman, 40 min
2001 - Immense Inner Peace, 6:30 min
2000 - Hebrew Lesson, 12 sec
- Marcel Marcel, 27 sec
1999 - The Man, 6 min
- 100 Beats, 1 min
- Safam (Mustache), 30 sec
- Safam 2, 13 sec
Publications
- Hemda Rosenbaum, "Talking Heads," Achbar Ha'ir, 15 Feb. 2007 [Hebrew].
- Maya Becker, "The Nazi Hunter, Yedioth Ahronoth – 7 Nights Supplement, 9 Feb. 2007 [Hebrew]
- Galia Yahav, "Ana Frenk (*of Eastern origin)," TimeOut Tel Aviv 223, 8 Feb. 2007 [Hebrew].
- Dana Arieli-Horowitz, "Loop: Igal Amir's Victory," in Dana Arieli-Horowitz, Creators in Overburden: Rabin Assassination, Art and Politics (Jerusalem:
Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and Magnes Press, the Hebrew University, 2005) [Hebrew].
- Eitan Buganim, "An Artist on Fire," Nana, http://mixer.nana.co.il/Article/?ArticleID=195062&sid=49 (Hebrew)
- Maaria Oikarinen, "Holokaustin hahmoja," Historiallinen Aikakauskirja, Finland, Feb. 2004.
- Gene Ray, "Working Out and Playing Through: Boaz Arad’s Hitler Videos" in Gene Ray, Terror and the Sublime in Art and Critical Theory: From
Auschwitz to Hiroshima to September 11 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).
- Gene Ray, "Boaz Arad’s Hitler Videos," Afterimage, Sept.-Oct. 2003.
- Ariella Azoulay, "The Return of the Repressed," in Impossible Images: Contemporary Art after the Holocaust, eds.: S. Hornstein, L. Levitt, and L.J.
Silberstein (New York: New York University Press, 2003), pp. 85-117.
- Dana Gilerman, "Co-existence on a Bald Head," Haaretz, Gallery Section, 17 Sept. 2003 [Hebrew].
- Dana Gilerman, "The Trauma and the Ridicule," Haaretz, Gallery Section, 13 Sept. 2001 [Hebrew].
- Ariella Azoulay, "The Return of the Repressed: Hitler Representations in Israeli Art," Studio 124, June 2001, pp. 56-66 [Hebrew]
- Joanna Lindenbaum, "The Villain Speaks the Victim’s Language," in Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery / Recent Art, ed. Norman L. Kleeblatt, exh. cat.
(New York: The Jewish Museum and Rutgers University Press, 2001).
- Gilad Meltzer, "A Small Country with a Moustache," Yedioth Ahronoth, 7 Days Supplement, 8 Sept. 2000 [Hebrew].
Collections
The Jewish Museum, New York
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Haifa Museum of Art
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