PAINTING | VIDEO | NEW MEDIA | INSTALLATIONS
photography by Hannah Ben Haim
DR. REUVEN ZAHAVI
Born 1957, Ain-Beida, Algeria
Lives and works in Jerusalem
Senior lecturer at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
1998-2005 Head of the Jewelry Department at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
1991-1997 Head of the Kalisher Shcool of Art, Tel Aviv
STUDIES
1988 Ph.D., thesis: ״The Tool as Factor of the Picture Creation״, the Visual Arts Dept., Université Paris
VIII, Vincennes Saint-Denis, France
1981-88 Studies at the Visual Arts Dept., Université Paris VIII, Vincennes Saint-Denis, France
1976-79 Fine Art Dept., Bezalel Academy of Art and
Design, Jerusalem
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 "Bousbir Shadows", BY5 Gallery, Tel Aviv, curator Tal Frenkel Alroy
2021 "Once Again Still Life? She Asked" Solo exhibition in the Zaritsky Artists House, Tel Aviv (catalog, essay by Dr. Itamar Levy) Curator Dr. Itamar Levy
Israel Psychoanalytic Society, Tel Aviv Curator Dr. Itamar Levy
2019 Nora Gallery, solo exhibition. Menofim Jerusalem
Diaghilev Gallery, Curator Ilan Wizgan , Tel Aviv
2018 Apropos Supreme Court, Zadik Gallery, Tel Aviv Jaffa, Curator: Hana Coman
2017 Solo exhibition in the Zaritsky Artists House, Tel Aviv (catalog, essay by Dr. Baruch Blich)
2016 “China” Mamuta, Hansen House, Curators: Salamanca, Jerusalem (catalog)
2013 “Pixel Hot House” – Exhibit and Interactive Installation, Stern Gallery, Mount Scopus Campus, Hebrew University part two (catalog, essay by Dr. Boaz Tamir)
2012 Project “Intercom ##” – Version no. 18-22. Renewed display of two video works in the Zaritsky Artists House, Tel Aviv
“Pixel Hot House” – Exhibit and Interactive Installation, Stern Gallery, Mount Scopus Campus, Hebrew University – part one (catalog)
2011 Project “Intercom ##”, Video and Three Dimensional Imaging Installation changes every month. Zaritzky Artists House, Tel Aviv. Intercom 08-15. Every month two new works are displayed.
Midreshet Ben Gurion Gallery – Interactive Installation
2010 Project “Intercom ##”. Video and Three Dimensional Imaging Installation which changes every month, Zaritzky Artist’s House, Tel Aviv, 7 monthly exhibits: Intercom 00-07.
2008 Art Gallery, Oranim College
“Smoking Utopia” Video Installation, in collaboration with Ariane Cohen Littman, Artists House Herzliya (catalog)
2007 “Exposed Areas” Zaritsky Artists House, Tel Aviv
2006 “Exposures”, Venta Gallery, Jerusalem
2004 PeKA Gallery for Experimental Art and Architecture, Department of Architecture, Technion, Haifa
2002 Opal Gallery, Tel-Aviv
1999 Mary Faouzi Gallery, Jaffa
1988 Galerie 10, Paris, France
Artifact Gallery, Tel-Aviv
Aesbeck Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
1987 Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Curator Ygal Tzalmona
Galerie 10, Paris, France
1984 Art Workshop Gallery, Yavne
90 Ehad-Ha'am Gallery, Tel Aviv
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 "Wind Words", curator Hadas Glazer, Litvak Gallery, Tel Aviv
2023 "In Search of Lost Memory", curator Surin Heller, Bar-David Museum of Art and Judaica, Kibbutz Baram
"Tollbox", BY5 Gallery, Tel Aviv, curator Tal Frenkel Alroy
"After Flooding , curator Shirley Meshulam, Art Workshop Gallery, Yavne
2022 "Sereality", curators: Sigal Kaspi and Michal Shacknai Yaakovi
2018 The Museum for Islamic Art, The "Khamsa" Exhibition, Video mapping installation, Curators: Dr. Shirat-Miryam Shamir and Dr. Ido Noy
2017 Menofim, Contemporary Art in Jerusalem 2017, Maalot: Above and Beyond the Mountain. Mormon University Gallery, Jerusalem (catalog)
Memorial Candles, 2nd Biennale for Judaica, Curators: Dr. Shirat-Miryam Shamir and Ido Noy
Wath’s on Your Plate? Wizo Haifa, Curator Anat Gatenio
2016 6th Biennale for Drawing – The Return of Paper, Reflections on Drawing, Curators: Sally Haftel Naveh, Jerusalem (catalog)
“Judaica Now” Wine Goblets of the Bezalel School, Rishon Lezion Museum, Curators: Dr. Shirat-Miryam Shamir and Ido Noy (catalog)
Painting Camp 2016 – activists, Negev Art Museum, Beersheba
2015 “The Bezalel School”, World Center for North African Jewish Heritage Jerusalem (catalog)
2013 “Home Affairs” Festival of Video Art in Colombia: NIO Perera
Video Art, YUNA Gallery, Siegen, Germany
The VI Winter International Arts Festival, Winter Theater, Sochi Russia
Galerie Matignon, Paris
2012 Middle East Center for Arts (MECA), spring 2012, New Jersey, USA
"New Acquisitions”, Ashdod Museum of Art
“Land of Promise”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
“Land of Promise”, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2011 “Loop” Video Festival, Barcelona, Spain, May 2011 (catalog)
Israel Video Festival, Boston USA (catalog)
Galerie Matignon, Paris
“Painting Camp 4”, Ramla Municipal Gallery, Ramla
Video and Positioning in Space, “Meitarim”, Festival “Bridges in the Stream”
2010 “Caught in the Thicket”, Biennale for Drawing, Artists House, Jerusalem (catalog)
2009 “The Age of a Different Re-Action”, Davide Gallo Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Galerie Matignon, Paris
“Rebels”, Ramla Municipal Gallery
“Grasped”, Yellow Submarine Gallery, Jerusalem (Curator and Presenter)
2008 “Kissufim”, New Gallery, Teddy Stadium, Jerusalem (catalog)
“My Own Body”, Art in Israel, 1968-1978, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
“Bottom Line”, Daila Gallery, Jerusalem (Curator and Presenter)
w“Jerusalem – Surface Fractures”, Artists House, Jerusalem (catalog)
2007 “The Desert Generation”, Jerusalem Artists House, Jerusalem, and traveling exhibition
“New Members”, Jerusalem Artists House, Jerusalem
“Pornography, My Love”, Zaritsky Artists House, Tel Aviv
“Smoking Utopia”, Video Installation, (“Note 11, Multi-disciplinary Art Event”, Jerusalem
“Digital Landscapes”, University Gallery, Tel Aviv University (catalog)
2006 “Note 10”, Science Museum, Jerusalem
“Disengagement”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
“Downtown Jerusalem”, Yellow Submarine Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem
2003 Artists Studios, Jerusalem
“Memory Boxes, Memory Memorial. Installation in Art Enterprise Oosterkade, Groningen, Germany
1999 Space for Contemporary Art Dafna Na'or, Jerusalem
1998 “In the Name of the Land, in the Name of the Lord, Art, and Reality in Jerusalem", Artists House Jerusalem (catalog)
1996 “Moving Station”, an annual project in two parts, New Central Bus Station,
Tel Aviv
“Phenomena”, Installation on building facade at the School of Visual Theater,
Jerusalem (catalog)
“Public Sign Posts” Multi-site exhibition, Curator: Ofer Ze’evi
1995 Drawings, Gimel Gallery, Jerusalem
1994 Art Focus, 5 Kalisher, Gallery, Tel Aviv, Curator Yona Fisher
Exhibit in Honor of John Bayle, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem (catalog)
1993 5 Kalisher Gallery, Tel Aviv
1992 Contemporary Israeli Landscapes, Expo 92, Seville, Spain (catalog)
“Contemporary Israeli Art”, Chile
1991 “The Presence of the Absent”, University Gallery, Tel Aviv (catalog)
1990 Galerie 10, Paris
Multiples, Grand-Palais, Paris
Station Gallery, Beersheba
1986 “Fresh Paint”, Tel Aviv Museum (catalog)
Sarah Gilat Gallery, Jerusalem
Rega Gallery, Tel Aviv
Krieff-Raymond Gallery, Paris
“Down With the Occupation”, Traveling Exhibit, Jerusalem and abroad
1985 Israeli and Palestinian Artists, Traveling Exhibit Jerusalem and abroad
Prints, 90 Ehad Ha’am Gallery, Tel Aviv
“Rega”, Artists’ Studios, Jerusalem – establishing the “Rega” Group
New Israeli Art, 90 Ehad Ha’am Gallery, Dizengoff Center, Tel Aviv
Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
1984 90 Ehad Ha’am Gallery, Tel Aviv
1983 Atelier Medicis Gallery, Paris