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David Reeb

 

Biographical Notes

 

Born in Rehovot, Israel in 1952

1975-78

Studies at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem

1986-83

Taught at the Yavneh Art Workshop, Yavneh, Israel

1986-99

Taught at the Kalisher School of Art, Tel Aviv

1990

Taught at the University of Haifa

2003-07

Taught at the Art Department, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem

 

 

Selected One-Person Exhibitions

 

 

1979

 

Printers Gallery, Jerusalem

1982

Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv

 

1983

Tel Aviv Museum of Art

 

1984

Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv

 

1985

Sarah Gilat Gallery, Jerusalem

1986

Rega Gallery, Tel Aviv

 

1987

Gimel Gallery, Jerusalem

1988

Gimel Gallery, Jerusalem

 


Artifact Gallery, Tel Aviv

1989

Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv

 

1990

Artifact Gallery, Tel Aviv

 

 


The Artist’s Studios, Tel Aviv

 


Gimel Gallery, Jerusalem

1991

Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv

 

 


Gimel Gallery, Jerusalem

1992

The Artists' Studios, Tel Aviv

 

1993

Bograshov Gallery, Tel Aviv

 

 


Stadtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf

1994

Tel Aviv Museum of Art (cat.)

1995

Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv

 

1996

Mary Faouzi Gallery, Jaffa

1997

Rachel and Israel Pollak Gallery, Tel Aviv

1998

Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast

 


Heidelberg Kunstverein (with Eliezer Sonnenschein

 


Hamumche Gallery, Tel Aviv (with Michal Goldman) (cat.)

2000

Haus Am Lutzowplatz, Berlin (cat.)

 

 


Galerie Oliver Ahlers, Göttingen

2001

Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv (cat.)

 

2002

The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel

 

2003

"Control" The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (with Miki Kratsman) (dvd)

 

2004

Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv

 

2005

Haifa Museum of Art (cat.)

 

2006

Hasenclever Gallery, Munich

 


The Artists' House, Tel Aviv

 

2007

Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art

 

 


The Artists' House, Tel Aviv (cat.)

 

 


Tegen 2, Stockholm 

 

Barbur Gallery , Jerusalem

 

Hasenclever Gallery, Munich

 

2008

The Artists' House, Tel Aviv

  Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv
   
2011  The Artists' House, Tel Aviv
   
       
2014 "300 60 48", Tel Aviv Museum, Curator Ellen Ginton
   
   
2017  "Bonfires", Umm El Fahem Art Gallery, Curator Itamar Levi 

 

 
2018 "Disturbances", Hamidrasha Gallery, Curator Avi Lubin
   
   
2021 "David the Thief's Store", Artists Studios Gallery, Tel Aviv, Curator Dr. Vered Zafran-Gani

 

 

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

 

 

 
 

1982

The Drawing Center, New York

 


"Here and Now: Israeli Art – Painting and Sculpture, Drawing, Photography, Video," The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (cat.)

 

1984

"Two Years: 1983-1984 – Qualities Accumulated," Tel Aviv Museum of Art (cat.)

 

1985

"Israeli and Palestinian Artists Against the Occupation and for Free Speech," East Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Nazareth, Haifa (cat.)

 


"Rega 1" Ika Braun Gallery, The Artists' Studios, Jerusalem

 

1986

"The Want of Matter: A Quality in Israeli Art," Tel Aviv Museum of Art (cat.)

 

 


"Rega 2," Rega Gallery, Tel Aviv

 

1987

"Down with the Occupation," traveling poster exhibition in Israel, USA, Germany, etc.

 

1988

"Nine Israeli Painters," Kunsthaus, Zurich; Orangerie Herrenhausen, Hannover, Germany (cat.)

 

1988-93

"It's Possible," traveling Israeli-Palestinian exhibition in the US, Japan, and Germany

 

1990

Asian-European Art Biennale, Ankara

 

1991

"Israeli Art Around 1990," Stadtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf; Artist's House, Moscow; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (cat.)

 

1992

"Postscripts: 'End'-Representations in Contemporary Art," The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University (cat.)

 


“Olive Green," Bograshov Gallery, Tel Aviv (cat.)

 


Mary Faouzi Gallery, Jaffa, Israel

 


"12 Israeli and Palestinian Artists," Jerusalem and Strasbourg

 

1994

"Subtropical: Between Figuration and Abstraction," Tel Aviv Museum of Art (cat.)

 

1995

"Currents of Being," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

1996

"Ketav: Flesh and Word in Israeli Art," Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, USA

 


Documenta X, Kassel (cat.)

 


The 7th Kwangju Biennale (cat.)

1998

"Sharing Jerusalem," Al-Wasiti Gallery, East Jerusalem

1999

"Not to be Looked: Unseen Sites in Israel Today," The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (cat.)

 

2000

"La Repubblica dell’arte – Israel,” Centro Arte Contemporanea, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena

 

 


"Acts of Resistance," Koldo Mitxelena Cultural Center, San Sebastian, Spain (cat.)

 

 


The 7th Havana Biennial

 

2001

"Tele(visions)," Kunsthalle, Vienna (cat.)

 

2002

"Focus on Painting," Haifa Museum of Art (cat.)

 


"Power," Casino Luxembourg – Contemporary Art Forum, Luxembourg City (cat.)

2003

"35 Israeli and Palestinian Artists Against the Occupation and For a Better Tomorrow," Hagar Art Gallery, Tel Aviv; Paris; Seville; The Artists' House, Jerusalem; Al-Wasiti Gallery, East Jerusalem

 

 


"Ruins Revisited: The Image of the Ruin in Israel 1803-2003," Time for Art – Israeli Art Center, Tel Aviv (cat.)

 

2004

"Fragments: Mosaics and Reality in Israeli Art," Time for Art – Israeli Art Center, Tel Aviv (cat.)

 

 


"Our Landscape: Notes on Landscape Painting in Israel," The Art Gallery, University of Haifa (cat.)

 

 


Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv

 

 


"Shame," The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel (cat.)

 

 


"Still Landscape- Old New", Haifa Museum of Art

 

2005

"The New Hebrews: A Century of Art in Israel," Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (cat.)

 


"Artists Against the Wall," New York-Tel Aviv-Ramallah (cat.)

 

 


Ramla Municipal Gallery, Ramla, Israel

 

2006

Ramla Municipal Gallery, Ramla, Israel

 

 


Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv

 

 


Rachel and Israel Pollak Gallery, Tel Aviv

 

 


"Israel: Art and Life, 1906-2006," Palazzo Reale, Milan; traveling exhibition in Italy and Europe (cat.)

 

 


"Videozone 3: The 3rd International Video-Art Biennial in Israel," The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (cat.)

 

 


"In Focus: Living History," Tate Modern, London

 

 

2007

"Six Days Plus Forty Years". Petach-Tikva Museum, Israel (cat.)

 

Ramla Municipal Gallery, Ramla, Israel

 

2008

"War as a Way of Life". 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica, CA

 

  "Videozone 4: The 4th International Video-Art Biennial in Israel," The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (cat.)

 

2009

 "Evil To The Core", The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel 

 

2010

(With Michal Goldman) "Similar and Different", Oranim Art Institute, The Gallery of Israeli Art, Tiv'on

 

"The Theater Of Peace", NGBK, Berlin

 

  "Videozone 5: The 5th International Video-Art Biennial in Israel," The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (cat.)
   

2011

Tegen 2, Stockholm

  Petah Tikva Museum of Art
   
2012 Berlin Biennial ("Breaking the news")
  “The Bustan in Silwan”, Silwan, East Jerusalem
   
       
2014 "The Benevolent Tree", Umm El Fahem Art Gallery, Curator Daniel Kahana
   
  Sapir College Gallery, Sderot, Curator Liav Mizrachi
   
   
2017   "Ingathering", 10th Anniversary of the Rappaport Prize, Curators Anat Danon Sivan and Noa Rosenberg
   
   

"Bad Taste", Minus 1 Gallery, Tel Aviv, Curator Efrat Livni
   
   

2021


“Life Still Life Land” Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Curator Rafi Etgar 

 

“The Haifa Way: 70th Anniversary of Haifa Museum of Art”, Haifa Museum of Art

   
   "The Institution", Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art, Curator: Svetlana Reingold
   
   
   
 Prizes and Scholarships 
 
   
 1995

 Sandberg prize, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

   
 2013  Rappaport Prize, Tel Aviv Museum
   
 2019  Yeshayahu Leibowitz Prize


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