| אברהם אילת Born in Tel-Aviv, Israel. Lectured at the Haifa College of Design and at the faculty of architecture, Technion, Haifa.Founder of The First Israeli Photography Biennale. Directed the Open Museum of Photography in Tel Hai, and was curator of photography for the Haifa Museum of Art. Lives in Ein Hod with his spouse Margol Guttman. Works in his studio in Ein Hod(Israel),and In Dusseldorf (Germany) |
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| ART STUDIES | ||
| High School of Painting, Tel Aviv Atelier 17, Paris St. Martin's School of Art, London |
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| AWARDS AND GRANTS | ||
| 2013 - The ministry of Culture prize 2011 - NRW residency stipend, Germany 2003 - The Ministry of Culture encouraging award, Israel 2000 - Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris 1997 - Artist in residence, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, New York 1996 - The Haifa Foundation award, Israel 1989 - "Premio Cervo", Brindisi, Italy 1970 - Sharet travel stipend, Israel 1962 - Davidson award, Israel |
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| SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS | ||
| 2019 | - | Trench Fever, The Cube, Jerusalem. Curator: Dan Orimian (cat.) |
| - | People I met, KulturForum Alte Post, Neuss, Germany. Curator: Klaus Richter |
| - | CONTEMPLATIONS ON VICTORIA PLATZ, Stadtmuseum , Duesseldorf. Curator: Dr. Christoph Danelzik-Brueggemann (cat.) |
| 2017 | - | Three exhibitions in Yerevan, Armenia. curator: Nazareth Karoyan, 1. The Fear of What is Suddenly Too Late at the Modern Art Museum
, 2. Islands of Memory at HayArt cultural center.3.The Art of Museums at Dalan gallery |
| - | Cycles, works from the sixsties, Hanina gallery, Tel Aviv curator: Ron Bartosh |
| 2016 | - | The Art of Museums, Galerie Lausberg, Dusseldorf, Germany (a book) |
| - | From Nothing to Maybe. curator: Meira Peri-Lehman, Municipal Gallery, Kfar Saba, Israel (cat.) |
| 2014 | - | Accumulations, The Edge Art Center, Nahariya, Israel |
| 2013 | - | Happy Schmerzbau, Onomato, Düsseldorf, Germany |
| 2012 | - | Deapth of the Surface, Janco-Dada Museum. Curator: Gilad Ophir, Ein Hod, Israel (cat.) |
| 2010 | - | Psychophysical Time, G-Art Gallery, Istanbul (cat.) |
| - | Fear , Galerie 21, Cologne, Germany |
| 2008 | - | "It's Not All Black", Yair art gallery, Tel Aviv |
| 2007 | - | "Diary of a Samurai", Artists studios house, Düsseldorf, Germany |
| - | histories, lochamei hagetaot gallery, kibbutz Lochamei Hagetaot, Israel |
| 2006 | - | Avraham Eilat,"Tmunat Machzor", The Okashi Museum of Arta, Akko (Acre), Israel |
| 2005 | - | "Psychophysical Time", Galeria Wschodnia, Lodz, Poland |
| 2004 | - | "Suspicious Symptoms", The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel (cat.), curator: Shlomit Shaked |
| 2000 | - | "112 Portraits Front & Back" , galeria FF, Lodz, Poland (cat.) |
| 1999 | - | Avraham Eilat, Galerie Heiko Andreas, Düsseldorf, Germany (with Felix Droese) |
| 1998 | - | Accumulations, Galerie ScauRaum, Düsseldorf, Germany |
| 1996 | - | Hieroglyphics of Reality, Many H. Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (cat.) |
| - | Galeria Krzystofory, Krakow, Poland (cat.) |
| 1994 | - | Junk or Wonderful Unities, Janco Dada Museum, Ein Hod, Israel |
| 1992 | - | From the Gut - from the Mind, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, curators: Meira Perry-Lehman & Nissan Perez |
| 1990 | - | Neglected Gardens, Noga gallery, Herzlia, Israel |
| 1981 | - | Structures for a Given Interior, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel (cat.) curator: Yehudith Shen-Dar |
| - | Forces and Tensions, Ein Harod Museum of Art, Israel, curator: Galia Bar-Or |
| 1975 | - | Avraham Eilat - Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, Haifa ,Israel (cat.) curator: Gavriel Tadmor |
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| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | ||
| 2024 | - | שחקני נשמה - קולקטיבים באמנות הישראלית, גלריה עין הוד En Hod gallery, En Hod, Israel |
| - | Ost - West, Kunsthalle Werft 77 - Hafen Reisholz , Duesseldorf, Germany (cat.) |
| - | אורייתא, מוזיאון על התפר Museum on the Seam, ירושלים Jerusalem |
| 2022 | - | CONTERFEI, Schloss Benrath, Benrath, Germany Curator: Bernhard Kucken |
| - | IL DRAMA DELLA PENDEMIA, Studio D'Arte FC, Castel S.Pietro Italy |
| - | Filmnacht, Onomto, Duesseldorf, Germany, |
| 2021 | - | פולחנים -Rituals, נולובז - Nulobaz, Tel Aviv |
| - | Ein Haus auf der Brueke, Museum Kaiserwerth, Kaiserwerth, Germany |
| 2019 | - | Homage to Yoram Lehmann, Hakubiya,, Jerusalem |
| - | Alles Museum, Museum Goch,, Goch, Germany |
| - | 60 years to Wadi Salib riot שישים שנה למאורעות ואדי סליב, Pyramida, Haifa |
| 2018 | - | Homage to Pyramida's Founders, Pyramida Art Center, Haifa, Israel |
| - | No Pasaran, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem |
| - | Transformation & Identity, Trauma & Reconciliation, Exhibition and Fanzine project, Sa Sa projects space, Phnom Penh, Cambodia |
| - | Dialog: Sidon Rothenberg and artists in the workshop, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem. Israel |
| 2017 | - | Euphoria, 6 days + 50 Years, Museum Ein Harod, Israel, |
| - | Staring Back at the Sun, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland |
| - | Dangerous Art/ Safe Shore - State of Emergency, Haifa Museum of Art, |
| - | 100 years to "Fountain" of Duchamps, Janco-Dada Museum, En-Hod, Israel |
| 2016 | - | Staring Back at the Sun, New Museum, New York, USA |
| - | DADA in Israeli Contemporary Art, Janco-Dada Museum, En Hod, Israel (cat.) |
| - | The Sculpture Garden, The Open University, Raanana, Israel (cat.), |
| - | Dusseldorf Photo Weekend, Lausberg Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany (a book), |
| 2015 | - | Flora Palestina, The New gallery, Musrara, Jerusalem |
| - | Drive in - Israeli Photography in the 1980s, Ashdod Art Museum, Ashdod, Israel (cat.) |
| - | know Identity, Galerie Lausberg, Düsseldorf (cat.) |
| 2014 | - | Bunkers Walls and Trenches, The Edge Art Center, Nahariya, Israel |
| - | Winners of the 2013 ministry of culture art and design awards , Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel (cat.) |
| - | Workshop Myth: Four Decades - "Rise Against", Jerusalem Print Workshop, Israel |
| 2013 | - | The 5th biennale for Drawing in Israel, Artists House, Jerusalem, Israel (internet cat.) |
| - | Ready-Set-Go, Janco-Dada Museum, Ein-Hod, Israel (cat.) |
| - | Print Time, The Open Museum, Tefen, Israel (cat.) |
| - | Project eXodus - an eye for an eye, kulturzentrum Sudbahnhof, Krefeld, Germany |
| 2012 | - | Art Israel Internet Biennial 2, Israel State of Mind , 3DVAS |
| - | Land of Promise - screening of Israeli video-Art , Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv |
| 2011 | - | Lyrical Correctness, Fifty-Fifty gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany (cat.) |
| - | Auf des Spuren Judicher Zeichen, Kultur Bahnhof Eller, Düsseldorf, Germany (cat.) |
| - | Projecting artists films, Film Museum Black Box, Düsseldorf, Germany |
| - | projection of artists films , Kunstverein Duisburg, Duisburg, Germany |
| - | Carrier Pigeon 1st Anniversary Exhibition, Blackburn 20/20 gallery, New York |
| - | About Paper: New works in the drawings and prints collection, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel |
| 2010 | - | Reshamim, Israeli Biennale of drawing, FLOODING - Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem, Israel (cat.) |
| - | Wadi Saliv - Layers, Pyramida Center of Contemporary Art, Haifa, Israel (cat.) |
| - | Brown - Earth, Um-El Fahem art gellery, Israel (cat.) |
| - | "Scrolls", Kupferman's House, Lochamei Hagetaot, Israel |
| - | "Searching for God", The Ohio State University, Kuhn Fine Arts Gallery, USA |
| - | Artists Books, The Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem, Israel (cat.) |
| - | Dark Visions In Print, Secred gallery, NYC, New York, USA |
| 2009 | - | "On the Spot", exhibition in the olive grove, Ein Hod, Israel |
| - | "Fotografie Aus Israel" , Kultur Bahnhof Eller, Düsseldorf, Germany (cat.) |
| - | "Confrontation" , Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem, Israel (cat.) |
| 2008 | - | "International Triennale of Contemporary Art" (ITCA) , National Gallery, Prague (cat.) |
| - | "The Birth of Now, art in the 1960's", Ashdod Art Museum, Monart Center, Israel (cat.) |
| - | "Twisted Reality", The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel (cat.) |
| - | "The Art of Persuation", Westchester Community Colleg Art Gallery, New York |
| - | "To Know Fire", Florentin 45 art space, Tel Aviv, Israel (cat.) |
| - | 10 plus, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel |
| 2007 | - | "Traces", The Third Bienalle for Drawing in Israel , Artists House, Jerusalem (cat.) |
| - | "The Other Sea" , Artists House, Jerusalem, Israel (cat.) |
| - | "4 Young Artists" , Ha'kibbutz gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel |
| - | "The Intelligible Non-Violent Art", Kunststation Kleinsassen, Germany (cat.) |
| - | "Grosse Kunst Ausstellung", Düsseldorf, Germany (cat.) |
| - | "CT Fish" , Ha'kibbutz gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (cat.) |
| - | "Ein Jahr - 34 Positionen - 34 Raume", Museum of Modern Art, Hunfeld, Germany |
| 2006 | - | "The Divine Image" , The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (cat.) |
| - | "The Intelligible Non-violent Art", Atlas Sztuki gallery, Lodz, Poland |
| - | "Haifa in the Eye of the Camera" , Haifa City Museum, Israel |
| - | "Videostoria Series #3: Live Acts Performing the Body" , Haifa Museum of Art, Israel |
| - | "Tracing Shadows" , The Israel Museum, the Youth Ruth Wing, Jerusalem, Israel |
| - | "New Territories", De Hallen, Brugge, Belgium (cat.) |
| - | "Illness Report" , Ben Gurion University art gallery, Beer-Sheva, Israel (cat.) |
| - | "An Issue of Disagreement", Pyramida Center for Contemporary Art, Haifa |
| 2004 | - | "Towards Cinema" - Videostoria series chapter ll , Haifa Museum of Art, Israel (cat.) |
| 2003 | - | "Thou Shalt Make..." , Time for Art - Israeli Art Center, Tel Aviv (cat.) |
| - | "Video Zero - Communication Interferences", Haifa Museum of Art, Israel (cat.) |
| 2002 | - | "Shanghai in the Eyes of World Artists", Municipal Museum, Shanghai, China (book) |
| - | "Mail Art 7 - 40 Years of Mail Art", Sala Cassero, Castel St. Pietro Terme, Italy (cat.) |
| 2001 | - | "Jewish Artists on the Edge", Yeshiva University Museum, New York, USA (cat.) |
| - | "Markers", International outdoors project, Venice, Italy; Israel |
| 2000 | - | "Wish List", The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel |
| 1999 | - | 1st International Triennale of Installation, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel (cat.) |
| 1998 | - | "Milestones", Israeli Sculpture 1948-1998 , The Open Museum, Tefen, Israel (cat.) |
| - | "The Bridge", Construction in Process VI, International Art Symposium, Melbourne, Australia, |
| 1997 | - | Humanism 2020, 4th Sculpture Biennale, Ein Hod, Israel (cat.) |
| 1996 | - | "In Paradise", Installations, Pyramida Center for Contemporary Art, Haifa, Israel |
| - | 3rd Sapporo International Print Biennale, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido, Japan (cat.) |
| 1995 | - | "Memory and Obsession", Artist's House, Jerusalem (cat.) |
| - | "Hermit 4", international art meeting, Plasy, Czech Republic (cat.) |
| - | "Artist's Choice", Haifa Museum of Art, Israel (postcatds) |
| 1994 | - | "Focus on Industry" , Photograps, Ramat Gan Museum for Israeli Art (cat.) |
| 1992 | - | 10th Norwegian International Print Triennale, Frederikstad, Norway (cat.) |
| 1991 | - | Prints from the Collection, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem |
| - | 19th International Biennale of Graphic Art, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia (cat.) |
| 1989 | - | "Living with a Dream", Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel (cat.) |
| - | "Architecture on Paper", The Israel Museum, Jerusalem |
| 1988 | - | "Modern Drawings - New Approaches", Museum of Modern Art, Haifa, Israel (cat.) |
| - | "Sky Line", Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel (cat.) |
| - | "Photographers Against the Occupation", Camera Obscura gallery, Tel Aviv |
| 1987 | - | "Down with the Occupation", Tzavta Gallery, Tel Aviv (cat.) |
| - | "Vom Landschaftsbild zur Spurensicherung", Ludwig Museum, Cologne (cat.) |
| - | Against the Iron Hand, Camera Obscura, Tel Aviv |
| 1986 | - | The First Israeli Photography Biennale, Ein Harod Museum, Israel (cat.) |
| 1984 | - | Four artists : Shiko Katz, Yossi Asher, Soul Zeig, Avraham Eilat, Eilon art gallery, Kibbutz Eilon Constructing an exhibition in one weekend |
| 1980 | - | "Borders", The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (cat.) |
| 1979 | - | Highlights from the collection of Israeli photography, The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel |
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| PUBLIC COLLECTIONS | ||
| In Israel: The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art, Haifa; Ein Harod Museum of Art; Janco-Dada museum, Ein Hod; The Graphotek, Tel Aviv; Discount Bank collection In Germany: Ludwig Museum, Cologne; Museum of Modern Art, Hunfeld; Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf; Museum Goch, Goch; Stadtmuseum, Dusseldorf. Others: Biblioteque Nationale, Paris; Tama University Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Institute of Contemporary Arts, Kunsan university, South Korea; Janet Turner Print Museum, California State University USA |
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| MONOGRAPHS AND CATALOGUES | ||
| - Jeckes, book, photographs.text: Volker Marschall, galerie Noir-Blanche, Duesseldorf 2022 - Out of Boulders, book, photographs, texts: Joshua Sobol, Dan Orimian, David Palma 2022 - Reflections on Victoria Platz, catalog, photographs,Stadt Museum Duesseldorf 2019 - Trench Fever, Catalog, Hakubiya art center, Jerusalem, text by Dan Orimian 2019 - Views of Victoria Platz, photographs, catalog issued by Stadt Museum, Düsseldorf 2019 - From Nothing to Maybe, catalog, municipal gallery Kfar Saba, text by Meira Lehman-Perry 2016 - So Late So Soon, photographs, texts by Joshua Sobol and Avraham Eilat, 2016 - The Art of Museums, photographs, texts by Katharina Mayer and Joshua Sobol, 2016 - Depth of the Surface, Janco-Dada Museum, En Hod, texts by Gilad Ophir & Jochai Rosen, 2013 - Psychophysical Time, galerie G-art, Istanbul, Turky, Text by Gulsen Capa, 2010 - The Silence of the Sea, photographs and messages, texts by Joshua Sobol and A. Eilat, 2006 - Suspicious Symptoms, catalogue, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Text by Shlomit Shaked, 2004 - The Armchair, artist book, 2002 - 112 Portraits Front & back, catalogue, galeria FF, Lodz, Poland, 2000 - Hieroglyphics of Reality, catalogue, texts by Joshua Sobol, 1996 - אברהם אילת From ths Gut - From the Mind, catalogue, texts by Y. Safran, M. Perry - Lehmann and N. Perez The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1992 - אברהם אילת Painter with a Camera, photographs, texts by J. Sobol and N. Perez, Hakkibutz Hameuhad Publishers, Tel Aviv, 1986 - Structure for a Given Interior, catalogue, text by J. Shen-Dar, Museum of Modern Art, Haifa, 1981 - Abraham Eilat, monograph by Rudolf Kreuzer, Perlinger Verlag, Vorgl, Austria,1980 - Avraham Eilat, Drawings, catalogue, text by G. Tadmor, Museum of Modern Art, Haifa, 1975 - Avraham Eilat, paintings & drawings, no text, Galerie Eremitage, Scwaz, Austria, 1969 |
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| CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE | ||
| 2006 - 2015 Guest curator for The National Maritime Museum, Haifa 1999 - 2000 Artistic director and chief curator of the Tel Hai Photography Museum 1989 - 1991 Photography curator at the Haifa Museum of Art 1986 - Founder of the 1st Israeli Photography Biennale, Museum of Ein Harod and member of the curatorial board for details see full resume |