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Nationality Israeli
 Born b. 1973

Michal Helfman

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Israeli-born multi-disciplinary artist who works in sculpture, architecture, video and drawings. Her work often expands the viewers' understanding of, and relation to time, space and reality. A faculty member at the revered Bezalel Academy, she has represented Israel at the 50th Biennale di Venezia as well as the São Paulo Biennale, and has exhibited internationally, including Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, Israel and the United States.

  • SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS

    2020
    Dear A.S.A/P
    Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

    2018
    Running Out of History
    Sommer Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

    2017
    Running Out of History
    A Tale for a Tub, Rotterdam, Netherlands

    2016
    Running Out of History
    KW, Berlin, Germany

    2015
    I’m so broke I can’t pay attention
    K. Period Gallery, New York, NY

    2013
    Change
    Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

    2012
    Experiments in techniques of awakening
    Jaffa 23, Jerusalem, Israel

    2010
    Doctor Doctor
    Sommer Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

    2009
    The Lesson
    Cardi Black Box, Milan, Italy

    2009
    The lesson
    Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

    2008
    Mekomon
    Public Lobby for Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

    2007
    Bat- Dor
    Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

    2003
    Cochav Yair
    Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

    2002
    Tiesto
    Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin, WI

    2001
    Caesarea
    Institute of Visual Arts, San Francisco, CA

     

    GROUP EXHIBITIONS

    2019
    An Alternative for Living
    Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Krefeld, Germany

    2018
    Kedem-Kodem-Kadima
    Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv

    2017
    Current Affairs
    Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Dance Macabre
    Felix Nussbaum Hause, Osnabruck, Germany

    Conditions of Political Choreography
    NBK, Berlin, Germany, and Center for Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel

    2016
    Incerteza Viva
    São Paulo Biennale, Brazil

    2015
    Tel Aviv Museum Show
    Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany

    2014
    Bitcoin
    Eli Ping Frances Perkin Gallery, New York NY

    2013
    Anti Anti
    Tel Aviv University Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel

    2011
    Art Tel Aviv and Herzliya Biennial
    Herzliya Museum, Herzliya, Israel

    2010
    A Duet for a Boy and a Flame
    Herzliya Museum, Herzliya, Israel

    2009
    Wild Exaggeration
    Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel

    2008
    Real Time Art in Israel 98′-08′
    The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

    The Colony
    Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel

    2007
    Rear
    Herzliya Museum, Herzliya, Israel

    2004
    Don’t Touch the White Woman
    Fondazione Sandretto, Turin, Italy

    2003
    Dreams and Conflicts
    The 50th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy

    2002
    La Riviera, curated by Jerome Sanse
    Madrid, Spain

    Aspis, curated by Yael Bergstein
    Kalisher Gallery, Israel

    2001
    LISTE 2001
    Basel, Switzerland

    2000
    Platforma
    Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel

    A Long Lion, curated by Guy Ben-Ner
    Peer-Hamidrasha, Tivon, Israel

    1999
    Autocream ArtFocus, curated by Kaspar Koenig
    Sultans Pool, Jerusalem, Israel

  • 1998
    Bezalel Academy for Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
    BFA

    1996
    School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
    Students Exchange Program

  • Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
    Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
    Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel
    Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
    The Collection of Wendy Fisher, United Kingdom

  • 2009
    Ministry of Culture Award, Israel

    2001
    Young Artist Prize Ministry of Culture Award, Israel

    1998
    Premium in Final Project, Israel
    Anselm Kiefer Prize, The Wolf Foundation, Israel