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Born in Warsaw, Poland. Lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel.
2007 sojourn in Warsaw; 1999, 2002, 2012 sojourn in Paris; 1975–1977 sojourn in U.S.
Studies
2005–2007 M.A. studies, the Faculty Graduate Program in the Arts, Tel Aviv University
2003–2004 M.A. studies, Department of Philosophy, Tel Aviv University
1995–1998 M.A. studies, Interdisciplinary Program in the Arts, Tel Aviv University
1988 B.A. Magna cum Laude, Faculty of the Arts, Tel Aviv University
1983 Graduate Kalisher School of Art (Kalisher Art Academy), Tel Aviv
Solo Exhibitions
2019 SOMETHING HAS GONE WRONG , Bialik House Museum, Tel-Aviv Curator: Dr. Smadar Sheffi
2016 CLOUD ARCHEOLOGY Basis Arts & Culture Gallery, Herzliya Curator: Shlomit Breuer
2016 SYSTEM FAILURE Installation & Sound, Basis Arts & Culture Gallery, Herzliya Curator: Shlomit Breuer
2014 BETWEEN HOMELANDS & NAME (IMIE) 4th Ars Polonia Biennale, Opole, Poland
Curator: Małgorzata Sady
2012 NAME IN TRANSITION The Other Gallery, Talpiot College of Education, Holon Curator: Avner Bar-Hama
2010 NAME Mediations International Biennale, Poznan, Poland ”Beyond Mediations”
Venue: National Museum Poznan (With the support of Israeli Embassy in Poland)
2010 24 HOURS IN AUGUST Dear Noga Art Window, Street cinema video projection, Jaffa
2009 NAME “Two drops of Water”, Artists House, Tel-Aviv Curator: Yifat laist
2009 CONSTRUCTION IN PROCESS Ashdod Art Museum, Israel Curator: Yona Fischer
2006 BLINDSEHEN Kunstverein Bellevue-Saal, Wiesbaden, Germany
2003 BLINDREFLEX Museum of Art Ein Harod , Israel (with Klaus Illi) Curator: Dr. Galia Bar Or
2003 UNSICHTBAR Kunst im Heppächer, Esslingen, Germany (with Klaus Illi) Curator: Dr. Susanne Luedtke
2002 BLIND MAN’S BLUFF Tova Osman Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2002 PUNCTUM CAECUM Artists Residence Gallery, Herzliya (with Klaus Illi)
1999 ENTROPY Cité Internationale des Arts Gallery, Paris
1997 PLUS|MINUS|BLACK|WHITE Limbus Gallery, Tel Aviv
1995 THERE ARE NO BLACK BEEHIVES Museum Uri & Rami Nehushtan, Ashdot Ya'akov
1994 THERE ARE NO BLACK BEEHIVES Janco Dada Museum, Ein Hod Curator: Sorin Heller
1993 NIGHT WORKS Artists House, Jerusalem
1992 OBJECT-PAINING-OBJECT Sarah Erman Gallery, Tel Aviv
Prizes and Grants
2019 Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts, Grant
2016 Ministry of Culture & Sport, Prize to Encourage Creativity
2008 Guest Artist, Oranim Art Institute, Oranim Academic College, Israel
2007 Israeli Foreign Ministry Affairs, Study project grant to Poland
2007 The Israeli Center for Libraries Foundation, Visual Art Books grant
2006 Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts grant
2004 Mifal HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts grant, Israeli Lottery
1998 Israeli Ministry of Culture & Science grant - Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
1986 Dean's List recipient, Tel-Aviv University, Arts Faculty
Group Exhibitions (Selected)
2022 “More than One”, The 8th Drawing Biennale of Jerusalem, Artists’ House Jerusalem,
Curator: Irit Hadar (November 2022)
2022 Epos Festival, Poetry films, Tel-Aviv Cinemateque, Curator: Jasmine Kainy
2020 Contextile Biennial for Contemporary Textile Art, Guimaraes, Portugal
With the support of the Israeli Embassy, Lisbon, Portugal
2020 TLV Biennale of Arts & Design, Eretz Israel Museum Tel Aviv (March 2020)
2018 P=0.5, Social Gallery, Musrara Mix Festival Jerusalem, curator: Vera Korman
2018 Pillar of Cloud, Hermann Struck Museum Haifa, curator: Svetlana Reingold
2017 We Hereby Declare, Ministry of Culture Prize exhibition, MoBY: Museum for Contemporary Art Bat-Yam
curator: Joshua Simon, catalog
2017 What Goes Around Comes Around, Neve Schechter Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, curator: Shira Friedman
2015 Vot ken you mach? MWW Contemporary Museum Wroclaw, Poland curator: Rafal Jakubowitcz
2013-2014 Drawing Biennial Jerusalem, “Traces V - Beyond Paper”, 235GB MEMORY Installation Jerusalem Print workshop
2013 Triennial of Extended Media, Belgrade, Serbia, NAME
2013 Paris-Belgrade, Gallery K. in ZetsKa, Belgrade, Serbia, Curator: E. Carlebach
2011 Israeli Documentary Film Competition Ceremony, NAME Doco-Beer-Sheba Finalist
2011 BETWEEN HOMELANDS, Loop Barcelona Video Art Festival, Spain
2011 BETWEEN HOMELANDS, Loop Festival, Madrid, Spain
2009 BLIND MAN’S BLUFF II, “Not Necessarily Feminine”, Pyramid Center for Contemporary Art Haifa curator: Shirley Meshulam
2009 Art of Emergency, Artneuland, Berlin, Germany
2008 BETWEEN HOMELANDS, The Prozna Street Project, Singer Festival, Warsaw, Poland. Curator: Krystyna Piotrowska
2008 BETWEEN HOMELANDS, "Souvenirs – Repressed Historical and Personal Memory in the Works of Polish and Israeli Artists",
Ben-Gurion University Art Gallery, curators: Haim Maor, Haim Finkelstein, Teresa Smiechowska, Catalog
2008 “Time Tunnel”, Municipal Art Gallery, Givataim, curator: Daniel Cahana, catalog
2008 "Images of Embroidery in Israeli Art”, Kfar Saba Municipal Art Gallery, curator: Galit Semel, catalog
2007 The Third Drawing Biennale Jerusalem, Traces III, Artists House, curator: Dalia Manor catalog
2007 Drawing Follows Media, Pyramid Center for Contemporary Art, Haifa
2007 Staying over at Kupferman's, Kupferman's Collection Gallery, Lohamei Hagetaot Curator: Yona Fischer
2006 Ashdod - Tel-Aviv, The Making of a City, Ashdod Museum of Art, Curator: Yona Fischer
2006 "Trialogue: Israeli, Arab and German Artists", DO-DO-MU (homebound) Esslingen, Germany
2005 League, House in the Harbor, Tel Aviv Curator: Galia Yahav
2004 "Homesick," DO-DO-MU Salon Bastav, 29 Herzl Street, Tel Aviv
2003 Finale Totale, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany
2002 Markers II International Artists Museum Project, EAM, Kassel, Germany
2002 Israeli Forum for Ecological Art, World Summit 2002, Johannesburg, South Africa, CD catalog
2002 TEMPORARY BRIDGE II "Limbus – Decennial Anniversary", Limbus Gallery, Tel Aviv
2001 “The Current Situation,” Limbus Gallery, Tel Aviv
1999 ENTROPY III- DISRUPTED VISION "Tight Rope," Arad Museum, Bat Yam Museum of Art
curators: Hili Govrin and Miri Targan, catalog
1999 Detail/Whole, Hamumche Gallery, Tel Aviv Curator: Orly Hoffman
1998 TEMPORARY BRIDGE Installation, House in Musrara project 3, Art Center in Jerusalem
Curator: Rachel Sukman; catalog
1997/1998 ANOMIE, Arad Museum, Kfar Saba Municipal Art Gallery, Yavne Art Workshop Gallery curator: Rachel Sukman
1996 ENTROPY- RED ROOM, “Station in Motion” project no.2 & No.3, Central Bus Station, Tel Aviv.
Curator: Rachel Sukman
1994 Sense & Essence, Yeffet 28 Art Gallery, Jaffa | Nachshon Gallery, Kibbutz Nachshon
1993 A Matchbox Enclosed, Art Workshop Yavne; Janco Dada Museum, Ein Hod international project Curator: Monica Lavie
1990 Print Today, Artists’ House, Tel Aviv Curator: Deganit Berest1983
Graduate exhibition, Horace Richter Gallery, Jaffa curator: Miriam Tuvia-Bone, catalog
Commissions, Conferences & Projects
2014 BURIED SITES OF MEMEORY Jewish Diaspora and the Other, Book Chapter by the artist
in “Sexing the Border”, Katarzyna Kosmala (ed.) Cambridge Scholars Pub.
2011 International Conference ACSIS - Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden
Norrkoping, Sweden: “Current Issues in European Cultural Studies”, BURIED SITES OF MEMEORY (June)
2011 “Curating in the Digital Era”, CONSTRUCTION IN PROCESS Haifa University, Art History Department Seminar (May),
video screening & lecture
2011 The Tenth International Conference on Jewish Names, Bar-Ilan University, NAME Video screening & lecture (March)
2009 Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland, ‘Schizma’- Lata ’90 The making of an exhibition,
commission – Photography behind the scene of the exhibition, With the support of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute Poland
(Sept.-Oct.) Curator: Adam Mazur
2009 The Prozna Street Project, TEL-AVIV-WARSAW NON STOP video installation, Singer Festival, Warsaw, Poland
Curator: Krystyna Piotrowska
2009 CONSTRUCTION IN PROCESS Ashdod Art Museum, Israel, The making of an exhibition, commission Curator: Yona Fischer,
Tammy Manor-Friedman
2004 BLINDREFLEX Israeli Forum for Ecological Art conference, Tzavta, Tel Aviv
1993 PERFORATED ARMOUR outdoor sculpture, Ramat-Hasharon, Israel
Collections
Public: Museum of Art Ein Harod, Ashdod Museum of Art, Yona Fischer Collection Ashdod Museum of Art,
Janco Dada Museum, Phoenix collection, Coca-Cola collection.
Private: Eli Arluk collection, Oded Shatil collection, Tova Osman Gallery collection, others in Israel, France, Monaco, Germany, U.S.A
Publications
2020 Contextile Biennial for Contemporary Textile Art
2020 TLV Biennale of Arts & Design, Eretz Israel Museum Tel Aviv, Catalogue
2017 We Hereby Declare, MoBY: Museums of Bat Yam, catalog
2016 Cloud Archeology, Basis Arts & Culture Gallery, Herzliya, catalog
2015 Vot ken you mach? MWW Contemporary Museum Wroclaw, Poland, catalog
2014 BURIED SITES OF MEMORY, Jewish Diaspora and the Other, Book Chapter in “Sexing the Border”, K. Kosmala (ed.)
Cambridge Scholars Pub.
2013 5th National Biennial for Drawing Israel, online catalog: http://traces.art.org.il/5/?en
2012 Creators Randezvous: “Transgressing Film”, Israeli Television, channel 1
2011 Israeli Documentary film Competition Ceremony, NAME nominated for 5best docu, ‘Doco Beer-Sheba’
2011 International Conference “Current Issues in European Cultural Studies” organized by the
Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden, Linköping University Electronic Press.
http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/062/044/ecp11062044.pdf
2010 Israeli radio, Reshet Bet, Culture, M. Krimolovski (Sept. 12, 12:54)
2010 Mediations International Biennale catalog, Poznan, Poland, Pub. ‘Zamek’ Cultural Center
2009 VIEWER’S VERSION, Museum of Art, Ein Harod, catalog
2009 Obieg, Contemporary Art from Poland, editor: Adam Mazur, Internet edition, April 18, 2009 “Inga Fonar Cocos & Krystyna
Piotrowska”, www.obieg.pl/audiovideo/10340
2008 Israeli radio, Reshet Bet, International Hour – BETWEEN HOMELANDS, The Prόzna project Warsaw, Poland, September
2006 Israeli radio, Reshet Bet, International Hour – "Blind Vision in Wiesbaden, Germany"
Wiesbadener Kurier, "Blindsehen mit Inga Fonar Cocos", April 25
2005 Israeli television, channel 2, "Experts' Gallery," March
2004 Allgemeines Kuenstlerlexikon, published in Leipzig, Vol. 42, December
2003 Gabriele Hoffmann, 'Kathartische Kehrwoche" Stuttgarter Zeitung, January 2
Elke Eberle, "Endzeit im Glastrakt", Esslinger Zeitung, January 5-6
Georg Leisten, "Sie wären sowieso gestorben," Stuttgarter Zeitung, Nov. 7
Martin Mezger, "Blinde Flecken der Identität," Esslinger Zeitung, Nov. 5
1997 Jean-Yves Jouannais, “Art Press”, “Israel - Various Sites”, January
Mishkafayim, Israel Museum Jerusalem, December
1996 Israeli television, ENTROPY-RED ROOM, “A Ticket for Two with Eldad Ziv”
1995 Meir Ronen, Jerusalem Post, January
1994 "There are no Black Beehives", S.Heller, Janco Dada Museum
1993 A. Levine, Jerusalem Post, March
1993 Israeli television, channel 1, “Culture and Art”, March
Articles by the Artist
2014 BURIED SITES OF MEMORY Jewish Diaspora and the Other, Book Chapter in “Sexing the Border”,
Katarzyna Kosmala (ed.) Cambridge Scholars Pub
2005 Terminal, Contemporary Art Journal, ed. Rachel Sukman
2001 Muse, Art Quarterly, Israel Museum Jerusalem, ed. Monika Lavie
1997–2000 Terminal, Contemporary Art Journal, ed. Rachel Sukman
Curatorial Projects
1998–2018 Curator at Alon Gallery, Alon School of Arts & Sciences, Ramat-Hasharon | participating artists over
the years: Irit Tamari, Vered Aharonovitch, Jonathan Hirschfeld, Gary Goldstein, Dina Goldstein, Lali Friehling,
Raanan Harlap, Vera Korman, Dina Shenhav, Boaz Arad, Assi Meshulam, Maya Zack, Reut Ferster, Micha Ullman,
Boaz Tal, Hila Lulu Lin
1994 "Sense & Essence", Yefet 28 Art Gallery, Jaffa (part of ArtFocus), Group exhibition
Teaching, Jury & Volunteer experience
1987–present Visual Arts Dept. Alon Arts & Sciences School Ramat-Hasharon
2014 Israeli ministry of Culture & Sport, Jury - Artist- in-a-Community Prize
1999-2005 Chairwoman & co-founder-The Israeli professional artists’ organization (Volunteer)
1997 Department of Photography, Hadassah College, Jerusalem
1985–1988 Kalisher School of Art, Tel Aviv