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Maayan Amir
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Name
Maayan Amir
Education
Tel Aviv University
Image Blockade by Exterritory: Maayan Amir & Ruti Sela (Overview in English)
Maayan Amir (born 1978, in Hadera, Israel) is an artist and independent curator.
Image Blockade by Exterritory: Maayan Amir & Ruti Sela (Overview in Hebrew)
Biography
She holds a BA in Art and an MFA in cinema from Tel-Aviv University. In 2011 she was a guest resident at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam. Amir edited a book about Israeli documentary cinema published in 2008. She has curated many exhibitions in various venues.
Her work has been shown internationally in exhibitions such as the Sydney Biennale (2006), Istanbul Biennale (2009), and Berlin Biennale (2010), and in such venues as the Centre Pompidou (Paris), Art in General (NY), Tate Modern, and Jeu de Paume, among many others. In 2009, together with Ruti Sela she initiated"The Exterritory Project", for which they won an award (2011) for young artists from the The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
Awards
2011- The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) - Award for Young Artists
2009 -Video -BJCEM - Skopje 2009, Torino, Italy
2007 -Yehoshua Rabinovich foundation 2006- Israeli Foundation for Cinema & TV
2005- New Israeli Foundation for Cinema & TV 2004 -Center for Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv
Selected Exhibitions- Curator
2011
"Another World is Possible" Bezalel Art Academy Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel.
"What is the Political", Bat-Yam Contemporary Art Museum, Bat-Yam, Israel
"Contemporary", Contemporary Art Gallery Tel-Aviv, Israel
Exterritory Presentation, Yarkon River, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2010
The Problem with the Horizon, Bat- Yam, Israel
Conversion, Petah-Tikva Museum, Petah-Tikva, Israel
Lobby, Tmuna Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Homonym, Art Gallery, Cologne, Germany
2009
Art TLV biennale, Homonym, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Shelter City, Public Sphere Sderot, Israel
Degenerate Art, Dan Gallery: Tel-aviv, Israel
The Governmental Body, Tmuna Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2008
The Tyranny of the Transparent- Self-Portrait as Blacks in Israeli Contemporary Art, Minshar Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
The Implied Spectator, Tmuna Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2007
This Is Not Israeli Art, Tmuna Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Publication - Books
United States of Palestine-Israel, Exterritory Together with Ruti Sela, Ed. Joshua Simion, Sternberg Press, New-York, 2011
Documentally- Collection of Essays on Israeli Documentary Cinema (Ed. Maayan Amir), Am-Oved, Tel-Aviv, 2008
Solo Exhibitions (Artist)
2011
BG-HOV-PWC, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France
"Beyond Guilt", 126 Gallery, Galway, Ireland
"Beyond Guilt", Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver, Canada
2010
"Beyond Guilt", 1646 Gallery, The Hague, Holland
Selected Group Exhibitions (Artist)
2011
"Un'espressione Geografica",Foneazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy