Nationality Israeli Movement Israeli art | Name Nira Pereg | |
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Education The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Known for | ||
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Nira Pereg is an Israeli artist (born in 1969 in Israel). She spent the 90s in New-York, where she received her BFA from Cooper Union at NYC. On her return to Israel, she graduated from the Bezalel MFA studio program in Jerusalem, and has been teaching internationally ever since.
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- Biography
- Solo Exhibitions
- Selected Group Exhibitions
- Publications
- Awards Residencies
- Collections
- References
Pereg’s multi-channel video installations challenge the status quo of any territory she immerses herself in. She anchors her work in documentary practice. However, in order to challenge the traditional role of the “real” verses the “artificial” Pereg developed her own language of editing in which a studio produced sound track questions these images, and a multi channel presentation juxtaposes events and space. This particular aesthetic intervention plays a crucial role in the work’s spatial presentation, and heightens a constant discomfort with “the way things are”. The merger of spirit and matter, as it is coexist in public spaces of religious/political/military presence, serves as a platform for Pereg’s interest and involvement in the social manifestations of systems and structures which influence our lives.
“Nira Pereg works by immersing herself in contexts that are both familiar and nonfactual, thereby doing away with the notions of proximity and dis-tance. This apparently distant eye that Nira Pereg systematically applies to her subjects is the very form of her commitment. To show the mechanics of exclusion, to set up one’s camera in front of the protocol of separation, as she does in Abraham Abraham Sarah Sarah, is to do much more than merely document a situation, it is to follow the thread of life running through socio-political mechanisms, to undertake an archaeology of the present.”
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Biography
Pereg spent the 1990s in New York, where she received her BFA from Cooper Union at New York City. Returning to Israel, she graduated from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design MFA studio program in Jerusalem. Since then she has been teaching in several schools as Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Ramat Gan, Israel; Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, Germany; University of California, San Diego; and Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel.
Solo Exhibitions
2015
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2012
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2007
2004
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015
Own Land/Foreign Territory, 6th Moscow Biennale 2015, Moscow, Russia
Rainbow in the Dark, Malmö Art Museum ,Malmö, Sweden
The Century Mark. Tel Aviv Museum of Art visits Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau Museum, Berlin, Germany
2014
A Moving Image, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Unstable Places - New in Contemporary Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Une Histoire / A History (art architecture design- from the 80s to now), Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
2013
Aircraft Carrier: American Ideas and Israeli Architectures, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Aircraft Carrier: Surveying the Radical Transformation of Israeli Architecture, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, USA
2012
The 9th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China
Aircraft Carrier, 13th International Architecture Exhibition, Israeli Pavilion, Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy
La-Bas, Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
Boundaries on the Move, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel
Resonance and Silence, the third exhibition of the cooperation, Sammlung Goetz at Haus der Kunst in Munich, Germany
2010
KunstFilmBiennial, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Comes with the Territory, Sommer Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Stop Making Sense, Oslo Kunstforening/Oslo Fine Art Society, Olso, Norway
Medium Religion, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal (MAC), Canada
2009
RE-CONSTRUCTIONS, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Nuit Blanche, Paris, France
Art in General, New York, USA
Medium Religion, Curators: Boris Groys & Peter Weibel, Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo, Ireland
2008
Video Zone, CCA - The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv
Can Art Do More?, Art Focus 5, Jerusalem, Israel
Real Time: Art in Israel 1998-2008, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
2007
PROGR, Bern, Switzerland
Anita Beckers Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
2006
FACT, Liverpool Biennial, England
2005
Dreams and Trauma - Moving Images and the Promised Lands, HKW, Berlin, Germany
Day Labor, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, NY, USA
Dawn of Israeli Art, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Hilchot Schenim Chapter C, The Israeli Center of Digital Art, Holon, Israel
2004
MAF-4: Thailand New Media Festival, Bangkok, Thailand
2003
1st TransChina Video Festival, Beijing, China
Public Spaces, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, The Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv, Israel
WRO 03-Globalica, 10th International Media-Art Biennale,Center for Media Art, Wroclaw, Poland
'HereAfter – A Time for Transition / Tel Aviv Video', Contemporary Art
Center, Vilnius, Lithuania
2002
Mediatheque Faverge, Video Art Festival, Annecy, France
2001
Enter, Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany
2000
Post Graduate Exhibition, Morris Louis Gallery, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
1999
Vision De Futuro, The Biennale for Young Artists, Rome, Italy