Belle Shafir
Born in Germany
1972 Emigrated to Israel
1984-88 Studied at the Avni Art College, Tel Aviv
2020-22 Boho/Butoh workshop by Tamar Borer
Solo exhibitions:
2021 The Body is Present, New Artist House Rishon Lezion, Israel
2020 Samsara, Artbox Dresden, Germany
2019 Legenda in MeMoriam, MuMo Museum Montanelli, Prague, Czech Republic
2018 Split Paths of Time, Trumpeldor Gallery-Art Center, Beer Sheva, Israel
2016 Ende.Neu, Delikatessenhaus. Neu Deli Gallery, Leipzig, German
Whisper of memory, Nha San Art Space, Hanoi, Vietnam
2015 SUBORTUS, The Kibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2013 Nuchal Translucency, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Icastica, Glocal Women, 1st Internaltional Art Exhibition of Arezzo, Italy
Nuchal Translucency, Artists House, Tel Aviv, Israel
2011 Fertility and Vegetativeness, Museum Ein-Harod, Ein-Harod Kibbutz, Israel
2007 Eugenics, Municipality Gallery, Ra'anana, Israel
2006 Insitu, Artists House, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2005 Close-up, Artists house, Herzliya, Israel
2003 Venus verspinnt, Gallery im b.i.b., Hannover, Germany
2002 Portraitscriptum, Sarah Erman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Path between a Maze, Sexual lust and Altar, Seamgallery, Megadim, Israel
1998 Lapillus, Many H. Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1997 Circle of consciousness, The Constant Sculpture Gallery, Ramat-Gan, Israel
1995 Naturalis, Artists’ House, Jerusalem, Israel
1994 Stadtmuseum Amberg, Amberg, Germany
For the tree of the Field is Man’s Life, Contemporary Art Museum, Petach-Tikva, Israel
Galerie Maya Wildewuur, Hochhalen, The Netherlands
1992 Sarah Erman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Arkaden Gallery, Regensburg, Germany
Museum Villa Stahmer, Georgsmarienhütte, Germany
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Group exhibitions:
2024 Fragilities, The Dina Recanati Art Foundation, Herzliya, Israel
2023 Echo of Memories, Künstlerforum Bonn, Germany
2022 Shifting identities a tale of dissolving narratives, Ethnological Museum, Nicosia, Cyprus
Biennale Arte, Dolomiti, Italy
Knot Forgotten, TEO Art Center, Herzliya, Israel
2021 Institution, Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel
Ego Land, 51 Gallery, Modeiin, Israel
Reality check, Psychiatric Hospital of Attica, Dafni, Athens, Greece
2020 Family business, Centrum Judaicum, Berlin, Germany
2019 Print Art Book, Hansen House, Jerusalem, Israel
Histories, Installation/Performance, Sarah Erman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Lines of Action, Azrieli Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
2018 at-texo, Artspace,Tel Aviv, Israel
SALON,Galerie Ursula Walter, Dresden, Germany
Animal Affinity, The Artists' House, Tel Aviv, Israel
Festival izraelského filmu, Prague, Czech Republic
Disconnecting, Kibbutz Gallerie for israeli art, Tel Aviv, Israel
R-E-VOLUTION, Galerie Motorenhalle, Dresden, Germany
Mighty Minis, Melanie Carr Gallery, Essex, Connecticut, USA, (traveling exhibition)
Avatar, Royal Beach Hotel, Tel Aviv, Israel
2017 EigenART, Gallery am Park, Vienna, Austria
7 minutes of fame, Art Space Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Manofim, Mixed Memories, Contemporary Art Festival, Jerusalem, Israel
at-texo, Dom Museum, Hildesheim, Germany
Notes on the Beginning of the Short 20th Century: Recent European Art on WWI, Motorenhalle,
contemporary art projects center, Dresden, Germany, National Center For contemporary Art
(NCCA), Kaliningrad, Russia, Artists House, Tel Aviv, Israel (traveling exhibition).
AnonimX, Contemporary Art Museum, Haifa, Israel
Knot Theory, Beit Michal, Rehovot, Israel
Mimosa Time, Artist's House, Modi'in, Israel
Abject Art, Central Station Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2016 Ende.Neu, Galerie Neu Deli, Leipzig, Germany
at-texo, Galerie Ursula Walter, Dresden, Germany
Video scenary, Contemporary Art Museum, Petach Tikva, Israel
AVI, festival art video international, Jerusalem, Israel
World Thread Festival 2016, Ontario, Canada
2015 Notes on the Beginning of the Short 20th Century: Recent European Art on WWI, quartier21, Museum Quarter, Vienna, Austria (traveling exhibition)
I Live In The East But My Heart Is In The West: Israel in München, Pasinger Fabrik, Munich, Germany
2014 Trapped?, Art Festival, Kibbutz Galuyot 45, Tel Aviv, Israel
Along the lines of imagination, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Format, Artspace TLV, Tel Aviv, Israel
Psalm woman, Office Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Pins and Needles, Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT, USA
Time Is Love 7, International video art program, The Invisible Line Gallery, London, England,
Torrance Art Museum, CA, USA and touring around the world.
the 5th Biennale for drawing in Israel, Agripas 12 Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
Visual scripts, the Wilfrid Israel Museum, Kibbutz Hazorea, Israel
2013 Sitespecific 3, Tel Aviv, Israel
Knitted Registry, CSP Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2012 Celebrating Kindred Spirits and Strange Bed Fellows, A.I.R.Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Cabinets of Wonder in Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel
2011 A women’s work is never done, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Middle Yeast, Palazzo Sant’ Elia, Palermo, Italy
2009 Not Necessarely Feminine (?), Pyramida Gallery, Haifa, Israel
2008 Memory of the Future, Cite internationale des arts, Paris, France
2nd Croatian Biennale of Illustration, Klovicevi dvori Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
2007 Simanashi, Artist's house, Herzliya, Israel
2005 5th World Calligraphy Biennale of Jeollabuk-do, South Korea
Volumi in equilibrio, Centro Srotico di Teglio Omaggio a Pierre Restany, Italy
Red, Municipality Gallery, Kfar-Saba, Israel
Hues of colors, Gallery Kampus, Holon, Israel
2004 Hues of colors, Seamgallery, Megadim, Israel
Moz – Muse II, Gallery ‘526’, Lodz, Poland
2003 Displaced Self, Installations, Sakshi Gallery, Bombay, India
Carrier Carrying Carriage, Design Gallery, Henkin College, Holon, Israel
2002 imaginaire féminin, OPEN2002, Venice Lido, Italy
Ambivalenzen, Frauen Museum, Bonn, Germany
2002 Flag Art Festival, Seoul, Korea.
2001 The Mudane Muse, Janco Dada Museum, Ein-Hod, Israel
The Mudane Muse, Municipality Gallery, Rechovot, Israel
Verfügungsgrün, Hochbunker, Köln, Germany
2000 Storytime, Artist’s House Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
Storytime, Center Gallery, Nazareth, Israel
Zur Wand reden, Jüdisches Kulturmuseum, Veitshoechheim, Germany
When you enter the Land, Shfela Museum, Kfar Menachem, Israel
Weaving a Connection, Tel Aviv University Gallery, Israel
Wir borgen uns ein Museum, Das verborgene Museum, Berlin, Germany
The Mudane Muse, Arad Museum, Arad, Israel
1999 Earth, Um el Fachem Gallery, Galilee, Israel
Six Set Up a Table, Musrara 10 Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
Discourse, Static Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Talking to a Wall, Bad Kissingen, Germany
A Harvest of Pomegranates, The Corine Maman Ashdod Museum, Israel
1998 The Israeli Woman Portrait 1948-1998, Yad-Lebanim Museum, Ra'anana, Israel
From Madona and Golda to Mother Theresa, City Hall, Haifa, Israel
Artists meeting, The Studio Gallery, Ra'anana, Israel
KunstFormMensch, Rathaus Gerlingen, Germany
Save the peace, Giv’ataym theatre, Israel
The Garden-A Metaphor, The University Botanical Gardens, Jerusalem, Israel
50 Anos Israel, Galeria d’Art Zero, Barcelona, Spain
Storytime, Candid Gallery, London, and Static Gallery, Liverpool, UK
1997 60 Years of the Blue Square, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
Miniartura, Centro Arti Visive, Perugia, Italia
1996 Bitter, Sweet, Time, Putrifaction, Lymbus Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Healing The Breach II, Yadayim Artists’ Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Local code, The Tower Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1995 The Tower Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1993 Sculpture in the Little Forest, Ra'anana, Israel
1992 Yad-Lebanim Museum, Ra'anana, Israel
The Kibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Tables, Hakikar Gallery, Jaffa, Israel
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Performances:
2022 Non Finito, Community Space Gallery Nolobus, Tel Aviv, Israel
2021 Echoes of Transformation, The Museum of Far East Art, Ramat Gan, Israel
Echoes of Transformation, reality check, Psychiatric Hospital of Attica, Dafni, Athens, Greece
(YouTube)
SOMA, Butoh performance, alternative space, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2020 Bli / Without, Butoh performance, alternative space, Tel-Aviv, Israel (YouTube)
2019 Limbus, Performance, Orshina Art Center, Tel Aviv, Israel (YouTube)
Full Moon 1, alternative space, Haifa, Israel.
Temporary Interface, performance, S.Y.P. Art Space, Tokyo, Japan (YouTube)
Memory Wall Inhabited, performance, Nakanojo Biennale, Japan (YouTube)
Moratorium, performance, Orshina Art Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
Freier Kopf, Nolobus Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Projects:
2024 Omnibus, International Artists Symposium, Amberg, Germany
2022 Eye/View in Mexico, Videocity, Oaxaca, Mexico
Emome' 4th. International Festival, Lomé, Togo
Eye/View in Basel, Videocity, e-billboard, Congress Center Basel, Switzerland
2019 Artificial Identity, Video Festival, Mexico City, Mexico
2014 Time is Love 7, The invisible line Gallery, London, UK
2009 Installation & Co, Sculpture park, Cipressa, Italy
2004 Art Lectures and workshop, University of Wollongong, Australia
2003 Bildhauer-Symposium, Amberg, Germany
2002 Temple del l'Amore, Site Specific Sculpture, Arte Sella, Borgo Vasulgana, Italy
2001 Cyfuniad 2001, International Workshop with Residence, Liverpool and Plas Caerdeon, Wales, UK
1999 The place where Art and Ecology meet, Britanni Forest, Jerusalem, Israel
Kescher, International Artists Symposium, Kibbutz Lochamei Hagettaot, Israel
Naked Venus, Site Specific Sculpture: Akerby Skulpturpark, Sweden
International Artist Symposium, KHOJ, India
1998 Altar, Women Festival, Haifa, Israel
1997 Zimun, International Artists Symposium, Artist's house, Herzliya, Israel
Love Temple, International Artists Symposium, Wiesbaden, Germany
Spiegele Book, Frauenmuseum Bonn, XII. Kunstmesse Bonn, Germany
1996 International Sculpture Project, Görlitz, Germany
1994 The Seer's Well, site-specific Sculpture: The Grizedale Forest, Lake District, UK
Site-specific Sculpture: The Kfar Tavor Gardens, Israel
Documentation & Publications:
2021 Studio visit, Can Art Magazine, Interview by Hanna Barak Engel, Tel Aviv, Israel
XIBT Contemporary Art Magazine, Interview by Dr. Kostas Prapoglou
2019 Memory Wall Inhabited, YouTube, Performance, Nakanojo Biennale, Japan, (YouTube)
2017 Illustrierte neue Welt 2017, Kunst, Wiederbelebte Geschichte, M. Springer, Wien, Austria
2014 Book: Les femmes folles, women in Art by Sally Brown Deskins, New York, USA
2013 Video documentation for Nuchal Translucency exhibition (YouTube)
2011 Video Documentation for Fertility and Vegetativeness exhibition (YouTube)
2006 Video Documentation for Insitu exhibition (YouTube)
2005 Video documentation from PvR videostudios, Kfar-Saba, Israel, film operator: Peretz (Frank) van
Ralte, for the Gabriel Sherover Information Center for Israeli Art, video No. 446, The Israel Museum,
Jerusalem, Israel
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Awards and Prizes:
2005 Special prize of the 5th World Calligraphy Biennale of Jallabuk-do, South Korea
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Visiting Artist:
2018 Shiro Oni Studio, Gunma, Japan
2017 20th Sommerakademie Risa Efau, Dresden, Germany
2015 quartier21, Museum Quarter, Vienna, Austri
2012 15th Sommerakademie Risa Efau, Dresden, Germany
2010 Fine Art Department, Guest James Monthford, Rhode Island College, Providence, USA
2009 Residence in the Cite des Arts, Paris, France
2004 Visiting Artist, University of Wollongong, Australia
2001 Cyfuniad 2001, international workshop with Residence, Plas Caerdeon, Wales, UK
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Selected Collections and Commissions:
2019 MuMo Museum Montanelli, Prague, Czech Republic
2010 Davis Museum, Barcelona, Spain
2004 Modern Art Museum of Portofino, Italy
Private Collections in Germany, Holland, India, Israel, Thailand, Korea, England, France, Greece etc.