Contact:
E-mail: nirapereg@gmail.com
Gallery Tel-Aviv: Braverman Gallery
http://www.bravermangallery.com
Web site: www.nirapereg.net
B.1969, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Nira Pereg's work deals with ways that social structures intersect with the
authority of the individual. Typically, her projects are documentary based,
but transform reality into an quasi-theatrical events. Using complex editing
techniques and various-scaled multimedia installations, Pereg's interest in
socials schemes draws on a unique and personal perspective. “Re-looking”
is a primary concern in her work practice and her everyday life, and often
builds on periods of intense travel and close observations.
Pereg, born in in Israel, spent the 90s in New-York, where she received a
B.F.A from Cooper Union. On her return to Israel, she graduated from the
Bezalel M.F.A studio program in Jerusalem, and has been teaching
internationally ever since. Pereg's works have been exhibited at PS 1 New
York, Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institution, DC, USA,
HDK Berlin, KW Berlin, ZKM Karlsruhe, the Israeli Museum of Art in Jerusalem,
Sammlung Goetz-München, Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst, The Tel-Aviv
Museum of Art, and at various festival and galleries, recently a receiver of the
Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation Israeli Art Prize for young artist.
Art Education
1989-1993B.F.A., Cooper Union Institute and Academy of Art and Science, New York
1998-2000M.F.A., Fine Art Department, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
Solo Exhibitions
2012
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany.
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, USA.
2011
Hirshhorn Museum - "Black Box" - Smithsonian Institution, Washington, USA.
Chiado Museum, Lisbon, Portugal.
2010
“Video of the Month” at the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany.
Loop Video-Art Fair, Barcelona, Spain.
Tel-Aviv Museum of Art - Winner of the Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation Israeli Art Prize.
Santa Monica Museum of Art, L.A, USA.
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, L.A, USA.
2009
The Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, Germanny.
2007
Herzelia Museum, of Art, Israe
Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2006
Loop Video-Art Fair, Barcelona, Spain
2004
Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Selected Exhibitions and events:
2012
Ticho House- the israel museum Jerusalem, Israel.
“LA BAS” at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France.
The 13th International Architecture Exhibition The Venice Biennial-The Israeli Pavilion, Venice, Italy.
2011
ROMER YOUNG GALLERY, San Francisco, USA. SCREENING: A COLLECTION OF WORKS BY ISRAEL ARTIST NIRA PEREG
Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Aesthetikos” Curator Maayan Amir, at the Technion Gallery, Israel institute of technology, Haifa, Israel
2010
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany- KunstFilmBiennial 2010
“Comes with the Territory” Charim Ungar Contemporary (CUC), Berlin, Germany.
Werkeitz Festival 2010, in cooperation with KUNSTrePUBLIK Halle, Germany
“Comes with the Territory” Sommer gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
“Over View” Israeli Video 2000-2010, curated by Sergio Edelsztein, Haifa Museum, Haifa, Israel.
“The Mobile Archive” at Stacion Center for Contemporary Art in Prishtina, Kosovo.
Lesley Heller Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
Horton Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
“Migrating Forms” at Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY, USA.
“Remote viewing” The Best of LOOP 2010 -Curated by Paul Young, Arts Santa Mònica. Barcelona, Spain.
“Stop Making Sense” Oslo Kunstforening/Oslo Fine Art Society, Olso. Norway.
”The Calm Before the Storm” New Video Art from Israel, Winzavod Art Center, Moscow, Russia.
“Suspended Spaces #1” Maison de la culture, Amiens, France.
“Medium Religion” @ Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal in Canada (MACM).
“Remote Viewing” in conversation with Paul Young, Pacific design center, Los Angeles, USA.
2009
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands.
Nuit Blanch, Paris, France.
Art in general, New York, USA.
The Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, Germany
Art TLV, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
“Medium Religion” Curators: Boris Groys & Peter Weible @ Model Arts and Niland Gallery in Sligo, Ireland.
Festival TRAVELLING : Jérusalem . Rennes, France.
“Re – constructions” Jerusalem International Film Festival Program of The Israeli Center of Digital Art, Holon, Israel.
2008
“The Mobile Archive” at Careof e Viafarini, DOCVA Curators Gabi Scardi and Galit Eilat, ,Milano, Italy
“Medium Religion” Curators: Boris Groys & Peter Weible, ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst , Karlsruhe, Germany
“Art in the Dark” Emuna College, Jerusalem, curator: Orit Bachar & Eva Avidar
“Video Zone” CCA |The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Thessaloniki's International film festival, Greece.
Art Focus 5 / 2008 "Can Art Do More?", jerusalem, israel.
HALLE FÜR KUNST eV, Germany.
Palais Thurn und Taxis Bregenz, Austria.
"Real Time: Art in Israel 1998-2008", the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.
"The Mystery Cars", toxicdreams, Danube festival, Austria.
WYSPA Institute of Art, Gdansk, Poland.
Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2007
PROGR ,Bern, Switzerland.
Solo Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Solo Herzelia Museum, of Art, Israel.
Anita Beckers Gallery, frankfurt, Germany..
Kunstmuseum in der Alten Post, Germany.
2006
Tache' Levy Gallery, Bruxelles, Belgium.
FACT / Liverpool biennial, England.
Disposition, Lukas Feichther Gallery, Vienna, Austria.
solo Loop Video-Art Fair, Barcelona, Spain.
CTM.06 – [BEING BOLD!] - club transmediale, Berlin.
2005
Dreams and Trauma –Moving Images and the Promised Lands, HDK Berlin, Germany.
Transmediate 05, Berlin, Germany.
Day Labor, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, NY. USA.
Slaughtered Gold- Israeli Jewel 3, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Serial cases_1, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Bilgi University Dolapdere Campus – Theater, Istanbul, Turkey.
Dawn of Israeli Art, Tokyo Gallery, Japan.
Hilchot Schenim Chapter C, The Israeli Center of Digital Art, Holon, Israel.
Hunger, Kalisher Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Transmediate 05, Berlin, Germany.
Toxic Dreams/ A: Jabberwocky, Gesamten Theaterhaus, Vienna, Austria.
MAF-5, Thailand New Media Festival, Bangkok, Thailand.
2004
Art & War, The Israeli Center of Digital Art, Holon, Israel. urators: Boris Groys and Daniel Barenboim).
Solo CANICULE Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
MAF-4, Thailand New Media Festival, Bangkok, Thailand.
Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, USA.
2003
The 1st TransChina Video Festival, Beijing, China.
Youth and Longing Art Festival, Redding Power Station, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Public Spaces, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, The Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv, Israel.
ppp- pretty public privacy, Performance and Installation of "Toxic Dreams", Guest Video Artist, Graz, Austria.
WRO 03-Globalica, 10th International Media-Art Biennale, Center for Media Art, Wroclaw, Poland .
OfficeSpace – Art on Site 2, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Remediation – Video Art Biennale, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, Portugal.
HereAfter – A Time for Transition, Tel Aviv Video. Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania.
2002
Video Zone, The 1st International Video-Art Biennale, Tel Aviv, israel.
Parashat Ha’Maim, The Turkish Bath- Acco Festival for Art and Theater. Acco, Israel.
Imagespassages, Video Festival, Annecy, France.
Mediatheque Faverge, Video Art Festival, Annecy, France.
2001
Enter, Kunststiftung Baden-Wurttemberg, Stuttgart, Germany.
Local Time 3, Cinematheque, Tel Aviv, Israel.
10 Video Artists, The Bezalel Academy Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2000
Bezalel 2000 – Post Graduate Exhibition, Morris Louis Gallery, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem.
1999
Vision Di Futuro, The Biennale for Young Artists, Rome, Italy.
Awards and Residencies
2010 Winner of the Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation Israeli Art Prize’s, Tel-Aviv, israel.
2009 'Residences international Aux Recollets" Paris, France.
2006'Idud Hayezira'- Israeli Culture ministry, Israel.
2003Scholarship, Cite des Arts, Paris, France.
2000Guest Artist – The Artists Studio Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Collections
SIP | The Shpilman Institute for Photography, Israel.
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
Sammlung Goetz, München, Germany.
The Israeli Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.
The Tel-Aviv Museum, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
The Ostrovsky Family Fund.
Private collectors.
Bibliography (International)
2011 Monography ”Kept Alive” [Paperback] Publisher: Tel Aviv Museum of Art (May 2011).
2010 Medium Religion [Paperback] Publisher: Walther Konig (February 28, 2010).
2010 Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation- The Israeli Art Prize 2009. Tel-Aviv Museum of Art.
2010 Stop Making Sense. Oslo Kunstforening/Oslo Fine Art Society, Norway.
2009 OTOT. Bar-Ilan University. The Faculty of Jewish studies.
2008 Can Art do more? Art Focus 5. The Jerusalem Foundation.
2008 Real Time. Art in Israel- 1998-2008. The Israeli Museum, Jerusalem.
2008 Antipoduim, Vorslberger architecture Institute, Austria.
2008 Video Zone 4. The center for contemporary art. Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2007 Block # 04 temporary Cities. By: Carmela Jacobi - Wolk will Aloni
2007 KAVA KAVA / Facets of fear. Kerber. Edition Young Art.
Recent PRESS:
Ellie Armon Azoulay.”Studio Visit” Haaretz Galery section, November 25, 2011
Angier, Natalie. "Flamingos, Up Close and Personal" The New York Times, August 22, 2011
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/23/science/23angier.html?_r=1
Midgette, Anne. "‘67 Bows’ video by artist Nira Pereg presents pretty and disturbing metaphor for violence". The Washington post, August 22, 2011
Perkins, Elizabeth Cunningham. “Scientists learning more about flamingos”. Digital Journal, August 22, 2011
Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/310715
Roulette’, Tod. “Black Box: Nira Pereg at the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.”. Harlem World Blog. October 1, 2011
Nixon, mignon. “FEATURES : CLOSE UP: “ The undiscovered country”. ARTFORUM, October 2010
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MEDIA VIDEO Interview at ARTIS >
http://www.artisrael.org/video/4179
Ansky, Iliya. “Mortgage as Understatement. On Nira Pereg’s latest short films and installation at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art”. Grasp- Culture and aesthetics quarterly. July 2010.
Read more: http://grasp-journal.com/blog/?p=109
Stiffen, Daniel. “Israeli Artists Telling Their Stories” The Jewish Week, New York. Augost 2010.
Read more:
http://www.thejewishweek.com/editorial_opinion/last_word/israeli_artists_telling_their_stories
Ollman ,Leah. “Nira Pereg at Shoshana Wayne and Santa Monica Museum of Art”. Art in America International Review. April 2010
Read more: http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/reviews/nira-pereg/
Groys, Boris. “The Hard Pulse of Regularity”. Programma magazine.May 2010.
Read more: www.nirapereg.net/nirapereg/BorisGroys_NiraPereg.pfd
Mizota, Sharon. “Art review: Nira Pereg at Shoshana Wayne”. Los Angeles Times, culture Monster. January 2010.
Read more: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/01/art-review-nira-pereg-at-shoshana-wayne.html
Ebb, Anat. “Crisis of Narrative: The Video Art of Nira Pereg in Los Angeles” .March 2010.
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MCKEON, BELINDA. “Eternal life in a digital world” Irish Times. May 2009.
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