Nira Pereg

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.

Nira Pereg
Born	1969 Tel Aviv, Israel
Nationality	Israeli
Education	The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
Known for	video art, video installation, photography
Movement	Israeli art

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.[1]

“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.”[2]

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.

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

2018

• Melt Away Before You or I Can't Believe it's Not Battle!, LAXART, Los Angeles, USA,

2017

• This Red Red Stuff, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

2016

• Ishmael, Braverman Gallery in collaboration with ‘On Stellar Rays’, New York, USA

2015

• Ishmael, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
• The Right to Clean, Israel Museum Ticho House, Jerusalem, Israel[3]
• Rights and Rites, Rose Art Museum, Boston, USA[4]
• Ishmael, Art Basel, Feature Section, Basel, Switzerland[5]

2014

• Abraham Abraham & Sarah Sarah, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme, Paris, France[6]

2013

• Aichi Triennale, Aichi, Japan[7]
• All This Can Be Reconstructed Elsewhere, CCA - The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel[8]
• 67 Bows, Museum Ein Harod, Kibuts Ein Harod, Israel[9]
• Abraham & Sarah, Weatherspoon Art Museum, North Carolina, USA[10]

2012

• Kept Alive, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany[11]

2011

• Black Box Series, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, USA[12]
• Sabbath, Chiado Museum, Lisbon, Portugal[13]
• ArtPowe, LOFT Video Gallery, UCSD San Diego, California, USA[14]

2010

• Video of the Month, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
• LOOP Barcelona, Video-Art Fair, Barcelona, Spain[15]
• Tel-Aviv Museum of Art - Winner of the Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation, Tel-Aviv, Israel[16]
• Sabbath 2008, Santa Monica Museum of Art, L.A., California, USA[17]
• Kept Alive, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, L.A., California, USA[18]

2009

• Sabbath 2008, Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, Germany[19]

2007

• Rites and Rituals, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel[20]
• Roundabout, Braverman Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel[21]

2004

• Canicule, Braverman Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel[22]

Selected Group Exhibitions

2018

• In Statu Quo: Structures of Negotiation, Venice Biennial, The 16th International Architecture Exhibition, The Israeli Pavilion, Venice, Italy

2015

• Own Land/Foreign Territory, 6th Moscow Biennale 2015, Moscow, Russia[23]
• Rainbow in the Dark, Malmö Art Museum ,Malmö, Sweden[24]
• The Century Mark. Tel Aviv Museum of Art visits Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau Museum, Berlin, Germany[25]

2014

• A Moving Image, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
• Unstable Places - New in Contemporary Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel[26]
• 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[27]
• La-Bas, Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris, France[28]
• Boundaries on the Move, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel[29]
• Resonance and Silence, the third exhibition of the cooperation, Sammlung Goetz at Haus der Kunst in Munich, Germany[30]

2010

• KunstFilmBiennial, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany[31]
• Comes with the Territory, Sommer Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
• Stop Making Sense, Oslo Kunstforening/Oslo Fine Art Society, Oslo, Norway[32]
• Medium Religion, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal (MAC), Canada[33]

2009

• RE-CONSTRUCTIONS, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands[34]
• 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[35]

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[36]
• Day Labor, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, NY, USA[37]
• Dawn of Israeli Art, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
• Hilchot Schenim Chapter C, The Israeli Center of Digital Art, Holon, Israel[38]

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

Publications

• Abraham Abraham Sarah Sarah. Paris: Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme, 2014. ISBN 978-2-9133-9131-4
• All This Can Be Reconstructed Elsewhere. Tel-Aviv: The Center for Contemporary Art (CCA), 2013. ISBN 978-965-7463-18-5
• Kept Alive Monograph. Tel-Aviv: Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2011. ISBN 9789659170609

Awards & Residencies

• Price Maratier 2013, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme, Paris, France[6]
• Artis Grant Recipient, 2013, Tel-aviv - New York
• Muriel & Philip Berman Foundation Grant Recipient, 2013, L.A., California, USA
• Ministry of Culture and Sports Award for the Arts, 2012, Israel
• Winner of the Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation Israeli Art Prize’s, 2010, Tel-Aviv, Israel[16]
• Residences International Aux Récollets, 2009, Paris, France[39]
• Ministry of Culture and Sports Award for Encouraging Creativity, 2006, Israel
• Scholarship, Cite des Arts,2003, Paris, France
• Guest video artist residency, 2003, Gratz, Austria

Collections

• National Gallery of Canada[40]
• Centre Georges Pompidou,[41] Paris, France
• GAM – Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Torino,Italy
• Sammlung Goetz, München, Germany
• Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
• Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel
• The Ostrovsky Family Fund
• Private collectors

References

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2. Nicolas Bourriaud text- “Nira Pereg’s Frontier zones”
3. "תערוכות מוזיאון ישראל". www.imj.org.il. Retrieved 10 November 2015.
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27. "Aircraft Carrier". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
28. "Là-bas - Maison Européenne de la Photographie". Maison Européenne de la Photographie (in French). Retrieved 14 November 2015.
29. "Herzliya Museum - גבולות בתנועה- שיח חוצה תרבויות תערוכה בשיתוף עם מוזיאון טייפה לאמנויות". herzliyamuseum.co.il. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
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31. "Highlights from the Cologne KunstFilmBiennale in Berlin – Program - KW Institute for Contemporary Art". www.kw-berlin.de. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
32. "Stop Making Sense / David Adika, Scandar Copti/Rabih Boukhary, Hanna Farah-Kufr Birim, Jumana Manna, Hila Lulu Lin, Nira Pereg, Roee Rosen, Dafna Shalom / 19.03 – 25.04.2010 19.03 – 25.04.2010". Oslo Kunstforening (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 14 November 2015.
33. "Medium Religion (Excerpts) | Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal". www.macm.org. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
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37. "MoMA PS1: Exhibitions: Mexico City: An Exhibition about the Exchange Rates of Bodies and Values". www.momaps1.org. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
38. "The Israeli Center For Digital Art - exhibitions -Nira Pereg". www.digitalartlab.org.il. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
39. "RESIDENCES INTERNATIONALES AUX RECOLLETS". www.international-recollets-paris.org. Retrieved 12 November 2015.
40. "Nira Pereg". Retrieved 6 December 2015.
41. "Nira Pereg et Centre Pompidou". Retrieved 6 December 2015.

External links

• Nira Pereg home page
• Nira Pereg in Braverman Gallery
• Nira Pereg's Videos in Vimeo