Dani Gal

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Dani Gal (* 1975 in Jerusalem ) is an Israeli video artist who has lived and worked in Germany since studying in Frankfurt am Main .

Life

Gal began his studies in 1997 in Tel Aviv at the Avni Institute of Art and Design , attended the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem from 1998 to 2000 before going to the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main in the same year . There he studied with Ayşe Erkmen, among others . He completed his studies at the Cooper Union in Manhattan , New York City .

Gal lives and works in Berlin.

Honourings and prices

Exhibitions

  • 2019: In the exhibition Weissenhof City - From the past and present of the future of a city to the Weißenhofsiedlung , shown in the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart , Dani Gal is represented with two works:
    • In a fictional TV interview he had a British journalist ask Ludwig Mies van der Rohe how it could be "that he believed that the Bauhaus could have continued to exist under the National Socialist government".
    • White City . A real conversation between the racial ideologist Hans FK Günther and the Zionist Arthur Ruppin is the subject of Gal's film, "in which the artist makes the points of contact in the thinking of Zionists and National Socialists understandable". What was said between Günther and Ruppin at this meeting, "Gal constructed from Ruppin's diary entries".
  • 2018: The Record Archive . Dani Gal brings together “speeches by and interviews with leading personalities of the world, audio documents on peace agreements and the struggle for human rights, and radio broadcasts about events that have gone down in collective historical memory. The result: a mashup of world events in the 20th century. "
  • 2014: AS FROM FAR , screening of the film made in 2013 followed by an artist talk in the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt on August 27, 2014.
  • 2011: night and fog . Video installation in the study gallery 1.357 on the Westend campus of the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.
  • 2010: New Frankfurt Internationals: Stories and Stages,, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2010: ars viva 09/10 . Cologne Art Association .
  • 2009: Coupon Series , Dani Gal- Chanting Down Babylon in the Halle für Kunst , Lüneburg .
  • 2008: Seasonal Unrest . Centro per l'arte contemporanea, Prato , Italy.
  • 2008: Freisteller - Villa Romana Fellows 2008: Dani Gal, Julia Schmidt , Asli Suyu, Clemens von Wedemeyer . Deutsche Guggenheim , Berlin.
  • 2006: The déjá vu of Avner Kaufmann . B-Books, Berlin.
  • 2004: Hold Up . The Or Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
  • 2001: Actual Size, Don't Miss . Frankfurt am Main.

literature

  • Eva Birkenstock (Ed.): Chanting Down Babylon: Recorded Accounts of Al Flight 1862, Amsterdam, October 4, 1992 . Argobooks, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-941560-23-9 .
  • Manual . Argobooks, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-941560-30-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Carmela Thiele: Revision of Modernism: 'Weissenhof City - From the past and present of the future of a city' , in: Die Tageszeitung , August 12, 2019, p. 16
  2. ↑ Shlomo Sand : The Invention of the Jewish People. Israel's founding myth put to the test . Berlin: Propylaen, 2011, ISBN 978-3-549-07376-6 , p. 388 fn. 489
  3. ^ Contribution by Dani Gal in the context of the exhibition POWER TO THE PEOPLE in the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt .
  4. ↑ AS FROM Afar in the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
  5. ^ Cooperation project New Frankfurt Internationals
  6. ^ Dani Gal at the Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art , Prato, January 31 to March 1, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Gal, Dani
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli video artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Jerusalem