Noam Braslavsky

Noam Braslavsky (* 1961 in Poriya ) is an Israeli artist and curator . Braslavsky lives and works in Berlin.

Work and works

Braslavsky studied in the early 80s at the art academy " Bezalel " in Jerusalem, then at the film academy "Beit Zvi" in Ramat Gan and did his MfA at the art academy in Düsseldorf in the multimedia department of Nam June Paik / Nan Hoover .

In the 80s / 90s he made a name for himself with his manipulative, interactive room installations, which he exhibited in dark to black rooms (he speaks of "black cubes" in contrast to the common white cubes ). His work "Shelter" (concrete, steel, glass, plexiglass and shells) from 1992, which was sabotaged six years later at the large solo exhibition "Magic as Existential Need" in Tel Aviv, became particularly well-known, with a legendary ending was set on fire and burned down except for the steel structure and the concrete feet.

Braslavsky's works are traps that have their role models in sacred architecture, in nature itself or in society. He analyzes manipulative mechanisms that influence and guide the human soul and translates them into spaces. For example, artificial wombs, cat purring machines, forced hats, labyrinths and giant cocoons were created.

A particularly early work by him (from 1984), which was only shown late and rarely, but often copied, deals with the abolition of space, with the erasure of its borders and could thus serve as a virtual (reduced) stage for what follows creative work. "Blue" is a second head, a perception filling station that only supplies pure blue light and suspends the perception of space for a time, instead promoting pure vision.

Braslavsky's catalog of works since the 1980s comprises well over forty works, including video works, so that only a few can be named here. Pictures of the art works are u. a. on Braslavsky's website (www.braslavsky.com).

In 2010, Braslavsky caused a sensation when he exhibited a lifelike sculpture of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has been in a coma since 2006, in Renana Kishon's gallery in Tel Aviv .

Selected exhibitions

2008: "European Attitude", Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai / China
2008: "The Murakami Collection", Faust Kunsthalle, Hannover / Germany (solo show)
2007: "Asia-Europe Mediations", New Synagogue, Poznań / Poland
2007: "Pathos", Dieter Reitz Gallery, Kassel
2007: “The Artist as Readymade”, Berlin
2006: " Strictly Berlin 2000-2006", Berlin / Germany
2004: "civil generation", Berlin / Germany
2004: Artiade Exhibition Hall, Athens / Greece
2003: Central Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg / Russia
2003: "Refuge I-III" in the Tiergarten, Berlin / Germany (solo show)
2002: "The Boundaries of Sculpture", Open Museum, Tefen-Beer Sheva / Israel
2000: "Festival of Vision", Hong Kong / China
1998: "Magic as existential need", Hamumche Art Space, Tel Aviv / Israel (solo show)
1996: "The Freedom to choose", action gallery, Berlin / Germany (solo show)
1995: "The Treasure of the Baltic Sea", MS Stubnitz, Rostock (solo show)
1993: "Creator of the Worlds", Laznia Art Space, Gdańsk / Poland (solo show)
1992: "Shelter", producer gallery Düsseldorf / Germany (solo show)
1989: "Enlightened Darkness", Zman Amiti - Alternative Art Space, Tel Aviv / Israel (solo show)

The artist is a curator is an artist

In 2003 Braslavsky founded the GdK ( Galerie der Künste ) in Berlin, shortly afterwards, together with his wife Emma Braslavsky, the art association of the same name. Since then he has worked as a curator and artistic director in addition to his artistic work. But as with other artists, this curatorial work differs from that of art-theoretical curators. In part, the resulting exhibition is given an additional meta-level in which the curator appears as a discursive / artistic co-producer. Braslavsky's gallery is an experimental platform on which established, well-known artists such as Uri Katzenstein , Jan-Peter ER Sonntag , Ira Schneider , Peter Kees , Antal Lux , Heiko Daxl & Ingeborg Fülepp , as well as young artists, can try out beyond the well-established (classic ) Art performances. A certain highlight was the presentation of the MURAKAMI COLLECTION with works by Matthew Barney , Joseph Beuys , Maurizio Cattelan , Gilbert & George , Felix Gonzalez-Torres , Damien Hirst , Jenny Holzer , Jeff Koons , Thomas Schütte , Hiroshi Sugimoto and Rachel Whiteread (29 September - October 26, 2007).

Individual evidence

↑ tagesschau.de ( Memento from October 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

personal data
SURNAME	Braslavsky, Noam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Israeli artist and curator
DATE OF BIRTH	1961
PLACE OF BIRTH	Poriya

[1] tagesschau.de ( Memento from October 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive )