Ora Avital

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ora Avital (* 1960 in Rechovot ( Israel )) is an Israeli visual artist . She has lived and worked in Germany since 1993 .

life and work

Ora Avital studied from 1984 to 1988 at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem . This was followed by teaching positions, including from 1989 to 1991 at the Holon Institute of Technology as a lecturer for extracurricular studies in painting and drawing . Ora Avital moved to Düsseldorf in 1993 , where she lived until 1998 and worked as a freelance artist. Since then she has lived in Mönchengladbach .

Avital took part in numerous exhibitions and art projects at home and abroad, including in the Museum Kunstpalast and the Women's Museum in Bonn . The focus of her work is on painting, room installation and sculpture. In addition to her work as a freelance artist, she has been running a private art school in Mönchengladbach since 2011 and also leads workshops at the Abteiberg municipal museum . Ora Avital is a member of the c / o art association in Mönchengladbach.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2001: kjubh Kunstverein Cologne - Ora Avital
  • 2001: Red Pavilion Bad Doberan - Ora Avital
  • 2001: Haus Westland - the cultural office
  • 2002: Grevenbroich Museum Garden - Waterflower (permanent sculpture in public space)
  • 2004: Altes Museum Mönchengladbach - Metalanguage (with Beate Selzer)
  • 2006: EUREGIO House Mönchengladbach - Color Spaces (with Willebrord de Winter)
  • 2007: St. Mariä Himmelfahrt (Gladbach) - Veil (with Beate Selzer)
  • 2009: Atelier Sophienstraße Mönchengladbach - In the Far Distance (with Petra Albrand)
  • 2009: NEW AG Line Art - We've got to get in to get out
  • 2009: Villa 1912 Kröpelin - Baltic Landscapes
  • 2011: Haus Spiess, Kultur GmbH of the city of Erkelenz - merry go round
  • 2014: EA71 - The Sign of Time
  • 2016: Atelier Ora Avital - ZEITBYSIDE (with Sven Kierst )
  • 2017: JEANS.CULT.BROCKE. - Cult meets culture
  • 2017: EA71 - The magic of the moment
  • 2018: EA71 - IN-TO-IT
  • 2019: EA71 - looking for wire

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 1994: Museum Kunstpalast - Large Art Exhibition NRW (Catalog)
  • 1995: Goethe-Institut and OXY-Gallery Osaka , Japan - Art for Kobe
  • 1996: Museum Kunstpalast - Large Art Exhibition NRW (Catalog)
  • 1997: Künstlerhaus Dortmund - DOKU
  • 1998: Concept: B Düsseldorf - Behind closed doors
  • 1998: Donji Milanovac , Serbia - The Journey to the Promised Land (International Art Symposium)
  • 1998: Temporary Gallery, City of Mönchengladbach - INFLUENCE (International Art Symposium)
  • 1999: Museum Schloss Rheydt - art c / o Mönchengladbach (catalog)
  • 2000: kjubh Kunstverein Köln - small sized mixed
  • 2000: Interventions in public space Mönchengladbach - VISUAL DISORDERS (catalog)
  • 2002: Women's Museum Bonn and Galerie Münsterland e. V. Emsdetten - Ambivalences (Catalog)
  • 2002: Kunstverein Region Heinsberg - highest bidder (exhibition and art auction)
  • 2003: Altes Museum Mönchengladbach - concerning mg - Kunst c / o Mönchengladbach
  • 2003: Kunstverein Region Heinsberg - highest bidder (exhibition and art auction)
  • 2004: Galerie Phoebus Rotterdam - store box project
  • 2004: Altes Museum Mönchengladbach - concerning mg - Kunst c / o Mönchengladbach
  • 2004: Kunstverein Region Heinsberg - highest bidder (exhibition and art auction)
  • 2005: Kunstverein Region Heinsberg - highest bidder (exhibition and art auction)
  • 2006: Altes Museum Mönchengladbach - concerning mg - Kunst c / o Mönchengladbach
  • 2007: Old Museum Mönchengladbach - LACK
  • 2007: Altes Museum Mönchengladbach - connected
  • 2007: arteversum Düsseldorf - 24 | 7 - The 24 hours of the day (catalog)
  • 2008: arteversum Düsseldorf - Peter Royen sees red ( Peter Royen and friends)
  • 2008: St. Mariä Himmelfahrt (Gladbach) - triptych
  • 2008: Mönchengladbach - Stop: kunst X
  • 2011: Winder building of the Rheinpreussen IV Moers mine - Dialog_Schacht (catalog)
  • 2012: Villa 1912 Kröpelin - connected - connected
  • 2013: Adenauerplatz Mönchengladbach - 150 years of the Gründerzeit quarter festival
  • 2013: St. Mariä Himmelfahrt (Gladbach) - 3x3 - writing, path, light (catalog)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Angela Wilms-Adrians: Artist in Eicken: "My name is Ora, and that means light". In: rp-online. Retrieved July 12, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Erkelenz: The flowing boundaries between objects and painting. In: Aachener Zeitung . November 23, 2011, accessed July 14, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Ora Avital in EA 71 - c / o art in and from Mönchengladbach. Retrieved July 14, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Ora Avital in EA71 / May 3rd-May 19th, 2019 - c / o art in and from Mönchengladbach. Retrieved July 14, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Ora Avital The Atelier. Retrieved July 14, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Avital, Ora
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Rechovot ( Israel )