Sharon Paz

Sharon Paz ( Hebrew שרון פז, born 1969 in Israel ) is an Israeli video and performance artist. She lives and works in Berlin and Tel Aviv . In her work she asks social and political questions in relation to her own life.

life and work

Sharon Paz graduated from Tel Aviv University in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science in Technical Education . In 1996 she took part in the free study program at the Beit Berl Art Academy . In 2000 she graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from Hunter College in New York. Her work has been funded by several institutions such as the Goethe-Institut , the Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts (Tel Aviv) and the Kulturfonds Berlin. She was involved in the Berlin Gold Rush artist project art IT and was an artist in residency at the Irish Museum of Modern Art .

She develops installations in black, white and gray tones using video art and performances . She also works with object art and drawings . She produces her work in the media workshop in the BBK Berlin's cultural center . In her works she addresses war, violence, peace, homeland and migration. They have been shown around the world, including several times in New York, Berlin and Israel. Her video works belong to the collection of the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein , the Video-Forum Collection Berlin and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem .

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions, installations, performances

• 2015: We Forgot , walk-in video performance, DOCK 11, Berlin and Studiobühne Cologne as part of the Jewish Culture Days in the Rhineland
• 2012: Shaded Windows , Pavillon am Milchhof, Berlin.
• 2009: Is This a Good Day To Start a War , Arttransponder, Berlin.
• 2005: The Neighbor's Yard , Irish Museum of Modern Art , Dublin
• 2003: Wandering Home , Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art , Israel.
• 2001: And I feel that I just got home , Peer Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
• 2001/2002: Falling . Window installation for 9/11 on the building of the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning , Queens / New York

Group exhibitions

• 2013: The Right to leave (“The Right to Go”) , accessible video installation at the Schlachten art festival , Brandenburg.
• 2013 Panorama , Weserburg Museum of Modern Art , Bremen.
• 2011: Rear Window , Dan Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
• 2007: Engagement , Israel Museum , Jerusalem, Israel.
• 2006: Disruptions , Petach-Tikva Museum of Art, Petach-Tikva, Israel.
• 2006: Legal Aliens , Smack Mellon in New York
• 2006: Restless: Photography and New Media , Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai , China
• 2002: AIM 22 , The Bronx Museum of The Art , New York.
• 2001: Video Marathon , Art In General, New York.

Web links

• Homepage of the artist
• Sharon Paz at photography-now.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of artists in the media workshop in the Kulturwerk des Bbk Berlin, accessed on April 6, 2016
2. ↑ https://vimeo.com/55609732 Vimeokanal der Medienwerkstatt, accessed on April 24, 2016
3. ↑ Entry on the website of the Israeli embassy (accessed April 5, 2016)
4. ^ Parable of shadowy existence , Taz, November 22, 2012
5. ^ IMMA Residency Program> Projects Archive Sharon Paz: The Neighbor's Yard
6. ↑ Herzliya Museum ( Memento of the original from April 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ Sharon Paz ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. artnews.org 
8. ↑ Thomas Stubblefield: 9/11 and the Visual Culture of Disaster , Indiana University Press 2014, ISBN 978-0-253-01556-3 , p. 6 (photo)
9. ↑ Tim Gauthier: 9/11 Fiction, Empathy, and Otherness , Lexington Books, 2015, ISBN 978-0-7391-9345-7 , pp. 53-54