ZVIKA KANTOR  (°1955 Tel Aviv) Works in Antwerp, Hamburg and Tel Aviv       

 

 

PRESS RELEASE, 03/12/2007

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Education

1985-1981 Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg, Germany

1981-1980 Academia di Belli Arti, Florence, Italy

1980-1978 Art Teacher-Training College, Ramat Hasharon, Israel

Exhibitions (One-Man-Show) selection

2009 "Volta Show", New York, United States (Dagmar De Pooter Gallery)l

2001 "Die Jagd nach dem Stein des Weisen" Marburger Kunstverein, Germany

2000  Cato Jans Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

2000 Kunstverein Lingen, Lingen, Germany

1999 "Overbeckgesellschaft", Lübeck, Germany

1996 "52 27``42" B 9 41`05L", Kunstverein Langenhagen, Germany

1996 "Hope of the Medusa", Cato Jans Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

1996 "Objects from The Third Zone", Colonade House (together with Inge Pries), Tel Aviv, Israel

1995 "Tram called Sponja", Art Gallery, Oranim Artschool, Israel

1995 "Zwei Käfige und ein Herz" (Two cages and one heart), open air installation, Königslutter, Germany

1994 "Wir müssen glücklich sein", Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie, Dessau, Germany

1994 "She will come in Pyjamas, she will come...", The Office, Tel Aviv, Israel

1993 "Schneewittchen und die Sieben Sünden" (Snowwhite and the   Seven Sins), Cato Jans Galerie, Hamburg, Germany

1992  "Packages of Feeling", Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel

1992 Special Project, Zvika Kantor: Computerbook, Tel Aviv Museum, Israel

1991  "Weltschmerz verkleidet als Ananasduft", Städtische Galerie am Markt, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany

1990  "Allegory of the Stick and the Desire", Art Workshop Gallery, Yavne, Israel

1989  "The Agreement of the boalded Egg and the Coconut- Hair-curl", Kalisher 5 Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

1989  "Countryside with Crocodile Tears", Artist Studio Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel

1989 "The last Chance of the Onion-bed Dust", Bograshov Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

1989 "Split in a Jar full of Shame", Bezalel Art Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel

1988 "Bis zum letzten Bit ein Gleichnix", Kunsttreppe, Hamburg, Germany

1988 "Double Trouble", Galerie Atelier I, Hamburg, Germany

1987 "Abgekartetes Spiel", Cafe Treibeis und Salon Drall, Hamburg, Germany

1985 "Schlaraffenland", Künstlerhaus, Hamburg, Germany

1984 "Heroes", Cafe Tuc-Tuc, Hamburg, Germany

Exhibitions (Group) selection

2004 "Falckenberg Collection",  La Maison Rouge, Paris, France

2004 "The Eighties in Israeli Art", Oranim Art Gallery, Israel

2004 "How to explain pictures to a dead Hare", Kalisher Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2004 "Wings of art", Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen, Germany

2003 "Internationalism-Localism", Time for Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

2003  "Wings of Art", Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Germany

1999 "Arturo Schwarz Collection“, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

1999 "Bounderies of sculpture“, the Open    Museum, Tefen and Omer Industrial Parks, Israel

1999 "Floating", Herzlia Museum, Herzelia, Israel

1999  "Childhood", Israel Museum, Jerusalem,  Israel

1998 "Tel Aviv", Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel

1998 "After Rabin", New Art from Israel", Jewish Museum, New York, United States

1998 "Floating", Kunsthaus Hamburg, Germany

1997 "Midrasha", Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel

1997 "All of this jeans", different Galleries in Israel (Tour)

1997 "Enjoy", Schloß Agathenburg, Germany

1995 "Mirrors", Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

1995 "Sukott", Archiological Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel

1995 "Collection Arturo Schwarz", Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

1995  "The motive of the Cactus in Israeli Art 1910-1990", Tel Aviv Museum, Israel

1995 "Five Years till 2000", Tel Aviv Museum, Israel

1995  "Arena", Cato Jans Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

1994 "Through the Lattice", Tower of David, Museum of History, Jerusalem, Israel

1994 "Tel Hay Events", Tel Hay, Israel

1994 "Homeworks", Herzelia Museum of Art, Herzelia, Israel

1994 "I.D. Galerie zu Gast im Kunstverein Lingen", Lingen, Germany

1994 "Anxiety", Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel

1993 "Identität" (Identity), Dresden- Hamburg- Budapest- St. Petersburg, Germany, Romenie and  Russia

1993 "Wahre Kunst", Hamburger Börse, Germany

1993  "Sculpture towards Theatre", Dada Janco Museum, Ein Hod, Israel

1993  "Antiphathos", Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

1993 "Multiples and Originals", I.D. Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany

1993 "Greed", Kalisher 5 Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

1993 "Made in Hamburg", Teil 3: Sachkunde", Kunstahaus Hamburg, Germany

1992 "Heim" (Home), Cato Jans Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany

1992 "The International Biennale of Art", Istanbul, Turkye

1992  "Object collage", Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

1991 "10 from Hamburg", Ethnological Museum, Leningrad, Russia

1991 "Tel Aviv", Synthese Museum, München, Germany

1991 "16.01.91",  Kunsthaus Hamburg,  Germany

1991 "Israeli Art Now: an Extensive Presentation", Tel Aviv Museum, Israel

1991 "Place and Mainstream", Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel  (afterwards exhibitiontour in Japan and Korea)

1991 "Oberflächliche Ideen" (Superficial Ideas), I.D. Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany

1991 "Series", Jürgen Becker Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

1990 "Towards the Ninetees", Ein Harod Museum of Art, Israel

1990 "More than Drawing", Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

1990 "Heimspiel", Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany

1988 "Recent Aquisitions", Tel Aviv Museum, Israel

1988 "Fresh Paint", Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

1988 "The Israeli Proposal for Aperto 1990, Biennale Venezia", Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel

1987  Kibbutz Gallery, Israel

1986 "Haben & Halten", Speicherstadt, Hamburg, Germany

1985 "Frontline", Ein Harod Museum of Art and Achad Haam Gallery, Israel

Performances

1985 "Mania Depressiva", Rathausmarkt Hamburg, Germany

1985 "Avatiach", Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany

1984 "Gulaschkanone", Rathausmarkt, Hamburg, Germany

1984  "Idole Feminine", Alsterufer, Hamburg, Germany

1984   Rathausmarkt, Hamburg, Germany

1983   "Waffen und Hunger"(Weapons and Hunger), Germany

1983 "Schlag 4",  Theatre, Hamburg, Germany

1982  "Sie sind aufgerufen die Zivilisation zu verteidigen", Monsun, Germany

Grants

2004 Prize to Encourage Creativity, The Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, Israel

1995  Scholarship of the Israeli Cultural Ministry

1992 Biata S. Kuliner Prize, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

1987 "Altonaer Kunstpreis", Germany

1980 Scholarship of the America-Israel Foundation

1980 Scholarship of the Italian Foreign Office, Study in Florence, Italy

Collections (selection)

2004 Harald Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg, Germany

2003 Danik Gertner Collection Tel Aviv, Israel

1996 Harald Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg, Germany

1996 Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel

1994  Herzelia Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

1994 Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie, Dessau, Germany

1993 Collection of Arturo Schwarz (Israel Museum), Jerusalem, Israel

1991 Hällisch Fränkisches Museum, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany

1991 Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

1990 Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

Sculptures in Public Spaces (selection)

2006 Sculpturegarden, Holon Park, Israel

2002  "Without title", Kibbutz Yiron, Israel

1999 "Greetings from  fourleggs", Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Sculpturegarden, Israel

1999 "Object of Hope", Apple Park Hotel, Maastricht, The Netherlands

1997 "From East Red to West", Aviv Mole, Tel Aviv, Israel

1997 "From East Blue to West", Aviv Mole, Tel Aviv, Israel

1992  "Drinkingstone", Nazareth Elite, Israel

1989  "The Ambition Sculpture“, South Park, Tel Aviv, Israel