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bio (scroll down for CV)
Maya Zack is an artist-filmmaker born in Israel and living and working in Tel Aviv.
She Studied at Tel Aviv University, Arts faculty, Interdisciplinary Arts Program (2008-2012), Bezalel, Academy of Art and Design Jerusalem (B.F.A ,Magna Cum Laude 1996-2000) and Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee, Student Exchange Program (1999-2000).
Zack is a lecturer in Bezalel, Academy of Art and Design Jerusalem.
Maya Zack’s works are exhibited internationally in museums, galleries and film festivals. Through 2017-2019 she participated in Exil, Charim Galerie, Vienna, Austria, Evoking Reality, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Constructing the World: Art & Economy, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany , Hidden Workers, Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea, Menorah - Cult, History and Myth, Vatican Museums - Braccio di Carlo Magno, Piazza San Pietro, Vatican state.
In 2016 she had exhibited Counterlight, an extensive solo show at Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2016) and participated in the show Das Kapital in Hamburger Bahnhof Museum in Berlin. Her solo show Counterlight was exhibited in MLF gallery in Rome and her solo show Memory Trilogy was on view in MLF gallery in Brussels through 2017.
Solo shows include also The Shabbat Room - permanent installation at The Jewish Museum Vienna / Manifesta 10's parallel projects, Taiga Space, St. Petersburg / CUC Gallery, Berlin/ Galerie Natalie Seroussi Paris / Alon Segev Gallery Tel Aviv.
Group shows include also The 3rd Moscow International Biennale for Young Art / Daimler Collection, Berlin / The Israel Museum Jerusalem / The Jewish Museum Berlin / Petach Tikva Museum of Art / Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art / The Haifa Museum of Art / Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria / Ursula Blickle foundation, Kraichtal, Germany / LACE L.A. / California Center for the Arts Museum Escondido / Figge von Rosen Galerie Cologne
Zack's work have earned a list of film awards and art prizes as: Isracard and Tel Aviv Museum Prize for Israeli Artist, Idud Hayetzira Prize – Israeli Ministry of Culture, Adi Prize (Adi Foundation and the Israel Museum Jerusalem), Celeste Kunstpreis Berlin, Israel Lottery Council of the Arts, CCA Tel Aviv.
Zack's work is represented in art collections including Daimler Collection, Stuttgart-Berlin/ Israel Museum Jerusalem / Jewish Museum Berlin / Tel Aviv Museum of Art / Jewish Museum Vienna/ ORS Doron Sebbag / SIP-The Shpilman Institute for Photography Tel Aviv / Tiroche Deleon Collection.
Zack's work is documented in the monographs:
- Acting Memory (Arles: Actes-Sud and Tel Aviv Museum of Art 2015) - The Shabbat Room (Vienna: The Jewish museum Vienna and Verlag für moderne Kunst 2014)
Statement
Maya Zack, an Israeli artist and filmmaker, deals in her work with the human attempt to impose order and form onto reality in order to cope with its chaotic nature. Zack reflects on the relation between memory and history; She seeks to develop an ontology of the sign and the trace through an almost obsessive occupation with objects and sites, and in fact, by inventing alternative procedures of memory, documentation and reconstruction she comes up with her own “science of memory”.
Zack's explorations include experiments with various types of media and technology, such as films, drawings, 3D visualizations and spatial installation.
FACEBOOK SIGN 2008 Mechanical pencil on paper. dimensions: 59.4*42 cm
Maya Zack C.V.
b. 1976, Israel | Works in Tel Aviv
Studies
- 2008-2012 Tel Aviv University, Arts faculty, Interdisciplinary Arts Program.
- 1996-2000 B.F.A Bezalel, Academy of Art and Design, Fine Art Department, Jerusalem. Magna Cum Laude.
- 2000 Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee, Student Exchange Program
Teaching positions
- Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Jerusalem. Since 2008
- Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Ramat-Gan. 2013-2015
- Tel Aviv University Department of Film & Television. 2005-2008
Artist Grants and Awards
- 2018 Minister of Culture Award for Visual Artists, The Israeli Ministry of Culture, Science and Sport
- 2017 The Israel Lottery ‘Landau Prize’ for Arts and Sciences, visual Art category
- 2016 Artis Grant Program
- 2016 Outset Contemporary Art Fund
- 2016 Claims Conference grant
- 2015 The Ostrovsky Family Fund
- 2015 Israel Lottery Council Grant For Culture and Arts
- 2013 The Shpilman institute for Photography, Tel Aviv
- 2012 Israel Lottery Council Grant For Culture and Arts – Artist Book
- 2011 'Idud Hayetzira' Award, The Israeli Ministry of Culture
- 2011 Isracard and Tel Aviv Museum of Art Prize
- 2011 Artis Grant for artistic development
- 2008-11 Research Grant, Tel Aviv University, Prof. Freddie Rokem
- 2010 Leo Baeck Institute Grant
- 2009 The New Israeli Foundation for Cinema and Television – Neo Barbarism program
- 2008 Israel Lottery Council Grant For The Arts
- 2007 Israel Lottery Council Grant For The Arts
- 2007 The New Israeli Foundation for Cinema and Television - “Guit und Geld” project
- 2005 The Young Artist Award, The Israeli Ministry of Culture
- 2004 The Center of Contemporary Art Fund for Video
- 2003 The Center of Contemporary Art Fund for Video
- 2002 Grant from Tel Aviv Municipality, The Arts Department and Rabinovich Foundation
- 2000 Excellence Award, Bezalel, Academy of Art and Design, Fine Arts Department, Jerusalem
Film Awards – for the Memory Trilogy: Mother Economy / Black and White Rule / Counterlight”
- 2017 First prize, FIVA Festival Internacional de Videoarte, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- 2017 Kino Art Special Mention, International Kansk Video Festival in Kansk and Moscow
2017 Best Art Film Award, New Renaissance Film Festival, London
2011 Special award “Poetry of The Image”, The 13th Intonational Film Festival, Patras city, Greece
- 2008 Special Mention, Imaginaria International Film Festival, Conversano, Italy
- 2008 Celeste Kunstpreis, Berlin, Art prize - Artist category award
- 2008 Special prize “Ideas Museum” , Int. Festival of Independent Cinematography “KinoLev”, Lviv, Ukraine
- 2007 Best Foreign Film Award, Szemletek Visionaudial Film Festival – Pec's, Hungary -
- 2007 Students Jury Special Prize, Szemletek Visionaudial Film Festival - Pec's, Hungary
Commissioned work
- 2013 The Shabbat Room, permanent installation, The Jewish Museum Vienna
- 2003 Opening paintings-sequence for the film James' Journey to Jerusalem, directed by Ra'anan Alexandrowicz
Artist residency / programs
- 2014 The International Exchange Program - Frauenkulturbüro NRW, Düsseldorf
- 2011 International Summer Academy for Artists-researchers Finland. Kuva - Finnish Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki, Finland.
- 2010 JAI (Jewish Artists Initiative of Southern California) , Los Angeles
- 2008 Berlinale Talent Campus, Berlin International Film Festival
Solo Exhibitions
- 2017 - Maya Zack: Memory Trilogy. MLF – Marie Laure Fleisch Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
- 2016 - Counterlight, Galleria MLF, Rome, Italy
- Counterlight, Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Curtor: Nili Goren
- 2015 - Broken Horizons (with stuben21) in Bibliology, Petach Tikva Museum of Art
- 2014 - Outlined Absence, Manifesta 10's parallel projects, Taiga Space, St. Petersburg
- The Mystical Shabbat, Alon Segev gallery, Tel Aviv
- 2013 - The Shabbat Room, a permanent installation at The Jewish Museum Vienna
- 2013 - Maya Zack : Videos, at Moving Image Art fair, London. With Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch.
- 2012 - Made to Measure, Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch, Rome, Italy
- 2011 - Living Room, The Jewish Museum, New York, U.S.A. Curator: Aviva Weintraub.
- Camera Obscura, Galerie Natalie Seroussi, Paris. Curator: Marie Shek.
- 2010 - Mother Economy - video and drawings, CUC Gallery, Berlin. Curator: Avi Feldman
-Living Room, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv
- Black and White Rule – Open Set, Yaffo 23, Bezalel Gallery Jerusalem.
- 2009 - Reading Room, Bialik House Museum, Tel Aviv. Curator: Marie Shek.
- 2008 - Mother Economy, The Jewish Museum, Media Center Gallery, New York. Curator: Andrew Ingall.
- Nalbishech Salmat Beton Vamelet, Be’eri gallery, Kibutz be’eri. Curator: Ziva Yelin. (with Raya Bruckenthal)
- 2005 - Videos + drawings, Alon Gallery, Ramat Hasharon
- 2004 - Concrete and Cement, Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv (with Raya Bruckenthal)
- Mockument, Alon Gallery, Ramat Hasharon
- 2002 - The Baron E.T. von Home, Artists Studios Gallery, Tel Aviv (with Raya Bruckenthal)
- 2001 - Hier seid Ihr zusammen /אתכם ארצה לזמן, Kav 16 Gallery, Tel Aviv.
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2020 - Bodyscapes, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Curator: Adina Kamien-Kazhdan
- 2020 - Recipients of the 2017-2018 Art Awards by the Israeli Ministry of Culture, Ashdod Museum of Art
- 2019 - Walk the Line, Jerusalem Print Workshop. Curator: Irena Gordon, in Traces VII – Action Line: The Seventh Biennale of Drawing in Israel, Chief Curator: Hadas Maor
- 2019 - Exil, Charim Galerie, Vienna, Austria
- 2019 - Evoking Reality, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin
- 2019 - Cartonnage, Kupferman Collection museum, Kibbutz Lochamei Hagetaot. Curator: Tali Tamir
- 2019 - Table, Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Ron Bartosh
- 2018-19 - Constructing the World: Art & Economy, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
- 2018 - Hidden Workers, Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
- 2018 - TAP and TOUCH, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv
- 2017 - Menorah, Vatican City, Braccio di Carlo Magno (Piazza San Pietro), Rome, Italy (upcoming)
- 2016 - Under the Press of History, Jerusalem Print Workshop . Curator: Irena Gordon
- Capital: Debt - Territory – Utopia. Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Curators: Eugen Blume und Catherine Nichols
- Without Flour, The Negev Museum of Art, Be'er Sheba
- 2014 - Back to Berlin, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art. Curator: Aya Lurie
- International Photography Festival, Israel
- The Double Exposure Project, The Shpilman Institute, Tel Aviv. Curator: Aya Lurie
- The Drawingroom, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria. curator: Peter Weiermair
- 2013 - The Drawingroom, Ursula Blickle foundation, Kraichtal, Germany curator: Peter Weiermair
- MiArt, Milan art fair, with Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch
- 2012 - Private/Corporate, Daimler Art Collection, Berlin, curator: Renate Wiehager.
- Pluriel - Regards sur l'art contemporain israélien, Villa Emerige, Paris. Curators: Nathalie Mamane- Cohen, Nathalie Zaquin-Boulakia
- In Action, from the Charim Collection, Salon Dahlman, Berlin. Curators: Heike Fuhlbrügge, Joëlle Romba and Ute Weingarten.
- The 3rd Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Curator: Kathrin Becker
- Recipients of 'Idud Hayetzira' Award by the Israeli Ministry of Culture, Petach Tikva Museum of Art
- 2011 - Magic Lantern: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Curators: Suzanne Landau, Amitai Mendelsohn.
- Heimatkunde (How German is it? 30 Artists' Notion of Home). Jewish Museum, Berlin Germany.
- 2010 - Neo-Barbarism, Rothschild 69, Tel Aviv. curators: Naomi Aviv, Noam Segal - Rupture & Repair, Adi Prize for Jewish Expression in Art and Design. Artists House Jerusalem.
Curator: Emily Bilski, Aviva Kat-Manor
- Ark, Mani House, Leumi Gallery, curator: Ido Barel
- Suspended Spaces #1, Maison de la culture, Amiens, France.
- 2009 - Childhood Stories, whiteBOX e.V., Kultfabrik Gallery, Munich, Curator: Yael Katz Ben Shalom.
- Art TLV, The Tel Aviv Art Biennale, curator: Edna Moshensohn.
- Drama of Identities, Curator: Irena Gordon, Beth Hatefutsoth Museum, Tel Aviv.
- Seafaring-route. Tel Aviv. Berlin. Beirut. Artneuland Berlin, Curator: Yael Katz Ben Shalom.
- Paper Works, The Israel Museum, Anna Ticho House, Jerusalem. Curator: Ronit Sorek.
- Reel Mothers, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido. Curator: Andrea Liss.
- Tel Aviv Mon Amour, The Office Gallery, TLV. Curator: Galit Semel.
- Shirat Ha'beton, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv. Curator: Yehudit Mezkel.
- 2008 - Invideo, International Exhibition of Video Art and Cinema Beyond. Milan, Italy.
- From Punk To Pink, Moti Hasson Gellry, NY, USA.
- Figge von Rosen Galerie – Cologne, Germany
- Merma(i)d, Inga Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel. with Raya Bruckenthal.
- Rishon Le’zion Biannale, Rishon Le’zion, Israel.
- Celeste Kunstpreis Finalists, At the former “Patzenhofer Brauerei-Friedrichshöhe, Berlin.
- Dead End, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Diana Dallal.
- Goyim, The new Gallery, Teddy Stadium, Jerusalem.
- 2007 - Guilt & Gelt, Artneuland Gallery Berlin, Curator: Yael Katz Ben Shalom.
- 2006 - Videoland, Artneuland Gallery Berlin, Curator: Yael Katz Ben Shalom.
- Recipients of The Ministry of Culture Award, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Curator: Amitai Mendelsohn.
- 2005 - Not Alone, The Haifa University Gallery. Curator: Ruti Director.
- The Drawing Biennale, The Jerusalem Artists House. Curator: Dror Burstein
- 2004 - A Homage to Hanoch Levin, The Haifa Museum of Art. Curator: Daniella Talmor.
- 2002 - Positive Discrimination, The Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Curator: Ellen Ginton.
- Something Local, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon
- 2001 - The Armoury Show, The Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Curator: Ellen Ginton.
Selected festivals and screenings
- 2019 FIFA- Festival International du Film sur l'Art - Musée McCord, Montreal, Canada
- 2018 NeuLicht II: Land von Salz und Honig, Architekturforum Zürich
- 2018 Zebra Poetry Film Festival Münster | Berlin
- 2018 44th International Short Film Festival FILMETS Badalona in Spain
- 2018 Moscow Jewish Film Festival
- 2018 New Renaissance Film Festival, Amsterdam, Holland
- 2018 Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival
- 2018 Cine en el Patio: Videos ganadores del Festival FIVA 2017, Museo Histórico Cabildo (Counterlight), Montevideo, Uruguay
- 2018 New York Jewish Film Festival
- 2017 FIVA Festival Internacional de Videoarte, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- 2017 Vancouver Jewish Film Festival
- 2017 16th International Kansk Video Festival, Moscow
- 2017 New Renaissance Film Festival, London, United Kingdom
- 2017 Maya Zack: Memory Trilogy, Films screening and conversation. Holocaust Memorial Evening, Jerusalem Cinematheque
- 2017 Epos Art Films Festival, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Experimental Film Program
- 2013 - Kino Der Kunst, film festival, Munich, Germany.
- 2012 - VIP 13, Ticho House, Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
- 25th Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Festival of Expended Media
- 2011 - Ourense International Film Festival , Aurense, Galiza, Spain
- The 13th Intonational Film Festival, Patras city, Greece
- Women Make Waves Film Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
- BUSHO - Budapest Short Film Festival, Hungary
- International Film Festival Jerusalem, Israel
- Emegensee media arts festival, Berlin, Germany.
- Geschichte(n) in Bewegung, Das Filmforum der HBK, Braunschweig Germany.
- 5 artists 5 films, Pécsi Galéria és Vizuális Művészeti Műhely, Pécs, Hungary.
- 2010 - LACE -Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, LA, U.S.
- Werkleitz Festival, Halle, Germany. Curator: Brent Klinkum
- 2009 - “Dreams and Disasters" Top Kino, Vienna, Austria
- POV, Israeli Photography Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel
- 100% Tel Aviv, White Night, Paris, Curator: Marie Schek.
- 45th Pesaro Film Festival, Pesaro, Italy
- Cologne Cinematheque, Keolner Filmhaus, Germany
- Hull Short film Festival, Hull, England
- Transart, Rennes, France, Curator: Brent Klinkum
- 2008 - Winterthur Short film Festival, Winterthur, Switzerland
- Invideo, Exhibition for video Art and film beyond, Milan, Italy
- Freewaves, LA 11th festival of new media arts, “Holly-Would”, Los Angeles, USA
- Busho, Budapest Short film Festival, Hungary
- Figge von Rosen Galerie, Cologne, Germany
- Imaginaria International Film Festival, Conversano, Italy
- Hamburg International Short Film Festival
- International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Egilssta›ir, Iceland
- “KinoLevchyk”, International Festival of Video Art. leviv Ukraine.
- 2007 - Trunk, The Nordic Video-Art Festival, Östersund, Sweden
- Izmir International Short Film Festival, Turkey
- Haifa Cinematheque, Israel
- Szemletek Visionaudial Film Festival – Pec's, Hungary
- Haifa International Film Festival, Israel
- Artneuland Gallery, Berlin
* Videography Counterlight 2017, Black and White Rule 2011 / Mother Economy 2007 / Concrete and Cement 2: Door to Door 2005 / Meme 2. / The Units 2004 / Meme 1 2003 / Concrete and Cement 1: Preparations for the Resembling People Ceremony 2003 / Hier Seid Ihr Zusammen 2000.
* collections Public, corporate and private collections include: Israel Museum Jerusalem / Jewish Museum Berlin / Tel Aviv Museum of Art / Jewish Museum Vienna / Petach Tikva Museum of Art / Daimler Art Collection, Stuttgart-Berlin / ORS Doron Sebbag / Dubi Shiff Art Collection / SIP-The Shpilman Institute for Photography Tel Aviv / Tiroche Deleon Collection among others.
Monographs:
- Maya Zack: Acting Memory, (Arles: Actes-Sud 2015)
- Maya Zack: The Shabbat Room , (Vienna: The Jewish museum Vienna and Verlag für moderne Kunst 2014)