Noa Gur
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Bio
Noa Gur’s (born 1980 in Tel Aviv, Israel) work intertwines two series of questions: one thread inquiring into contemporary modes of artistic production and the other questioning inequality based on class and ethnicity. Images of artists suffering at the hands of society and their characterization as objects to be exploited are paradoxically entangled in the rhetoric of the art market—based on nothing but exchange value. A visual artist and filmmaker living and working in Berlin and Tel Aviv, Gur uses and transforms the genre of self-portraiture to gesture at contemporary aporias of the artist as an economic unit.
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CV
Education:
2007-2009, Academy for media arts, Cologne, Germany.
2000-2004, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Israel.
Scholarships, awards, residencies:
2021, Award for creation encouragement, cultural department, Israel.
2021, Stipend, Modul D for Digital mediation Formats, Project Support, Neustart, Germany.
2020, Project Grant, support funds for arts and Culture, National lottery, Tel aviv, Israel.
2020 Supported with Research Stipend in the field of Visual arts By Berlin Senat for Culture.
2019, Artport Alumni Grant for a Project completion.
2019, Supported by Ostrovsy foundation.
2018, A recipient of BBK Atelier supported by Berlin's cultural department.
2018, Winner of support funds for arts and Culture, National lottery (Pais), Tel aviv, Israel.
2017, Winner of support funds for arts and Culture, National lottery (Pais), Tel aviv, Israel.
2017, La Box, Residency Grant,Bourges, France.
2016, Atelier Galata , residency Stiepend, Istanbul, Turkey. granted by Cologne cultural department.
2015, Ministry of culture award for a young artist, Israel.
2014, Rabinowitz foundation, exhibition grant, Tel aviv, Israel.
2013, Winner of Artport TLV, artist in residence program, Tel aviv, Israel.
2013, Winner of public german artfunds (Stiftung Kunstfonds) work steipend.
2012, Winner of support funds for arts and Culture, National lottery (Pais), Tel aviv, Israel.
2009, Roelfs Partner artists prize /granted from KIT Museum Duesseldorf for a selected work in a group exhibition .
2008-2010, DAAD scholarship
2004-2005, The Sharett Scholarship, America - Israel Cultural Foundation.
2004, Bezalel art academy, prize for achievements/graduate with honour.
2003, Paradis award for achievements in arts.
Exhibitions (Selection):
2022, Identity not proven, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Museum Gunzenhauser.
2022, Identity not proven, NEUES MUSEUM, Staatliches Museum fuer Kunst und Design Nuernberg, Germany.
2022, Von Der Poesie im Recht, Kunstraum Kreuzberg- Bethanien, Berlin, Germany. Curator, Sonja Lau (Upcoming).
, Identity not Proven, Contemporary Art Collection of the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn. 2021, The institution, Ramat Gan Museum, Israel, curator: Svetlana Reingold.
2021, I am Nature, Rohkunstbau, Schloss Lieberose, Germany, curator: Heike Fuhlbruegge.
2020, Fields,(Solo) 1:1 center for art and politics, Tel Aviv, Israel
2019, Shenvisible, Printscreen Festival, Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel.
2019, Breathing space, Museum Israel Wilfried, Israel.
2019, Back to Artport, curated by Vardit Gross, Tel aviv, Israel.
2019, The first Moment, Public art, performance, Bundeskazleramt, Berlin, Germany.
2018, Field, (Solo) Nir Altman Galery, Munich, Germany.
2017, Intervals, Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2017, True Colors, curated by Anat Danon Sivan, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
2017, Ways of making visible, (Solo) Herzliya Museum, Herzliya.
2017, La Piel del Mundo, Josedelafonte Gallery, Santander, Spain.
2017, Dark pools, Heroine of sound Festival, Radial system, Berlin.
2017, Tears Go Black (Kino der Kunst), Nir Altman. Galerie, Munich, Germany.
2016, Ministry of culture award exhibition, Herzliya Museum, Herzliya.
2016, Re imaggining the imaginaries, etaliagallery.com.
2016, Body Vs. Superstructure (solo), Nir Altman Galerie, Munich, Germany.
2016, Vanishing point, curator, Or Tshuva, Artport, Tel aviv.
2015, Freitag der 13, circle 1, Berlin, Germany.
2015, Identity and enmities, Sprechsaal, Berlin.
2015, Re-Start, Braverman Gallery, Tel aviv, Israel
2015, Ways of making visible,(Solo) Galeria Sabot, Cluj, Romania
2014, Ars Multiplicata 14 Kunsthalle Koidl, Berlin, Germany.
2014, Collective identity, Galerie Campagne premiere, (Solo) Berlin, Germany.
2014, Non finito, Artport, Tel aviv, Israel.
2014, The Avant-gardes of Motion, Museo / Man, Nuoro, Sicily hosting GAM, Turin, Italy.
2014, Rocca Stiftung at Auto center, Berlin, Germany.
2013, Noa Gur (solo), Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2013, L'Eau et les Reves, Jumieges Abbey, curated by Jean-Luc Monterosso, France.
2013, The efficient frontier (solo), Galerie Campagne Première, Berlin, Germany.
2012, Artissima Art Fair, represented by Braverman Gallery Tel Aviv, Torino, Italy.
2012, KW Institute for contemporary art, film screening, Arte video program, Berlin Germany.
2012, Palais de Tokyo, film screening, Arte video program, Paris France.
2012, Viennafair, Art Fair, represented by Galerie Campange Premiere, Vienna, Austria.
2012, let it flow, let it go, Souterrain, Berlin, Germany.
2012 Kunsthalle Koidl, Berlin, Germany.
2012, Dawn till dusk, Galerie Campagne Premiere, Berlin, Germany.
2011, Arte Video Night, 23/10/11 arte tv, France- Germany.
2011, FIAC Gaite Lyrique, Paris, France, as apart of Arte Video Night events.
2011, Cinematheque of Toulouse, France.
2011, Museum of undead labour, innitiated with Aino Korvensyrja.
2011, Labor Invisible, Die Moltkerei werkstatt, Cologne, Germany.
2011, HORS D'OEUVRE III, Noa Gur/ Christoph Girardet, Campagne Premiere, Berlin, Germany.
2011, Numerator and Denominator, Herzliya Museum, Israel.
2011, Staircase flesh, Loop Barcelona Art Fair, representing Braverman Gallery, Barcelona, Spain.
2011, I see Darkness, Yaffo 23 Art site Jerusalem.
2010, Body of work, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2010, Neueroeffnung, Echraum, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn.
2010, Ideenbilder, Kunsthalle Duesseldorf, Germany.
2009, Black box kino, Duesseldorf, Germany
2009, Along the Rhine, K.I.T. Museum, Duesseldorf, Germany.
2009, Art cologne art fair, Cologne, Germany.
2009, Videonale 11, Museum Bonn, Germany.
2009, lReal science fiction, Bezalel Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2007, Young artsits, Center for Contemporary Arts, Tel aviv, Israel.
2007, Videopoetry festival "Hazira" interdisciplinary arts center, Jerusalem, Israel.
2005, America Israel foundation award winners exhibition, Ramat Gan Museum, Israel.
2005, Video and choreography festival, "Hazira" interdisciplinary arts center, Jerusalem, Israel.
2004, Video bar project, video screening, "Salona", Tel Aviv, Israel
2004, Graduation exhibition, Bezalel art academy, Jerusalem, Israel.
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Gallery exhibitions
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Works
THE FIRST MOMENT OF MARWA EL SHERBINI, 2019-2020, PERFORMANCE, 10 MIN Above, a reversed documentation of the performance near the german chancellery, Berlin, Camera: Avi Levi. Almost 10 years ago, Marwa el Sherbini, a young woman of Egyptian origin, residing in Dresden, was brutally murdered inside the city's courtroom by the right wing extremist against whom she testified. This incident raised fierce questions towards the state's authorities & their representatives (Judges, officials and the police who shot Marwa's husband instead of her attacker). Nevertheless, a responsibility has not been taken and her family's lawsuit against the german court was rejected three times so far. Through assembling legal records & further information the case is reenacted, the performers (trained as dancers) are talking and moving in reverse, while reversing the timeline from her death back to life & reality that preceded to sequence of events, through using backward movement & speech. 
FIELDS, 2020, INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION The video installation uses a green screen located on the street in south Tel Aviv, opposite the 1:1 Center for Art and Politics. A live camera films the street and the green background that is simultaneously replaced by images of an exhibition space in Israel’s Museum, and the result is streamed in real- time and projected in the 1:1 exhibition space. Passersby that walk by the green screen will see themselves “inside” parts the spaces if they look into the 1:1 centre through the front window that separates the exhibition space from its neglected surroundings. The real-time photographic action is characteristic of the surveillance and monitoring strategies of both museum spaces and and crime ridden public spaces. This intervention seeks to challenge the separation between art spaces and the streets, and to confront participants with the experience of observing themselves and being observed in these two different spaces.
FELD, 2018, INSTALLATION VIEW - NIR ALTMAN Here, the artist combines various perspectives of the body with the dual practice of viewing and being surveyed. The spectators body, is an activating element of the extensive installation. The work urges the viewer to enter a live filmed monochrome chroma key exhibition which incorporates different elements, all tilted. The camera angle seems to correct this crooked space while, in turn, distorting the body and transforming the green background to a gradient color surface. The viewer is watching himself watching- as the common situation of a display is amplified 
LOOPHOLE, 2017, A ONE CHANNEL VIDEO INSTALLTION, FLOOR PROJECTION, 00:06 Min (LOOP), COLOR, SOUND "Loophole extends between darkness and light, between the anonymity of the silhouette and a recognizable outline. Here, the artist has produced a self-portrait that is constantly moving, spinning on its axis like a mechanical mannequin. It may also be regarded as an ethnographic visual object that proclaims its otherness and its distinctiveness; an object one would like to regard as imploring us to categorize it in a way that may fix its meaning, to analyze and reduce it to the limitations of our knowledge. At the same time, it is a portrait devoid of excessive information, presenting the viewer only with an engulfing two dimensional silhouette that tries to breach its designated bounds. An aperture or patch in the artists portrait turns into two gaping holes that may stand for her absent eyes, looking at us without looking." Text by Rothem Rozenthal 
Logistics of integrations, 2017, photo (processed), injekt on alu dibond, 80 x 54 cm 
SUD, ZUID, SUR, 2016, A ONE CHANNEL VIDEO INSTALLATION, FLOOR PROJECTION, 01:40 MIN, COLOR, SOUND Three words I write on the ground- Sud, Sur, Zuid, are of the same meaning in languages of nations that expended southwards in the colonial era. As the lightbulb circles, my shadow oscillates between the hand written words until it slows down while pointing in one direction. 
WAYS OF MAKING VISIBLE, 2016, A TWO CHANNEL VIDEOINSTALLATION, 02:29 MIN., COLOUR, SOUND - THE VIDEO CHANNELS ARE PRESENTED AS OPPOSIT PROJECTIONS The Video shooting took place outside of the museum's opening hours and involves pupils operating flashlights in the darkened space, posing behind sculptures in showcases. Their faces are visible and alternately blinded by the flash, while hindering and in turn enabling the spectators' gaze with the audible click of the torches button. A simulation of the flashlight's reflection of the object is projected on to the opposite wall, and casts the outlines of the shadow of the sculptural object that is seen in the video involving the pupils and the sculpture from which it supposedly originates, which is not entirely visible to the viewers eyes. 
ARTDUBAI, 2014, A ONE CHANNEL VIDEO INSTALLATION, 02:29 MIN., COLOUR, SOUND In the video work Art Dubai, Gurs Berlin galerist recounts an anecdote that he experienced in the art fair, when the fairs directors interfered with one of the exhibits, a globe-shaped sculpture, and asked to make changes in the world map it displays. The demand followed a nocturnal visit to the fair. There, when the lights are turned off and visibility is ostensibly limited, the conditions and restrictions are shaped into the visibility of daylight. Participaction: Henning Weidemann. 
BURNING BUSH, 2012, VIDEO INSTALLATION, 28 MINUTES LOOP "shows the artist's face painted black with soot. The mouth inhales and exhales smoke. The face, which at first appears to be a flat, black surface, is partly lit and reveals its contours. The chest is covered with black spots and presented in the classic posture of the self-portrait and in an androgynous way, thereby pointing towards the problematic status of the female body as a represented object. Soot and smoke refer to industrial means of production, as well as to capitalism as a way of 'melting all that is solid into the air'. Wearing soot as a mask recalls the fact that somewhere physical work still takes place, and that it is performed predominantly by those who are not part of the glorious regime of creative and cognitive labor. Like the artist's face, it is invisible labor: invisible because of its remoteness (it is outsourced to parts of the world we do not observe closely) or because it does not count as gainful employment (like female carework). One could also have the impression that the face is consuming itself by inhaling and exhaling: A self-sufficient circle of production and indulgence in a post-apocalyptic atmosphere. Everything has already been burned". 
WHITE NOISE, 2012, A ONE CHANNEL VIDEO INSTALLATION, SOUND, HD, 02:29 MIN , 15:00 MIN LOOP "In White Noise (2012) Gur continues the exploration of her self-perception, refracted through a prism of Otherness, into the realm of contemporary art practice as it relates to art historical production Gur makes imprints of her black, charcoal colored face on paper towels, photographs them, and then creates a video showing one printed portrait per frame. In a 25-second loop, she exposes the evolution of the image, from its status as religious iconography to its mechanical reproduction, its pairing with movement, and its more recent digitalization and distribution, while still reinforcing the individuality of each print." Text by Hili Perlsohn, taken from the article Ways of making visible.
