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April 18, 2023
Amir Nave, Nir Alon, Assaf Rahat and Melanie Daniel participate in ‘Evocations’: A Nomadic Project
Curator: Lorand Hegyi Opening: 20.04.2023 at Faur Zsófi Galéria, BUDAPEST The traveling exhibition project evokes new forms of dialogue between artists and art lovers in different countries, different cultures, and different relationships that exist between people for whom artistic creation is an essential and fundamental condition for human existence: art as revelation, art as awareness,... ...
August 19, 2021
‘Rooms’: Group Exhibition at Chelouche Gallery Residency, 2021
Eight artists were invited to present their works at the exhibition ‘ROOMS’: Tal Amitai-Lavi, Nadav Weissman, Dana Yoeli, Shai Yehezkeli, Amir Naveh, Tomer Sapir, Assaf Rahat and Tal Shoshan. On this occasion new bodies of work are unveiled in various mediums and creative processes that are usually hidden from view. ...
August 12, 2021
Assaf Rahat: ‘The Way We Survive’ | Group Exhibition at Petah Tikva Museum, Opening: Thursday 20:00, 12.08.2021
FIRESTARTER Curator: Irena Gordon 12.08.2021-11.12.2021 Are we facing a process of creation or erasure? Of subsistence or disappearance? In a series of intimate drawings, Assaf Rahat draws homeless figures, whom he meets on the city’s boulevards and alleys. The figures seem indifferent to their environs, indrawn, curled up to sleep on a bench... ...
July 28, 2020
Congratulations for the purchase of a work by Assaf Rahat into Tel-Aviv Museum Collection
The work depicts a dream-hallucination scene that gives birth to monsters (as a reference to a Goya). The figure of the homeless, as the artist representation, twisted in the style of a cartoon characters of Le Greco with huge palms, larger than usual. The blue folds of the garment wrapping and binding all together in... ...
February 14, 2020
‘Black Sun’ | Group exhibition at Chelouche Gallery
‘Black sun’ presenting works by the artists: Uri Gershuni, Assaf Rahat, Amir Nave, Dana Yoeli, William Kentridge, Tal Shoshan, Yadid Rubin, Miki Kratsman, Shai Yehezkelli, Tomer Sapir, Tom Pnini Curator: Nira Itzhaki The group exhibition Black Sun in Chelouche Gallery confronts the charged concept of a ‘Black Sun’ through works in various mediums. The works... ...
December 12, 2019
Assaf Rahat in Group Exhibition, ‘Hybrids, Creatures of Wonder’ | Haifa Museum 21.12.2019
Assaf Rahat, From the series ‘Chimera’ 2014. Installation view at Haifa Museum, threads and glue, variable dimensions The group exhibition ‘Hybrids, Creatures of Wonder’, is part of the exhibition cluster ‘Women Make History’ at Haifa Museum. ...
September 10, 2016
Assaf Rahat: ‘STRIP’ | Solo exhibition at Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv | Opening: 08.09.16, 8pm
Assaf Rahat’s solo exhibition STRIP will open at Chelouche Gallery on Thursday, 08.09.2016, at 8pm. Rahat will exhibit a central work, made up of mixed media on paper images that were attached to one strip, 25 meters long, next to other works created through the past two years. ...
May 2, 2016
Assaf Rahat at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
The artist Assaf Rahat exhibits in the group exhibition “Wire(less) Connections” at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Opening: May 26, 2016 at 18:00 May 26, 2016-March 18, 2017 Weinstein Gallery, Ruth Youth Wing in the Israel Museum. Curator: Daniella Shalev Assaf Rahat, Untitled, 2014, threds and PVA glue, 186X240 cm Assaf Rahat, Untitled, 2009, ink and... ...
September 24, 2015
Assaf Rahat, Tal Shoshan and Nadav Weissman at the Artists’ House, Tel Aviv
Assaf Rahat at the exhibition “Local Pulse” at the Artists’ House, Tel Aviv. Curator: Orly Hoffman Opening: 15.10.2015 Assaf Rahat, Untitled, 2014, threds and PVA glue, 333X54 cm. Photo: Roni Kaufmann Nadav Weissman, from Ground Floor (snow globe), 2007, mixed media 90x90x100 cm ...
October 13, 2014
Artist talk and Performance Based Dialogue at Assaf Rahat’s Solo Exhibition “Chimera” Opening at Chelouche Gallery
Performance Based Dialogue and Artist Talk at the exhibtion: Assaf Rahat’s solo exhibition | Chimera On Saturday, 15.11.2014 at 12pm With the participation of: Oryan Yohanan– choreographer and dancer Adaya Godlevsky– harp player and composer A documentation of the performance by Yaron Attar on YouTube The performance (about half an hour long) stretched the boundaries... ...
Biography
Assaf Rahat creates his work with unordinary techniques using twine, sewing threads, plastic glue, industrial masking-tape, ink and water colors. His choice of unconventional materials results in expressive, disturbing and full of emotion works of art.
Rahat’s oeuvres engage with the relationship between private space and mental space. His intimate descriptions of images from memory and introspection includes: domestic objects, faces, intimate scenes, sexuality and death.
Rahat builds a link with art history, this can be seen in works such as The Sacrificing Of Isaac in conversation with Caravaggio, or in his representations of the artist Raffi Lavi, his former teacher at the Academy, a Master for generations of artists in Israel.
Born 1970, Rahat is a graduate of the Midrasha School of Art, Beit Berl (1994-1998). He has exhibited at the Israel museum in Jerusalem and the Haifa museum of arts.
Curriculum Vitae
1970 – Born in Israel
1994 – 1998 – Graduated Hamidrasha School of Art – Beit Berl Collage
Lives and works in Tel Aviv
Solo Exhibitions:
2023 Aviva’s Eye, Beuys’s Body, Bar-David Museum, Kibbutz Baram
2021 The Way We Survive, Petach Tikva Museum of Art
2020 ‘Atavizem’, Sapir School of Art and culture
2018 Night of the Minotaur, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
2018 Totem-Thread, Kibutz Lohamei HaGeta’ot Gallery
2016 Strip, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
2014 Chimera, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
2014 Inside Outwards, Yair Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
2012 Experiment in Forecasting the Mood, Mutual Exhibition of Assaf Rahat and Pinchas Zinovich, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (Curator: Yaniv Shapira)
2009 Biomorphic, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
2007 Private Space, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
2005 Eye Contact, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
2003 Sealed & Sticky, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
2001 Artists Workshop Gallery, Tel Aviv
1999 Nofar Gallery, Tel Aviv
1997 Tova Osman Gallery, Tel Aviv
Group Exhibitions:
2023 Evocations: A Nomadic Exhibition Project | Faur Zsófi Gallery, Budapest, Hungary – Galerie Petraseiser, Attersee, Austria – ongoing
2023 Howl, Dana Gallery
2022 Food Weave, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curators: Drorit Gur Arie & Nira Itzhaki
2021 Rooms, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Nira Itzhaki.
2020 Black Sun, Chelouche gallery, Tel aviv
2020 ‘Women Make History, Feminism in the Age of Transnationalism’, Haifa Museum of Art
2019 Hybrids, Creatures of Wonder, Haifa Museum, TLV
2019 Naked Soul: Chaim Soutine and Israeli Art, Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod
2019 Fresh Paint Fair #10, Prom, Beit Tami TLV, curator: Carmit Blumenson
2019 Yellow Vampire, Nulobaz Gallery, TLV
2017 Eyes, Don’t Haunt Me, Yair Gallery, Tel Aviv
2017 The Soul, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
2016 Wire(less) connections, Israel museum, Jerusalem
2016 Open notebooks, Herzliya Museum
2015 Local pulse, Artists House, Tel Aviv
2013 MG+ MSUM Ljubljana
2012 Salon Talk, Zaritsky Artists House, Tel Aviv
2012 Dvarim, the Memorial Center Gallery, Kiryat Tivon
2011 A Road to Nowehere, Ashdod Museum of Art, Ashdod
2010 “Re-Location”, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
2010 “Art Couture”, Bineth Gallery, Tel Aviv
2010 “Good Little Thing”, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
2009 Eye Regard, the Art Workshop Gallery, Yavneh
2009 Home Page, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
2008 Near and Apparent, The Open Museum Tefen
2007 BoysCraft, Haifa Museum of Art
2003 Yanko-Dada Museum, Ein Hod
2001 Beit Ribak Gallery, Bat-Yam
2001 Artists Against the Strong Hand, Beit-haam Gallery, Tel Aviv
2000 “Arie Aroch: The Erection in Israeli Art”, Peer Gellery, Tel Aviv
2000 “Beginnings”, Art Gallery, Kadima
2000 “Constriction Site”, Art Gallery, Ramat Eliaho, Tel Aviv
1999 “About Rafi”, Nofar Gallery, Tel Aviv
1998 Art Gallery, Ramat Eliaho, Tel Aviv
Collections:
Tel Aviv Museum Collection
