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January 6, 2023
‘Moonshine’: Gideon Gechtman and Michelangelo Pistoletto | New Exhibition at Chelouche Gallery
The opening exhibition of 2023 in Chelouche Gallery’s new space is the exhibition of the artist Gideon Gachtman (1942 – 2008), one of the pillars of Israeli art, and Michelangelo Pistoletto (born in 1933). Both have been among Chelouche’s artists for over three decades. Gachtman, one of the leading Israeli artists and the pioneers of... ...
November 7, 2019
Gideon Gechtman | Novenber-December exhibitions
Gideon Gechtman November – December 2019 The 11th Manofim JRS Art Festival Main Exhibition “Nurse,Nurse” Curator: Rinat Edelstein and Lee He Shulov Bikur Cholim Hospital, JRS Chronicles – Haaretz in Israeli Art Minus 1 Gallery, 18 Shoken St. Tel Aviv Municipal Art Gallery Rishon Lezion Curator: Efi Gen Second Curator: Adi Angel... ...
January 15, 2019
Gideon Gechtman: ‘Life Textures’ | Commemorating ten years since his death | Opening: Saturday 19.1.19 at 12:00
Chelouche Gallery is pleased to anounce the opening of Gideon Gechtman | Life Textures Commemorating ten years since his death Curator: Nira Itzhaki opening: Saturday 19.1.19 at 12:00 Gideon Gechtman, Yotam, 1999, Herzliya Museum, mixed media, variable sizes, detail from installation ...
February 17, 2016
Nir Evron and Gideon Gechtman at New Museum, New York
Nir Evron and Gideon Gechtman at the exhibition “Staring Back at the Sun: Video Art from Israel, 1970-2012“, at the New Museum, New York. Organizing Curator: Chen Tamir Contributing Curators: Yael Bartana, Avi Feldman, Sergio Edelsztein, and Ilana Tenenbaum. An Exhibition and Public Program Touring Internationally, 2016–2017: New Museum, New York February 20-21, 2016, program Towson... ...
March 18, 2014
Gideon Gechtman and Uri Gershuni at the International Photography Festival
Gideon Gechtman at the exhibition “Artists-Curator: Assaf Shaham” at the International Photography Festival. Opening: Saturday 05.04.2014 at 20:30 Gideon Gechtman, Obituary, 1984, silk print, 56X77 cm Uri Gershuni curator of the exhibition “Horror Movie” at the International Photography Festival. Opening: Saturday 05.04.2014 at 20:30 Unknown artist, from Uri Gershuni’s private collection Unknown artist, from Uri Gershuni’s... ...
March 3, 2014
A symposium following Gideon Gechtman's retrospective exhibition at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
A symposium following Gideon Gechtman’s retrospectiv exhibition at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Exhibition curator: Aya Miron Participants: Aya Miron, Doron Rabina, Larry Abramson, Amitai Mendelson, Michal Sahar, Noam Gal, Michael Gordon, Miri Segal, and Yair Garbuz. Wednesday 05.03.2014 at 11am – 4pm Gideon Gechtman: 1942 – 2008, 2013, installation view at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.... ...
November 18, 2013
Gideon Gechtman at City Gallery Kfar Saba
Gideo Gechtman’s work at the exhibition “The Dead or Alive Gallery” at City Gallery Kfar Saba. Curator: Ilana Tenenbaum Opening: Thursday 21.11.2013 at 7:30pm Gideon Gechtman, Folding Floor, 1973 (not existing), iron, concret, white cement with gravel, pencil, 75X200X40 cm, installation view at Baltman Gallery, Tel Aviv ...
October 10, 2013
Gideon Gechtman at the Artists' Studios, Jerusalem
Vestige Gideon Gechtman and Miri Segal (With the participation of Shachar Geiger and Bat-Sheva Zeisler-Gechtman) For the exhibition text in Hebrew click here. Curator: Avi Lubin 17.10.2013 – 15.02.2014 Gideon Gechtman, White Peacock, 1999, mixed media. Photograph: Tal Nisim Gideon Gechtman and Miri Segal met in 2003, while participating in the second International Installation Triennale in Haifa... ...
June 24, 2012
Butterflies & Pyramids – Gideon Gechtman Solo Exhibition | CITYISM Group Exhibition | “I Want, I Want, I Want” – Asaf Gotessman's project
Exhibitions Openings at Chelouche Gallery, Opening: Friday, 29.06.12, 12:00 Gideon Gechtman | Butterflies & Pyramids CITYISM | Group Exhibition Assaf Gottesman | “I want, I want, I want” Gideon Gechtman | Butterflies & Pyramids Curator: Nira Itzhaki In the exhibition Butterflies & Pyramids, on the gallery’s first floor, early works by Gechtman are displayed for the... ...
March 27, 2012
Gideon Gechtman and Gal Weinstein at The Middle East Center for the Arts (MECA), NJ
Gideon Gechtman and Gal Weinstein at the exhibition “Spring 2012” The inaugural exhibition of The Middle East Center for the Arts (MECA), Jersey City, NJ opening: 01.04.2012, 1-5 pm Gal Weinstein, Earthquake in Kamtschatka, 2008, still from video work, 1 min. ...
December 21, 2011
Gideon Gechtman and Tomer Sapir at Sommer Gallery, Tel Aviv
Gideon Gechtman and Tomer Sapir at the exhibition Groundwork Sommer Gallery, Tel Aviv Curator : Avi Lubin Opening: 22.12.2011, 8:00 pm Gideon Gechtman, Preperation sketch for Launching Apparatus, 2008 Avi Lubin, from the exhibition’s text: The studio is a type of liminal space that enables detachment from ordinary time and place. It allows the... ...
Biography
Gideon Gechtman was a center pillar to Israeli art and one of Chelouche Gallery’s artists for over two decades. With rare integrity, he paved an innovative conceptual path in which he went uncompromising. His artistic language influenced and still influencing generations of artists. His creation dealt consistently and persistently with death, memory and perpetuation.
His most recent and last work “Launching Apparatus” was exhibited at Chelouche Gallery in September – October 2008, a show that was chosen by Art Asia Pacific Magazine among the ten most significant exhibitions in the world for 2008.
Curriculum Vitae
1942-2008
Education
1975-1976 Tel Aviv University, history of Art and Philosophy
1968-1971 Hammersmith College of Art, London, England ( sculpture)
1962-1963 Ealing School of Art , London, England (Painting)
1961-1962 Avni Institute for Art, Tel- Aviv ( Painting )
Work Experience
1999-2008 Planner, Zeisler & Gechtman Architects, Rishon Le zion, Israel.
Coordinator of sculpture studies at the Teachers Trainning College
1976-1999 Teacher, Training College Ministry of Education, Beit Berl, Israel, sculpture
1972-1975 Lecturer, Bezalel Academy of Arts, Jerusalem, sculpture
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022 Moonshine | Gideon Gechtman and Michelangelo Pistoletto, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv, Curator: Nira Itzhaki
2019 Life Textures, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv, Curator: Nira Itzhaki
2013 Gideon Gechtman, 1942 – 2008, A Retrospective Exhibition, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Curator: Aya Miron
2012 Butterflies & Pyramids, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv, Curator: Nira Itzhaki
2008 Launching Apparatus, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
2007 Initial Concept, Petach-Tikva Museum of Art
Dead Line, Beit Kanner Municipal Gallery, Rishon L’ezion
2003 Hedva, Gideon and all the Rest, Artists House, Tel Aviv
Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa
2001 Etude, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Infinite Regress , Wiensowski & Harbord , Berlin
1999 Yotam, Herzeliya Museum, Israel
1996 Works, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1992 Echo, Bograshov Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1988 Preparation for Mausoleum No.1, Artists Studios Workshops, Jerusalem, Israel
1985 Mitot, Kibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1984 Naomi Giveon Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1973 Exposure, Yodfat Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 Four Installations, Municipal Art Gallery Rishon Lezion, Curator: Efi Gen, Second Curator: Adi Angel
2019 Chronicles – Haaretz in Israeli Art, Minus 1 Gallery, TLV
2019 Nurse,Nurse, main exhibition at The 11th Manofim JRS Art Festival, Curators: Rinat Edelstein and Lee He Shulov
2019 Fake News – Fake Truth, Haifa Museum of Art, Curator: Svetlana Reingold
2013 The Dead or Alive Gallery, City Gallery Kfar Saba. Curator: Ilana Tenenbaum
Portraits, Oranim Academic College, Qiryat Tiv’on. Curator: Prof. David Wakstein
Vestige, Artists’ Studios, Art Cube Gallery, Jerusalem. Curator: Avi Lubin
2012 Like a Betterfy to a Fire- Traces of Reality, Kfar-Saba City Gallery. Curator: Orit Lotringer
Accelerating Toward Apocalypse, Art from the Doron Sabag’s collection, ORS Inc. Curator: Tal Yahas
Spring 2012, The Middle East Center for the Arts (MECA), NJ
2008 Check-Post, Art in Israel in the 1980s, Haifa Museum of Art
My Own Body, Art in Israel 1968-1978, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2007 Winners of the Ministry of Sience Culture and Sport Prize for Art and Design
2006, Petach-Tikva Museum of Art, Petach-Tikva
2006 Mini Israel, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Illness Report, Gallery of Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva
2005 Transpositions, Petach Tikva Museum of Art
The Holocaust in the Visual Arts after World War 2, Yad Vashem Museum, Jerusalem
Team Work, Kalisher College of Art and Technology
Uncertainty, Chelouche Gallery, Tel- Aviv, Israel
2004 Rose C’est La Vie: On Flowers in Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
The Puppet Show, Time for Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
Art Forum Berlin 2004, Berlin
2003 Surface Talk, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
Israeli Object: a Matter of Time, Artist’ House, Jerusalem
Second Triannale for Installation, Haifa museum of art, Israel.
2002 Local cross section, Ministry of science, culture & sports, Tel Aviv
Art-Forum Berlin 2002, Berlin
2001 Summer Profile, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
The Collection, The Museum Moderner Kunst , Wien
Novalog 2001, Tel Aviv Berlin New media experience, Kalisher Gallery Tel- Aviv, Staatsbank, Berlin
Markers, an outdoor Banner Event of artists and poets Venice 2001.
2000 Construction in Process, This Earth is a Flower, Bydgoszcz Poland
Le republiche dell’arte, Palzzo Delle Papesse centra Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy.
Collaboration Gideon Gechtman & Gal Weinstein, ORANIM, the Vera’ Silvia and Arturo Schwarz Collection of Contemporary Art, Tel- Aviv Museum of Art
Collection, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
1999 Sarajevo-2000, Museum Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien
La Casa, Il Corpo, Il Cuore, Museum Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien
After Rabin – New Art from Israel, The Jewish Museum New York
1998 International Passage, Gideon Gechtman, Bertrand Lavier, Haim Steinbach, Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Out of Action: Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California U.S.A.
Tikkun Aspecst in Israeli Art of the 70’s, Tel Aviv University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Perspectives on Israeli Art of the 70’s, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
1997 Fantasy, Herzelya Museum of Art, Herzelya, Israel
Another Language, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
1994 Burnt Whole, W.P.A Washington, U.S.A.
1993 Makom, Museum Moderner Kunst, Wien, Austria
Antipathos, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1992 The second Biennale of Sculpture, Ein Hod, Israel
1991 Perspective Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
1990 Life Size, Israel Museum, Israel
1988 40 from Israel, Brooklyn Museum, New York
1978 Artist-Society-Artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
1975 Open Workshop Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1970 Young Contemporaries Royal Academy, London
Awards
2006 Special project grant – Israeli lottery “Mifal HaPayiss”
2006 Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports award for life-long achievements
2001 Artist Residency Program witting the Elizabeth Foundation Artist for Arts studio centre
(EFASR) in NYC.
Ministry of Culture, Foreign Ministry and the New York Israel Cultural Cooperation (NYICCC).
Haifa Museum award for Art founded by the APTOWITZER foundation for Haifa.
1999 The George and Janet Jeffin Prize, American Israel Cultural Foundation
1997 Israel Museum, Jerusalem- the Israel Discount Bank Prize for an Israeli Artist , Israel
1995 Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Prize for Israeli Artist,Israel
1993 Minister of Arts and Science Prize, Israel.
1990 Ministry of Education and Culture Prize, Israel.
1990 The Histadrut Prize for painting and sculpture, Israel.
1970 “Young Contemporaries”, London
Selected Bibliography
1. Gideon Gechtman, Works, 1971- 1986
exhibition catalogue, Tel Aviv Stavit Edition, 1986
2. Gideon Gechtman, Kav No. 9, Interview with Moshe Ninio and Ury Hass (January 1989)
Makom : Zeitgenossische Kunst ous Israel.
3. Exhibition catalouge Vienna Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig 1993.
4. Out of Action between performance and the object 1949-1979,
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles , Thames And Hudson with essays by Kristin Stiles, Guy Brett, Huber Klocker , Shinichira Osaki , Paul Schimmel
5. Tikkun, Perspectives on Israeli Art of the Seventies, The Genia Schreiber University Gallery, Tel Aviv University catalogue, with essay by Mordechi Omer.
