2002
DVD, 2:46 min.
Israel’s highly distinguished photographer, Miki Kratsman has, for over 30 years, been infinitely committed to seriously documenting the evolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and mainly, its bitter consequences on the daily life of the Palestinian population. From Kratsman’s point of view, an accumulated documentation of this difficult daily routine – a routine comprised of different kinds of obstruction, death, memory, hope, insult, anger, hatred or acceptance – is more important, significant and even disquieting than any specific documentation of a potentially spectacular or extreme event .
Miki Kratsman was born in 1959, Argentina and immigrated to Israel in 1971. During 1993-2012 his photographs appeared regularly in “Ha’aretz” newspaper in the column “The Twilight Zone” on which he is signed together with the journalist Gideon Levi. In 2006-2014 he presided as head of the photography department of Bezalel academy of arts, Jerusalem, where he continues to teach and lecture. Kratsman is the fifth recipient of Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University 2011. Winner of Emet Prize for Science, Art and Culture, 2011.
Kratsman exhibits consistently, in Israel and throughout the world.
Selected exhibitions: Venice biennale, 2003; the New Hebrews exhibition at Martin Grupios Bau, Berlin, 2005; the 2006 Sao Paulo Biennale and MARCO, Vigo, Spain, 2006; the Jewish Museum New York and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Santiago, Chile, 2007; the Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB), the Katzen Arts Center, American University Museum, Washington DC, the Jewish Museum Amsterdam, The Jewish Museum, Frankfurt and Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008; Felix-Nussbaum-Haus, Germany, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Kultur Bahnhof Eller, Dusseldorf and Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, 2009, Witte de With, Rotterdam , Solo Project ar ARCOMadrid, Spain, Media City Seoul, Korea, 2010, Miki Kratsman: All About Us at Ursula Blickle Foundation, Germany 2011; Solo exhibition at MUSAC, Leon, Spain, and La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona, January 2012, curated by Octavio Zaya; Solo project, Photobooth, ArteBA artfair, Buenos Aires, 2014. Curator: Octavio Zaya.
1959 Born in Argentina
1971 Immigrates to Israel
1995-2009 Photographer, Haaretz daily newspaper, Ha’ir Tel Aviv weekend paper (Schoken network),
collaborates with international journalists
Solo Exhibitions
2018 People I met, USF Contemporary Art Museum Tampa, Florida, Curator: Christian Viveros-Fauné
2017 People I met, Museum of Contemporary Art Chile Santiago, Chile, Curator: Christian Viveros-Fauné
2015 Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography, Peabody Museum, Harvard University
2014 Solo project, Photobooth, ArteBA artfair, Buenos Aires. Curator: Octavio Zaya
2012 AS IT IS. On Miki Kratsman’s Photography, La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona, Curator: Octavio Zaya
2012 AS IT IS. On Miki Kratsman’s Photography, MUSAC Museum for Contemporary Art, Leon, Spain,Curator: Octavio Zaya
2011 All About Us, Ursula Blickle Foundation, Germany
2010 Targeted Killing, Media City Seoul 201, Korea
2010 Deleitosa, Solo project at ARCOMadrid, Madrid
2009 Works, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
2007 Secured Area, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
2003 The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2002 Nelly Aman Gallery, Tel Aviv
2001 Nelly Aman Gallery, Tel Aviv
1996 Gallery of Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
1994 Bugrashov Gallery, Tel Aviv
Group Exhibitions
2020 Black Sun, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
2019 Visual Rights, curated by Gary Bratchford, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, England
2016 Untitled, Group Exhibition, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
2015 History Lessons, CAAM, Las Palmas, Spain. Curator: Octavio Zaya
2015 Miki Kratsman, Uri Gershuni, Nir Evron – Recent works, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
Basis and (Super-)Stuctures, Basis School of Arts, Herzliya. Curator: Shlomit Breuer
2014 Melting Walls: works from the Igal Ahouvi Art Collection, The Babel Trilogy, Part 3, the Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
2014 The Benevolent Tree, Umm Elfahem Art Gallery. Curator: Daniel Kahana Levinson
2014 Israel Otherwise, Ulg Opéra Complex, Liège, Belgium. Vidéographies association. Curator: Chen Tamir
2014 Ground Surface, the Neri Bloomfield School of Design and Education, Wizo Haifa. Curator: Micha Krishner
2013 Centrifuge, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York. Curator: Chen Tamir
2013 The Compromised Land: Recent Photography and Video from Israel, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York. Co-curator:Helaine Posner. Guest curator: Lilly Wei
2013 Time After Time, Chelouche Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2103 Host & Guest, Tel-Aviv Musem of Art, Curators: Henry Madoff, Hou Hanru
2013 Recoco, MoBy, Bat-Yam, Curators: Siri Peyer, Joshua Simon
2013 Promised Land, Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions, Tokyo, Japan, Curator: Maayan Sheleff
2012 Image Anxiety, PhotoEspania, Madrid, Curator: Huang Du
2012 Boundaries on the Move – A Cross-Cultural Dialogue, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art,
Curators: Dalia Levin, Fang-Wei Chang
2012 Portraits of Cain: Representations of “Others” in Israeli Contemporary Art, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Curator: Prof. Haim Maor
2011 According to Foreign Sources, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Curator: Gilad Melzer
2011 The Lie of the Land – A Territory-Dependent Mantel Diagnosis, Diaghilev LIVE ART Botique Hotel, Curator: Tamar Tadmor
2011 Making Room: Contemporary Israeli Photography, Tel Aviv Museum, Curator: Nili Goren
2011 Photopoetics – Social Poetics through Photography and Poetry, the Social Gallery, Musrara
School for Art, Jerusalem. Curator: Eyal Ben Dov
2010 Safe Haven, Tel Aviv University Art Gallery, Israel
2010 What is the Political, Bat Yam Museum of Art
2010 Re-Location, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
2010 The Defect as Effect, Tel Aviv University Art Gallery, Israel
2010 Nachbarn, Galerie im Kornerpark, Berlin, Germany
2010 Four Photographers, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
2010 Untaken Photographs, Mala Galerija, Lubliana
2010 Power Alone, Witte de With, Rotterdam
2010 HomeLessHome, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem
2010 Works from the private collection of Arnie Druck, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa
2009 Can’t You See I’m Walking on Air?, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
2009 Hidden Traces – Dialogues of Avant-Garde, Felix-Nussbaum-Haus, Osnabruck, Germany
2009 The Song of Concrete, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
2009 Tel Aviv Time, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
2009 Home Page, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
2009 Fotografie Aus Israel, Kultur Bahnhof Eller, Dusseldorf
2009 NatureNation, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem
2009 Land Sea, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2008 Eventually We’ll Die, Young Art in Israel of the Nineties, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya
2008 Post-It Cities, CCCB Barcelona (catalogue), Barcelona
2008 Access 1, The Jewish Museum, Frankfurt
2008 Personal Landscapes: Contemporary Art from Israel, Katzen Arts Center, American University
Museum, Washington DC, Curators: Jack Rasmussen, Dalia Levin, Russell Stone
2008 Art of the state, The Jewish Museum, Amsterdam
2007 Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Santiago, Chile
2007 Dateline Israel: New Photography and Video, The Jewish Museum, New York
2007 Current Visions: Inside Israel (part 2), Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York
2007 The first Herzliya Biennial of Contemporary Art – the Rear, Herzliya
2007 Temporally, the Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon
2007 Betrifft: Israel, the Jewish Museum, Berlin
2006 Jerusalem print workshop, Jerusalem
2006 New Territories, De Hallen Brugge, Belgium
2006 Del Reves Inside – Out, MARCO, Vigo, Spain
2006 Sao Paulo Biennial
2006 Israele Arte E Vita, Palazzo Reale, Milano (Catalogue)
2006 Wanderland Israel – Palestine, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany
2006 Storytellers. Untitled, University of Haifa, The Art Gallery, Haifa
2006 Equal and Less Equal, Museum On The Seam, Jerusalem
2005 Martin Grupius Bau Museum, Berlin
2004 Everything Could Be Seen, Um El fahem Gallery, Israel
2003 Venice Art Biennale, Utopia exhibition, Arsenale
2003 Maintenant. Now. Images of Present Time, Le Mois De La Photo a Montreal
2003 Keren Kaymet: Pictures from the Blue Box 1903-2003, Riding, Tel Aviv
2002 Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
2001 Maison Robert Doisneau, Paris
2000 Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena
2000 Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya
2000 Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
1998 Hebrew Work: The Disregarded Gaze in the Canon of Israelí Art, Mishkan Le’Omanut, Museum of Art, Ein Harod
1997 Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
1997 The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1997 Capturing Reality: 19 Israeli and Palestinian Photographers, Tennessee State Museum, Tennssee
1996 Gallery of Camera Obscura School of Photography, Tel Aviv
1996 Map of a Memory: Spectrum of Commemoration In Memory of Yitzhak Rabin, Eretz-Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
1994 Tel Aviv- A Temporary Documentation, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
1994 Bograshov Gallery, Tel Aviv
1989 School for Stage Arts, Jerusalem
1988 Rap Gallery, Tel Aviv
Video
24 minutes Kela-Alon, New Immigramts in Ramat Hagolan, “Ovda” (fact), Channel 2, director: Ari Fullman
45 minutes Momo the Street Warrior, “Every Person”, Channel 8, director: Levi Zini
70 minutes Angel of History, exhibition catalogue, Herzliya Museum of Art, director: Dr. Ariella Azoulay
05 minutes Schindler 13 passengers, photography, direction, and editing: Miki Kratsman
13 minutes 21:40, photography, direction, and editing: Boaz Arad and Miki Kratsman
40 minutes Untitled, photography, direction, and editing: Boaz Arad and Miki Kratsman
Prizes
2016 ICP list of 50 most “concerned photographers” in the world
2012 The Mendel and Eva Pundik Prize for Israeli Art
2011 Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography at Harvard University
EMET Prize for Science, Art and Culture – The EMET Prize is an annual prize given for excellence in academic and professional achievements
2001 Minister of Education and Culture Prize
British Multi Exposure Grant
1997 The Enrique Calvin Israel Museum Prize for Photography
Publications
2016 The Resolution of the Suspect. Kratsman, Miki. Text by Ariella Azoulay, Santa Fe: Radius Books publish house.
2012 Tal Qual: A l’entorn de la fotografia de Miki Kratsman (As it is : on Miki Kratsman’s photography). Kratsman, Miki. Exhibition Catalogue. Artis – contemporary Israeli art fund.
2011 All About Us. Kratsman, Miki. Edited by Nicolaus Schafhausen for Ursula Blicke
2011 Stiftung. Exhibition catalogue. Berlin: Stenrber Press.
Teaching
2014-now Senior Lecturer, Basis (Base) School of Arts and Culture, herzliya
Senior Lecturer at photography department, Bezalel academy of art & design, Jerusalem
2006-2014 Head of photography department, Bezalel academy of art & design, Jerusalem
2002-2006 Department of Art, Haifa University
1998-2006 School for Geographic Photography, Tel Aviv
1998-2004 Kibbutz Artists Workshop, Havatzelet
1997-1999 Camera Obscura, College of Photography, Tel Aviv
Chelouche Gallery is one of the most prominent and leading galleries in Israel. Located in Tel Aviv, Chelouche Gallery maintains its primacy by presenting a large variety of works, ranging from video art to sculpture, painting, installation and photography. Since its inception, the gallery has been promoting an international and local exhibition program, in collaboration with curators and artists from Israel and around the world, placing itself one step ahead in the Israeli contemporary art scene.
Monday-Thursday: 11:00-18:00
Friday: 11:00-14:00
Saturday: 11:00-14:00