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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,... ...
November 7, 2019
Nir Alon | ongoing Solo show and more
Nir Alon – November December 2019 One Person Exhibition “An Incomplete View of My Moral Sentiments” Kleine Gesellschaft für Kunst, Hamburg Opening December 14th. Exhibition Time 7. – 31. Dec. 2019 Two-Person Exhibition “Posture Training“ Installation by Nir Alon and Naho Kawabe FLAG studio, Osaka, Japan Opening October 9th. Exhibition time: 9. – 16. Nov.... ...
April 4, 2019
Nir Alon | New installation at UBT Kosovo art collection
Nir Alon What a wonderful place, 2019 Chairs and chair frames, ropes light bulbs, Room size Installation Installed at the lobby of the Faculty of Integrated Design UBT, University of Business and Technology, Pristina, Kosovo UBT Art Collection ...
February 6, 2018
The Ground On Which I Stand – Online Catalog
An exhibition in four parts – Tel Aviv, Pristina, London, Hamburg The Ground on Which I Stand is an exhibition investigating the impossibility of separating art and life and how the former one can help shaping our vision of society. Artists Nir Alon (b. 1964) is an Israeli-born, German sculptor and installation artist.... ...
April 6, 2017
Nir Alon | ELEPHANT AND CASTLE | Group exhibition | Opening: 7.4.17 | Hamburg
Nir Alon is participaing in the group exhibition Elepant and Castle Opening:7.4.17 The artist gallery, 2025 e.V Hamburg Nir Alon, Some steps before you join us, 2017,Installation, mixed media 430x320x45 cm ...
September 10, 2016
Nir Alon | An installation in St. Katharinen Church, Hamburg, Germany| Opening: 11.09.16
“The principle of population”, 2016 An installation in St. Katharinen Church in Hamburg, Germany. A joined installation by the artist: Nir Alon (installation), Annika Unterburg (light installation), Stefan Troschka and Chiara Kramer (sound installation). The installation is part of the project “Katharinenweg 2016“ in Hamburg. 11.09.16 – 02.10.16 Nir Alon, The principle of population, 2016, installation view ...
November 5, 2015
Nir Alon, A Moving Identity, 20.11.15, Cambridge Science Park
Nir Alon’s installation at the exhibition ‘A Moving Idea’, November 20th. A special exhibiton in support of Syrian refugees Cambridge Science Park. Nir Alon,2015, Ink and Acrylic paint on paper, 42×30 cm Nir Alon, 2015, This is for life ( the way there and back), Room size installation Nir Alon, 2015, This is for life... ...
June 4, 2015
Nir Alon at the Agency Gallery, London
Nir Alon and Gazmend Ejupi collaborative exhibition “The Ground on Which I Stand” at the Agency Gallery, London. Curator: Michele Robecchi Opening: 12.06.2015, 6-9pm ‘The Ground on Which Stand’ is based on a speech given by the great, late American playwright August Wilson (1945-‐2005) on the occasion of the Theatre Communications... ...
September 8, 2014
Nir Alon at nachtspeicer23 e.V, Hamburg
Nir Alon at the exhibition “Notes of This Side” at nachtspeicer23 e.V, Hamburg. Opening: Friday 12.09.2014, 7pm Nir Alon, Misplaced, Ignored (the perfect symmetry), 2014, installation view at nachtspeicer23 e.V, Hamburg Nir Alon, Misplaced, Ignored (the perfect symmetry), 2014, installation view at nachtspeicer23 e.V, Hamburg ...
September 11, 2012
Nir Alon On “100 Curators 100 Days”
Two of Nir Alon’s artworks have been chosen to feature at the exhibition “100 Curators 100 Days” on Saatchi Online website. On curator Andrea Linnenkohl, from the Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel, collection page. Nir Alon, ‘We Just Make a Trip’, 2006, installation view And on curator Manuela Annibali, from the Art Museum, Complesso Monumentale, Rome, collection page. Nir... ...
September 22, 2011
Nir Alon at the exhibition ‘The Ground on Which I Stand’
Nir Alon at the exhibition ‘The Ground on Which I Stand’, Tetris Galery, Pristina A collaborative exhibition between artists Nir Alon and Gazmend Ejupi Curator: Michele Robecchi 29.09.2011-12.10.2011 Opening: Monday, September 29th, 2011 at 6 pm ‘The Ground on Which I Stand’ first opened at Chelouche Gallery in Tel Aviv last spring. Following the date... ...
May 30, 2011
Nir Alon, Guy Goldstein, Gaston Ickowicz and Tomer Sapir at The End of History, Germany
Nir Alon, Guy Goldstein, Gaston Ickowicz and Tomer Sapir at The End of History, an exhibition project with artists from Hamburg and Tel Aviv Curator: Avi Lubin Location: Gängeviertel, Gallery Speckstrasse & Kutscherhaus Speckstraße 83-85 and Valentinskamp 28 a+b, 20355 Hamburg Nir Alon, My lucky day in hell (things my mother told me), 2009 Guy Goldstein,... ...
Biography
The main theme in Alon’s works is an instantaneous and focused description of an intermediate situation: an environment whose given condition is dilapidated: It is not stable enough to exist nor viable enough to be disregarded. The materials that accommodate the works are taken from a world of a tangible substance, like a chair or an easel, but these are always there primarily to serve the work of art.
The touched-hanged furniture, the net of electric cables and burning light bulbs refers mainly to a great danger. In a moment it collapse, and the base of the common knowledge – that the artist and his audience are really speaking the same “language”, “understand” each other and belong to the same “culture” – will vanish. Alon is examining his relationships to the culture and society he lives in and puts himself as a member and a stranger at the same time.
Nir Alon, born 1964 in Israel, lives and works in Germany since 2001. Alon exhibited in the last years over 20 solo shows, and took part in many group exhibitions. His art works, drawings, objects and installations are in several collections in Europe and the USA.
Curriculum Vitae
1964 Born in Israel
Lives and works in Hamburg, Germany
Education
Graduate of the “Bezalel Academy”, Fine Arts department, Jerusalem (Post BfA)
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019 An Incomplete View of My Moral Sentiments, Kleine Gesellschaft für Kunst, Hamburg
2018 The glory and the misery of our existence (sorrow of others)« – a permanent installation to the collection of Jewish Museum in Frankfurt a.M.
2014 FlateRateArt – at Clockwork Gallery, Berlin
2014 The Magnificent Losers (but not so tragic)« – MYTORO Gallery for Contemporary Art, Harburg/Hamburg
2009 Oh, the promise, Sebastian Fath Contemporary, Mannheim
2008 The state of things, Tinderbox Contemporary Art Hamburg
2006 Etwas grosses wird geschehen (Something big is happening), Appel Gallery (curated by Brigitte Schäfer), Frankfurt
Drawings for Installation, Magnus P. Gerdsen Gallery, Hamburg
You’re speaking my language,Chelouche Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2005 A funny game (Melancholy),[K] 3, Kampnagel, Hamburg
In case of leftovers, Sebastian Fath Contemporary Gallery, Mannheim
This way or another, Kunstverein Buchholz
2004 Tell me about love, Die Kunsttreppe, Hamburg
Ostentatiously stagger (guest), Atelierhaus Bonn
The great story of my nation (a-z), Reinking collection, Hamburg
Ein Tag, ein Raum, ein Bild, Special show, Sebastian Fath Contemporary Gallery, Mannheim
Tell me about love II, Westwerk, Hamburg
An installation kit for a wanderer artist (guest), Weltbekannt, Hamburg
2003 A state of being present, An installation in a project of the Belgian curator Philippe Van Cauteren (O3), Hamburg
2002 Zeichnungen und Objekte – by, Foyer für junge Kunst«, Flensburg
Operant Conditioning (Show), Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg
2001 Zeichnungen und Objekte – by, Foyer für junge Kunst«, Hamburg
Zeichnungen und Objekte – by, Foyer für junge Kunst«, Schwerin
Installation, Schleswig-Holstein Haus, Schwerin
1997 Sample of pervert imitation, Chelouche Gallery, Tel-Aviv
1996 Correct posture, Gross Gallery, Tel-Aviv
Game of suppositions and refutations, Nachshon Gallery, Nachshon
1994 Very delicate foundations, Kidmat-Eden Gallery, Tel-Aviv
1993 Passenger without luggage, The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat-Gan
Cultural tracks-Trivial traps, The Gallery of The Fine Arts department,
Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Evocations: A Nomadic Exhibition Project | Faur Zsófi Gallery, Budapest, Hungary – Galerie Petraseiser, Attersee, Austria – ongoing
2019 Aufenthaltswahrscheinlichkeiten, The Blend Apartments & Artist in Residence, Osaka/Japan
2019 Contrary Connected, Azaro Art Spaces, Hamburg, Curator: Romullo Azaro
2018 Special X – 10 Jahre – 10 Wochen, Nacthspeicher 23, Hamburg, Germany
Nir Alon and Ben Kadishman, Happy Moments of Balance II, Chelouche Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2018 A Raid on the Inarticulate, A group show curated by Rachel Wooller at the
Gallery of St. Pancras Crypt, London
2017 ELEPHANT AND CASTLE« A group exhibition curated by Saskia Krafft and
Silke Weißbach at 2025 e.V, Hamburg
2016 Helldunkel (Chiaroscuro) A group exhibition at Kleine Gesellschaft für Kunst, Hamburg
2015 Nir Alon and Gazmend Ejupi, The Ground on Which I Stand, The Agency Gallry, London. Curator: Michele Robecchi
2015 Presente – Interchange & Commentary III« Group exhibition of Hamburger
and Chinese artists at “Artvile” Festival and Frappant e.V gallery, Hamburg
2015 »Moving Identity« Group exhibition in Cambridge, UK
2011 Dual Exhibition, Tetris Gallery, Prishtina, Kosovo
Dual Exhibition, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
2014 Notes of This Side, nachtspeicer23 e.V, Hamburg
2013 Betreff 28, Westwerk gallery, Humburg
2011 The end of History, Hamburger Gängeviertel: Gallery Speckstrasse & Kutscherhaus, Germany
10 Years 63 Exhibition, Kunstverein Buchholz Germany
2009 Calling all the stations, the National Gallery, Kosovo
Visione Del Mundo, Art Forum Würth, Capena, Italy
Fully Booked, Hotel Beethoven, Bonn, Germany
Home Page, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
Call it what you like, Reinking Collection, Art Centre Silkeborg Bad, Denmark
Fully Booked, Hotel Beethoven, the art initiative “Moving Location”, Bonn
2008 Call it what you like!, Reinking Collection, Art Centre Silkeborg Bad, Denmark
Access to Israel I+II – Israeli Contemporary Art« at The Jewish Museum, Frankfurt
2007 Machen Sie sich ein Bild! Magnus P. Gerdsen Gallery, Hamburg
Marking space, Linda Gallery, Hamburg
active constellation, The House of Art, Brno
2006 Minimal Illusion, Villa Merkel, Esslingen
Sculpture@ City Nord, Hamburg
ArtBrussels, Contemporary Art Fair, Brussels (by Chelouche Gallery for
Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv)
Weltanschauung, by Goethe Institute, Palazzo dei Normanni, Palermo
Best of…, Sebastian Fath Contemporary Mannheim
Summer Art, Magnus P. Gerdsen Gallery, Hamburg
2005 The Hamburg Art prize Nominees 2005, Kunsthaus Hamburg (by the
Ministry of Culture, Hamburg), Hamburg
Situation,Bleibtreu Gallery, Berlin
Passion des Sammelns, Rik Reinking Collection, Halle 14, Leipzig
Runde(n) Sache, Kunstverein Buchholz, Buchholz
Summer Art, Magnus P. Gerdsen Gallery, Hamburg
Summer colors, Chelouche Gallery, Tel-Aviv
New Art, Art Fair Köln 2005 (By Sebastian Fath Contemporary Mannheim)
Already taken, Reinking Collection, Köln
2004 Sommer Art, Magnus P. Gerdsen Gallery, Hamburg
Art Forum Berlin 2004 (By the Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art,
Tel-Aviv), Berlin
FreiRäume, 10 international artists, Berlin
Sehen-Erinnern-Handeln, by Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen
New Art, Art Fair Köln 2004 (By Sebastian Fath Contemporary Mannheim),
Köln
2003 Harakiri-Bonbon, Group exhibition at Kunsthaus, Hamburg
Harakiri-Bay,Group exhibition and an auction at Kunsthaus, Hamburg
2003 Art Basel (By the Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv),
Summer sale, Chelouche Gallery, Tel-Aviv
DA SEIN, Reinking Collection, Ernst Barlach Museum, Ratzeburg and Wedel
2002 Art meets Grossneumarkt, 2002, Hamburg
Bau art by Ten, group exhibition, Hamburg
Art Forum Berlin 2002 (By the Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel- Aviv)
2001 Summer Profile, Chelouche Gallery, Tel-Aviv
Art Forum Berlin 2001 –(By the Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art Tel-Aviv)
2000 Art Basel (By the Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv)
Collection, The Vera, Silvia and Arturo Schwarz Collection of Contemporary Art Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Tel-Aviv
1999 The Gallery collection, Chelouche Gallery, Tel-Aviv
Thirty Years of Collecting Israeli Art on Paper, Shimshon Crystal
collection, Artists House, Tel-Aviv.
Floating, Herzeliya Museum, Herzeliya
1999 Haifa International Installation Triennale, Haifa Museum, Haifa
1999 – 2000 About the body, The Janco Dada Museum, Ein Hod, The Arad
Museum, The Bat-Yam Museum of Art
1998 Retail price – Pyramid, Artists House, Haifa
The Gallery collection, Chelouche Gallery, Tel-Aviv
Floating, “Kunsthaus” Hamburg
Marks, Chelouche Gallery, Tel-Aviv
1997 Humanism 2020, The fourth sculpture Biennale Ein-Hod – Ein-Hod
The Gallery collection, Chelouche Gallery, Tel-Aviv
Group Exhibition, The School of Photography, Jerusalem
1996 Phenomena Festival, Jerusalem
Seven Artists in seven booths, The Eretz-Israel Museum, Tel-Aviv
From a window and a mirror to memory, The School of Photography, Jerusalem
the “Young Artist” Award of The Ministry of Education and Culture, Artists House, Tel-Aviv
1995 Volume, Kidmat-Eden Gallery, Tel-Aviv
Sculpture-Installation 95, Group Exhibition during “The Israel Festival”, Jerusalem
Inside renovations, Haifa Museum
1994 Tel-Hai 94
Disturbance in continuity,The Art Workshop, Yavne
Selected Collaborations
2019 Posture Training, Nir Alon and Naho Kawabe, FLAG studio, Osaka/Japan
2018 Happy moments of balance II – 2nd collaboration with Ben. Z. Kadishman at Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel- Aviv
2018 The ground on which I stand – a Joined exhibition with Gezmand Ejupi at Feinkunst Krüger Gallery, Hamburg. Curator: Michele Robecchi.
2016 The principle of Population – a special installation together Annika Unterburg
and Stefan Troschka in St. Katharinen Church, Hamburg
2011-2018 The ground on which I stand, Joined exhibition with Gezmand Eijopi. Curator: Michele Robecchi. Chelouche Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Tetris Gallery, Prishtina, Kosovo
2002 yh – with Rolf Bergmeier, Thomas Gehrke Gallery and Künstlerhaus-Hamburg
2000 Passage 6 – with Jaume Plensa, Chelouche Gallery, Tel-Aviv
1999 Right & Left – Minor – with Ryoram Merose, Chelouche Gallery, Tel-Aviv
1996 Proximity – with Ryoram Merose and Garry Goldstein, Artists House,
Jerusalem
1995 Happy moments of balance – with Ben. Z. Kadishman, Artists House,
Jerusalem and at The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Selected Prizes and Scholarships
2001 Foyer für junge Kunst, Hamburg, Germany
2001 Künstler zu Gast in Harburg, Hamburg, Germany
1999 Right & Left – Minor – with Ryoram Merose at Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv
1996 Proximity – with Ryoram Merose and Garry Goldstein, Artists House, Jerusalem
1995 Happy moments of balance – with Ben. Z. Kadishman at Artists House and at The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Outdoor works
2019 What a wonderful place – at the collection of UBT, Pristina, Kosovo
2007 It’s all about us- in the collection of von Lenthe family, Hamburg.
2001 Education of Art – Hamburg
Collections
The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat-Gan Collection (Israel)
The Israel Museum Collection, Jerusalem (Israel)
The Vera, Silvia and Arturo Schwartz Collection of Contemporary Art –
The Tel-Aviv Museum of Art Collection (Israel/Italy)
The Jewish Museum Collection of Art, Frankfurt a. M (Germany)
Rik Reinking collection (Germany)
Goethe Institute Collection, Palermo (Italy)
Paul Eubel Collection (Germany/Italy)
Shimshon Crystal collection (Israel)
Vereins und Westbank Art Collection (Germany)
Rene’ Schmitt collection (Germany)
Gerhardt Collection (Germany)
Bendixen Collection (Germany, USA)
UBT Art Collection, (Pristina, Kosovo)
Private collections (UK, USA, Italy, Germany, France, Israel)
Publications
1995 Volume 95 – An Artists book, including artworks of 10 different artists
1994 Volume- An Artists book, including artworks of 11 young artists
Public Catalogues
The ground on which I stand, by SPT Books and Michele Robecchi, London, 2018
10 Jahre 62 Ausstellungen, by Kunstverein Buchholz/Nordheide, Buchholz, 2011
Fully booked, by Moving Location e.V Bonn, Bonn, 2009
Call it what you like, by Reinking Collection, Art Centre Silkeborg Bad, Denmark, 2008
Access to Israel II, by Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt, Frankfurt/M, 2008
nordskulptur:licht, by Verein zur Förderung der Kunst in Neumünster, 2007
Sculpture@CityNord, by Borchardt Gallery Hamburg, 2007
Light-Glass-Transparency by Kunsthalle Osnabrück, 2007
Sculpture@CityNord by Borchardt Gallery Hamburg, 2007
Light-Glass-Transparency«, by Kunsthalle Osnabrück, 2007
Weltanschauung; by Goethe Institute, Palermo, Italy, 2006
Nir Alon – This way or another; by Kunstverein Buchholz/Nordheide, 2005
Nir Alon – Works; by WESTWERK, Hamburg, 2005 (CD catalogue)
FreiRäume; by Anja Grüschel –“ Art Salon”, Berlin, 2004
Sehen – Erinnern – Handeln; by Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen
DA SEIN; by Reinking Collection, Ernst Barlach Museum, Ratzeburg und Wedel, 2003
Passage 6; Jaume Plensa, Nir Alon; by Chelouche Gallery, Tel-Aviv, 2000
Collection, The Vera, Silvia and Arturo Schwarz Collection; by The Tel-Aviv Museum for Contemporary Art, 2000
Haifa International Installation Triennale; by Haifa Museum, Israel, 1999
Floating; by Kunsthaus Hamburg und Herzeliya Museum, 1998
Humanism 2020; by The fourth sculpture Biennale Ein-Hod, Israel, 1997
Proximity; by The Artists House, Jerusalem, 1996
The “Young Artist« Award; by The Ministry of Education and Culture, Israel, 1996
Sculpture-Installation 95; by The Ministry of Education and Culture, Israel, 1995
Passenger without luggage; by The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat-Gan, Israel,
1993
Selected Links
The Israel Museum:
www.imj.org.il/artcenter/sname2_a.asp?artist=6241&list=A
Sebastian Fath Contemporary, Mannheim:
www.fath-contemporary.de/
Chelouche Gallery, Tel-Aviv:
www.chelouchegallery.com/
Westwerk Hamburg: (here also a catalogue to download- pdf file)
www.westwerk-hamburg.de/History/2004/Nir_Alon/niralon.html
Galerie Apel, Frankfurt:
http://www.galerie-appel.de/?k=1&p=3
Philippe van Cauteren – the active curator of S.M.A.K , Gent, Belgium :
www.romapublications.org/hamburg/home.html
Under:
Ottensen, O3: www.romapublications.org/hamburg/O3a2.html
