Dvir Gallery
  

 

Artist's website : www.karenrusso.co.uk

1974

Born in Israel
Resides and works in London

 


Education

1995-98

Graduated with distinction B.A studies in Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem

 


Selected Solo Exhibitions

2006

One in the other, London
Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv

2005

"Economy of Excess", VTO London
Delfina, London

2001

"Joint 4"- "A Doll's House", Israel Museum, Jerusalem

2000

"Spontaneous Human Combustion", Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel

 


Selected Group Exhibitions

2007

"Off Screen", Montevideo- Netherlands Institute for Media Art, Amsterdam
"An Archaeology", Project 176, works from the Zabludowicz collection, London
"Videospread", Paris Subway Transit Ð RATP, curator: Celine Jouenne
"Surrealist Ball", Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Curator: Rosie Cooper

2006

"Disruptions", Petach-Tikva Museum, Israel
"Wanderlans", Krefeld Museum, Germany
"Black Moon Island", One In the Other, London
"Everything Must Go", VTO, London
"Right-On-Write-Off", The Great Unsigned at the Chapman Fine Arts, London
"In Between Places", Vivian Horan Gallery, New-York, curator: Kari Conte

2005

"Dreams and Trauma", Haus Der Kulturen Die Welt, Berlin
"Video London", Espai Ubú, Barcelona, curators: Keith Patrick and Jennifer Thatcher
"Take It Further!", Andrew Mummery, London, curator: Gyonata Bonvicini
"Why don't You Say It?", Hertzliya Museum, Israel, curator: Michal Heiman
"Future Landscapes", Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery, Shrewsbury

2004

"Etude pour un Premier Amour", Dvir Gallery, Tel-Aviv
Delfina, London, curator: Walter John Cassidy
"Frigid", Tal Esther Gallery, Tel Aviv
O'hana collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art

2003

The 20th Film Festival, Jerusalem
Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon. Curator: Katharina Campino
"Video Invitational", FA Projects, London. Curator: J.J. Charlesworth
"Video Zones", Herzliya Museum, Israel. Curator: Dalia Levin
"Video Works", Dvir Gallery, Tel-Aviv
"Parallel Worlds", K&S gallery, Berlin, Curator: Miriam Bers

2002

"The 35th Year", Plonit Gallery, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel-Aviv
"Where are the Children", Givon Gallery, Tel-Aviv
"Special for Studio", Camera Obscura Gallery, Tel-Aviv
"Drawings" Tel-Aviv Artist's Studios", Tel-Aviv
"Narrative and Other Tales", Haifa Museum of Art

2001

"Video Works", Bezalel Academy Gallery, Tel-Aviv

2000

"Erection", Pe'er gallery, Tel-Aviv

1999

"Regarding Rafi", Nufar Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel

1998

"Les Fous du Roi", Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Nimes, Nimes, France
Not to be looked At, Le Miroir, Marseille, France [curator: Sarit Shapira]

 


Publications- Books

 

"Encyclopedia Thermica", Prose, theory & images, Omanut La'am Press, 324 p, 2004
"Hamidrasha 4" - Artist's texts, page 59-90, Babel Publishing, 2001

 


Awards

2007

Experimental competition award, Jerusalem Film Festival

2006

Delfina Bursary award

2005

America Israel Cultural Foundation

2004

Delfina Studios, London

2002

Givon prize (Tel-Aviv Museum of modern Art)
Bertelsmann Foundation

2000

Ministry of Science Culture & Sport award for a young artist
America Israel Cultural Foundation

1988

Elhanani Award (First excellence prize for a "Bezalel" graduate)

 


Bibliography

 

JJ Charlesworth, Future Greats, Art Review, issue 09, March 2007, p' 94
Martin Herbert, Art Review, issue 09, March 2007, p' 138
Rachel Somerstein, "In Between Places", "ARTnews", October 2006, p' 184
"Ghosts, Magic, Enchantment", David Lillington, Metropolis M, NL/ENG, No 2, April-May, 2006, p' 45-51
Michele Robecchi, "Contemporary" magazine, February 2006
Martin Herbert, "Delfina"- show review, Time Out London, 21-28 September, 2005
JJ Charlesworth, "Untitled", Flash Art Magazine, February 2005 [pdf]
Juan S. Froutchmann, "De un pais en llamas", "La Luna" newspaper, 4.10.2002
Irit Tamari, "Book Review", Time Out Tel-Aviv, p' 80, 14.10.04 [pdf]
Shaul Seter, "Russo", Studio magazine 156, p' 20-21
Hannah Hertzig, "All of Nature is a Singular Force", Haaretz newspaper, 22.12.04
Yoram Meltzer, "A Private, Interesting and Unpredictable World", Maariv newspaper, 15.10.04[pdf]
Rona Segal, "Rotten Priest", Profile & Interview, Hair Newspaper, p'-52-54, 24.6.04 [pdf]
Efrat Shalem, "And the Devil was an Angel", Studio Art Magazine, no' 114, Cover, interview & a Special work [pdf]
Sarit Shapira, "Dolls House"- exhibition catalogue, the Israel Museum Publishing, 2001
Ilana Tenenbaum, "Narrative and Other Tales", Haifa Museum of Art Publications, 2002
Elad Keinan, "Voodoo, Will-o'-the-Wisps and an Alchemical Wedding", 42 degrees Magazine, issue no' 6, 2000 [pdf]
Shimon Adaf, "Caution, Landslide Ahead (This is a Metaphor)", "Maariv" newspaper, Nov' 1999 [pdf]

 

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