Avner Pinchover (b. 1980) works mainly in video and performance, graduated from the postgraduate program at HaMidrasha (2018) and has a BArch degree with honors from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology (2012). In his works, Pinchover confronts his body with architectural environments, extreme conditions, and the viewer. In his actions, matter is loaded with energy; when it hits, there is a collision, penetration, or blast. The results are irreversible.

Layers that have been covered are exposed, and vice versa. Potential that was latent in the material or the movement is being realized. He uses acts of violence and destruction as expressive means – aesthetic, poetic, and political.

Pinchover has received grants from Mif’al HaPais (2019, 2022); the Ministry of Culture (2019, 2021); the Rappaport Foundation; the Ostrovsky Family Fund; and the Rabinovich Foundation. He will be a resident at Artport in 2022–2023, and took part in residencies at the Arad Center for Contemporary Art; Seminar Hakibbutzim College; Maamuta Art & Research Center; Barbur Gallery; and Druckwerk Basel.

He has exhibited at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Ramat Gan Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow; Moderna Museet Malmö; Basler Papiermühle Museum; Trinity Laban Conservatoire; Janco-Dada Museum; The 7th Biennale for Drawing in Israel; Mamuta; Jerusalem Artists’ Studios; Givon Art Forum; Ehad Haam 9 Gallery; Givon Art Gallery; Barbur Gallery; Alfred Gallery; Binyamin Gallery; Arthura; and HaMekarer; among others. His videos have screened in numerous worldwide festivals and won five special mentions. His works are in the collection of the Tel Aviv Museum, the Haaretz Collection, the Angel Collection, and private collections.

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