Noa Gur was born in Holon in 1980 and currently divides her time between Germany and her native Tel Aviv. Gur graduated with a BFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, and later studied at the Academy for Media Arts, Cologne.

Gur’s work explores the entanglement of bodily presence and gaze. Much of her recent body of work speaks of subverted perceptions, in particular self-perception, as informed by the act of navigating between seeing and being seen. Gur is interested in the correlation between optics, acknowledgement, and legitimacy, which she investigates by reflecting on the conditions of visibility: Why and how do we see what we see? These conditions are questioned or reshaped in her work.

Many of Gur’s pieces engage with the exhibition space as an arena of the visible –  a channel connecting the authority and its subject. She is interested in the bodily experience of the exhibition space in which both objects and visitors are observed.

As a foreigner living in Germany, and an Israeli of Middle Eastern descent, Gur is also concerned with the relationship between representation, presence, and cultural and political alienation.

Gur has exhibited internationally in museums and galleries such as the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2017); Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (2017, 2016, 2011); MAN Museo d’Arte, Nuoro, Italy (2014); Museum Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf (2009); Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv (2015, 2013, 2010); JosédelaFuente Gallery, Santander, Spain (2017); Gallery Campagne Premiere, Berlin (2014, 2013, 2012, 2011); and Galeria Sabot, Cluj, Romania (2015). In 2013 she won the art grant Kunstfonds Bonn, Germany. She spent the following year as a resident at Artport Tel Aviv, and later participated in residency programs at Atelier Galata, Istanbul; RESÒ a.titolo, Turin, Italy; and La Box ENSA, Bourges, France. She has received support from the Artis Foundation, Ostrovsky Foundation, Israel National Lottery Arts Council and more. Her work was acquired by Sammlung Goetz, Munich, and Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, among others.