Talia Keinan
Talia Keinan is a multidisciplinary artist whose work combines painting, drawing, sculpture, video, and sound. The boundaries between these mediums blur in her exhibitions, creating autonomous spaces with a unique rhythm and a distinct sense of time and light.
Drawing is the foundation of her work, a daily practice that attracts images and experiences from everyday life and her immediate surroundings, serving as the basis for her exploration of imagery and observation. In her video works, Keinan uses light as a tangible material, representing a constantly changing present. She investigates the interaction of light with different materials. Movement, rhythm, presence, appearance, and disappearance are essential elements in her imagery. The dreamlike and the everyday, movement and stillness coexist, complementing and echoing each other in a musical experience.
Keinan graduated with honors from the Fine Arts Department at Bezalel Academy in 2003 and has received several awards, including the Givon Prize, the Wolf Foundation’s Anselm Kiefer Prize, the Gottesdiener Prize, and the Prize for Encouragement of Creativity. She has exhibited numerous solo shows both in Israel and internationally. Select solo exhibitions include Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2014), Museum Goch in Germany (2011), Art Forum Berlin (2007), Art Basel Switzerland (2007), the Tel Aviv Artists’ Studios (2014), Wilfrid Israel Museum (2022), NordArt in Germany (2024), and Noga Gallery (2004, 2010, 2016, 2020).
Her works have been featured in many group exhibitions worldwide, including the Center for Digital Art Holon (2024), Eretz Israel Museum (2024), Israel Museum (2018, 2024), Musrara Mix Festival (2023), Haifa Museum of Art (2020, 2022), Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2024), Dortmund Museum in Germany (2022), ZUMU (2021), the Center for Contemporary Art Arad (2021), Beit Shalom Ash Bat Yam (2021), Alfred University Gallery in New York (2021), Barbur Gallery in Jerusalem (2021), the Charlotte Bergman House at the Israel Museum (2020), Petach Tikva Museum of Art (2020), Museum Goch Germany (2019), the Biennale for Drawing at the Jerusalem Print Workshop (2019), and the Derry Museum in Ireland (2017).
Since 2006, Talia Keinan has been teaching at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.
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Untitled (Black Stone on Light Table)
2022Light projection and charcoal drawing on the wall, 120×200 cm
Read moreDiptych - Rocks Beneath Life, Day and Night
2020Charcoal and dry pastel on paper, 70×100 cm
Read moreLast Watch (The Black Mountain)
2010-2015Black acrylic and video projection on the wall, dimensions vary
Read morePishpesh Haesh (firefly)
2016A pulsating environment comprising video works, paintings, and drawings, simulating an abandoned domestic space. The projections and sounds shift the lighting and composition.
Read moreWeight Testing
2020, 2024Collage of black paper, two real stones, and a light stone with video projection, 250×190 cm
Read moreUntitled (Turntable, Black Water)
2010Sculpture including wood, metal, black water, branch, white feathers, and motor, with a rotating effect that creates water currents
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