Biography
ARIANE LITTMAN
Born in Switzerland, works in Jerusalem
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2004 |
M.A in Art and Aesthetics from the Faculty of Faculty of Humanities, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. |
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| 1998 | M.F.A in Fine Arts, the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem | |
| 1991 | B.F.A Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honors, the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem | |
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1986 |
B.A from the Faculty of Social Sciences in International Relations and History of Muslim Countries, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem | |
| Professional Activity | ||
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1998- |
Lecturer at The DAN department of Creative Human Design, Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem | |
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2006-2008 |
Freelance photojournalist for the Tages-Anzeiger, Switzerland | |
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2003-2006 |
Lecturer at the College of Management Academic Studies, Department of Behavioral Sciences, Rishon Lezion Campus | |
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2002-2004 |
Tutor at Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Ramat Gan | |
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1999-2001 |
Tutor at the Youth Department of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem | |
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1991-1994 |
Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem | |
| Grants & Residences: | ||
| 2012 | Artis Foundation Grant Recipient | |
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Lectures & Projects 2018 |
Seminar on Political art, Motorenhalle, Dresden, Germany |
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2015
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Lecture at the Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden N.J.
Lecture at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, Delaware Visiting Artist at Towson University, Towson Maryland |
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| 2012 | Lecture at the ‘Women and Creativity course”, Rutgers University, NJ
Lecture at the Knowledge and Power Plenary talk, the Voorhees Chapel Lebowitz, Rutgers University, NJ The Lebowitz Public Lecture as the Lebowitz Visiting Artist in Residence at the Women Artists Series Galleries, Douglass Library, Rutgers, NJ Cartography & Narratives, workshop in Zurich organized by the Commission on Art and Cartography of the International Cartographic Association (ICA) in collaboration with ETH Zurich, Institute of Cartography and Geo information and Concordia University (Montreal) |
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| 2011 | Conference of the Geographical Association # 52, The Tel Aviv University, Department of Geography, Tel Aviv | |
| Singulières Frontières, Cycle de conférences proposé par F. Girault, J-F Staszak, J. Michelet. Université de Genève, Faculté des Sciences Economiques et Sociales, Départment de géographie et environnement, Genève | ||
| Guest of honour at Mobile Borders International Conference (Border Regions in Transition), co-hosted by the Geography Department of the University of Geneva and the Alpine Geography Institute, University Joseph-Fourier-Grenoble
https://sites.google.com/a/iepg.fr/xith-brit-conference/home |
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| SoloShows | ||
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2023 2022 2021 2021 2015 2012 |
Mother Land, Agripas 12 Gallery, Jerusalem
Mapping the Wound, Healing Performance in the Landscape, Yossi Nahmias Photography Gallery, Department of Photographic Communication Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem Wounded Land, Art Cube Gallery, Jerusalem Eretz Havusha, Performance at the Art Cube Gallery, The Artists’ Studio, Jerusalem Healing, the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, Delaware The Wounded Land Map Project: A Borderline Case (2004-2012), the Women Artists Series Galleries, Douglass Library, Rutgers, NJ |
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2010 2008 |
Wounded Land 2009-2010, the Artists’ House, (Special Project), Tel Aviv
Smoking Utopia # 2, video Installation, Artist’s Residence, Herzliya(Collaborative Project with Reuven Zahavi) |
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2007 2002
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BorderLand, Mapping and Walking Jerusalem’s Borderline, Red Lounge in the Willy Brandt Center, Jerusalem
The Mobile Forest in LandEscapes: Mysteries of the (holy) Land, A Multi-Site project at The JCCs Gershman Y, Drexel University Gallery, and Moore College of Art Gallery, Philadelphia Hidden Correspondences # 2, The Artists House, Jerusalem |
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2001 |
Hidden Correspondences, The Gallery, the Academic College of Education, Oranim | |
| Correspondence, The Gallery, Kibbutz Be’eri | ||
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2000 |
White Land, The Artists House, Jerusalem
Core, Noga Art Gallery, Tel Aviv |
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1997 |
A Voyage into the Sublime, Herzliya Museum of Art | |
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1995 |
Virgin of Israel and Her Daughters, The Artists House, Jerusalem | |
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1992 |
Nature Morte, Bograshov Gallery, Tel-Aviv | |
| Group Shows | ||
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2016
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Who by Fire, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin
Spatial Action, Agripas 12 Gallery & Marie Gallery, Jerusalem Scar, The Zaritsky Artists’ House, Tel Aviv In what apparel may a woman go out, The Jerusalem Biennale The Lonka Project, Safra Square, Jerusalem Visions of Place: Complex Geographies in Contemporary Israeli Art, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA Body Marks, The Zaritsky Artists’ House, Tel Aviv Fisura, International Festival of Experimental Film & Video, Mexico City Girona Film Festival, Girona, Spain Non-Museum for Contemporary Art, Dresden, Germany Heara 13: Something is Rotten in the State of Denmark (or a Threepenny Platform) Bodyscapes, The Israel Museum The Lonka Project, Yad Mordechai Museum, Israel; UN Headquarters NYC Women Make History, The Haifa Art Museum, Haifa Her Dress, Her Symbol: Antea Revisited, Gallery Agripas 12 & Marie Gallery, Jerusalem Medicalization, Azrieli Gallery, Hadassah Academic College Visions of Place: Complex Geographies in Contemporary Israeli Art, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA; ; Lowe Art Museum, Miami, FL; Plattsburgh State Art Museum Plattsburgh, NY
R_E_Volution 1918/2018, Motorhalle Dresden, Germany Glorious Valley, Changes in Emek Yizra’el, Beit Hankin, Kfar Yehoshua Shop It! Sacred Goods, The Haifa Art Museum, Haifa The Map, Reading Between the Lines, The Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
Women Wage Peace, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Cover & Discover, Beit Ot Mamoutsar Gallery, Jerusalem
Signs for Sale, N&N Aman Gallery, Tel Aviv All That Remains, The Zaritsky Artists’ House, Tel Aviv Visions of Place: Complex Geographies in Contemporary Israeli Art, Center for the Arts Gallery, Towson University, Towson Maryland |
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| 2015 | Beuys, Beuys, Beuys, a multi-site project at the Artist House Tel Aviv, Beit Binyamini – Ceramic Center, Gallery Contemporary by Golconda, Gallery Meshona, Gallery Agripas and the Training Gallery at Sapir College
Visions of Place: Complex Geographies in Contemporary Israeli Art, Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden N.J. |
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2014
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Marelle, Jardin Botanique du Muséum, La Rochelle, France
Heara 12 – Historical Comment, The Hansen Hospital, Jerusalem No Man’s Land, Artist’s House, Jerusalem Encounters at the Edge of the Forest, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, Chicago Searching for the Concealed, P8 Gallery, Tel Aviv |
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2013 |
MaPnificent, Artists use Maps, The Bronx River Art Center, New York
Convergence: Narrating Place, Design Research institute, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia MAPnificent, Artists Use Maps, AIGA Philadelphia SPACE, Philadelphia |
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2012
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Blessed are the Artists: Religion, Faith and Contemporary art, the Visceglia Gallery, Caldwell College, NJ
The Fertile Crescent: Gender, Art and Society, Mason Gross Galleries, Rutgers University, NJ Le Collectif UPJ, Une image, une rencontre, Galerie Fotografika, Gland, Switzerland VIP14, Ticho House, the Israel Museum, special video project for Between Green and Red, Jerusalem Taste of Honey, The Pioneer Settlement Museum in Emek Yizrael, Kibbutz Yif’at Close Up Vallarta, the 2nd International Festival of Video Creation, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico |
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2011
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Silent Memories, Project no. 132, Office in Tel Aviv Gallery
Border Regions in Transition XI: Mobile Borders, performance and lecture at the conference co-hosted by the geography Department, University of Geneva and the Alpine Geography Institute, University Joseph Fourier-Grenoble Evergreen, Beit Avi Hai, Jerusalem |
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2010
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Muses in the Valley, The Pioneer Settlement Museum in Emek Yizrael, Kibbutz Yif’at
Act of State, Centre de la Photographie, Geneve, Switzerland |
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2009
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Refuge City, 50 Photographers of Master Class photograph the backyard of Tel Aviv, Jaffa Port
Ahuzim, Between Poetics & Politics, within the framework of Manofim– Opening of the Art Season, September, 2009, The Yellow Submarine, Jerusalem Body and Soul, Artists of the Artists’ Studio, Dwek Gallery, Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Jerusalem The Age of a Different Re-Action, galerie davide gallo, Berlin |
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2008
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Jerusalem, Surface Fractures, The Artists House, Jerusalem
Lift-Off, Jerusalem Art Season Opening, Spotlight on Contemporary Israeli Art at the Jerusalem Artists Studios Border Walls, Boltax Gallery, Shelter Island, New York |
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2008
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Nocturnal Stillness, (Collaborative Project with Reuven Zahavi), The New Gallery & Artists’ Studios, Teddy’s Stadium, Jerusalem
Common Territory, a video night with Reuven Zahavi at Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem |
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2007
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The Window Project, in collaboration with the Artists House, Jerusalem
Desert Generation, 40 years of Occupation 1967-2007, Meneer de Wit Gallery, Amsterdam 20th Instants Video Festival, Munich, Germany Heara 11- The Last Comment, Multi-Site Interdisciplinary Art Event, Jerusalem Visual Israeliness, The Dorothy de Rothschild University Campus, Raanana Desert Generation, 40 years of Occupation 1967-2007 Israeli and Palestinian Artists against the Occupation, the Artists House, Jerusalem Act of State, Photographic History of 40 Years of Occupation, the Gallery of Minshar, School of Art, Tel Aviv Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey, The Jewish Museum, New York Captured Moments, The Israel Knesset, Jerusalem and Tiltan The School of Design and Multimedia Studies, Haifa |
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2006
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Captured Moments, the Edge art Centre, Nahariya, New Art Gallery, Kyriat Tivon, The Israel Knesset, Jerusalem
Offering Reconciliation, The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan Downtown Jerusalem, A Multi-Site project at The Yellow Submarine, the Artists Studios and Barbur, Jerusalem Disengagement, The Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Collaborative project with Reuven Zahavi) A Place, Three Women, Vitrina, the Gallery of the School of Design, Holon Institute of Technology Heara 10 – Comments on the Israeli Acropolis, Science Museum, Jerusalem |
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2005
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“…and turn into a single scream”- women and human rights during armed conflicts, Antea Gallery, Jerusalem
Sugia Event (Heara 9) Sergey Courtyard, Jerusalem |
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2004
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Heara 8 – Comments on Hospitals & Schools, Contemporary Art Event, The International Anglican School, Jerusalem
Jerusalem – Sacred Walls, Museum Bar David, Kibbutz Bar Am Efshar, A bi-national project by Israeli and Palestinian Women artists, Hazira, Jerusalem One Pink Rose, Organic Art in a Digital Era, Prison Six, Atleet |
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2003
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Migrashim Harusim, Art Happening, Sergey’s Courtyard, Jerusalem
Inside Out, Artists Studios, Talpiot, Jerusalem Religion Art and War, Salon des Arts, London Heara 6 – on the Border (of) the Comment, The Citadel of David, Jerusalem Scar, The New Gallery, Artists’ Studios, Teddy’s Stadium, Jerusalem |
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2002
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The Return to Zion: Beyond Place and Principle, Artime, Tel-Aviv
The Boundaries of Sculpture, Israeli Sculpture Between Art, Science and Technology, The Open Museum in Tefen and Omer and the Gallery at Ben Gurion University of the Negev Imagine, 300 Artists for Co-Existence, Um-El Fahem, Plonit Gallery, and Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv |
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2001
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Liminal, Museum of Art, Ein Harod
The Perfect Couple, Noga Art Gallery, Tel Aviv Dialog, The Israel Knesset, Jerusalem Love at First Sight, the Vera, Silvia, and Arturo Schwarz Collection of Israeli Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem |
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1999
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Art Focus 99, The Spirit of the Time and the Spirit of the Place, Teddy’s Stadium, Jerusalem
Wasteland, The New Gallery, Artists’ Studios, Teddy’s Stadium, Jerusalem Six Set up a Table, The House in Mousrara, Jerusalem |
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1998
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In the Name of the Land, In the Name of the Lord, art and realities in Jerusalem, The Artists House, Jerusalem
Long Memory – Short Memory, William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, Atlanta, Georgia Twelve Artists from Bezalel: Graduates of the Bezalel Program for Young Artists, Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design Jerusalem After Rabin; New Art from Israel, The Jewish Museum, New-York Between Beauty and Destiny: Three Generations of Israeli Art, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Ohio Desert Cliche: Israel Now – Local Images, NEXUS Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia, Yerba Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California Young Israeli Art, Ministry of Economic Affairs of North Rhine-Westfalia, Duesseldorf, Germany To the East, Orientalism in the Arts in Israel, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem A Point of View, The Tel Aviv Museum of Art |
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1997
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Home, Gallery Anadiel, The Old City, Jerusalem
Desert Cliche: Israel Now – Local Images, The Bass Museum, Miami Beach, Grey Art Gallery & Study Center of New York University, NYC Out of Senses, Muhka, Antwerpen, Belgium O Mama – The representation of motherhood in Israeli Contemporary Art, The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan |
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1996
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Woman Time, The Artists House, Haifa
Station Transformation, Project No. 3, the New Central Bus Station, Tel Aviv Desert Cliche: Israel Now – Local Images, Arad Museum & Museum of Art, Ein Harod Long Memory – Short Memory, City Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina Marks, Artists work throughout Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem |
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1995
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New Works, Noga Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
Sculpture, Installation 95, Israel Festival, Jerusalem |
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1994
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Meta-Sex 94, Bat Yam MuseumBograshov the Street – Export Surplus, Bograshov Gallery Tel Aviv
Tel Hai 94, Upper Galilee 90-70-90, The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art Meta-Sex 94, The Mishkan Le’Omanut, Ein Harod From the Collection, Israel Museum, Jerusalem Bograshov 3, the Suitcase, Bograshov Gallery, Tel Aviv |
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1993
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Keren Sharett Grant Winners, The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
Third Person, Bograshov Gallery, Tel Aviv The Range of Realism, The Tel Aviv Museum of Art Who is signed on the duck?, Bograshov Gallery , Tel Aviv |
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1991
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Bezalel, Graduates Exhibition, Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem | |
| Prizes | ||
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1992 |
Awarded the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Grant for Young Artist | |
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1991 |
Awarded the Bezalel Academy Marie Fisher Memorial Prize for the Advancement of Young Artist | |
| Public Collections: | ||
| Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Herzliya Museum of Art, The Jewish Museum, New-York | ||
| Private Collections: | ||
| Jerome Stern, New-York; Gil Brandeis, Tel Aviv; Dr. Janne Gallen-Kallela-Siren, Director of The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y. | ||