CV and Contact
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Solo Exhibitions
2022 Stone Eating Flesh
Municipal Gallery, Jerusalem
Blessings and curses; blessings
Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
Unfinished business
Le Guern Gallery, Warsaw (with Rafal Jakubowicz)
2020 Since then, measurements have begun
MoBY: Museums of Bat Yam. Curator: Hila Cohen-Schneiderman (catalog)
2019 Lost and founds
Minus 1 Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Efrat Livny (catalog)
2018 Broken cisterns
American Jewish University, Los Angeles, CA
2015 FIAC International Contemporary Art Fair
Paris, via Dvir Gallery
2010 A to Z
Bialik House, Tel Aviv. Curator: Marie Shek
2009 Nine in the dark
Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Dvir Intrator
2007 Day’s Ending
Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Curator: Shva Salhoov (catalog)
2006 The Original Nature
Helena Rubinstein Pavilion at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Curator: Ori Dessau (catalog)
2005 Sof Exhibition
HaMidrasha gallery, Kalmania. Curator: David Ginton
Sgula
Kav 16 Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Galia Yahav
2003 New Soul
Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Dvir Intrator
2001 Eucalyptus Grove
The Jerusalem Artists house, Jerusalem. Curator: Joshua Borkovsky
Eli Petel – Installation
Artists’ studios, Tel Aviv
Selected Group Exhibitions (in Israel)
2022 Israeli Art - Material Imagination
Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Curator: Dalit Matityahu
All Theory is Gray, but the Tree of Life Springs Evergreen
Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Curator: Doron Rabina
Netherworld
Sotheby’s Tel Aviv. Curator: Yael Bergstein
Breastplate stones
MoBY: Museums of Bat Yam. Curator: Hila Cohen-Schneiderman
2021 Loving Art Making Art
Tel Aviv
Skein: New Acquisitions for the Bruce and Ruth Rappaport Israeli Art Collection
Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Curator: Dalit Matityahu
Haifa Road
Haifa Museum of Art
2020 Dissidents
Fountain at Herzl 16, Tel Aviv
2019 First Person Singular
Ashdod Art Museum. Curators: Yuval Biton and Roni Cohen (catalog)
And then The News
Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Curator: Irit Hadar
The American Friend
Aspis Gallery, Jaffa. Curator: Yael Bergstein
Congress: Chronicle in Reverse
Ventilator, Coopérative d`Ateliers, Basel, Belgium. Curator: Judith Kakon
2018 Kedem–Kodem–Kadima
CCA Tel Aviv-Yafo. Curator: Nicola Trezzi
Join or die
Tel Aviv museum of Art. Curator: Doron Rabina
Bild Macht Religion
Kunstmuseum Bochum, Germany. Curator: Hans Günter Golinski
Makeup
Labirynth Gallery, Lublin, Poland. Curators: Tal Schwartz and Drorit Gur Arie
Drarot
Herzl 16, Tel Aviv. Curator: Roni Hajaj
Erotic Salon
Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv. Curator: Jossef Krispel
2017 A Lonely Singer is the Heart
Ashdod Museum of Art. Curator: Eran Litvin (catalog)
Measef (From the Museum’s Collection)
Ashdod Museum of Art. Curator: Yuval Biton
Nothing But Longing
Void Gallery, Derry, North Ireland. Curator: Sagit Mezamer
Plave, some place, with intent
Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
2016 Reflections on Drawing
The Biennale for Drawing in Israel, The Jerusalem Artists’ House (catalog)
Alchemy of Words: Abraham Abulafia, Dada, Lettrist.
Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Curator: Batsheva Goldman-Ida (catalog)
(Dis) place
Ashdod Museum of Art. Curators: Roni Cohen-Binyamini and Yuval Biton
Alt-New
Rosenbach Contemporary, Jerusalem. Curator: Uri Rosenbach
Don’t Touch My Anxiety
Central Gallery, Tel Aviv (catalog)
2015 Walter Benjamin: Exilic Archive
Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Curators: Raphael Zagury Orly and Noam Segal
Vot Ke You Mach?
Wrocław Contemporary Museum, Wrocław, Poland. Curator: Rafał Jakubowicz (catalog)
The Hinder Sea
Ashdod Museum of Art. Curator: Roni Cohen-Binyamini and Yuval Biton
2014 Foreigners Among Us
Beit Hagefen, Haifa. Curator: Dor Guez (catalog)
Eli Petel, Michal helfman, Alexandra Zuckerman
MK Search Art, San Giovanni, Milan. Curator: Nicola Trezzi
2013 Anti-anti
The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Hadas Kedar
Host & Guest
Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Curator: Steven Madoff (catalog)
Honey I rearranged the collection
Petah Tikva Museum of Art. Curator: Ami Barak (catalog)
2012 Search Engine
CCA Tel Aviv-Yafo. Curator: Hila Cohen-Schneiderman (catalog)
Re: Visiting Rockefeller
Rockefeller Archaeological Museum, Jerusalem. Curator: Sally Haftel
2011 The Museum Presents Itself 2
Israeli Art from the Museum’s Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Curator: Ellen Ginton
Blowing on a Hairy Shoulder / Grief Hunters
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. Curator: Doron Rabina (catalog)
Jerusalem Beach
Artist Studios, Jerusalem
2010 Di Goldene Keyt
Dvir gallery, Jaffa. Curator: Dvir Intrator
Formally Speaking
Haifa Museum of Art. Curator: Ruth Direktor (catalog)
2009 Forbidden Junctions
The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon. Curator: Dor Guez (catalog)
Kosher
Jewish Museum Berlin. Curator: Michael Friedlander (catalog)
2008 Depletion
Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Curator: Aya Lurie (catalog)
Traces de sacre
Centre Pompidou. Curator: Jean de Loisy (catalog)
Art focus 5
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Curators: Bernard Blistène and Ami Barak (catalog)
Spuren von heiligen
House Der Kunst, Munich. Curator: Jean de Loisy (catalog)
Art TLV
Biennale of Art, Tel Aviv (catalog)
The Case of Michael Rohan
Har-El Printers & Publishers, Tel Aviv. Curator: Mati Harel
The Tyranny of the Transparent
Minshar Art Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Maayan Amir (catalog)
2007 Traces III – The Third Biennale for Drawing in Israel
The Jerusalem Artist House. Curator: Dalia Manor (catalog)
2015 First Love Draft
Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Dvir Intrator
Hazeret
Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Ori Dessau
Human Looking
Ashdod Museum of Art. Curators: Yona Fischer and Miri Ben-Moshe (catalog)
Blanks
CCA Tel Aviv-Yafo. Curator: Ori Dessau (catalog)
Neue hebraer
Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin. Curator: Dorit Levite Harten (catalog)
Mixed Emotions
Haifa Museum of Art. Curator: Tami Katz-Freiman (catalog)
2004 Half pension
House of Dvir Intrator, Jaffa. Curator: Dvir Intrator
Point of View
Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Curator: Ellen Ginton (catalog)
HyHyHy (will this thing be)
Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Dvir Intrator
Fallout
HaMidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Galia Yahav
How to Explain a Pictures to a Dead Hare
Rachel & Israel Pollak Gallery (Kalischer), Tel Aviv. Curator: Naomi Aviv
2003 Guess who died
Dvir gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Ori Dessau
Lod way
Kalischer, Tel Aviv. Curator: Irit Segoli
Gan Sacker
Oranim Art Institute Gallery, Oranim. Curator: David Vakshtein
From your destructions I will build
Time for Art, Tel Aviv. Curator: Gideon Ofrat (catalog)
2002 Mother Tongue
Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod. Curator: Tal Ben Zvi (catalog)
In greatest secrecy
Herzeliya Museum of Contemporary Art. Curator: Efrat Livny (catalog)
Awards and Scholarships
2020 Mifal Hapais catalog production support
Artis Grant for Exceptional work in uncertain times
2019 The Independent Creators Foundation Ministry of Culture and Sport
Mifal HaPais exhibition production support
2009 Ministry of Culture and Education young artist award
2006 Rappaport Prize for a promising artist granted by Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Mifal HaPais catalog production support
Rich foundation, Switzerland Catalog production support
2005 Dizengoff Prize granted by Tel Aviv Municipality
2004 Hadasa and Menachen Klatchkin Prize granted by America-Israel Cultural Foundation
2000 El-Hanani Prize granted by Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Fine Arts Department
Keren Sharett Scholarship granted by America-Israel Cultural Foundation
Curatorial Work
2021 Tomer Rosenthal, Midnight, The Jerusalem Artists’ House.
2015 Sagie Azulay, solo exhibition as part of the Mozes Award for art, The Jerusalem Artists’ House
2014 Fine Arts department at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design exhibition at the Mormon University Gallery in Jerusalem (co-curator)
2013 Hagit Ganini, solo exhibition as part of “Nevdeh”, The Jerusalem Artists’ house
Roni Kna’ani, solo exhibition at Spaceship, Tel Aviv
2012-19 Evert’s Wall curatorial project at the Fine Arts department at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
2011-19 Alumni exhibitions and guest exhibitions at the Fine Arts department in Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
Writings by Eliyahu Fatal
2022 Tiff - Soo - Ni on the work of Rachel Perez, published by Fountain
Light pollution (with Zohar Elmakias), Hoshech Magazine
2017 On the work of Ben Ben-Ron, edited by Michal Ben Naftali, self published
2015 "Michal Helfman – Change,” catalog contribution. Edited by Nicola Trezzi and Chen Tamir. Published by CCA Tel Aviv-Yafo
2014 Untitled: A Conversation with Masha Zusman in: Crosswind. Tel Aviv: the Yolanda and David Katz
Faculty of the Arts at Tel Aviv University, 2014. Pages 21-32.
2004-6 Lists and reviews in Studio newspaper.
2002 Journalist and music critic in Walla site.
1999-2001 Journalist and music critic in “Kol Hair” paperwork, Jerusalem.
Writings on Eliyahu Fatal
Exhibition texts and catalog contributions
2020 Since then, measurements have begun, exhibition catalog with contributions by Hila Cohen Schneiderman, Rafram Hadad, Yoni
Raz Portugali, Shaul Setter,
Zohar Elmakias, Yotam Dvir, Moshe Dekel, Nicola Trezzi, Tamar Getter, Avi Sabah, Nir Feferberg, Boaz Levin published by MoBY
– Museums of Bat Yam
2019 Lost and Founds, exhibition text by Albert Swissa, published by Schocken, Tel Aviv
2007 Depth hidden in the east, exhibition text by Shva Salhoov, published by Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2006 The Original Nature, exhibition catalog with contributions by Moti Omer and Ori Dessau, published by Tel Aviv museum of Art
Selected reviews, articles, and interviews
2022 Engaged in mysticism, Uzi tzur, Haaretz
2021 Tension at Top Israeli Art Academy Amid Palestinian Solidarity Protest, Backlash, Naama Riba,Haaretz
“Being Omnivores,” Zohar Elmakias, Tyutah Magazine.
2020 “Those who were measured and those who were not,” Ktizaa Alon and Liat Arlet, Erev Rav magazine.
Review, Avi Pitchon, Haaretz.
Interview, Naama Riba, Haaretz.
Interview, “Culture Agent”, Kan, the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation.
Podcast Interview, Lisa Peretz, Kan, the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation.
Podcast Interview, Dvarim Baolam,, Independent Podcast.
2019 To drug the kids: Eli Petel in a conversation with Karni Barzilay, between the stations, 1998-2018, 20
years to “Kav16” gallery, self-publish, 2019. Edited by Karni Barzilay
A reluctant bricolage of the sublime and the popular: Eliyahu Fatal’s “Broken Cisterns”, Ben Ratskoff,
LA review book, 2019
2018 Goldberg foundation, International smell, Erev Rav, 2018
Salhov, Shva. Essays About Art and Judaism,Resling Publishing, pages 56-68
2017 Sperber, David. "’A Love that Does Not Corrupt’: Art in the Sphere of Traditional and Religious Judaism in Israel”, in: Daniel’s Paths: a
Collection of Researches in the Judaic Studies, Presented to Rabbi Professor Daniel Sperber on the Occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday.
Edited by Adam Ferziger. Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University, 2017. Pages 639-679.
2016 Harush, Adi. In: (Dis)Place. Edited by Daphna Raz. Ashdod: Ashdod Art Museum, 2016. pages 52-59.
Alchemy of Words: Abraham Abulafia, Dada, Lettrism. Edited by Dr. Batsheva Goldman-Ida. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv museum of art, 2016. Pages
154-155.
The Return of Paper/ Reflections on Drawing. Traces VI: The Six Biennale for Drawing in Israel. The Jerusalem Artists House, Jerusalem,
2016. Pages 46-47.
Salhov, Shva. Essays About Art and Judaism. Tel Aviv: Resling Publishing, 2016. Pages 12-13, 65-78.
2015 Cohen-Binyamini, Roni. The Hinder Sea: Israeli Art and the Sea. Ashdod: Ashdod Art Museum, 2015.
Alon, Ktzia, editor. To Dwell in a Word. Tel Aviv: Gama Publishing, 2015. Page 162.
Edited by Dario Miccoli, contemporary sephardic and mizrahi literature a diaspora, 2015
2014 Foreigners Among Us. Edited and translated by Maya Shimony. Haifa: Beit HaGefen, Arab Jewish Culture Center Haifa, 2014. Page 48
Zagury-Orly, Raphael. Haunted by Justice In: Host & Guest: Dis/Place. Edited by Steven Henry Madoff. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv museum of art,
2013. Pages 48-58.
Anti-Anti. Edited by Hadas Keidar. Tel Aviv: The University Gallery, 2013. Pages 81-87.
Hadas Yossif-On, deferent economies of logic, Eerev Rav 2013
2012 Formally Speaking: And What Shall We Do With Painting in the 21st Century? Edited by Ruth Direktor. Haifa: Haifa Museum of Art,
2012. Pages 178, 224.
Yvonne Sherwood, Biblical Blaspheming, Cambridge university press 2012
Aspis, Third issue.
2011 Mandel, Iris. Jerusalem Beach. Edited by Maya Shimoni. Jerusalem: the Artists’ Studios, Art Cube Gallery, 2011. Pages 5, 7-8.
David Shperber, Fringes: Jewish Art as an Israeli Periphery. Bar-Ilan University: the Lieber Center for Jewish Art Exhibitions, 2011. pages
77-78.
2010 Vered Zaken, Oriental representation in Israeli art, Beit Berl publishing, 2010
Raviv, Yael. In: Kosher & Co. Berlin: the Jewish Museum, 2010. Page 214
Shlomit Shesek, Between the aspiration to the east and enrooting in the west, spread 57, pages 62-68
2009 Boaz Levin, Whispers and Shocks: following 9 in the dark, Erev Rav magazing, 2009
Engelman, Adi. In: Israeli Art Now. Edited by Iris Ribkind Ben-Tzur and Revital Alkelai. Ben Shemen: Modan Publishing, 2009. p.156-57.
Sperber, David. “Traces of the Sacred” Terminal: Your Gateway to the Art of the 21st Century, Issue 39 (2009). Pages 26-28.
Sperber, David. “God Died and Was Resurrected at the Museum”. Ma’arav. May 4th, 2009.
2008 Dvora Orbach, The Original Nature, protocols, Bezalel, 2008
(also published in a collection of articles “protocollage” 2009 Bezalel)
Depletion: Works from the Doron Sabbag Art Collection. Edited by Aya Lurie and Nili Goren. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv museum of Art, 2008.
Pages 46-47.
Can Art Do More: Art Focus 5. Edited by Talya Halkin and Dafna Raz. Jerusalem: The Jerusalem Foundation, 2008. Page 49.
The Tyranny of the Transparent. Edited by Maayan Amir. Tel Aviv: Minshar Gallery of Art, 2008.
Sperber, David. Broken Vessels: Deconstructive Aspects in Contemporary Jewish Art. Edited by Tzachi Mezuman. Bar-Ilan University: the
Lieber Center for Jewish Art Exhibitions, 2008. Pages 19-20.
A profile of the artist Eli Petel: Modern painters, Nuit Banai, 2008. pages 70-74 art press, France, issue 345, page 36
2007 The White wall, Understand where I came from, Mati Shmoelof 2007 Maarav.
Itzhak Goldberg. Traces of the Sacred. Edited by Jean de Loisy. France: Pompidou Museum of Art, 2007. Pages 316-317.
Sperber, David. Time Frames: Expressions of Time in Contemporary Jewish Art. Edited by Tzachi Mezuman. Bar-Ilan University: the
Lieber Center for Jewish Art Exhibitions, 2007. Page 9.
Traces 3: the Third Biennale for Drawing in Israel. Edited by Dalia Manor. Jerusalem: The Jerusalem Artists House, 2007. Page 105.
2006 Mixed Emotions. Edited by Tami Katz-Freiman. Haifa: Haifa Museum of Art, 2006. Pages 26, 43.
Simon, Joshua. Blanks In: Blanks. Edited by Sergio Edelsztein. Tel Aviv: the Center of Contemporary Art, 2006. Page 94.
Humanscape: Painting, Sculpture and Photography from the Israel Phoenix Collection. Written by
Yona Fischer. Ashdod: Ashdod Art Museum, 2006. Page 61.
Deuelle Lusky, Aim. “How the World Unrolls: on Eli Petel’s “Original Nature”.” Studio: Israeli Art Magazine, Issue 167. (2006). p.34-39.
2005 Petel, Eli. “Letters to the Editor”. Studio: Israeli Art Magazine, Issue 162. (2005). Pages 38-39.
Bergstein, Yael, editor. “Eli Petel. Sgula”. Studio: Israeli Art Magazine, Issue 162. (2005). Pages 27-37.
Assif, Guy. “Vagueness is Israeli Brightness”. Studio: Israeli Art Magazine, Issue 162. (2005). Pages 40-45.
Setter, Shaul. “Sgula, Eli Petel, Kav 16”. Studio: Israeli Art Magazine, Issue 160. (2005). Pages 4-5.
The New Hebrews. Edited by Dorit Levite Harten. Berlin: Martin-Gropius-Bau, 2005. Page 359.
Talking To You Contemporary Art, 100 first years, Ruth Direktor, Sal Tarbut Artzi publishing, pages 88-93.
2004 Ministry of Culture and Sport Awards for Art and Design for 2004. Herzliya: Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, 2004. p.16, 30-31.
A Point of View: Works from the Museum Collection and Loans. Edited by Ester Dotan. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv museum of Art, 2004. Page 4.
Eastern Appearance / Mother Tongue: A Present That Stirs in the Thickets of its Arab Past. Edited by Yigal Nizri. Ein Harod Mishkan
Museum of Art: Babel Publishing, 2004. Cover, pages 69-70.
Fischer, Yona and Moshe Ninio, editors Kav/Hameorer, Issue 16-18. (2004). Pages 298-299.
2002 Hadrei Hadarim. Edited by Efrat Livni. Herzliya: Herzliya Museum of Art, 2002. Pages 24-25, 7-8.
Siman-Tov, Naomi, edit. Hamidrasha 4: Art / Text. Beit-Berl: Hamidrasha Art School, Beit-Berl College, 2001. Pages 142, 161-165.
Selected reviews, interviews, and visual mentions
2019 Shaul Setter, standing a few ranks above his successors, Haaretz newspaper
Asaf Kovler, Makor Rishon, find the way, 2019 interview with Yonatn Tzefi, marbe-einaim.com
2018 Anat Barzilay, following broken wells, Calcalist newspaper, 2018
2017 Naama Riba, head of Fine Arts department Bezalel investigated by the police: “the struggle is common to all those who engage in art”
Mary Pelletier, Freedom of speech or incitement?, Middle East eye, 2017
2013 Time Out publishing house, time out with Eli Petel
2011 David Stromberg, The art bubble, The Jerusalem Post, 2011
2010 Daniel Schifrin, Israeli artists telling their stories, The New York Jewish Week, 2010
2007 Petel bar, Glia Yahav following “end of the day” Time Out Tel Aviv, issue March page 108
Finally, Hemda Rosenbaum, City Culture, page 80
2006 Uzi Tzur, Reaching for above, Haarezt Literature, 2006
Hemda Rosenbaum, Beware of imitations, Achbar Ha’ir Tel Aviv, 2006
Eitan Buganim, Thick Smoke, Globes, 2006
Dalia Karpel, It starts with cleaning, interview, Haaretz
Ruth Direktor, The new young people, Tel Aviv newspaper
Smadar Sheffi, Few words for a photoshop image, Haaretz, 4th of August page 17
2004 Studio magazine, issue 157, pages 14-15
2003 Smadar Sheffi, Humus, Haaretz gallery, 10.07.2003
Ruth Direktor, Eli Petel, Khen Shish, The city, July 2003
2001 Ruth Direktor, about “Eli Petel, installation”, November 2001