Eliezer Sonnenschein

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Eliezer Sonnenschein was born in 1967, Haifa, Israel.

Lives and works in Rosh Pina.

Education

1990-94


Bachelor of Fine Art, Department of Graphic Design,
 Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem

1994


Premium in Final Project

Awards and Scholarships

Krinzinger Projekte – Artist-in-Residence, Vienne


2009


Israeli Ministry of Culture Award

2001

Isracard & Tel-Aviv Museum of Art Prize for an Israeli Artist

2000


Young Artist Award, Israeli Ministry of Education and Culture

1994


The Sandberg Prize for special achievements, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem

1994

Premium in Final Project

1990 – 1994

Bachelor of Fine Art, Department of Graphic Design, Bezalel, Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem

1992


Scholarship from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation

Solo Exhibitions

2011

Eliezer Sonnenschein, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv 

Black Leaves and Tall Mountains, Jerome Zodo Contemporary, Milan


2010 

Meaningless Humanity Energy Structures, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna

2008

Solo Show, Bianca Sotto Galerie, Madrid

2006

New Works, Natalie Obadia Gallery, Paris

2005

Three Paintings, One Installation, One Gun, Sommer Contemporary
 Art, Tel-Aviv

2003

Statements, Art Basel Miami, Miami


Heaven Carwash, Natalie Obadia Gallery, Paris

2002


Port, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Tel-Aviv

Moderna Galeria, Ljubljana

1999


Baby Demo Test Space, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art

ACP, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv

Group Exhibitions

2010

The Winners Exhibition – Recipients of Excellency Awards 2009, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya

Family Tree-The Helena Rubinstein, Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv

2009

Flower Power-Craa, Centro di ricerca arte attuale Villa Giulia, Verbania 

Entanglement, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv

2008


Nachum Gutman Art Museum, Tel-Aviv


Real Time: Art in Israel 1998-2008, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

Eventually We'll Die: Young Art in Israel in the 90, Herzliya


The Doron Sebbag Art Collection, ORS LTD, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Tel-Aviv

2007

XXS, Extra Extra Small, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv

2006

Inside Out, Museum MARCO, Vigo, Spain


Japan is Here, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem


In Between Places, Vivian Horan Gallery, New York
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2005

Sommer in Berlin, Christian Ehrentraut, Berlin

Trial of Power, Bethanien Haus, Berlin

The New Hebrews, Martin Gropius Bau Museum, Berlin


Yad Vashem Museum, Jerusalem

2004

Sommer Show, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York

Romantica, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv

Haifa Second International Installation, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa

Channel Zero, Netherlans Media Art Institute, Amsterdam

2003

Wonder Years, Neue Gesellschaft fur Blindende Kunst, Berlin

Haifa Second International Installation Triennale, Haifa

(Un)painted, Museum of Modern Art, Ljublijana

2002

From the Venice Biennial 2001, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, 
Copenhagen

Gallery Swap, Sadie Coles HQ, London

Power, Casino Luxemburg, Luxemburg 


From Painting Object to Painting Action, The Essl Collection, Vienna


2001

Seventh Biennial of Havana, Cuba

Plateau of Human Kind, curated by Harald Szeeman, 49th Biennial of Venice

Drawings, Martin Kudlek Gallery, Cologne, Germany

2000

GuareneArte 2000, curated by Francesco Bonami, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino

Liste 2000, Basel, Switzerland

Contest, Seventh Biennial of Havana, Cuba


ACP Pro, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l'arte, Torino


Platforma, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel-Avi

1999

Explosive Drawning, Hamumche, Tel-Aviv

First Exhibition, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv

1998

Spring at the end of Summer, Young Contemporary Israeli Art,
Tel-Aviv Museum of Art

90 Years of Israeli Art, The Phoenix Collection, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Tel-Aviv

1996

Virtual Reality, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Tel-Aviv

1994


Anxiety, Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan


90-70-90, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art
, Tel-Aviv

Bograshov, Street-Project, Tel-Aviv

1986

Rega No.2, Sara Gilat Gallery, Jerusalem


Art Israel: The 1980's, Mercer Art Gallery, New York

1985


Rega No.1, Aika Braun Gallery, artists Studios, Jerusalem

Bibliography

1998

Yitzhak Livneh, With One's Back to the Viewer, Hamidrasha 1
 pp.55-57.

1997

Itamar Levy, Lets Sit Around it and Talk: Speech at the Hole's Edge, 
Studio 81, pp.43-51

1995

Colloquium of Artists - David Ginton, Yitzhak Livneh,
Deganit Berest, Gabriel Klasmer, Yaacov Mishori, The Tourist and
the Predator: Gerhard Richter as a case of Influence, Studio 67 pp. 20 - 27 


Esther Dotan, Yitzhak Livneh: Reading Coffee-Grounds, Studio 62,
 p. 13

1993

Yitzhak Livneh,Two Remarks, on painting, to the Museums,
 Studio 42, p. 27

Aim Luski, Rejection of the Image, Yediot Ahronot

Smadar Tirosh, Yitzhak Livneh's Spectacle of Illusions, Studio 42,
 pp. 22-25


A portrait with a black skull


A man with red hands on land


Butterflies in the dark


Landscape and rhythm


Super powers and Africa

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