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
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