Bio

Nira Pereg, (b 1969, Tel Aviv) spent the 1990s in New York, where she  received her B.F.A from Cooper Union. On her return to Israel, she graduated from the Bezalel M.F.A studio program in Jerusalem, and has been exhibiting and teaching in Israel and internationally ever since.

Pereg’s multichannel video installations challenge the status quo of any territory she immerses herself in. She anchors her work in documentary practice, developing her own “play of resolutions”. She often employs multi channel presentations which both estrange the events from their origin, and “reenact” them within the exhibition space. This particular aesthetic intervention heightens a constant discomfort with “the way things are”. The merger of spirit and matter, as it  coexists in public spaces of religious/political/military importance, serves as a platform for Pereg’s interest and involvement in the social manifestations of power structures which influence our lives.

“Nira Pereg works by immersing herself in contexts that are both familiar and conflictual, thereby doing away with the notions of proximity and distance. This apparently distant eye that Nira Pereg systematically applies to her subjects is the very form of her commitment. To show the mechanics of exclusion, to set up one’s camera in front of the protocol of separation, as she does in Abraham Abraham Sarah Sarah, is to do much more than merely document a situation, it is to follow the thread of life running through socio-political mechanisms, to undertake an archaeology of the present.”

Text by Nicolas Bourriaud “Nira Pereg’s Frontier Zones” as it appears in the monograph Nira Pereg, Abraham Abraham Sarah Sarah

Pereg’s works have been collected and exhibited at the TATE Modern London, the Center Pompidou Paris, PS1 New York, Hirshhorn Museum USA, HDK Berlin, KW Berlin, ZKM Karlsruhe, The Israel Museum Jerusalem, Haus Der Kunst München, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and LAX L.A. She took part in various international platforms such as the Shanghai Biennial of Art, Sao Paulo Biennial of Art, and Architecture Biennale La Biennale di Venezia 2013 and 2018.

Nira Pereg is a receiver of the Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation Israeli Art Prize for young artist 2010 and is a recipient of Israel’s minister of culture first senior video artist award 2016, and the Lia Van Leer Award at the Jerusalem Film Festival 2016.

World Wide Exhibitions

Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme, Paris

Gallery Exhibitions

Anisa Ashkar, Yael Bartana, Bracha Ettinger, Sigalit Landau, Tal Mazliach, Nira Pereg, Michal Rovner, Maya Zack
Ilit Azoulay, Reuven Israel, David Adika, Katharina Gaenssler, Dana Levy, Mark Yashaev, Shahar Marcus, Assaf Shaham, Nira Pereg, Roy Efrat
Anna Yam, Anton Ginzburg, Biljana Djurdjevic, Dana Levy, David Adika, Gilad Ratman, Hila Karabelnikov, Ilit Azoulay, Jacob Mishori, Katharina Gaenssler, Nezaket Ekici, Nira Pereg, Noa Gur, Ohad Matalon, Oren Eliav, Reuven Israel, Robin Rhode, Shahar Marcus and Shana Moulton
Jacob Mishori, David Adika, Nira Pereg, Uri Nir, Reuven Israel
David Adika, Jacob Mishori, Nira Pereg, Uri Nir, Hila Karabelnikov, Eyal Sason, Dani Back, Orit Hofshi, Maya Schindler, Gal Kinan, Uri Gershuni, Ben Ben-Ron, Linda Hufnagel

Art fairs

2017
November 3 – 5, 2017
2015
June 18 – June 21, 2015
2012
November 8 – 11, 2012
2010
May 20-22, 2010
2006
May 19–21, 2006
2005
November 11 – 13, 2005

Publications

Nira Pereg

Kept Alive

Nira Pereg

All This Can Be Constructed Elsewhere

Nira Pereg

Abraham Abraham, Sarah Sarah

Nira Pereg

The Right to Clean

Stories

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Nira Pereg, Abraham Abraham, 2012, multi-channel HD video, 4:25 min.

Nira Pereg, Abraham Abraham, 2012, multi-channel HD video, 4:25 min.

Nira Pereg, Abraham Abraham Sarah Sarah, installation view, Prix Maratier, La Fondation pro mahj le musée d’art et d’histoire du judaïsme ,Paris, France. 2015. Photo by Yael Engelhart

Nira Pereg, Sarah Sarah, 2012, multi channel HD video, 4:25 min.

Nira Pereg, Sarah Sarah, 2012, multi channel HD video, 4:25 min.

THEOS & KRATEO 2018—2021 4 min 42 sec. Edition of 7+2AP. Synchronized video diptych. Bar ilan& 100 gates junctions, Jerusalem.

THEOS 2018—2021 4 min 42 sec. Edition of 7+2AP. Synchronized video diptych. Bar ilan& 100 gates junctions, Jerusalem.

KRATEO 2018—2021 4 min 42 sec. Edition of 7+2AP. Synchronized video diptych. Bar ilan& 100 gates junctions, Jerusalem.

NADAMAR 2018—2020 03:42 min, One channel video Jerusalem, Damascus gate, Israel

Nira Pereg, I Can't Believe it's not Battle! Melt Away Before You, 2018, multichannel video installation with sound, 22:12 mins

Nira Pereg, I Can't Believe it's not Battle! Melt Away Before You, 2018, multichannel video installation with sound, 22:12 mins

Nira Pereg, Border, from 'The Right to Clean' 2015, 1 channel video with sound, 41 sec. loop

Nira Pereg, Clare, from 'The Right to Clean', 2015, single channel video with sound 16:00 mins.

Nira Pereg, Francis, 2006-2015, from 'The Right to Clean', single channel video with sound, 10:14 mins

Nira Pereg, Surface, from 'The Right to Clean', 2015, single channel video with sound, 8:19 mins

Nira Pereg, Abraham Abraham, 2012, multi-channel HD video, 4:25 min.

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Nira Pereg, Ishmael, 2015, 4 channel HD video installation with sound, 10:25 mins

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Nira Pereg, Ishmael, 2015, 4 channel HD video installation with sound, 10:25 mins

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Nira Pereg, Ishmael, 2015, 4 channel HD video installation with sound, 10:25 mins

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Nira Pereg, Ishmael, 2015, 4 channel HD video installation with sound, 10:25 mins

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Nira Pereg, Ishmael, 2015, 4 channel HD video installation with sound, 10:25 mins

Opening night with performance by Iris Erez, July 8th, 2021

ORNAMENT AND CRIME 2021 270x160 cm Polyester mold of a barricade, red and white hazard tape, and a mold of a bronze replica of the Jewish Menorah sign as it appears in the official logo of the State of Israel.

ORNAMENT AND CRIME 2021 270x160 cm Polyester mold of a barricade, red and white hazard tape, and a mold of a bronze replica of the Jewish Menorah sign as it appears in the official logo of the State of Israel.

Opening night with performance by Iris Erez, July 8th, 2021

ELINOR 2021

ELINOR 2021

OPTIMUS a 2021 01:30 min 3D animation NFT, One channel video

OPTIMUS 2021 Ready–made sculpture Two metal barricades and magnets

GUARDIANESS OF THE WALLS 2021 7 min. Edition of 7+2AP. One channel video. Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv.

SWEET STONES الحجر الحلو 2018—2021, Five lime stones and their five brass replicas,Edition of 7+2AP.

SWEET STONES الحجر الحلو 2018—2021, Five lime stones and their five brass replicas,Edition of 7+2AP.

SWEET STONES الحجر الحلو 2018—2021, Five lime stones and their five brass replicas,Edition of 7+2AP.

DIY Model to scale of a police barricade | Scale 1:66 Signed and numbered addition — in 14 karat gold and silver.

Happy Accident 2020, 300 cm, Sand Blasted Ready–made Aluminum signpost.

GOLDY 2021, 136x198 cm Latex mold of a police barricade, fabric, gold spray, and a readymade metal fence.

IT'S PERSONAL 2020,171x10 cm, Epoxy mold, red and white tape.

REPETITION VII 2020—2021, Edition of 7+2AP, Seven translucent polyester traffic cones, replicas of ready–made safety cones, and hazard warning lights.

WEAKEND 2020—2021 156x90 cm Neon light

Nira Pereg, I Can't Believe it's not Battle! Melt Away Before You, Installation View, LAXART, Los Angeles 2018

Nira Pereg, I Can't Believe it's not Battle! Melt Away Before You, 2018, multichannel video installation with sound, 22:12 mins

Installation view, Ana Ticho House, the Israel Museum

Nira Pereg, The Right to Clean, installation view, Ana Ticho House, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 2015

Installation view, Ana Ticho House, the Israel Museum

Nira Pereg, The Right to Clean, installation view, Ana Ticho House, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 2015

Installation view, Ana Ticho House, the Israel Museum

Nira Pereg, The Right to Clean, installation view, Ana Ticho House, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 2015

Nira Pereg, Ishmael, installation view, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2017. Photo by Elad Sarig

Nira Pereg, Ishmael, installation view, On Stellar Rays x Braverman Gallery, New York, 2016

Nira Pereg, Ishmael, solo presentation at Art Basel with Braverman Gallery, 2015

Nira Pereg, Five Calls Sun Clock, floor tile and painted aluminum cast, 40 x 20 x 20 cm. Pedestal 120 x 20 x 20 cm

Nira Pereg, Five Calls Sun Clock, Installation View, Art Basel, 2015

Nira Pereg, Abraham Abraham Sarah Sarah, installation view, Prix Maratier, La Fondation pro mahj le musée d’art et d’histoire du judaïsme ,Paris, France. 2015. Photo by Yael Engelhart

Nira Pereg, Abraham Abraham Sarah Sarah, installation view, Prix Maratier, La Fondation pro mahj le musée d’art et d’histoire du judaïsme ,Paris, France. 2015. Photo by Yael Engelhart

Nira Pereg. Scenario, installation view, Israeli Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennial. 2012

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Nira Pereg, Scenario, 2012, 3 channel video with sound, 5:12 mins, still from video

Nira Pereg, Kept Alive, Installation View, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany, 2012

Nira Pereg, Kept Alive, installation view in 'Singularities (Exceções)' Centro da Cultura Judaica (São Paulo, Brazil), 2012. Photo by Amilcar Paker

Nira Pereg, Kept Alive, installation view in 'Mountain', Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2010. Photo by Elad Sarig

Nira Pereg, Kept Alive, 2009, 3 channel HD Video with Sound, 22:26 mins

Nira Pereg, Kept Alive, 2009, 3 channel HD Video with Sound, 22:26 mins

Nira Pereg, Kept Alive Portraits, installation view in 'Mountain', Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2010. Photo by Elad Sarig

Nira Pereg, Kept Alive, Portrait

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Nira Pereg, Sabbath 2008, 2008, Single Channel HD Video with Sound, 7:12 mins

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Nira Pereg, Sabbath 2008, 2008, Single Channel HD Video with Sound, 7:12 mins

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Nira Pereg, Sabbath 2008, 2008, Single Channel HD Video with Sound, 7:12 mins

Nira Pereg, 67 Bows, "Black Box" Installation view, Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC, 2011

Nira Pereg, 67 Bows, "Black Box" Installation view, Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC, 2011

Nira Pereg, 67 Bows, 2006, single channel video with sound, 5:51 mins

Nira Pereg, Canicule, Installation View, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv

Nira Pereg, Canicule, Installation View, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv

Nira Pereg, Canicule, Installation View, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv

Nira Pereg, Canicule, 2003, 3 Channel Video Installation with Sound, 29:07 mins.

Nira Pereg, Canicule, 2003, 3 Channel Video Installation with Sound, 29:07 mins.

Nira Pereg, Canicule, 2003, 3 Channel Video Installation with Sound, 29:07 mins.

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