Bio

b. 1970, Israel

Lives and works in Tel Aviv

David Adika’s work focuses on the visual and cultural components of the Israeli domestic space as a microcosm that represents and reflects upon social and familial identity. This photographic corpus contains food representations, still-life objects, domestic artifacts, “domesticated” plants and portraits. Adika’s images blur the boundaries between an abstract conceptual visual language and lush visual accuracy. Spotlighting local cultural characteristics, his photographs tie together issues of taste and social class. His ‘visual research’ studies intimate yet universal biographies, in which he explores cultures in a way that highlights his own sense of the ‘alien’. Adika’s works aim to unfold the familiar and unfamiliar aspects of everyday life.

Adika’s significant recent solo exhibitions include Magain III, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jaffa, (2023), Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv (2020), Galerie Klubovna, Brno (2017), Artport, Tel Aviv (2016), MAMbo, Museo Morandi, Bologna, Italy (2016), WIZO Haifa Academy of Design and Education Photography Gallery, Haifa, Israel (2015), The Open Museum of Photography, Tel-Hai, Israel (2015), The Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia (2014), Open Lens Gallery, Gershman Y, Philadelphia (2012), and East Central Gallery, London (2011).

Adika has participated in many group exhibitions such as Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem (2021), Petach Tikve Museum of Art (2021), Haifa Museum of Art (2021), Museum On The Seam, Jerusalem (2021), The New Gallery Artist Studios Teddy, Jerusalem (2019, 2020), Indie Photography Group Gallery, Tel Aviv (2020), Gallery Tel-Aviv Yaffo (2019), Atelier Shemi, Israel (2019), Reilly Gallery, Smith Center for the Arts, Providence, Rhode Island (2019), Ashdod Museum of Art (2019), Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Berlin (2018), National Gallery of
Modern Art, New Delhi, India (2018), Petach Tikva Museum of Art (2018), Tel Aviv Museum of Art(2017) and many more.

World Wide Exhibitions

Latvian National Museum of Art, ‪Arsenals Exhibition Hall‬, Riga
Open Lens Gallery, Philadelphia

Gallery Exhibitions

David Adika, Halil Balabin & Merav Kamel, Cyrus Kabiru, Wycliffe Mundopa, Jacob Mishori, Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude, Ruth Patir, Mary Sibande, Christopher Udemezue and Anna Yam.
Assaf Shaham, Gilad Ratman, David Adika, Anna Yam, Aharon Ozery, Ilit Azoulay, Dana Levy
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, Anila Rubiku, Aharon Ozery, Reuven Israel, Dana Levy
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
David Adika, Yochai Avrahami, Gal Kinan, Karin Eliyahu, Uri Gershuni, Edna Ohana, Yael Bartana

Art fairs

2022
November 10 – 13, 2022
2019
November 7 – 10, 2019
2019
November 1-3, 2019
2014
November 7 – 9, 2014
2005
November 11 – 13, 2005

Publications

David Adika

Last Light

David Adika

Every Monkey is a Gazelle in Its Mother’s Eyes

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Of David. A psalm, Installation View, MAGASIN III Jaffa, 2022, curator: Karmit Galili (photo: Noam Preisman)

DAVID ADIKA UNTITLED (FIGURINE, 'MIZRACHI', NO. 010 A) FROM “BLACK MARKET” , 2020 Color photography,inkjet print in varying dimensions 146 x 182 cm. (57.48 x 71.65 in.) Edition 1 of 3, with 2 APs

DAVID ADIKA UNTITLED (FIGURINE, 'MIZRACHI', NO. 004 BLACK) FROM “BLACK MARKET” , 2020 Color photography, inkjet print in varying dimensions 35 x 51 cm. (13.78 x 20.08 in.) Edition 1 of 3, with 2 APs

DAVID ADIKA UNTITLED (FIGURINE, 'MIZRACHI', NO. 009 FRONT) FROM “BLACK MARKET” , 2020 Color photography, inkjet print in varying dimensions 132 x 162 cm. (51.97 x 63.78 in.) Edition 1 of 3, with 2 APs

DAVID ADIKA UNTITLED (FIGURINE, 'MIZRACHI', NO. 009 BACK) FROM “BLACK MARKET” , 2020 Color photography, inkjet print in varying dimensions 132 x 162 cm. (51.97 x 63.78 in.) Edition 1 of 3, with 2 APs

DAVID ADIKA, UNTITLED, (VASE, D.A.A.B.S A) FROM "BLACK MARKET", 2020 Color photography, inkjet print in varying dimensions 54 x 78 cm. (21.26 x 30.71 in.) Edition 1 of 3, with 2 APs

DAVID ADIKA UNTITLED (FIGURINE, 'MIZRACHI', NO. 005 GREEN) FROM “BLACK MARKET” , 2020 Color photography, inkjet print in varying dimensions 61 x 89 cm. (24.02 x 35.04 in.) Edition 1 of 3, with 2 APs

Only Through Time Time is Conquered, Installation View, Dittrich and Schelchtriem, Berlin 2018

David Adika, Untitled, (Black bottle with yellow hat), 2018, One of 2 color photographs, inkjet archival print, framed (diptych) 72.8 x 50.6 cm each

David Adika, Untitled, (Black bottle with yellow hat), 2018, One of 2 color photographs, inkjet archival print, framed (diptych) 72.8 x 50.6 cm each

David Adika, Untitled (Home Studies), 2018, Color photography, inkjet archival print, framed 129.4 x 92.4 cm

Regarding Africa, Installation view, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2017

David Adika, Africana, 2016 Mixed technique, color photography, inkjet print and paint on wall (Print 130x170 cm, Wall 230x320 cm)

David Adika, Africana, 2016 Mixed technique, color photography, inkjet print and paint on wall (Print 130x170 cm, Wall 230x320 cm)

David Adika, Africana, 2016 Mixed technique, color photography, inkjet print and paint on wall (Print 130x170 cm, Wall 230x320 cm)

David Adika, Brown Stones (Untitled), Brooklyn, 2018

David Adika, Brown Stones (Untitled), Brooklyn, 2018

David Adika, NY Table Studies no.210, ISCP, Brooklyn 2018

Black Money White Lies, Installation View, Galerie Klubovna, Brno 2017

Black Money White Lies, Installation View, Galerie Klubovna, Brno 2017

Black Money White Lies, Installation View, Galerie Klubovna, Brno 2017

Egg Eye, Collaboration with Filip Pagowski, Warsaw 2016

Egg Eye, Collaboration with Filip Pagowski, Warsaw 2016

Egg Eye, Collaboration with Filip Pagowski, Warsaw 2016

Golden Hands, Installation view Artport, Tel Aviv 2016

Golden Hands, Installation view Artport, Tel Aviv 2016

She Say Do (shiseido), Tokyo 2016, Manipulated Photograph, Light Box 48 x 32 cm

Pink Room (Aomori) Japan 2016 Photography, Light Box 32 x 48 cm

Table Studies, Installation View, Bologna MUSEI, Casa Morandi, 2016

Table Studies no. 01, Paris 2015

Table Studies no. 03 Paris 2015

Last Light, installation view, The Open Musuem of Photography Tel Hai Industrial Park, 2015- 2016

Last Light, installation view, The Open Musuem of Photography Tel Hai Industrial Park, 2015- 2016

Untitled (Tablecloth) 1, Jeruslaem 2015, from the series "Last Light", inkjet print, 87 x 130 cm

Untitled (Tablecloth) 2, Jeruslaem 2015, from the series "Last Light", inkjet print, 58 x 87 cm

Untitled (Tablecloth) 6, Jeruslaem 2015, from the series "Last Light", inkjet print, 87 x 130 cm

Untitled (April), Tokyo, Japan 2014

Untitled, Japan 2016

Untitled, Tel Aviv-Yaffo 2016

Victoria Hanna (Brunette), Jerusalem 2013

Untitled (Jaffa Looking at Tel Aviv, Jaffa-Tel-Aviv), 2013

My Soul Is A Black Lake, Installation View, Lnmm Latvian National Museum Of Art, Riga 2014

My Soul Is A Black Lake, Installation View, Lnmm Latvian National Museum Of Art, Riga 2014

Sahar (My Soul Is A Black Lake) Tel-Aviv-Yaffo 2014, inkjet color print, 30 x 40 cm

Untitled (bus) Riga 2014, inkjet color print, 20 x 29 cm

Untitled (eye of a tiger) Riga 2014

Shlomi Elkabetz (Director, 'Edut') Dead Sea 2010

Ran Bechor (Actor, 'Edut') South of Israel 2010

Untitled, Landscape, South of Israel 2010

Ronit Elkabetz (Actor, 'Edut') North of Israel 2010

Equator, Installation View, The Open Lens Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia 2012

David Adika, Untitled (Damaged Landscape A) Jerusalem, 2012 (120x140)

David Adika, Untitled (Damaged Landscape B) Jerusalem, 2012 (120x140)

David Adika, Untitled (Charles Klor Park ), Tel Aviv Yaffo 2009, 33 x 47 cm

Oululu, Installation View, East Central Gallery, London 2011

Oululu, Installation View, East Central Gallery, London 2011

David Adika, Untitled, Tel Aviv 2010, 31 x 39 cm

David Adika, Untitled (Bney Brak), 2009, 42 x 68 cm

David Adika, Reuven (Robert) Abergel Born 1943, Rabat, Morocco. (Ashdod 2011)

David Adika, Avraham Bardugo, Born 1944, Haifa, Israel. (Klil 2011) 90 x 120 cm

The Black Panthers, Installation View, Petach Tikva Museum of Art

Living Room, installation view, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2010

Living Room, installation view, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2010

Living Room, installation view, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2010

Living Room, installation view, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2010

David Adika, Untitled (Nature Morte), Paris 2008, 67 x 97 cm

Untitled (Chocolat Noir, Tour Eiffel), Paris 2008, 124 x 85 cm

David Adika, Untitled (Jefferson), Paris 2008, 124 x 85 cm

David Adika, Untitled (Osnat), Tel Aviv 2010, 70 x 49 cm

Untitled (Uri) / Untitled (15em) 2008-2009

Untitled (Atelier 8108) / Untitled (Atelier 8108) 2008-2009

Untitled (Call me Africa) / Untitled (Atelier 8108) 2008-2009

As the Hart Panteth After the Water Brooks, Installation Vie, University of Haifa, The Art Gallery 2007

Territoires, The 6th Biennale of International Photography, Liege Belgium, 2008

Untitled (Tel Aviv) 2007, (11 of 42)

Untitled (Brazil), Jerusalem 2007 (12 of 42)

Untitled, New York, 2006, color photograph, inkjet print

Untitled, LA 2006 (38 of 42)

Untitled (Yafi'aa) 2006, 110 x 88 cm

Mahagony, Installation View, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, 2003

Mahogany, 2003, (Deer Left), 125 x 165 cm

Mahogany, 2003, (woman figure center), 125 x 165 cm

Mahogany, 2003, (Rhino Right), 125 x 165 cm

David Adika, Untitled,Tel Aviv 2003

David Adika, Untitled, Tel Aviv 2003

David Adika, Untitled, Tel Aviv 2002

David Adika, Untitled, Tel Aviv 2002

Mother Tongue, Installation view, Ein Harod Museum 2002

David Adika, Untitled, 2002, 145 x 125 cm

David Adika, Khen Shish, 2002, 125 x 165 cm (Mother Tongue Portraits)

David Adika (Self Portrait), 2002, 125 x 165 cm

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