Nira Pereg
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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 is coexist 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 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, and TATE modern, England. 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 as well as receiver of Israels’ minister of culture first senior video artist award 2016, and the Lia Van Leer Award at the Jerusalem Film Festival 2016.
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11:00 – 18:00
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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
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, The Right to Clean, installation view, Ana Ticho House, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 2015
Nira Pereg, The Right to Clean, installation view, Ana Ticho House, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 2015
Nira Pereg, The Right to Clean, installation view, Ana Ticho House, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 2015
Nira Pereg, Border, from 'The Right to Clean' 2015, 1 channel video with sound, 41 sec. loop
Nira Pereg, Surface, from 'The Right to Clean', 2015, single channel video with sound, 8:19 mins
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, 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, Ishmael, 2015, 4 channel HD video installation with sound, 10:25 mins
Nira Pereg, Ishmael, 2015, 4 channel HD video installation with sound, 10:25 mins
Nira Pereg, Ishmael, 2015, 4 channel HD video installation with sound, 10:25 mins
Nira Pereg, Ishmael, 2015, 4 channel HD video installation with sound, 10:25 mins
Nira Pereg, Ishmael, 2015, 4 channel HD video installation with sound, 10:25 mins
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, 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, 2012, multi-channel HD video, 4:25 min.
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, Sarah Sarah, 2012, multi channel HD video, 4:25 min.
Nira Pereg, Sarah Sarah, 2012, multi channel HD video, 4:25 min.
Nira Pereg. Scenario, installation view, Israeli Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennial. 2012
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
Nira Pereg, Sabbath 2008, 2008, Single Channel HD Video with Sound, 7:12 mins
Nira Pereg, Sabbath 2008, 2008, Single Channel HD Video with Sound, 7:12 mins
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.
Sunday
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Tue – Thu
Friday
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Closed
By appointment only
11:00 – 16:00
11:00 – 14:00
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