Nira Pereg

The right to clean, 2015, Installation view, Ana Ticho House, the Israel Museum
The right to clean, 2015, Installation view, Ana Ticho House, the Israel Museum
The right to clean, 2015, Installation view, Ana Ticho House, the Israel Museum
The right to clean | Clare, 2015, Multi Channel Video installation
The right to clean | Francis, 2015, Multi Channel Video installation
ISHMAEL, 2014-2015, Four Channel HD Video Installation with Sound
ISHMAEL, 2014-2015, Four Channel HD Video Installation with Sound
Nira Pereg, Ishmael, Installation view, Art | Basel, Basel, 2014 - 2015
Nira Pereg, Five Calls (Sun Clock), Installation view, Art | Basel, Basel, 2015, 20x20 cm
Still from "Abraham Abraham", 2012, 04:25 min
Stills from "Abraham Abraham", 2012, 04:25 min
Stills from "Sara Sara", 2012, 04:25 min
Sarah Sarah, 2012, 04:25 min
Abraham Abraham, Sarah Sarah, Installation view, Nicosia Municipal Art Center, Greece, 2015
Abraham Abraham, Sarah Sarah, Installation view, Nicosia Municipal Art Center, Greece, 2015
Sarah Sarah, Installation view, CCA Tel Aviv
Still from "Mandatory Passage", 2012 - 2013, 32:00 min
Mandatory Passage, Installation view, CCA Tel Aviv
Still from "Kept Alive", 2009 - 2010, 22:26 min.
Kept Alive, Installation view, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
Kept Alive, Installation view, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Still from "Scenario" , 2012, 05:12 min
Scenario, Installation view, The Israel pavilion, 14th Venice Architecture Biennial, 2012
Still from "No Wind", 2011, 05:25 min
No Wind, Installation view, Braverman Gallery
Still from "Roundabout", 2009, 27:32 min.
Roundabout, Installation view, Braverman Gallery
Roundabout, Installation view, Braverman Gallery
Still from "Shabbath", 2008, 07:12 min
Still from "Shabbath", 2008, 07:12 min
Still from "Shabbath", 2008, 07:12 min
Shabbath, Installation view
Still from "67 Bows", 2006, 06:12 min
67 bows, Installation view, Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC, USA
67 bows, Installation view
67 bows, Installation view, Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC, USA
Still from "Bangkoking" , 2004 - 2005, 03:40 min.
Bangkoking, Installation view, PS1 , 2005
Still from "Canicule", 2003, 29:07 min.
Canicule, Installation view, Braverman Gallery , 2003
Canicule, Installation view, Braverman Gallery , 2003
Canicule, Installation view, Braverman Gallery , 2003
Still from "GSpotting" , 2003, 02:30 min
GSpotting, Installation view, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris, 2006
GSpotting, Nuit Balnche 2009, Paris, 2003
Location 8, installation view, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, 2009, 60 x 80 cm (each)
Location 8, installation view, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, 2009, 60 x 80 cm (each)
Soil, 1999

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.