Braverman Gallery proudly congratulates Nira Pereg on receiving the Rappaport Prize for an established Israeli artist.

From the committee’s statement:

“Nira Pereg is renowned for her video installations created since the early 2000s. In her work, she focuses on the threshold zones of places that are politically or religiously charged, documenting rituals or procedures that take place within them.

The power of her works lies in their deep human interest, alongside an exceptional aesthetic sensitivity to structure and sound. She weaves all of these elements into large-scale installations, usually composed of multiple video channels that illuminate fascinating ceremonial elements and social structures.”

Nira Pereg (b. 1969, Tel Aviv) is a multidisciplinary artist who explores structures of control, ritual, and time through practices of research, documentation, and processing. Her work dissects and documents symbolic systems of power and influence, using a visual language that combines precision with poetic sensitivity. In her works, documentation is not a mere act of reporting, but a process that generates a new archive while simultaneously exposing the hidden mechanisms of the social and cultural space.

For Pereg, video is not just a technical medium, but a philosophical-conceptual tool that allows for a re-examination of reality. She deals with structures of repetition, resonance, and disintegration, which challenge notions of linear time and stable space. Routine rituals are unraveled into their components, and the way they return and are performed grants them new meanings, revealing the tension between order and deviation, between the sacred and the mundane.

Her exhibitions offer a dynamic viewing experience in which the audience is invited to dwell within realms of uncertainty, where familiar categories fracture and disintegrate. The works open up the possibility for a renewed reflection on the construction of memory, testimony, and narrative, while questioning mechanisms of representation and control.

She studied at The Cooper Union in New York and completed her advanced studies at Bezalel (2000). She is currently a professor of art and head of the School of Art at Shenkar. Her works have been exhibited in major museums and biennales both in Israel and worldwide, gaining wide recognition for the unique blend of theoretical inquiry, meticulous artistic language, and political complexity.