TAL ADLER      -      online hyperlinked CV _ _ _
 
 

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Born: Jerusalem, Israel.


Education:

  2004 - 2006 Magister Diploma in Art, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
  1997 - 1999 Post graduate program - Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Department of fine arts, Jerusalem.
  1994 - 1996 The Sam Spiegel film & television school, Jerusalem.
  1993 - 1994 Courses in history of art, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
  1990 - 1993 Musrara school of photography and new media, Jerusalem.


Selected Group exhibitions:

  2005 "Three cities against the wall", exhibition against the separation wall, Israel/Palesine/U.S.A.
  2004 "One Pink Rose", exhibition inserted to army prison 6, Israel..
  2003 "Arting Jerusalem", Art Festival throughout Jerusalem. curated by Liron Meshulam, in cooperation with Jerusalem School of Photography and Cittadellarte-Fondazione Oistoletto.
  2003 "The promise, the land", OK centrum, Linz, Austria. curated by Thomas Edlinger, Stella Rollig, Roland Schöny.
  2003 "Critic is not enough", Shedhalle, Zuerich, Switzerland. curated by Dagmar Reichert.
  2002 "Frieden Weltwaerts", Schlaining, Austria. curated by Elisabeth Von Samsonow.
  2002 "New Agora", social responsibility, Cittadellarte fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy.
  2002 "Big Torino" Biennial for young art, Torino, Italy. in the "biguest" section, curated by CALC.
  2001 "4free", BueroFriedrich, Berlin, Germany. curated by Waling Boers.
  2001 "Arte Al Centro 2001" "Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto", Biella, Italy.
  2000 "CAMPING" gallery Lisi Hammerle, Bregenz, Austria.
  2000 "Anno Zero" the "zero's" exhibition in "Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto", Biella, Italy.
  2000 "seven photographers", photography exhibition for the 50th annual Of Kibbutz Nahshon, Nahshon Gallery.
  1999 "Look Mama Look", graduation exhibition, the post graduate Program, Bezalel Academy of Art & Design.
  1999 "9th Biennial for young art from Europe and the Mediterranean, Rome 99" .
  1999 "Kick Off" - resident artists at the artists studios, Malha, Jerusalem.
  1999 "Mousrara Mon Amour" project, publication of a photography and Recipes Book: "Cooking in Mousrara".
  1996 "Station transformation" at the new central station, Tel Aviv.
  1995 "poets - photographers" exhibition at the Blanch & Romi Shapiro Photography gallery, Bezalel Academy of Art & Design.


Solo exhibitions:

  2006 Unrecognized - launching of the travelling exhibition about the Unrecognized Bedouin villages in the Negev, Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel.
  2001 Conflict / 1 to 1,000, the Bakery - Annet Gelink gallery, Amsterdam. courtesy "Snait" foundation.
  1999 Wizo Canada Haifa, photography department gallery.
  1994 "Nidbach" project, the Jerusalem artists house.


Teachings:

  2003 - 2004 Ascola meimad, School of Art and Design.
  2002 - 2004 Sapir college of the Negev, Photography department.
  2001 - 2004 Musrara school of photography and new media, Jerusalem.
  1995 - 2000: "dada, center for photography", Jerusalem.


Prizes:

2006 First prize for Magister work, Friends of the Academy of Fine Arts, “Akademiefreundepreises”, Vienna, Austria.
2002 First prize in the "Minimum prize" contest, for the Pettek project, at "New Agora"- Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy.
Jury: Anna Detheridge, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Giovanni Pozzi, Stella Rolig, Sislej Xhafa.


Residecies:


  1999 "Archeologia Futura" - Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy.
  2000 working with the residents in the Unidee 2000, Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy.


Selected projects:

    "Collectors' Items"
A series of works titled "Collectors' Items" and numbered successively, since '95, continuing to these days. The creation of an art trademark and a commited consumerism awareness. Playing and questioning the relations between art making, art market, art value, artist - art work - public - art collecting - - -
 
     "Pettek" and the alternative elections
A social/art/politics/media initiative; The founding of a political party and an alternative elections system in Israel 2002-2003.
 
     Stillife (Collectors' Items #10, 2000)
Transformation of my studio into a room-size camera for the production of large unique prints (one copy and no negative) of rare quality using a special experimental technique. The series of prehistoric fossils of plants are objects, which for me serve also as an ancient, natural photography, transcend qualities by using the special precise and high quality interpretation.
 
     "250 Matches" (Collectors' Items #22)
A collection of 250 portraits and the writings of the people who participated in this project. 250 matches, all signed and numbered from 1/250 to 250/250, were sold for 5 shekel (~1$) to those people as a collectible art work, '98 - '99.
 
     "Shimon & Shimon" posters, (with Ronny Edry).
A series of street posters designed, printed and mounted on street billboards by Tal Adler and Ronny Edry, in editions of a 1000 copies each, Israel, '98 -'99.
 
     "Item 52" (Collectors' Items #52)
A periodic item, text and image, originally sent to a limited mailing list, currently compiled in Itemz website. Launched in Italy, Aug. 2000, during the work period with the "UNIDEE 2000", an A.I.R project in "Cittadellarte Fondazione pistoletto", Biella, Italy.