SHAHAR MARCUS

shahar.marcus1@gmail.com
www.shaharmarcus.com
+972 -54-397-7460
1971 Born in Petach Tikva

EDUCATION
1993‐1997 BA Linguistics, University of Tel Aviv
1999‐2004 MA History of Art, University of Tel Aviv

Lives and works in Tel Aviv

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES

2015 The Discovery award, Loop art fair and festival, Barcelona, Spain.
2013 The Israeli Ministry of Culture award for Encouraging Creativity.
2013 Special mention for "seeds" at the 20 min\max film festival, Ingolstadt, Germany.
2012 Winner of the "press" award, Laguna art prize, Venice, Italy
2011 Winner of the celeste prize-video award
2011 ArtMuse video festival, first place for "Freeze", Bocholt, Germany
2010 Art OMI, New York
2009 Special mention for “frog test” video art. The Jerusalem International Film festival,
Israel.
Jerusalem Film Festival, Experimental Cinema Award
Naoussa Film Festival People's Choice Award
2008 Beatrice Kolliner award for young artist, Israel Museum of Art
2006 Young Artist Award, Ministry Of Education And Culture

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Filiation, Paris-Beijing Gallery, Paris, France
2017 System, Paris-Beijing Gallery, Paris, France
2017 Shahar Marcus: Self Print, Hermann Struck Museum, Haifa, Israel
2016 Artificial Islands, with Nezaket Ekici, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Poland
2015 Going, Going Gone, Haifa museum of art, Haifa, Israel.
2015 Solid and soft, with Nezaket Ekici ,DNA gallery, Berlin, Germany.
2015 "Fossils", with Nezaket Ekici, Petach Tkiva Museum of Art, Petach Tikva, Israel
2014 "In Relation" with Nezaket Ekici, Saarbruken Stadt Galerie, Saarbrucken, Germany
2014 "All is Gold", The Municipal Gallery, Rehovot, Israel
2013 "In Relation" with Nezaket Ekici, Siemens Sanat, Istanbul.Turkey
2013 "In Relation" with Nezaket Ekici, Artisterium VI, Tbilisi, Georgia
2013 solo project at Threshold Gallery in "India art fair", New Delhi, India
2012 "In Relation" with Nezaket Ekici at Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv
2012 1,2,3 Herring, MoCA Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan
2011 The Curator, The Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Israel
2011 The Memorial employee", Dana art Gallery, Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, Israel
2010 Bread & Bunker, Mediations Biennale, Poznan, Poland
2009 Bunkerbrot, MARS Gallery, Moscow biennale, Moscow, Russia
2008 Bread & Bunker, G.D.K Gallery, Berlin
2007 Salt & Ever, The Heder Gallery, Tel Aviv
2005 Precise, Blurrr International Biennale, Kalisher, Tel Aviv
To Be An Apprentice, Avni Institute of Art and Design, Jaffa
2004 The Agency, Hakibbutz gallery, Tel Aviv
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017
Proyector, Festival de Videiarte , Madrid, Spain
Video Portrait Vol.2, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
Factor X- The Chromosime of Art, Artist’s Biennial, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
APhF:17. Athens photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
YICCA 16/17, Final Exhibition, Rooster Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
Art in Art, Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Krakow, Poland
Untitled, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Kunstwerk Leben, Art museum in Solingen, Solingen, Germany
11th Arte Laguna Prize- Arte Laguna Prize, Venice, Italy
A Basement In The Attic- Harlan Levey Projects, Brussels, Belgium

2016
Exhibition of works from the MOCAK at the MAXXI, Rome, Italy
The 9th Tbilisi Annual International Contemporary Art exhibition, Tbilisi History Museum,
Tbilisi, Georgia
VideoMedeja Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia
5th Radial Festival ,I.D. Festival Berlin, Berlin, Germany
The Sea, Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Krakow, Poland
Urban Touch, Kunsthalle Faust, Hannover
Fundamental- the 5th Mediations Biennale, National Museum, Poznan, Poland
The Pleasure of Love, The 56th October Salon, Belgrade Culture Center, Belgrade, Serbia
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa
Subspace, International Photography Festival, Tel-Aviv
Universum, International Photography Festival, Tel-Aviv
Medicine in Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow, Poland
Things to Come, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Petach Tikva
Berlin Case, APT Art Gallery, Yekaterinburg, Russia
ARTVIDEOKOELN International Torrence Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA

2015
Shoot: about performance, DNA gallery, Berlin, Germany.
Recurrence, Nimac. Nicosia, Cyprus.
Re:Start – Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv
Changing Perspectives - Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa
Solid and Soft - DNA, Berlin
Ich und Du - Hospitalshof Stuttgart, Stuttgart

2014
Ekpharsis, Hermitage, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
In creation, Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Taipei, Taiwan
The Winners, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel

Les Rencontres Internationales,Haus der Kulturen der Welt,Berlin,Germany

Beyond, Galerie Maubert, Paris, France
Les Rencontres Internationales, Gaîté Lyrique (Palais de Tokyo), Paris, France

2013
WPA's Experimental Media 2013, The Phillips Collection, Washington DC, USA.
Faust Kunsthalle,"Schwerelos", Hannover, Germany.
"The Compromised Land" Neuberger Museum of Art New York, New York, USA.
Panorama Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen, Germany
The Wro Biennale, Wroclaw, Poland
Kino der Kunst, Munich, Germany
.SAU Affero gallery, NJ, ,”Awards Images Moving and Art “Global

2012
The Mediations Biennale, Poznan, Poland
The 2nd Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art, Yekaterinburg, Russia
Catastrophes and Incidences, DNA gallery, Berlin, Germany
Afterwards, Total Museum, Seoul, Korea
Art Laguna prize, Arsenale, Venice, Italy
Middle East Europe, Dox Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic

2011
Art is Art is Art, Moscow Museum Of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
The Museum, Presents Itself, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Nord Art international exhibition, Büdelsdorf, Germany
Spring Exhibition, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark

2010
As I remember, Kunstraum und Ateliers, Dresden, Germany
Celeste prize finalists, The Invisible Dog, New York, USA
The Meaning of Windows, Israel Museum youth wing, Jerusalem, Israel
Israeli Video, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
Trembling Time, TATE Modern, London - Screenings program dedicated to recent video art
from Israel, Curators: Stuart Komer and Sergio Edelsztein
The Calm Before the Storm, Winzavod, Moscow

2009
3rd Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Curator: Irena Yshkova
Nuit Blanch, Paris, France, Curator: Marie Shek
Tina b Festival of Art, Prague
FUSO International Video Art Annual of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Naoussa International Film Festival, Greece
Athens Video Art Festival 2009, Athens, Greece
Performance Evening, Israel Museum Sculpture Garden, Jerusalem, curator: Amitai
Mendelson

2008
Real Thing, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv
Wa(h)re Kunst, Concent art e.V. Gallery, Berlin, Germany
First Show, Contemporary Art from the Israel Museum, Mani House, Tel Aviv
EPAF 2008, European Performance Art Festival, Warsaw
Freeze, Israel Museum, Real Time Art in Israel 1998-2008, Jerusalem, Israel

2007
Homecoming Artist, Magmart I video under volcano, Naples, Italy
Homecoming Artist, 700.is, Egilsstadir, Iceland
Rites & Rituals, Herzliya Museum, Herzliya
A Quest from Sea to Sea, video, Israel Museum youth wing, Jerusalem
Homecoming Artist, video, exhibition for awards winners by the Ministry Of Education And
Culture, Petach Tikva Museum, Petach Tikva, Israel

2006
Cover, Galataperform, Istanbul, Turkey
Gefilte tish, Israel Museum youth wing, Jerusalem

2005
Precise, Blur 5 International Biennale for Performance Art, Tel Aviv
Cover, L.M.P Theatre, C.R.A.N.E Art Tulage, Chateau de Chevigny, France

2003
Freeze, Blur 4 International Biennale for Performance Art, Jaffa
Soak Art Focus 4, Jerusalem