Guy Ben-Ner, born in 1969 in Ramat Gan (Israel), is an Israeli video artist.

He lives and works at Tel Aviv, Berlin and New York.

 

EDUCATION
1994-97
Hamidrasha, B.E.D art teachers school, Kalmania, Israel

 

2001-03
Columbia University, MFA, New York, USA

 

PRIZES
2008
Sandberg Prize, Israel Museum, Israel

 

2007
DAAD, Berlin (for 2006)- Residency, Berlin, Germany
KunstFilm Biennale, Koeln 2007, Cologne, Germany

 

2005
Principal prize, the 51st International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany

 

2003
The Rema Hort Mann Foundation Art Grant, New York, USA

 

2002
The Caroline Newhouse Sculpture Fellowship, New York, USA

 

2001
The Givon- Tel Aviv Museum prize, Israel

 

1994
The Kiepfer-Wolf prize for a young artist, Israel

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2019
Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK

 

2017
Escape Artists, Pinksummer, Genoa, Italy

 

2016
Escape Artists, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

 

2014
Manifesta 10, the state Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Family matters, CCCS, Florence, Italy
Room Service, saatliche kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany
Arena, CCA, Znaki Czasu, Torun, Poland

 

2013
Image Employment, MoMA PS1, New York, USA
Besser Scheiten, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Homebodies, Museum of contemporary art Chicago, Chicago, USA
Le Pont, MAC Musees d’art Contemporain, Marseille, France
Porosites, Centre d’Art le LAIT, Albi, France
The Readymade Centennial, Haifa museum of art, Haifa, Israel
WYSIWYG: What you see is what you get, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
The Kids are all right, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, USA
The Ghost of Architecture: Recent and promised Gifts, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, USA
Aquatopia, Notingham Contemporary, UK

 

2012
Künstlerkinder von Runge bis Richter, von Dix bis Picasso – Kunsthalle in Emden, Emden, Germany
Phänomen Wohlstand – Motorenhalle – riesa efau. Kultur Forum Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Project 35 – Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt – Centre d’Art, Biel, Swiss
The Weight of Lives I’m Not Living – Artspeak, Vancouver, BC, Canada
beyond time- international video art today, kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
Da zero a cento, le nuove età della vita – Triennale Bovisa, Milan, Italy
Here In Your Space, grand central art center, Santa Ana, California, USA
Family talk, Futura, Prague, Czech Republic
Idea is the object, D’amelio gallery, NY, USA
stage Presence- theatricality in art & Media, SFMoMA, SF, USA

 

2011
Blowing on a Hairy Shoulder / Grief Hunters, curated by Doron Rabina, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pensylavania, Pensylavania, USA
Life : A User’s Manual, curated by aya Miron, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Possession, curated by Gentili Apri, TAF, The Art Foundation, Athens, Greece
Museum Night, Musée cantonal des Beaux – Arts, Louisanne, Switzerland
Project 35, Pratt Manhattan gallery, New York, USA
Family Matters, Cade Fine Art Center Gallery, party of Anne Arundel Community College, Maryland, USA
Common Love, Aesthetics of Becoming: Columbia university MFA Alumni , NY, USA
Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven, Bureau For Open Culture, North Adams, MA, USA

 

2010
Bilder in Bewegung, Museum Ludwig, Koeln, Germany
Kunstfilmbiennale Koeln, KW, Berlin, Germany
Adaptation, Philbrook museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Project 35 international video, NOMA, New Orleans, USA
videozone, CCA, Tel Aviv, Israel
1st Ural Industrial biennial, Yekaterinburg, Russia
Res Publica, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
Real Life, Oakville, ON, Canada
Morality act 3, Witte de Witte, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Remote vision, Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
Fair Use, Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA

 

2008
Liverpool Biennial, Tate Liverpool, UK
Shanghai Biennial, China
Joy of everyday life, Tower Mito, Japan
Laughing in a foreign language, The Hayward gallery, London, UK
all inclusive, Frankfurter Schirn, Germany
Adaptation, The Smart Museum, Chicago, USA
The puppet show, ICA, Philadelphia, USA
worlds on video, CCCS, Florence, Italy
Drei Farben-rot, Rohkunstbau, Berlin, Germany
Scenes de sud, Musee d’art Contemporain, Nimes, France
L’impresa dell’arte, Pan, Naples, Italy

 

2007
Skulptur Projekte Munster 07, Munster, Germany
History will repeat itselF, HMKV, Dortmund and KW, Berlin, Germany
Bird watching, Foreman art gallery, bishops university, Quebec, Canada

 

2006
Video Venice, Adelaide art festival, Australia
Homesick, Akureyri Art Museum, Iceland
Holyland: Diaspora and the Desert, Heared Museum, Phoenix, USA
Dream and Trauma, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin, Germany
radical closeure – 52nd international short film festival, Oberhausen, Germany
Guy Ben-Ner, Misaki Kawai, Take floor, Tokyo, Japan

 

2005
Greater NY, P.S.1, NY, USA
who is the protagonist, Guild & Greyshkul, New York, USA
Brooklyn, Futura, Prague, Czech Republic

 

2004
Moby Dick At MoMA QNS Lobby Projections, NY, USA
video X, momenta, Brooklyn, NY, USA
video lounge – Vox Populi, Philadelphia, USA
Becoming father- becoming infant, The Bronx museum, NY, USA
storytelling, George Eastman house, Rochester, USA
Realismusstudio- tainment, NGBK, Berlin, Germany
Art Focus, Jerusalem, Israel
wild boy, premiers, MoMA, NY, USA
Video Zone 2, Israel

 

2003
Brewster 2003, Site-specific art event, Brewster, Yor

 

2002
Enough about me, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, New York, USA

 

2001
Video one, Hifa museum, Hifa, Israel
New Israel video art, Tel Aviv cinema-tech, Israel
Hifa cinema-tech, Israel
Men at home, Kalisher gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
The 33rd year- Artists against the occupation, Beit h’aam, Tel Aviv & Um el Phahem, Tel Aviv, Israel
House hold, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

 

2000
Video marathon, Art In General, New York, USA
Israeli video art, the Tel Aviv cinema-tech, Israel
ZimZum, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Germany

 

1999
Israeli Video art, the Tel Aviv cinema-tech, Tel Aviv, Israel
Berkeley’s island, Hagada hasmalit, Tel Aviv, Israel

 

1998
L’art dans le mond, passage de Retz, Paris, France
Double ravage, Centre Re’gional d’art contemporian, Sète, France
Good kids-bad kids, the Israel museum, Jerusalem, Israel

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024
We’ve lost, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Swiss

 

2023
Retrospective, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

Meet me. Tie me. Wet me., Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

 

2019
Solo exhibition, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK

 

2017
Escape Artists, Pinksummer, Genoa, Italy

 

2016
Escape Artists, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

 

2014
Soundtrack, Postmasters, NY, USA
Guy Ben Ner/ at home, Anderson gallery, Richmond, USA

 

2013
Soundtrack, pinksummer Gallery, Genoa, Italy
Sommer gallery’ Tel Aviv, Israel
aspect Ration Gallery, Chicago, USA

 

2012
Guy Ben-Ner – Konrad Fischer Galerie – Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Guy Ben-Ner- Stealing beauty- Media/Retail space- MOCCA, Canada
Guy Ben Ner, The IBB Videolounge, Berlinishe Gallery, Berlin, Germany

 

2011
Name Dropping, Gimpel Fils Gallery, London, UK
Spies, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK

 

2010
Flying lessons, Konrad Fischer gallery, Duesseldorf, Germany
Second Nature, Postmasters gallery, NY, USA

 

2009
Thursday the 12th, MasMOCA, USA
Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico city, Mexico
Second nature, Konrad Fischer Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Second nature, pinksummer Gallery , Genoa, Italy

 

2008
Real Life, Ron Mueck/Guy Ben Ner, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Stealing Beauty, NYA Kalmar Kunstmuseum, Sweden
Stealing Beauty, Postmasters gallery, NY, USA
Wild Boy, Objectif, Antwerp, Belgium
Instructions included, Zacheta- National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

Cinema Arsenal, Berlin, Germany
impact event, Impact, Utrecht , Holland

 

2007
Musee D’art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Stealing beauty, Gimple Fils gallery, London, UK
Stealing Beauty, DAAD Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Kunsthalle Wien, ursula blickle videolounge, Wien, Austria

Portrait, 53rd international short film festival, Oberhausen, Germany
KunstFilm Biennale, Koeln, Germany

 

2006
Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
Treehouse kit, Postmasters gallery, NY, USA
Wild Boy, Konrad Fischer gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany
Guy Ben-Ner: Selected works 1999-2004, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia
Self portrait as a family man, CAC, Tel Aviv, Israel

 

2005
The Israeli Pavilion, The Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
Wild boy, Postmasters, NY, USA
Honey, I shrunk the kids”, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Wild Boy, International short film festival Detmonld, Germany
Wild Boy, the 51st International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany

 

2003
Elia- a story of an Ostrich chick, the Hertzeliya Museum, Israel
Moby Dick, Postmasters gallery, New York, USA

 

2001
The trilogy, A screening at the Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya, Israel

 

1998
20% more for free, Julie M gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

 

1995
Wet me, The Hertzeliya Museum, Hertzeliya, Israel
Selected Screenings