GUY BEN-NER

Guy Ben-Ner(1969, Ramat Gan, Israel), lives and works in 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

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023

Room by Room: Concepts, Themes, and Artists in The Rachofsky Collection, The Warehouse Dallas Art Foundation, Dallas, TX, USA

 

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, Saint 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, Tel Aviv, 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, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK

 

2012

Künstlerkinder von Runge bis Richter, von Dix bis Picasso – Kunsthalle in Emden, Emden, Germany

Phänomen Wohlstand – Motorenhalle – riesa efau. Kultur Forum Dresden, Germany

Project 35 – Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt – Centre d’Art, Biel/Bienne, Biel, Switzerland

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, New York, USA

stage Presence- theatricality in art & Media, SFMoMA, San Francisco, California, 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, a cura di aya Miron, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

Possession, a cura di 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 , New York, USA

Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven, Bureau For Open Culture, North Adams, Massachusetts, USA

 

2010

Bilder in Bewegung, Museum Ludwig, Koeln, Germany

Kunstfilmbiennale Koeln, KW, Berlin, Germany

Adaptation, Philbrook museum, Tulsa, OK, 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, Neaples, 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, Arizona, 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, New York, USA

who is the protagonist, Guild & Greyshkul, New York, USA

Brooklyn, Futura, Prague, Czech Republic

 

2004

Moby Dick At MoMA QNS Lobby Projections, New York, USA

video X, momenta, Brooklyn, New York, USA

video lounge – Vox Populi, Philadelphia, USA

Becoming father- becoming infant, The Bronx museum, New York, USA

storytelling, George Eastman house, Rochester, USA

Realismusstudio- tainment, NGBK, Berlin, Germany

Art Focus, Jerusalem, Israel

wild boy, premiers, MoMA, 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, Tel Aviv, 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 SHOWS

2024

We’ve lost, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland

 

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, New York, 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, 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, Düsseldorf, Germany

Second Nature, Postmasters gallery, New York, 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, Switzerland

Stealing Beauty, Postmasters gallery, New York, USA

Wild Boy, Objectif, Antwerp, Belgium

Instructions included, Zacheta- National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, Varsaw, 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, Vienna, Austria

Portrait, 53rd international short film festival, Oberhausen, Germany

KunstFilm Biennale, Cologne, Germany

 

2006

Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France

Treehouse kit, Postmasters gallery, New York, USA

Wild Boy, Konrad Fischer gallery, Düsseldorf, 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, Italy

Wild boy, Postmasters, New York, 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 Hertzeliya Museum of Art, Hertzeliya, Israel

 

1998

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

 

1995

Wet me, The Hertzeliya Museum, Hertzeliya, Israel

Selected Screenings