Hilla Ben Ari
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| Hilla Ben Ari | |
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| Born | April 26, 1972 Yagur, Israel |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Israeli |
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| Known for | Video art, sculpture, Installation art, print |
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Hilla Ben Ari (Hebrew: הילה בן ארי, born April 26, 1972) is an Israeli multidisciplinary artist creating in Video art, sculpture, Installation art and print.
Biography[edit]
Hilla Ben Ari was born in 1972 in Kibbutz Yagur, Israel. Ben Ari holds a BFA from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, where she specialized in the Ceramics Department. She obtained an MA in Poetics and Comparative Literature from Tel Aviv University.
The central theme of Ben Ari's works is the female body, which serves as a metaphorical junction where private, social and political conventions, restrictions and constructs are fused together,[1] In many of Ben Ari's projects, the body is captured holding still in challenging poses. Senior Israeli curator Galia Bar Or defines Ben Ari's focus on the strenuous mental effort depicted in the female body as one “clearly rooted in the tension between a skeletal structure and a body pushing beyond its outer limits... [Ben Ari's focus is] on extreme psychophysical states, performatively extending the limits of both body and psyche, structure and texture.”[2]
Dr. Shaul Setter, a scholar and former art critic for Israeli daily Haaretz, has written that Ben Ari's video works “suggest a different model for a ‘feminine work.’ In the face of ‘femininity’ as gushing and fluid, as the blurring of boundaries between self and other and as exaggerated attachment – in other words, as failure in the voyage of separation, or as a celebration of non-separative – the feminine appears here in honed and cohesive embodiments.”[3]
Ben Ari's works blur the boundaries between visual arts and performing arts. Such creations, writes curator Tal Yahas, “make up a new spatial choreography that conjoins visual art and dance, with their different modes of composition and conditions of viewing.”[4]
In recent years, Ben Ari's practice has turned to archival research. Exploring the work of forgotten Israeli artists, she has created a trilogy in tribute to the work of three different creators. Timna Seligman, senior curator at Ticho House – The Israel Museum, where Ben Ari presented the third chapter of her trilogy, observes that “It is a self-reflective process that, beyond bringing these creators back into the spotlight, places herself into direct dialogue with them and their materials, conflicts, and inner fire, which she discerns in both their art and her own.[5]
Exhibitions[edit]
Ben Ari has had solo exhibitions in central Israeli museums, such as Ticho House – The Israel Museum, the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Mishkan Museum of Art. She participated in numerous group exhibitions in Israel and overseas, including the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Israel), the Orange County Museum of Art (California, U.S.), the MAXXI - National Museum of 21st Century Art (Italy), and the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taiwan) as part of the 2009 Asian Art Biennial.
Gallery[edit]
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Dawn (2011) single channel projection, (1:51 min., loop)
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Once I (2011), Woodcut, 34 x 36 cm
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Eight Exhalations III (2011), Etching, soft-ground, sugar-lift, spit-bite and embossing, 34 x 74 cm
Selected Awards and Grants [edit]
- 2021 The Foundation for Independent Creators Grant, Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sports
- 2021 Grant by Impact Collections, with the assistance of Outset Contemporary Art Fund
- 2019 The Visiting Israeli Artists Program Award, Israel Institute, U.S.
- 2016 Prize for an Established Video Artist, Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sport
- 2016 Jacob Pins Prize for an Israeli Graphic Artist, The Israel Museum
- 2016 Project grant from Artis
- 2016 Premio Combat Prize in the Video category, Italy
- 2016 The Ostrovsky Family Fund Award in the Israeli Video Art and Experimental Cinema category, Jerusalem Film Festival.
- 2016 Project Grant from Outset Contemporary Art Fund
- 2014 Eugene Kolb Prize for Israeli Graphic Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
- 2014 Hadassah–Brandeis Institute Research Award, U.S.
- 2012 Prize to Encourage Creativity, Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sport
- 2008 Gallery Award by Optica - International Videoart Festival, Spain
Exhibitions[edit]
Select Solo Exhibitions[edit]
- 2021 The Voice that Calls to Itself, Ticho House – The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
- 2019 Naamah – A Tribute to Nahum Benari, Gary R. Libby Gallery, University of Florida, Florida, U.S.
- 2017 Rethinking Broken Lines – A Tribute to Heda Oren, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel
- 2015 Naamah – A Tribute to Nahum Benari, Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel
- 2013 Lucretia, Residency Program #4, MACRO Museum, Rome, Itly
- 2012 Lacuna, Gallery 39 for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
- 2008 The Left Shoulder, Gallery 39 for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
- 2004 Diana, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel
- 2001 To Hold, the Kibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Select Group Exhibitions [edit]
- 2019 100 Years of Women's Suffrage, German Bundestag, Berlin, Germany
- 2018 The Latest: New Works from the Prints and Drawings Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
- 2015 The 18th Japan Media Arts Festival, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
- 2014 Fair Play, MAXXI Museum, Rome, Italy
- 2014 The Chicago Triangle, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
- 2013 Traces V: The 5th Biennale for Drawing in Israel, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem, Israel
- 2012 OC Collects, Orange County Museum of Art, California, U.S.
- 2012 Daily Reports, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
- 2011 Curators &CO., Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Israel
- 2011 Numerator And Denominator, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel
- 2009 Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
- 2009 Videonale 12: Festival Of Contemporary Video Art, Bonn Museum of Art, Germany
- 2009 Paperworks, Ticho House -The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
- 2005 Togetherness, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
References[edit]
- ↑ see: Gordon, Irena, Crimson Peels, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem, 2011
- ↑ “How we bent a rod into a bow, how we stretched a tendon string,” curatorial catalog text by Galia Bar Or, 2016
- ↑ “Israeli Video Artist Offers a New Model for ‘Feminine’ Work,” art review by Shaul Setter, Haaretz, 2017
- ↑ Hilla Ben Ari: Rethinking Broken Lines – A Tribute to Heda Oren | In Her Footsteps, curatorial text by Tal Yahas, 2017
- ↑ ”Hilla Ben Ari: The Voice that Calls to Itself, curatorial catalog text by Timna Seligman, 2022, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
External links[edit]
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hilla Ben Ari. |
- Hilla Ben Ari official website
- Hilla Ben Ari at the Jerusalem Print Workshop
- In the Studio with Hilla Ben Ari, interview by Joy Bernard, Collectors Agenda, 2022
- Israeli Video Artist Offers a New Model for 'Feminine' Work, Haaretz, March 9, 2017
- The Voice that Calls to Itself: Hilla Ben Ari's solo exhibition at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 2021
- Hilla Ben Ari: Rethinking Broken Lines – A Tribute to Heda Oren, In Her Footsteps, 2017
- Naamah – A Tribute to Nahum Benari, 2016
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