Belle Shafir
30x30 cm Crocheted Horse hair in perspex (2012) 4,500 NIS
30x30 cm Crocheted Horse hair in perspex (2012) 4,500 NIS
Education
1984-88 Studied at the Avni Institute of Art, Tel-Aviv.
Selected Solo exhibitions:
2013 Nuchal Translucency, Artist house, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Icastica, Glocal Women, 1. Internaltional Art Exhibition of Arezzo Italy.
2011 Fertility and Vegetativeness, Museum Ein-Harod, Israel.
2007 Eugenics, Municipality Gallery, Ra'anana, Israel.
2006 Insitu, Artists' House, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2005 Close-up, Artist's house, Herzlya, Israel.
2003 Venus verspinnt, Gallery im b.i.b., Hannover, Germany.
2002 Portraitscriptum, Sara Erman Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
The Path between a Maze, Sexual lust and Altar, Seamgallery, Megadim, Israel
1998 Lapillus, Many H. Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
1997 Circle of consciousness, The Constant Sculpture Gallery, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
1995 Naturalis, Artists’ House, Jerusalem, Israel.
1994 For the tree of the Field is Man’s Life, Petach-Tikva Museum, Israel.
Galerie Maya Wildewuur, Hochhalen, Holland.
1992 Sarah Erman Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Selected Group exhibitions:
2013 "Knitted Registry" CSP Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2012 "Celebrating Kindred Spirits and Strange Bed Fellows", A.I.R.Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, - U.S.A.
"Cabinets of Wonder in Contemporary Art ", Museum of Contemorary Art, Herzliya
2011 “A women’s work is never done” A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A..
“Middle Yeast”,Palazzo Sant’ Elia, Palermo, Italy.
2009 "Not Necessarely Feminine (?)", Pyramida Gallery, Haifa, Israel.
2008 “Memory of the Future”,Cite internationale des arts, Paris, France.
“Second Croatian Biennale of Illustration”, Klovicevi dvori Gallery, Zagreb, Croatian.
2007 “Simanashi”, Artist's house, Herzlya, Israel.
2005 “Red”, Municipality Gallery, Kfar-Saba, Israel.
2004 “Moz – Muse II”, Gallery “526”, Lodz, Poland.
2003 “Displaced Self”, Installation, Sakshi Gallery, Bombay, India.
2002 “Ambivalenzen”, Frauen Museum, Bonn, Germany.
“Imaginaire féminin”, OPEN2002, Venice Lido, Italy.
2001 “The Mundane Muse”, Arad Museum, Arad; Janco-Dada Museum, Ein Hod; Rehovot - Municipal Art Gallery, Rehovot, Israel.
“Verfügungsgrün” Hochbunker, Köln, Germany.
1999 “Earth”, Um el Fachem Gallery, Galilee, Israel.
“Discourse”, Static Gallery, Liverpool, England.
“Wir borgen uns ein Museum”, Das verborgene Museum, Berlin, Germany.
1998 “The Garden-A Metaphor”, The University Botanical Gardens, Jerusalem, Israel.
“Storytime”, Candid Gallery, London, and Static Gallery, Liverpool, England, Artist's - House, Jerusalem and Nazareth, Israel.
1997 “60 Years of the Blue Square”, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
1993 “Sculpture in the Little Forest”, Ra'anana, Israel.
Selected Projects:
2009 Installation “& Co”, Sculpture park, Cipressa, Italy.
2002 “Temple del l'Amore”, Arte Sella, Borgo Vasulgana, Italy.
2000 “Cyfuniad 2001”, International Workshop with Residence, Liverpool and Plas Caerdeon, - Wales, England.
1999 “The place where Art and Ecology meet”, Britanni Forest, Jerusalem, Israel.
“Naked Venus” Site Specific Sculpture, Akerby Sculpturepark, Nora, Sweeden.
“Love Temple”, Khoj, India.
1997 International Artists Symposium, Wiesbaden, Germany.
1996 International Sculpture Project, Göerlitz, Germany.
1994 “The Seer's Well”, Site Specific Sculpture: The Grizedale Forest, Lake District, England.
Price:
2005 Special price of the World Calligraphy Biennale of Jallabuk-do,5th., South Korea.
Selected Visiting Artist:
2012 15th. Sommerakademie Risa Efau, Dresden, Germany.
2010 Fine Art Department, Guest James Monthford, Rhode Island College,Providence,USA.
2009 Residence in the "Cite des Arts", Paris, France.
2004 Visiting Artist, University of Wollongong, Australia.
Selected Collections and Commisions:
2010 Davis Museum, Barcelona, Spain.
2004 Modern Art Museum of Portofino, Italy.
Private Collections in Germany, Holland, India, Israel, Thailand, Korea, England, France etc.
