Yochai Avrahami's work includes sculptures, videos and installations. In recent years, he has researched the exhibition and presentation of images in military museums, memorials of atrocities and visitor centers. He has held exhibitions in a variety of places, including the Artists Studio’s Gallery (2013) in Tel Aviv, Israel; the Museum of Modern Art (2010) in Gyeonggi, South Korea; the Center for Contemporary Art (2008) in Tel Aviv, Israel; the ACC Gallery (2008) in Weimar, Germany; and the Herzliya Museum (2004) in Herzliya, Israel. He has participated in group exhibitions at the 31st São Paulo Biennial (2014); 6th Taipei Biennial (2008) in Taiwan; the 9th Istanbul Biennial (2005) in Turkey; and the Tel Aviv Museum (2002) in Israel. He won the Israeli Ministry of Culture Award in 2011 and the Israeli National Lottery Award for the Arts in 2004. He has worked in collaboration with the theater. Avrahami was the director of the Art Institute of Oranim Academic College in Tivon, Israel and teaching at the Bezalel Academy of Fine Art in Jerusalem. Avrahami is Member of Bezalel Academy Teaching center.
Born 1970, Afula, Israel
Lives in Tel Aviv
Director of the Oranim College Art Institute
Teaching in Bezalel Academy, Dept. of Fine Arts
Solo exhibitions:
2021 share our History, outdoor sculpture and the The Israeli Center for Digital Arts, Holon
2019 The redeeming Wrecks. ACC Gallery, Weimar
2014 The Mount of Hercules, Academy of the Arts of the World, Cologne
2013 Album, The Artists' Studios Gallery, Tel Aviv
2010 Gelatin, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan
Uzi, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2008 Mistrust the parks, ACC Gallery, Weimar
2004 The Negotiations continue, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzlia
2003 Yochai Aavrahami, Åkerby sculpture park, Nora, Örebro
1997 Yochai Avrahami, The Artist`s Studios Gallery, Tel-Aviv
Selected group exhibitions:
2020 from the bauhaus to the Kibbutz, galerie drei ringe, Leipzig
2018 "50 Years after '50 Years of the Bauhaus' 1968", WKV Stuttgart
KEDEM–KODEM–KADIMA, Center for Contemporary Art (@ The Lobby Art Space), Tel Aviv
Neomonumental, The Israeli Center for Digital Arts, Holon
2017 Cheeky concrete, World Zionist Organization Building + The Kibbutz Movement Building, Tel Aviv
The 11th Kaunas Biennial, Lithuania
Conditions of Political Choreography, NBK, Berlin
The Dangerous Professors, Triumph School, Chicago, Il,USA
More Love Hours than Can Ever Be Repaid, Raw-Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
2016 Conditions of Political Choreography, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
The Black Art, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
2014 the 31st São Paulo Biennial
2013 Histories, Israeli Center for Digital Arts, Holon
2012 Scholars, Bat Yam Museum, Bat Yam
2011 Blowing on Hairy Shoulder, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Philadelphia, PA
According to Foreign Sources, Israeli Center for Digital Arts, Holon
Where to?, Digital Art Lab, Holon
On the Road to Nowhere, Ashdod Museum of Art
The Israeli Ministry of Culture prizes winner's exhibition. Ramat Gam Museum of Art
2010 Island, Local Collaboration Project, Gyeonggi Creation Center, Ansan
2009 Art TLV, Tel Aviv
Construction event, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Cucumbers' season, The Carmel Market, Tel Aviv
Never looked better, Diaspora Museum, Tel Aviv
The Falll, Panorama builsing, Tel Aviv
2008 The 6th Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
Art TLV, Tel Aviv
Kikar Hamedina, Aber Art Gallery, Tel aviv
The Israeli Ministry of Culture Prizes Winner's exhibition. Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa,
Israeli Shots, Asperger Gallery, Berlin
Layla, Collaboration of AAI and INGA Gallery , New York
Stammtisch.Suchtrupp.Gartenarbeit. , ACC gallery, Weimar
The Implied Spectator , Tmuna Theatre gallery, Tel Aviv
2007 OK VIDEO MILITIA, Jakarta
In The Time Tunnel, ByArt Projects Gallery, Tel Aviv
Eifo BeHeifo, The Paris Sq Carmelit Station, Haifa
Avi Ran memorial sculpture park, Haifa
A Voyage to prehistoric planet. Yehuda Marguza 36, Jaffa
2006 Liminal Spaces, the Museum of Contemporary Art (Mfzk), Leipzig
People, Land, State, The Israely Center of Digital Art, Holon
"Mini Israel", The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2005 The 9th international Istanbul biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
2004 TerrorVision, Exit Art, New York, NY
Kir Royal, The Midrasha Art School Gallery in Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv,
Young Artist Prize winners exhibition, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa,
2003 Young Israeli Art, The O`Hana and Nelfort Foundations, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Tel-Aviv,
HautNahOst , Inter Art, Frankfurt
(In collaboration with Yoav Miller) Why Not, Haifa University Art Gallery, Haifa
2002 The Land of Shadow, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Tel-Aviv
Invisible power, Reading site, Tel-Aviv
2000 The America Israel Cultural Foundation winners, The museum of Israeli Art, Ramat-Gan
1994 Bugrashov beach, Art Focus 1994. Tel Aviv
Dual exhibitions:
2010 (With Karin Eliyahu), Dogs on the carpet, ISLAND, local collaboration project of Gyeonngi Creation Center, Daebodo Island, Ansan
2008 (With Karin Eliyahu), Inga Gallery of contemporary art, Tel Aviv
2001 (With Yoav Miller) Shablarists, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel-Aviv
Special projects:
2018 (with Nir Shaulof) The Herzliya show: a TV reality show of Art School class in TV studios. collaboration between Bezalel Academy and
United Studios of Israel, Herzliya, Israel
2012 (with Maya Elran) Visit to Mount. Zion, Culture season, Jerusalem
2012 (with Doron Tavori) In the Land of Gilead, Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon; Tel Aviv University Theater Department; Nachmani Theater,
Tel Aviv
2010 (with Doron Tavori) Meeting Point in Infinite Space, Ansemble Herzliya Theatre, Herzliya
2008 Ruin Slam, a collaboration with ColorViolence, Abe Monk and Philipp Oehme, ACC gallery, Weimar
The Bus Tour, Autobiography of a City, Jaffa
2007 Arcadia – A European Dream ,Plein Air at the Wielandgut in Oßmannstedt
Conferences:
2014 Research, study and creation, Oranim Collage, Qaryat Tivon, Israel
A Report to an Academy, the Academy of the Arts of the World, Cologne, Germany
2013 Doing Memory, Vienna Art Academy
2012 Performance - Memory – Museum: Commemorating the Past in a Contested Present,
Ben Gurion university, Beer Sheva
Making good again, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
2010 the 4th Lexicon conference, Tel Aviv University
2009 Conflictual Art, Haifa University
Awards and Scholarships:
2013 The Academy of the Arts of the World, Cologne
Yehosuha Rabinowitz foundation, Tel Aviv
2010 The Ministor of Culture Prize
Gyeonggi Creation Center, Ansan
2008 Joshua Rabinowitz Foundation for special projects: "The Bus Tour"
2007 Creation encouragement prize, The Israeli Ministry of Culture
Plein Air at the Wielandgut in Oßmannstedt
International studio program, ACC Gallery, Weimar,
2005 Israel foreign affair cultural dept support an abroad Project
2004 Israel foreign affair cultural dept support an abroad Project
2004 Israeli National Lottery support an abroad Project
2003 Young Artist Prize, Ministry of science and Culture
Artist-in-Residence at Akerby Sculpture park, Nora, Örebro
2000 American-Israel Culture Foundation Scholarship