Vardi Bobrow
Education:
2008 – 2012 Graduate of The Faculty of Arts - Hamidrasha at Beit Berl College. Israel
1980 – 1983 Graduate of Graphic Design Studies at the Tel Aviv Technion. Israel
Residency:
2022 AiR Kunstnarhuset Messen April – June 2022, Norway
2019 Nakanojo Residency and Nakanojo Biennale 2019 – Japan
2019 Cassis Artist Residency – France
2016 LNAF Residency - La Napoule Art Foundation – France
Special project:
2019 'Stretching the Limit', commissioned installation for the institute for the J.F Museum
of Nano Technology, Bar Ilan University. Curator: Tal Israeli
2017-18 'Old, Fake News' Weitzman science institute Gallery, Rehovot, Curator: Yivsam Azgad
2017 'Connected', a wall project in the city - Beit Tami Tel Aviv, curator: Carmit Blumenson
Solo Exhibitions:
2023 (Upcoming) Cinema Amal, Municipal Gallery of Kfar Sava, Israel; Curator: Hagar Raban. (Catalog)
2022 'Worker', The Lab – art Space Gallery, Curator: Sharon Tuval
2018 'Rahama' Dana Gallery, Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, Israel; Curator: Ravit Harari
2016 'Cloud Reader', Beit Dondikov-Municipal Gallery of Rehovot, Israel; Curator: Ora Kraus. (Catalog (
2014 'Brush Landscape', Tel Aviv Artist house, Israel Curator: Vera Pilpoul
Duo and trio exhibitions:
2023 (Upcoming) 'The Wall', (with Noga Yudkvik Etzion, Tel Aviv Art Place, Curator Yair Barak.
2022 'Within Us', The Gallery at Kibbutz Givat Haim, Curators: Hanush Morag and Ruth Chinsky-Amitay
2022 # 4 Experience, Zuzu Gallery, curator: Rotem Ritov.
2018 'Tsunami' The Rishon Lezion new artists' house, curators: Vera Pilpoul and Arie Berkowitz.
2016 '145', Bezalel 7 Gallery, Jerusalem.
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2021 'Digging Down – Art of the Pre-Future', The Bible Lands Museum, Curator: Shira Friedman.
2021 'The Way We Survive', Petah Tikva Museum, Curator: Dr. Irena Gordon.
2021 'Beauty Salon', Gallery 51, The Municipal Gallery in Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut, Curator: Nitza Perry.
2021 'Seder Kotan', the gallery in Kibbutz Givat Haim, curators: Hanush Morag and Ruth Chinsky-Amitay.
2021 "Up to the Knee", Tel Aviv a place for art, curator: Noga Yudkebik Etzion.
2020 'Groundwater', Ramat Hasharon Contemporary Art Gallery, Curator: Harari Saturation.
2020 Tel Aviv Biennale of Art and Design, Eretz Israel Museum,
Curator: Henrietta Eliezer Brunner, Yuval Saar
2020 'Sisterhood 2', Online Exhibition, Curators: Shulamit Nuss Hagit Peleg Rotem
2020 'Fifty Shades of Yellow', Gallery on the Cliff, Netanya, Curator: Dr. Guy Morag.
2019 Print Screen Festival, Center for Digital Art, Holon, Curator: Dr. Lior Zalmanson.
2019 'Line. Action', The 7th National Jerusalem Drawing Biennial, Curator: Hadas Maor.
2019 'Tashlich', Neve Schechter Gallery, Tel Aviv Curator: Shira Fridman.
2019' 'Human Nature: Shared Sensitivities', Jerusalem Biennale, Wolfson Museum Jerusalem,
Curator: Dr. Smadar Sheffi
2019 'Reflection', Neve Shechter Gallery, Tel Aviv, Curator: Shira Friedman.
2018 'Credit2', Eretz Israel Museum Ramat Aviv, Curators Shulamit Nos and Vera Pilpoul.
2018 'The soap cried very much', Netanya Municipal Gallery, curator Dr. Guy Morag.
2018 'Bad Black Chimpanzee as Forgetting', Tel Aviv Art Place, Curator: Nir Harmat
2019 Nakanojo Biennale 2019, 'Like a Membrane for an Island', Japan
2017 'EMPIRE II', Group Video Art Exhibition, Castello 30122, Riva Dei Sette, Martiri Venice, Italy
2017 'Sisterhood', Herzelilinblum Museum, Tel Aviv; Israel, Curator: Shulamit Nuss, Vera Pilpoul
2016 'La Nap Neuf', Chateau de la Napoule, (during residency) France
2016 'Bread and Roses', Sale Exhibition "Working Women" Workshops artists Kalisher, Tel Aviv
2016 'Wire (Less) Connections', The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Curator: Daniela Shalev
2016 'Credit1', Exhibition for the Israeli Spirit Association Curator: Shulamit Nos
2016 'Band-Aid', Sale Exhibition for Physicians for Human Rights, Curators: Vardit Gross and Carmelit Galili
2016 'Drawing Salon', Florentine 45, Tel Aviv, Curator Gilat Nadavi
2015 'The Red Sea', Yanko Dada Museum, Ein Hod, Israel, Curator: Raya Sommer
2015 'Tracing Oblivion', Group Exhibition, Galerie Mémoire de l’Avenir, Paris, France.
Curators: Vera Pilpoul, Margalit Berriet
2014 'Epidermis', Florentin 45 Contemporary Art Space, Tel Aviv, Israel Curators: Vera Pilpoul
2014 'Sustainable Empires', Palazzo Albrizzi, Venice, Italy
2012 Graduate Exhibition "Hamidrasha Art School" Beit-Berl, Israel (with catalog)
Publication (Selection)
2020 Gilad Meltzer, Haaretz, Groundwater Exhibition link
Chanel 1 TV - Cultural Agent, Review, about Groundwater exhibition,
The Gallery in Ramat Hasharon. link
Science and Art Festival. TRANSMEET International Art and Science Festival
The Peter Museum of Art and Nanotechnology, Bar Ilan University about 'Starching the limits' project
at Bar Ilan University link
Sigal Namir on the Biennale of Arts and Design at the Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv link
2019 Gilad Meltzer, Haaretz, The Drawing Jerusalem Biennale, link
Chanel 1 TV, Cultural Agent on exhibition 'Human Nature: Shared Sensitivities' link
Art and Science – Podcast "The Journey of Scientific Magic" at The Weizmann Institute of Science link
2018 IMBC, About Solo exhibition 'Ruhama' Review link
- Dr Smadar Sheffi.
2017 Channel 10 Israeli Television, April 2017 link
The Weizmann International Magazine of Science & People, issue no 89 November 2017 link
2016 Efifio Design Magazine November 2016 link
Catalog (Selected)
2021 'Beauty Salon', The Municipal gallery of Modiin Maccabim Reut, curator: Nitza Perry.
2021 'Earth Water Air', Ramat Hasharon Municipal Gallery, Curator: Ravit Harari.
2021 Nakanojo Biennale, Japan 2019, (Due to the corona the catalog came out two years late.
2020 Tel Aviv Biennale of Art and Design, Eretz Israel Museum
2019 The 7th National Jerusalem Drawing Biennial Artists' House, Curator: Hadas Maor. 2019
2019 'Human Nature: Shared Sensitivities', The Jerusalem Biennale, Wolfson Museum Jerusalem,
Curator: Dr. Smadar Sheffi
2018 Credit2, Group Exhibition, Eretz Israel Museum, Curators: Shulamit Nos Hagit Peleg Rotem
2017 Art on Campus catalogue for the exhibition 'Old, Fake News' The Weizmann Institute of Science
2017 'Credit', Group Exhibition, Shenkar College, Curators: Shulamit Nuss Vera Pilpoul
2016 'Wire (Less) Connections', Group Exhibition, The Israel Museum, Curator: Daniela Shalev
2016 "Cloud Reader", Solo exhibition, The Municipal Gallery of Rehovot, Israel, Curator: Ora Kraus
2016 Hidden Tach, Group Exhibition, Municipal Gallery, Rehovot, Curator: Ora Krauss
Grants
2019 Independent Creators Fund Grant.
Collection
Weitzman science institute
Vera Pilpoul Collection
The Yanko Dada Museum
Sharon Tuval Collection
Miri Kremolovsky Collection
Keren Bar Gil Collection
Dr. Smadar Sheffi Collection
R. Barnea