| Time: | October 21, 2024 – December 19, 2024 |
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COAL SCARS
Photography exhibition by Dana Arieli
Curated by Sandra Oehy
18th of October –-19th of December 2024
@IGmA exhibition space, Stuttgart
Opening hours: (With some exceptions) Monday to Thursday 9-12 am & 2-5pm and upon request.
For guided tours (with the curator), please contact us in advance: sekretariat@igma.uni-stuttgart.de / +49 711 685 83320
The exhibition opened with an artist talk as part of the program of IGmA-conference “Antisemitismus im kulturellen Feld” (18th–20th October 2024).
About the exhibition:
The series ‘Coal Scars’ includes creations by Dana Arieli, a history professor and a photographer born and based in Jerusalem.
Arieli documents the scars in the Western Negev - South of Israel since 2014.
On October 7, 2021 she opened a solo exhibition under the same title in Yad Mordechai Museum in the south of Israel. The exhibition was devoted to documenting the relics of various military operations as well as wounded landscapes that bare testimony to previous wars, mainly 1948 Israeli Independence War, and to the exclusion of the Palestinian past in those territories so close to the Gaza Strip. She was certain the work on the series was completed.
Following the events of October 7, 2023 and the brutal massacre of her friend Gideon Pauker, that was about to celebrate his 80th birthday a few days after, she went back to Kibbutz Nir Oz and started documenting there again the atrocities of the terror attack. In this exhibition we can see a combination of her works mainly form the cities of Ofakim and Sderot as well as the Kibbutzim of Nir Oz, Nahal Oz, Be’eri and Nativ Ha’asara. Three of her works are included in the exhibition “In Their Image: Album Darom” at Petach Tikva Museum of Art. Arieli published recently the book “Album Darom: Israeli Photographers in Tribute to citizens of the South” in which 107 Israeli Photographers participate. (Yediot Ahronot books, Tel Aviv, 2024). This is a preliminary commemoration album to the events of October 7.
She is currently working on North Album using the same concept.
About the artist:
Dana Arieli was born in Jerusalem (1963) where she lives today. She is a professor of history and a photographer. She completed her PH. D. titled "Between Aesthetics to Politics: National-Socialism and Plastic Arts" at the Hebrew University in 1996, and was postdoctoral fellow at Oxford. Her field of research and creation focuses on the interrelations between Art and Politics in both totalitarian and democratic systems. She studied Photography in Camera Obscura and Bazalel, Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem (Partly).
Arieli is an Associate Professor at the Design Faculty in HIT, Israel. During 2012-2018 she served as the dean of design faculty at HIT. Between 2004-2012 she served as the head of the History and Theory Department in Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. From 2018 until today she is a senior faculty staff at the Mandel Institute for Leadership in Jerusalem. Arieli is also a curator of exhibitions dealing mainly with Art, Society and Politics in Israel.
Arieli published numerous books and articles. Among the most recent are: “Album Darom: Israeli Photographer in tribute to People of the Western Negev”, Yedioth Ahronoth Books, 2024; “The Zionist Phantom”, Artist Book. Limited & Numbered Edition, 2021; “Empire in the Levant”, Israeli Police, Beit Shemesh (Photography Catalouge, editor: Yair Varon), 2019.
She exhibited in solo exhibitions in Israel and around the world. Her most recent solo exhibitions include: “Spandau and other Phantoms”, (Galerie Historischer Keller, Berlin-Spandau, 2024); “Haunting Shadow”, (Vitrina Gallery, HIT, Israel, 2024); “Reading the Past”, (Heussenstamm - Raum fuer Kunst, Frankfurt, 2023); “Coal Scars” (Yad Mordechai Museum, 2021); ”The Zionist Phantom”, (Virtual Exhibition due to covid 19 - Brandies University, 2021); “Plenum/Vacuum”, (Virtual Exhibition due to covid 19 - Yanko Dada Museum, 2020); “The Polish Phantom” (MOCAK, Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow, 2019).
Among her most recent participations in group exhibitions are: “A Tale from the South”, (Sinai Temple, los Angeles, 2024); “In Their Image: Album Darom”, (Petach Tikva Museum of Art, 2024); “Lieu de mémoire”, (Witness landscape, Institut national supérieur, Paris, 2023), “Presumably Alive”, (Jungle Book, Israeli Museum December 2022); “The Nazi Phantom”, (International Photography Festival, Tel Aviv, November 2022), “Hypocenter”, (Open University Gallery, 2022); “Button-Camera”, (Zeitgeist, Yavne Art Gallery, 2022); “A man in front of a Red Star”, (How Long is Now, Israel Museum, 2021); “Empire in the Levant”, Yanko Dada Museum, 2021; “The Zionist Phantom”, (Time -Space- Existence, Venice Biennial Architecture, 2021); “Echos”, Frankfurt 2020.
Arieli’s works are included in collections of the Israeli Museum Jerusalem, The Centre for Persecuted Arts, Solingen, Yad Vashem, Israel and many other private/public collections.
Portrait of Prof. Dana Arieli at Mandel Foundation.
There are 2 major photography sites that exhibit some of her work on her Phantoms project: https://phantoms.photography / http://zionist.phantoms.photography
About the curator:
Location/Address @IGmA exhibition space:
University of Stuttgart, IGmA Institute for Principles of Modern Architecture (Design and Theory), Keplerstrasse 11 (6th floor), 70174 Stuttgart, Germany
Contact: sekretariat@igma.uni-stuttgart.de / +49 711 685 83320
