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ZONAMACO 2023
Summer Wheat | Merav Kamel and Halil Balabin 1 - 12 Feb 2023 Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv is pleased to participate in the 2023 edition of ZⓈONAMACO México Arte Contemporáneo, at the Centro Citibanamex in Mexico City, from Wednesday, February 8 through Sunday, February 12, with a preview day on Wednesday, February 8. We will feature important works by American artist Summer Wheat (b. Oklahoma City, USA, 1977) and the Israeli duo Halil Balabin and Merav Kamel (b. Israel, 1987 and 1988), reflecting their different practices and research. Read more -
Between Four Walls
Ronit Baranga 27 Oct 2022 - 12 Jan 2023 Ronit Baranga’s solo exhibition Between Four Walls presents four series of works woven into one unit. The installation created especially for the gallery focuses on the home environment as an uncanny space, where the fantasies, fears and imaginations are expressed in a realistic way on the gallery floor. Baranga divided the exhibition into three arenas of the home: a dining room, a bathroom, and the bedroom. Each arena is typically inhabited by women, tools, and objects that are intended for personal, intimate and private use. Each piece is made of human-sized clay and is hand-painted in a hyper-realistic manner, with which a second glance reveals additional layers of tension, horror and passion.
In the uncanny space created in the gallery, there is no eating in the dining room. There is no food with which to eat, and, meanwhile, the utensils are engaged in sexual intimacy among themselves. The women in this space are also occupied with themselves and not with those around them. Contemplative, disintegrating, spreading. In this uncanny bedroom, no one sleeps. A woman is lying on her back, her eyes are wide open and her multiple breasts are falling apart from her, moving away from her. The breasts are not normal breasts but, rather, they have mouths instead of nipples, as if they want to tell us something. In the bathroom two figures are bathing, on their bodies a large tattoo and, upon closer inspection, a sexual body part is revealed, hidden in the black spots. The sink echoes the same idea, revealing its insides, but it is empty, containing nothing.
The fourth group of works is the cubes. Creatures built by combining and disassembling game cubes. This combination created living characters, who manage relationships with each other. Even the dishes on the dining table create, in their nakedness, human beings who interact with each other. But while tools have fingers and mouths, sensory organs that make them active, toys have the organs of babies: feet, mouths and noses. Sweetly, with a hint of horror, they conduct relationships of play among themselves.
In this uncanny space, the abundance overshadows the emptiness. The abundance of dishes which lack any food. The abundance of breasts which lack milk, and the abundance of toys which lack the presence of the child. Baranga creates a figurative space on the border between life and still life, which deals with an emotional state associated with the domestic space, and expresses it in a fantastic yet dark and threatening way. Ordinary objects from everyday life are given human body parts and the result is an unexpected and surreal combination elements that embody the complexity of the female body, on all its levels, in a disturbing but attractive way.
Ronit Baranga’s work has been shown in various museums and galleries around the world in solo exhibitions including: Størpunkt Gallery, Munich (2021); Beinart Gallery, Melbourne (2020); Booth Gallery, NYC (2018); Raanana Municipal Gallery, Raanana (2007); and in many other group exhibitions: KIRK Gallery, Denmark (2021); Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco (2020); Eretz Israel Museum, Tel-Aviv (2020); Abdül Mecid Efendi Museum, Istanbul (2019); Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa (2019); Akron Museum of Art, Akron, Ohio (2018); Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan (2016), and in the Banksy’s group exhibition “Dismaland” in Weston-super-Mare, UK (2015).
Baranga’s work is part of many museum and private collections, such as the The National Museum of Slovenia, Ljubljana, the Great China Museum, Jingdezhen, the Yingge Ceramics Museum, Yingge, Taiwan, the Ömer Koç Collection, Istanbul, The Hieronymus Collection, Richard and Alita Rogers Family Foundation, USA, Ann and Ari Rosenblatt Collection, Guy Baram Collection and Galila Barzilai-Hollander Collection.
Baranga holds a B.A. in Psychology and Literature from Haifa University; she studied Art History in Tel-Aviv University, and Fine Arts in Beit Berl College (‘HaMidrasha’), Israel.
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Vivarium
Elena Ceretti Stein September 17 - October 22, 2022 Elena Ceretti Stein's first solo exhibition at Braverman Gallery, Vivarium, is the outcome of two years of research. The room is transformed into a chamber of collected wonders and secrets,... Read more -
Navot Miller
Solo exhibition 26 May - 30 Jul 2022 Braverman Gallery is pleased to present Navot Miller’s first solo exhibition in Israel. Miller will show a series of oil paintings depicting scenarios that range between religion, masculinity and homoeroticism... Read more -
Titled Walls
Tigist Yoseph Ron 26 May - 30 Jul 2022 Tigist Yoseph Ron’s first exhibition at the gallery, Tilted Walls, displays a series of charcoal drawings representing different human figures portrayed in domestic environments. In the exhibition, Yoseph Ron touches... Read more -
Queendom
Ilit Azoulay 23 Apr - 27 Nov 2022 The Israel Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia features the internationally acclaimed artist Ilit Azoulay. Her work minutely scrutinizes how visual information is processed,... Read more -
Chapters
Uri Kloss 8 Apr - 30 Jun 2022 Braverman Gallery presents Chapters, the first solo show by Israeli artist Uri Kloss at the gallery. The exhibition displays oil and acrylic paintings on canvas, depicting the same moments of... Read more -
Expression Obsession Connection
group show 8 Apr - 20 May 2022 The group exhibition EXPRESSION OBSESSION CONNECTION will present selected works by Israeli and International artists. The works displayed in the exhibition deal with representations of the body through a multiplicity... Read more -
the moon is a mirror
6 Jan - 26 Mar 2022 Read more -
Paris Photo 2021
5 - 14 Nov 2021 Read more -
SALON
Group exhibition 30 Oct - 29 Dec 2021 Read more -
NIRA PEREG | TWILIGHT ZONES | תוספת שבת
8 Jul - 15 Oct 2021 Read more -
Summer Wheat Cut and Paste
20 May - 30 Jun 2021 Read more -
Biljana Djurdjević
17 Dec 2020 - 15 Feb 2021 Read more
