Pesi Girsch - bio |
1954 1968 Since 1986, Since 1992, |
Born
in Munich, Germany; Imigration to Israel; teaches photography at "Wizo France Art Highschool". teaches photography at the Art Department, Haifa University, Israel.
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Art Studies 1969 - 74 1972 - 74 1974 - 77 1982 - 87 |
Sculpture, with Rudi Lehmann, Givatayim, Israel Drawing, with Prof. Joseph Schwartzman (Meisterschuler of Kathe Kollwitz), Tel Aviv Sculpture, in the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich Photography and Teaching Certificate, the Art Teachers' Training College, Ramat-Hasharon, Israel
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Selected One-Artist Exhibitions | |
1988 1992 1994 1998
1998 2001
2003 |
Goethe Institute, Tel Aviv
(Catalogue) "The Aura of the Photographed", The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (Catalogue) Edition Gallery Wegmann, Grafing/Munich (Catalogue) "If one day in Purim, everybody by chance will disguise into Orthodox, will the Messiah come?" (The Israeli Season), Gallery "Passage de Retz", Paris Nelly Aman Gallery, Tel Aviv Nelly Aman Gallery, Tel Aviv "Natures Mortes", the Art Gallery, Kibbutz Lohamey Hageta'ot, Israel "Natures Mortes", Michael Hasenclever Gallery, Munich "Natures Mortes", Landesmuseum Oldenburg, Germany "Ritual Fringes" Fred Jahn Gallery Retrospective, Michael Hasenclever Gallery, Munich Retrospective, Municipal Gallery, Munster, Germany
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Selected Group Exhibitions | |
1989 1989 1989 1991 1992 1993 1994-7 1995 1998 1998 1998 1999
2000 |
"The Body", Haifa Museum of Modern Art,
Israel America-Israel Culture Foundation Grant Awards, Tel Aviv Museum of Art Young Artist Awards, Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat-Gan, Israel "Sight and Vision", The Israel Museum, Jerusalem "Patterns of Jewish life", Martin Gropius Museum, Berlin "The Range of Realism", Tel Aviv Museum of Art "Photography in Israel", Israel Museum Touring Exhibition in Europe and USA "The Other Side of Beauty", Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn "Condition Report - Photography in Israel Today", The Israel Museum, Jerusalem "Female Artists in Israeli Art - Five Decades", Haifa Museum of Modern Art, Israel "After Rabin, New Art from Israel", The Jewish Museum, New-York "identity and Environment" International Photo Exhibition, The Museum of Contemporary Art/Ludwig Museum Budapest, Hungary "Ladies and Gentlemen" Contemporary Israeli Art: Recipients of 1999 Museum Prizes, Works from the Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art "America Israel Cultural Foundation Grant Awards", Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat - Gan, Israel. "Language of light and Shadow: Israeli Artists in Moscow", Artists Center, Moscow "Between the Mountain and the Sea", Municipal Museum, Haifa, Israel
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Awards 1988 1989 1989 1989 1996 1999
1999 2001 |
America - Israel Cultural Foundation Grant Ministry of Education and Culture, Young Artist Prize The Israel Museum, Gerard Levy Award for The young photographer of the year America - Israel Cultural Foundation Grant Scholarship of the D A A D (German Academic Artists Exchange Service), Berlin Haddassa and Raphael Klachkin Award for Excellence in the Plastic Arts, America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Tel-Aviv The Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Leon Constantiner Photography award for an Israeli Artist. Painters & Sculptures Association, the Eli Asherov Memorial Award. Ministry of Culture, Science & Sports, Selected Artist Award (Catalogue).
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Selected Public and Private Collections | |
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem Tel Aviv Museum of Art Kunst Museum Bonn Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany Jewish Museum New York Private collections in USA, France, Israel, Germany, Australia
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