Shahar Marcus

Shahar Marcus (; born 1971) is an Israeli artist who works primarily in video, performance and installations.

Biography Shahar Marcus was born in 1971 at Petah Tikva. His mother was a teacher and father a Diamond dealer. His first child was born during 2011 and in 2014 his youngest daughter joined the family. They currently reside in Tel Aviv, Israel.

In his early works Marcus dealt with the exploration of his own body and its limitations; his body serving as an instrument or rather a platform for the conducting of experiments with various perishable materials, such as dough, juice, ice and fire. While his early video-performances feature himself along with other artists, with whom he had collaborated in the past, in his recent works, Marcus appears by himself, while embodying different roles and characters.

His most recent works he deal with local political issues, by approaching iconic Israeli landmarks with a critical and humorous point of view (like "1,2,3,Herring"). Thus, Marcus reflects on his own heritage, environment and the creation of local historical narratives. He aspires to tackle a local issue, and convey it through universal visual means ("The Curator", "King of Falafel", "Homecoming Artist and Leap of Faith").

As of 2012, Marcus has been collaborating with the Turkish-German performance artist Nezaket Ekici. The both of them have been employing their own bodies as a medium to build up forces and energies, to resolve tensions and conflicts. By pushing their own physical limits, they cause their works to revolve in no small measure around the limits of cultural and political difference. (Methexis, Sand Clock, Salt Dinner).

Education 1993‐1997 BA Linguistics, University of Tel Aviv 1999‐2004 MA History of Art, University of Tel Aviv

Awards and residencies 2015 The Discovery award, Loop art fair and festival, Barcelona, Spain. 2013 The Israeli Ministry of Culture award for Encouraging Creativity. 2013 Special mention for "seeds" at the 20 min\max film festival, Ingolstadt, Germany. 2012 Winner of the "press" award, Laguna art prize, Venice, Italy 2011 Winner of the celeste prize-video award 2011 ArtMuse video festival, first place for "Freeze", Bocholt, Germany 2010 Art OMI, New York City 2009 Special mention for "frog test" video art. The Jerusalem International Film festival, Israel. Jerusalem Film Festival, Experimental Cinema Award Naoussa Film Festival People's Choice Award 2008 Beatrice Kolliner award for young artist, Israel Museum of Art 2006 Young Artist Award, Ministry of Education And Culture

Solo exhibitions 2016 Artificial Islands, with Nezaket Ekici, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Poland 2015 Going, Going Gone, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel 2015 Solid and soft, with Nezaket Ekici, DNA gallery, Berlin, Germany 2015 "Fossils", with Nezaket Ekici, Petah Tikva Museum of Art, Petah Tikva, Israel 2014 "In Relation" with Nezaket Ekici, , Saarbrücken, Germany 2014 "All is Gold", The Municipal Gallery, Rehovot, Israel 2013 "In Relation" with Nezaket Ekici, Siemens Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey 2013 "In Relation" with Nezaket Ekici, Artisterium VI, Tbilisi, Georgia 2013 solo project at Threshold Gallery in "India art fair", New Delhi, India 2012 "In Relation" with Nezaket Ekici at , Tel Aviv 2012 1,2,3 Herring, MoCA Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan 2011 The Curator, Petah Tikva Museum of Art, Israel 2011 The Memorial employee", Dana art Gallery, Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, Israel 2010 Bread & Bunker, Mediations Biennale, Poznań, Poland 2009 Bunkerbrot, MARS Gallery, Moscow biennale, Moscow, Russia 2008 Bread & Bunker, G.D.K Gallery, Berlin 2007 Salt & Ever, The Heder Gallery, Tel Aviv 2005 Precise, Blurrr International Biennale, Kalisher, Tel Aviv To Be An Apprentice, Avni Institute of Art and Design, Jaffa 2004 The Agency, Hakibbutz gallery, Tel Aviv

Group exhibitions 2016 Exhibition of works from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków at the MAXXI, Rome, Italy The 9th Tbilisi Annual International Contemporary Art exhibition, Tbilisi History Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia VideoMedeja Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia 5th Radial Festival, I.D. Festival Berlin, Berlin, Germany The Sea, Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków, Kraków, Poland Urban Touch, Kunsthalle Faust, Hanover Fundamental- the 5th Mediations Biennale, National Museum Poznań, Poznań, Poland The Pleasure of Love, The 56th October Salon, Belgrade Culture Center, Belgrade, Serbia Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa Subspace, International Photography Festival, Tel Aviv Universum, International Photography Festival, Tel Aviv Medicine in Art, Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków, Kraków, Poland Things to Come, Petah Tikva Museum of Art, Petah Tikva Berlin Case, APT Art Gallery, Yekaterinburg, Russia Torrance Art Museum (ArtVideoKOELN and the New Museum of Networked Art), Los Angeles, United States

2015 Shoot: about performance, DNA gallery, Berlin, Germany Recurrence, Nimac. Nicosia, Cyprus Re:Start – , Tel Aviv Changing Perspectives – Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa DNA Berlin Solid and Soft Hospitalshof Stuttgart, Stuttgart Ich und Du

2014 Ekpharsis, Hermitage, Saint-Petersburg, Russia In creation, Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Taipei, Taiwan The Winners, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel Les Rencontres Internationales, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany Beyond, Galerie Maubert, Paris, France Les Rencontres Internationales, Gaîté Lyrique (Palais de Tokyo), Paris, France

2013 WPA's Experimental Media 2013, The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C., United States. Faust Kunsthalle,"Schwerelos", Hanover, Germany. "The Compromised Land", Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, United States Panorama Weserburg, Bremen, Germany The Wro Biennale, Wrocław, Poland Kino der Kunst, Munich, Germany SAU Affero gallery, NJ, "Awards Images Moving and Art "Global

2012 The Mediations Biennale, Poznań, Poland The 2nd Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art, Yekaterinburg, Russia Catastrophes and , DNA gallery, Berlin, Germany Afterwards, Total Museum, Seoul, Korea Laguna art prize, Arsenale, Venice, Italy Middle East Europe, Dox Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic

2011 Art is Art is Art, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia The Museum, Presents Itself, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel Nord Art international exhibition, Büdelsdorf, Germany Spring Exhibition, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark

2010 As I remember, Kunstraum und Ateliers, Dresden, Germany Celeste prize finalists, The Invisible Dog, New York City, United States The Meaning of Windows, Israel Museum youth wing, Jerusalem, Israel Israeli Video, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel Trembling Time, TATE Modern, London – Screenings program dedicated to recent video art from Israel, Curators: Stuart Komer and Sergio Edelsztein The Calm Before the Storm, Winzavod, Moscow

2009 3rd Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Curator: Irena Yshkova Nuit Blanch, Paris, France, Curator: Marie Shek Tina b Festival of Art, Prague FUSO International Video Art Annual of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal Naoussa International Film Festival, Greece Athens Video Art Festival 2009, Athens, Greece Performance Evening, Israel Museum Sculpture Garden, Jerusalem, curator: Amitai Mendelson

2008 Real Thing, , Tel Aviv Wa(h)re Kunst, Concent art e.V. Gallery, Berlin, Germany First Show, Contemporary Art from the Israel Museum, Mani House, Tel Aviv EPAF 2008, European Performance Art Festival, Warsaw Freeze, Israel Museum, Real Time Art in Israel 1998–2008, Jerusalem, Israel

2007 Homecoming Artist, Magmart I video under volcano, Naples, Italy Homecoming Artist, 700.is, Egilsstadir, Iceland Rites & Rituals, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya A Quest from Sea to Sea, video, Israel Museum youth wing, Jerusalem Homecoming Artist, video, exhibition for awards winners by the Ministry of Education And Culture, Petah Tikva Museum of Art, Petah Tikva, Israel

2006 Cover, Galataperform, Istanbul, Turkey Gefilte tish, Israel Museum youth wing, Jerusalem

2005 Precise, Blur 5 International Biennale for Performance Art, Tel Aviv Cover, L.M.P Theatre, C.R.A.N.E Art Tulage, Chateau de Chevigny, France

2003 Freeze, Blur 4 International Biennale for Performance Art, Jaffa Soak Art Focus 4, Jerusalem

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Articles HA'ARETZ – GUIDE, 2 April 2010 City Mouse, 27 May 2010 "Tel Aviv", TIME OUT – Fresh Paint, 29 April 2010 ISLAND CHANNEL, HAARETZ-FRONT, 17 August 2010 BELLEMODE, 1 September 2010 "Tower of Babel", Pnai Plus, 28 September 2010 THE JERUSALEM POST – METRO, 15 October 2010 Yediot Hanegev, 12 November 2010