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Nahum Tevet
Born in 1946 in Kibbutz Messilot, Israel.
Lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2018
Five Rooms, Gallery of Contemporary Art and Architecture, House of Art of the City of České Budějovice, Czech Republic
Islands & Objects, Kristof De Clercq gallery, Ghent, Belgium
2017
Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany (with Efrat Natan)
Nahum Tevet: Works on Glass 1972–1975 (curated by Thierry de Duve), Muzeum Sztuki Lodz, Łódź, Poland
2016
Nahum Tevet: Works on Glass 1972–1975 (curated by Thierry de Duve), Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College, New York, US
2015
The Rough law of Gardens – Nahum Tevet & Olaf Holzappe (curated by Hans Gunter Golinnski and Galia
Bar Or), Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bocum, Germany / Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel
2014
House Tables, Loushy Art & Projects, Tel Aviv, Israel
2013
Nahum Tevet - Islands, Works 2010-2013, Gallery Giacomo Guidi, Milan, Italy
2012
Gregor Schneider & Nahum Tevet: Pension (curated by Ory Dessau), Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Walking on The Wall, Nahum Tevet Small Sculptures, 1980-2012 (curated by Sarit Shapira), Tel Aviv University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2011
Diver, Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2010
At the Same Time, Two-Room Installation, Lodz Biennale, Łódź, Poland
2009
Ursa Major with Chairs and Boats (permanent installation), International Bank head of ce building, Tel Aviv, Israel
Installation for Four Rooms (curated by Claudia Gioia), Volume! Foundation, Rome, Italy
2008
Several Things (curated by Dalia Levin), Herzliya Museum for Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel
Nahum Tevet (curated by Danilo Eccher), Museo d’arte Contemporanea Roma (MACRO), Rome, Italy
2007
Nahum Tevet: Works, 1994-2006 (curated by Sarit Shapira), The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
2005
Nahum Tevet: Take Two (curated by Dominique Abensour), Le Quartier, Center for Contemporary Art, Quimper, France
2004
Nahum Tevet: Seven Walks (curated by Katrina Brown), Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA), Dundee, Scotland
1998
A Page from a Catalogue and Other Works, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1997
Opening Moves, Nahum Tevet Sculptures (curated by Lorand Hegyi), Museum of Modern Art, Ludwig Foundation, Vienna, Austria
1991
Painting Lessons: Sculptures 1984-1990 (curated by Yona Fischer), Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
1988
New Works, Artifact Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1986
Nahum Tevet: Sculptures (curated by Joachim Kroniager and Wolfgang Becker), Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim /Neue Galerie Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen, Germany
1984
Special Exhibit: Nahum Tevet, Works 1983-1984 (curated by Yigal Zalmona), The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
1982
Narcissus 1b, Narcissus 3a, and Drawings (curated by Ray Ring), City University Graduate Center, New York, US
Narcissus 2 & New Wall reliefs, Noemi Givon Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
1980
Drawings, Gallery Schmella, Dusseldorf, Germany
1979
Installation for Two Rooms, Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York, US
1978
Drawings and Sculptures, Galerie Schmella, Düsseldorf, Germany
1977
Drawings, Galerie Illane, Paris, France
8×6 (drawings installation), Sarah Gilat Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
1976
Works, 1974-1976 (curated by Yona Fischer), The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
1975
Glass Works, Gallery Schmella, Düsseldorf, Germany
1972
Works, 1970-72, Sarah Gilat Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2017
Nahum Tevet, Richard Long, Alan Saret, James Cohan Gallery, New York, US
2015
The Museum Presents Itself 2: Israeli Art from the Museum Collection (curated by Ellen Ginton), Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2014
In Conversations (curated by Suzan Landau), Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2012
Pension: Gregor Schneider & Nahum Tevet (curated by Ory Dessau), Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2011
The Herzliya Biennale of contemporary Art (curated by Ory Dessau), Herzliya, Israel
2010
The Lodz Biennale, Łódź, Poland
2008
Brussels Biennale. Once is nothing (curated by Charles Esche and Maria Hlavajova), Brussels, Belgium
2006
Israel: Art and Life, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
2005
The New Hebrews, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
2004
The Mediterraneans (curated by Danilo Eccher), Museo d’arte Contemporanea Roma (MACRO), Rome, Italy
2003
The Venice Biennale - Question Five, installation in the exhibition ‘Individual Systems’ (curated by Igor Zabel), Venice, Italy
2001
Love at First Sight: Arturo Schwarz Collection of Israeli Art (curated by Amitai Mendelson), The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
2000
Zimzum: Contemporary Art from Israel (curated by Hans Gercke), Kunstverein Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Vision and Reality: Conceptions of the 20th Century (curated by Kjeld Kjelsen), Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk, Denmark
1999
Carnegie International 99/00 (curated by Madeleine Grynsztejn), Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, US
Not To Be Looked At (curated by Sarit Shapira), The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel 1997 Fourth Biennial of Contemporary Art (curated by Harald Szeeman), Lyon, France
Selection from the Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall Collections (curated by Annette Osterby and Amy Simon), Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Seventies in Israeli Art: The Boundaries of Language ,Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
1996
Untitled (1995-96), Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthaal, Stockholm, Sweden
Installation in the exhibition ‘Painting in the Extended Field’ (curated bt David Neuman and Bo Nilsson), Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden
1994
The 22nd Biennial of São Paulo - Israeli section (curated by Sarit Shapira), São Paulo, Brazil
1990
Life Size: A Sense of the Real in Recent Art (curated bt Suzanne Landau), The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
On Paper/In Paper/With Paper (curated by Meira Perry Lehmann), The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
1988
Spaces ’88 (curated by Amnon Barzel), Luigi Pecci Museum of Contemporary Art, Prato, Italy
1987
Similia/Dissimilia (curated by Rainer Crone), Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany / Columbia University, Sonnabend Gallery and Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, US
Documenta 8 (curated by Manfred Schneckenburger), Kassel, Germany
1986
The Want of Matter: A Quality in Israeli Art (curated by Sarah Breitberg-Semel), Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
1981
Black, Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
1980
Biennale de Paris, Paris, France
1979
Seven Artists from Israel, 1948-1978 (curated by Maurice Tuchman and Stephanie Barron), Brooklyn Museum, New York, US
1978
Location/Direction ‘78, Uri and Rami Nechushtan Museum, Kibbutz Ashdot Yaakov Meuchad, Israel
1977
Seven Artists from Israel, 1948-1978 (curated by Maurice Tuchman and Stephanie Barron), Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, US
10 Artists from Israel (curated by Yona Fischer), Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk, Denmark
1974
Five Young Artists, The Kibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1971
New Faces (curated by Raf Lavie), The Artists’ House, Tel Aviv, Israel
Prizes (selection)
2013
The EMET Prize for Art, Science and Culture, The of ce of The Prime Minister of Israel & A.M.N Foundation
2011
Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality
2007
Minister of Culture and Science Prize for Life Achievement in Art
1986
Sandberg Prize for an Israeli Artist, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1984
Israel Discount Bank Prize for an Israeli Artist, Tel Aviv Museum
Collections (selection)
– Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
– Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, New York
– Portland Art Museum, Portland
– Museum of Modern Art, Ludwig Foundation, MUMOK, Wien – Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany
– Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
– Glaskasten Sculpture Museum, Marl, Germany
– Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm
– FRAC Bretagne, France
– Robert Rauschenberg Collection, New York
– The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
– Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
– Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa
– Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya
– Giuliano Gori Collection, Fattoria di Celle, Pistoia
– Leo Katz Collection, Bogota
– Ygaal Ahuvi Collection, Tel Aviv
– Genny and Selmo Nissenbaum Collection, New York
And private collections in Israel and abroad.