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Joseph Sassoon Semah 1948
Vit à Amsterdam. Travaille dans Amsterdam.
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Lumen Travo Galerie
Semah's work is best described as a profound and wide-ranging exploration of the links between language and a man made images. A scholar of many classical texts, he creates his own conceptual and pictorial world as part of his quest, placing human beings at the centre of this world. Semah seeks to understand people in the present day, in relation to communities with their own culture and history. His works stands in a long tradition of liberal humanistic thinking reaching from Baruch de Spinoza to the Frankfurter Schule.
In Semah's own words: 'I still read each and every art work on display through the tradition/history of the Hebrew language. In this context, one can say that each art work of mine is nothing but a footnote to my research, to my desire to understand what contemporary art actually means, what is meant by tolerance, what the meaning of being in exile is and what it means to be a guest.'
In Semah's own words: 'I still read each and every art work on display through the tradition/history of the Hebrew language. In this context, one can say that each art work of mine is nothing but a footnote to my research, to my desire to understand what contemporary art actually means, what is meant by tolerance, what the meaning of being in exile is and what it means to be a guest.'
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Joseph Semah (1948) was born in Baghdad, Iraq. From 1950 he grew up in Tel Aviv, Israel. After finishing gymnasium, Semah studied at the University of Tel Aviv. At the same time he was developing his artistic venue.
Joseph Semah's grandfather, Hacham/Rabbi Sassoon Kadoori was the president of the Jewish community in Baghdad, who preached tolerance between the various religious denominations.
As a Babylonian Jew who emigrated to the West (Amsterdam), he is part of GaLUT (Exile), an endless cycle of diaspora and return. You long for your country of birth and search for a way to relate to your cultural heritage and traditions. Heritage reminds us of our history.
His most recent exhibitions include: On Friendship / (Collateral Damage) IV - How to Explain Hare Hunting to a Dead German Artist, solo show Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam (2022); Over Vriendschap ... About Friendship ... Kunstmuseum Den Haag (2020-21); On Friendship/(Collateral Damage) III – The Third GaLUT: Baghdad, Jerusalem, Amsterdam, solo show Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam (2019-20).
Joseph Semah's grandfather, Hacham/Rabbi Sassoon Kadoori was the president of the Jewish community in Baghdad, who preached tolerance between the various religious denominations.
As a Babylonian Jew who emigrated to the West (Amsterdam), he is part of GaLUT (Exile), an endless cycle of diaspora and return. You long for your country of birth and search for a way to relate to your cultural heritage and traditions. Heritage reminds us of our history.
His most recent exhibitions include: On Friendship / (Collateral Damage) IV - How to Explain Hare Hunting to a Dead German Artist, solo show Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam (2022); Over Vriendschap ... About Friendship ... Kunstmuseum Den Haag (2020-21); On Friendship/(Collateral Damage) III – The Third GaLUT: Baghdad, Jerusalem, Amsterdam, solo show Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam (2019-20).
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS SINCE 2010 (SELECTION)
2023 - In preparation
De Domijnen, 16 december 2023 -
On Friendship / (Collateral Damage) V - Between Graveyard and Museum's Sphere
Joseph Sassoon Semah
Literarisches Colloquium Berlin, Freies Universität Berlin, 2 - 5 March 2023
Transformations of Celan in Contemporary Art, Joseph Sassoon Semah and Alexander Polzin
2021/ 23
On Friendship / (Collateral Damage) IV -How to Explain Hare Hunting to a Dead German Artist - [The usefulness of continuous measurement of the distance between Nostalgia and Melancholia] (12 September 2021 - February 2023) with 11 exhibitions, 7 performances, 8 debates, 8 video's
2020/2021
Over Vriendschap ... About Friendship ... Kunstmuseum Den Haag, October 2020 - 29 Augustus 2021
Aul Celan -Gerhard-Marcks-Haus (Bremen), Galerie Ohnesorghe (Bremen)
2019/2020
Retrospective 'Being Touched by an Angel Just Before Birth De Domijnen (all spaces) - Sittard, October 2019 - February 2020
On Friendship / (Collateral Damage) III - The Third GaLUT -Baghdad, Jerusalem, Amsterdam, September 2019 - January 2020 - 36 places
2017/18
On Friendship / (Collateral Damage) II - The Guardians of the Door
(Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam- lecture and 5 performances), De Nieuwe Kerk, openingsperformance and artistic intervention, Joods Historisch Museum - exhibition and Gallery talk, Goethe-Institut, exhibition and debate
Art Market Budapest, exhibition and openings performance
2015
Being touched by an angel just before birth - Galerie Nouvelles Images, Den Haag
2015
Canakale Biennial, Turkey In Memory of a sacred Tree
2013
72 Privileges [.....]: 'It is precisely this balance between exile and the emotion of the privileged which forms the unique originality of our Breathing in Reverse. As will be clear already, there is no past or future in Exile, only an immediate present, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India
2011
Tracing Martin Heidegger's Hut and Paul Celan's Clouds [...],, Gemak, Den Haag
2010
After Paul Celan. Tango and Fugue. Goethe Institut, Rotterdam; Maison Descartes, Amsterdam
2009
Ich bin, der ich bin EHYeH ASheR EHYeH, Bremen, Gerhard-Marcks-Haus
2007
Next Year in Jerusalem, a project in 12 churches and 12 cities, Niedersachsen, Germany
2006
Read Full Text, Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo
PERFORMANCES/INSTALLATIONS
2021-2023
On Friendship / (Collateral Damage) IV -How to Explain Hare Hunting to a Dead German Artist - [The usefulness of continuous measurement of the distance between Nostalgia and Melancholia]
2019/2020.
Performances On Friendship / (Collateral Damage) III - The Third GaLUT: Baghdad, Jerusalem, Amsterdam
2018
Performance "Corridors:" - Castle Groeneveld
2017
Performances On Friendship / (Collateral Damage) II - The Guardians of the Door in Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam
2017
Art Market Budapest - Opening performance On Friendship / (Collateral Damage) II - The Guardians of the Door
2015
Kunst und Judentum: "Hebraïsche" Fussnoten zur zeitgenössischen Kunst mit Joseph Semah. BodeMuseum, Berlijn.
2012
Performance with 72 children, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India
2010
Amsterdam van boven- Amsterdam van beneden, 4 May solo-performance on The roof of the oldest Observatorium of West-Europe, Felix Meritis
2008
Performance Breathing in reverse, Hannover
GROUP EXHIBITIONS SINCE 2005 (SELECTION)
2022
Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Exhibition Lurie & Vostell, Art after Auschwitch, april mei 2022
2021
Art Market Budapest
2021
NATURE AND AESTHETICS, REDEFINED Landgoed Nardinclant- Amsetrdamgarden 12 September-24 oktober 2021
2021
PULCHRI-Studio
2021
UIT<>ZICHT, Povinciehuis Haarlem
2020/2021
Joods Historisch Museum : Een graf in de wolken, December 2020- May 2021
2019
Lumen Travo - 26 January 2019 -
2019
SEGRETE Traccedi Memoria, curated by Virginia Monteverde, Genua, 24 January-9 February 2019
2018
Fondazione Prada- Venetië - Machines à Penser - curated by Dieter Roelstraete,- Biennale
Architecture, 26 May -25 November 2018
2017
Galerie Nouvelles Images, 1 juli-26 augustus 2017
2016 -2017
Heilig Schrift-Tanach, Bijbel, Koran- Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht,
2015
On War and Peace, o.a. Joseph Semah, Armando, Jef Diederen, Ger Lataster, Thom Puckey, Ton Slits,
Shinkichi Jajiri, Museum Bommel van Dam
2014
Disasters of War, Joseph Semah, David Bade, Reinier Lucassen, Ilya Rabinovich, Ibrahim Quraishi, Kers Gallery, Amsterdam
2013
Flesh and Blood, Museum on the Seam, Socio-Polical Contemporay Art Museum, Jerusalem
2011
Een wereld vol verhalen, De Nieuwe Kerk i.s.m. Joods Historisch Museum
2009/2010
Martin- Gropius-Bau Berlijn Taswir islamitische bildwelten und moderne
2008
Dessins contemporains des Pays-Bas. Signifiants mourants: Joseph Semah, Hadassah Emmerich, Ni Haifeng. Parijs, Institut Neerlandais
2005
Den Haag Sculptuur, The garden oft he Palace, De Paleistuin Den Haag
2005
Respect! Forms of community, Contemporary art from the Netherlands,Marrakech
PUBLICATIONS SINCE 2006
- Joseph Sassoon Semah: On Friendship / (Collateral Damage) IV - How to Explain Hare Hunting to a Dead German Artist, production Metropool International Art Projects, 2023, [The usefulness of continuous measurement of the distance between Nostalgia and Melancholia]
- Joseph Sassoon Semah: On Friendship / (Collateral Damage) III - The Third GaLUT : Baghdad, Jerusalem, Amsterdam, production Metropool International Art Projects, Amsterdam 2020
- Joseph Sassoon Semah: On Friendship / (Collateral Damage) II - The Guardians of the Door, production Metropool International Art Projects, Amsterdam 2017
- Joseph Semah On Friendship / (Collateral Damage) -, production Metropool International Art Projects, Amsterdam 2015
- Joseph Semah Tracing Martin Heidegger's hut and Paul Celan's clouds […] , Den Haag 2011
- Ich bin, der ich bin EHYeH ASheR EHYeH, Bremen 2009
- Next Year in Jerusalem, Bremen 2009
- Ulco Mes, Joseph Semah (eds.) Joseph Semah. A Journey into PaRDeS, Venlo 2006
COLLECTIONS (SELECTION)
• Kunstmuseum Den Haag,
• Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam;
• Joods Historisch Museum,
• Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede;
• Israel Museum, Jerusalem;
• Victoria and Albert Museum, Londen;
• Jewish Museum, New York;
• Museum Jan Cunen, Oss;
• Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam;
• Albertina, Vienna ,
• Collectie G+W nederland,
• Roel Arkesteijn Antwerpen
• Museum De Domijnen, Sittard
2023 - In preparation
De Domijnen, 16 december 2023 -
On Friendship / (Collateral Damage) V - Between Graveyard and Museum's Sphere
Joseph Sassoon Semah
Literarisches Colloquium Berlin, Freies Universität Berlin, 2 - 5 March 2023
Transformations of Celan in Contemporary Art, Joseph Sassoon Semah and Alexander Polzin
2021/ 23
On Friendship / (Collateral Damage) IV -How to Explain Hare Hunting to a Dead German Artist - [The usefulness of continuous measurement of the distance between Nostalgia and Melancholia] (12 September 2021 - February 2023) with 11 exhibitions, 7 performances, 8 debates, 8 video's
2020/2021
Over Vriendschap ... About Friendship ... Kunstmuseum Den Haag, October 2020 - 29 Augustus 2021
Aul Celan -Gerhard-Marcks-Haus (Bremen), Galerie Ohnesorghe (Bremen)
2019/2020
Retrospective 'Being Touched by an Angel Just Before Birth De Domijnen (all spaces) - Sittard, October 2019 - February 2020
On Friendship / (Collateral Damage) III - The Third GaLUT -Baghdad, Jerusalem, Amsterdam, September 2019 - January 2020 - 36 places
2017/18
On Friendship / (Collateral Damage) II - The Guardians of the Door
(Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam- lecture and 5 performances), De Nieuwe Kerk, openingsperformance and artistic intervention, Joods Historisch Museum - exhibition and Gallery talk, Goethe-Institut, exhibition and debate
Art Market Budapest, exhibition and openings performance
2015
Being touched by an angel just before birth - Galerie Nouvelles Images, Den Haag
2015
Canakale Biennial, Turkey In Memory of a sacred Tree
2013
72 Privileges [.....]: 'It is precisely this balance between exile and the emotion of the privileged which forms the unique originality of our Breathing in Reverse. As will be clear already, there is no past or future in Exile, only an immediate present, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India
2011
Tracing Martin Heidegger's Hut and Paul Celan's Clouds [...],, Gemak, Den Haag
2010
After Paul Celan. Tango and Fugue. Goethe Institut, Rotterdam; Maison Descartes, Amsterdam
2009
Ich bin, der ich bin EHYeH ASheR EHYeH, Bremen, Gerhard-Marcks-Haus
2007
Next Year in Jerusalem, a project in 12 churches and 12 cities, Niedersachsen, Germany
2006
Read Full Text, Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo
PERFORMANCES/INSTALLATIONS
2021-2023
On Friendship / (Collateral Damage) IV -How to Explain Hare Hunting to a Dead German Artist - [The usefulness of continuous measurement of the distance between Nostalgia and Melancholia]
2019/2020.
Performances On Friendship / (Collateral Damage) III - The Third GaLUT: Baghdad, Jerusalem, Amsterdam
2018
Performance "Corridors:" - Castle Groeneveld
2017
Performances On Friendship / (Collateral Damage) II - The Guardians of the Door in Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam
2017
Art Market Budapest - Opening performance On Friendship / (Collateral Damage) II - The Guardians of the Door
2015
Kunst und Judentum: "Hebraïsche" Fussnoten zur zeitgenössischen Kunst mit Joseph Semah. BodeMuseum, Berlijn.
2012
Performance with 72 children, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India
2010
Amsterdam van boven- Amsterdam van beneden, 4 May solo-performance on The roof of the oldest Observatorium of West-Europe, Felix Meritis
2008
Performance Breathing in reverse, Hannover
GROUP EXHIBITIONS SINCE 2005 (SELECTION)
2022
Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Exhibition Lurie & Vostell, Art after Auschwitch, april mei 2022
2021
Art Market Budapest
2021
NATURE AND AESTHETICS, REDEFINED Landgoed Nardinclant- Amsetrdamgarden 12 September-24 oktober 2021
2021
PULCHRI-Studio
2021
UIT<>ZICHT, Povinciehuis Haarlem
2020/2021
Joods Historisch Museum : Een graf in de wolken, December 2020- May 2021
2019
Lumen Travo - 26 January 2019 -
2019
SEGRETE Traccedi Memoria, curated by Virginia Monteverde, Genua, 24 January-9 February 2019
2018
Fondazione Prada- Venetië - Machines à Penser - curated by Dieter Roelstraete,- Biennale
Architecture, 26 May -25 November 2018
2017
Galerie Nouvelles Images, 1 juli-26 augustus 2017
2016 -2017
Heilig Schrift-Tanach, Bijbel, Koran- Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht,
2015
On War and Peace, o.a. Joseph Semah, Armando, Jef Diederen, Ger Lataster, Thom Puckey, Ton Slits,
Shinkichi Jajiri, Museum Bommel van Dam
2014
Disasters of War, Joseph Semah, David Bade, Reinier Lucassen, Ilya Rabinovich, Ibrahim Quraishi, Kers Gallery, Amsterdam
2013
Flesh and Blood, Museum on the Seam, Socio-Polical Contemporay Art Museum, Jerusalem
2011
Een wereld vol verhalen, De Nieuwe Kerk i.s.m. Joods Historisch Museum
2009/2010
Martin- Gropius-Bau Berlijn Taswir islamitische bildwelten und moderne
2008
Dessins contemporains des Pays-Bas. Signifiants mourants: Joseph Semah, Hadassah Emmerich, Ni Haifeng. Parijs, Institut Neerlandais
2005
Den Haag Sculptuur, The garden oft he Palace, De Paleistuin Den Haag
2005
Respect! Forms of community, Contemporary art from the Netherlands,Marrakech
PUBLICATIONS SINCE 2006
- Joseph Sassoon Semah: On Friendship / (Collateral Damage) IV - How to Explain Hare Hunting to a Dead German Artist, production Metropool International Art Projects, 2023, [The usefulness of continuous measurement of the distance between Nostalgia and Melancholia]
- Joseph Sassoon Semah: On Friendship / (Collateral Damage) III - The Third GaLUT : Baghdad, Jerusalem, Amsterdam, production Metropool International Art Projects, Amsterdam 2020
- Joseph Sassoon Semah: On Friendship / (Collateral Damage) II - The Guardians of the Door, production Metropool International Art Projects, Amsterdam 2017
- Joseph Semah On Friendship / (Collateral Damage) -, production Metropool International Art Projects, Amsterdam 2015
- Joseph Semah Tracing Martin Heidegger's hut and Paul Celan's clouds […] , Den Haag 2011
- Ich bin, der ich bin EHYeH ASheR EHYeH, Bremen 2009
- Next Year in Jerusalem, Bremen 2009
- Ulco Mes, Joseph Semah (eds.) Joseph Semah. A Journey into PaRDeS, Venlo 2006
COLLECTIONS (SELECTION)
• Kunstmuseum Den Haag,
• Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam;
• Joods Historisch Museum,
• Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede;
• Israel Museum, Jerusalem;
• Victoria and Albert Museum, Londen;
• Jewish Museum, New York;
• Museum Jan Cunen, Oss;
• Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam;
• Albertina, Vienna ,
• Collectie G+W nederland,
• Roel Arkesteijn Antwerpen
• Museum De Domijnen, Sittard
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