Nir Alon () is an Israeli

sculptor Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

and an installation artist based in

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. Alon studied from 1988 until 1992 at the

Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design () is a public college of design and art located in Jerusalem. Established in 1906 by Jewish painter and sculptor Boris Schatz, Bezalel is Israel's oldest institution of higher education and is considered the ...

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. In 1996 he received the prize for young artists of the Israeli Ministry for education and Culture. In 1998 he participated in an exchange exhibition in

. In 2001 he received a working scholarship as a guest artist to Harburg. Since then he works and lives in Hamburg. He had solo exhibitions in

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and Hamburg. He preferably develops his sculptures from cast-off everyday life articles such as furniture, suit-cases, lamps, light bulbs and cables, whereby the installations are arranged directly at the place of exhibition and in the reference to these. Thus it obtains an urgent effect with most economical means. His works are in public and private collections in

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and

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Selected exhibitions/installations

*''Cultural tracks-Trivial traps'', Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem, 1993 *''Very delicate foundations'', Kidmat-Eden-Gallery, Tel Aviv, 1994 *''Correct posture'', Gross-Gallery, Tel Aviv, 1996 *''Game of suppositions and refutations'', Nahshon Gallery,

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, 1996 *''Sample of pervert imitation'', Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv, 1997 *''Installation'', Schleswig-Holstein-Haus, Schwerin, 2001 *''Operant Conditioning (Show)'', Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, 2002 *''A state of being present'', Installation, Hamburg, 2003 *''Tell me about love'', Installation, Kunsttreppe, Hamburg, 2004 *''Ostentatiously stagger (guest)'', Atelierhaus Bonn, 2004 *''Ein Tag, ein Raum, ein Bild'' - Special show, Sebastian Fath Contemporary, Mannheim, 2004 *''Tell me about love (part II)'', Installation, Westwerk, Hamburg, 2004, (download catalogue 1.5 MB) *''An installation kit for a wanderer artist (Guest)'', Hamburg, 2004 *''A funny game (Melancholy)'', Kampnagel Hamburg, 2005 *''In case of leftovers'', Sebastian Fath Contemporary, Mannheim, 2005 *''This way or another'' – Kunstverein Buchholz. *''Etwas Grosses wird geschehen'', Appel Gallery, Frankfurt, 2006 *''Zeichnungen nach Installation'', Magnus P. Gerdsen Gallery, Hamburg, 2006 *''Now You Have A Problem Mister'', MARKING SPACE. HAMBURG. JERUSALEM., Galerie ChezLinda, Hamburg, 2007Kunstverein Kulturverein LINDA eV Hamburg St. Pauli Hein-Hoyer-Str. 13 chezLinda
/ref> *''active constellation'', works from the collections of Reinking and Lafrenz – The House of Art,

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, Czech Republic, 2007.

Bibliography

*Rik Reinking, Eva Martens, Petra Nietzky, Hajo Schiff, Robin Hemmer, Thomas Schönberger, Anne Vieth, ''Sculpture@CityNord: Das temporäre Skulpturenprojekt 2006'', Modo, Freiburg, 2007. *Nir Alon, Anke Feuchtenberger, Stefano Ricci, ''Ich/I/Je/Io'', Mami Verlag, Hamburg, 2008. *Michele Robecchi, ''The Ground on Which I Stand: Nir Alon & Gazmend Ejupi'', STP Books, London, 2019.

External links

Official website: http://www.nir-alon.com/

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Alon, Nir Living people 1964 births 20th-century Israeli sculptors 21st-century Israeli sculptors Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design alumni Israeli contemporary artists