Tanya Preminger

Tanya Preminger (), is an artist working in various media: environmental art, site-specific art, ephemeral art, sculpture, Installation art, installation and photography. She is mostly known for her land art projects and large-scale stone sculptures.

Her diverse body of work has been displayed internationally in numerous exhibitions and symposiums.

Biography

Tanya Preminger Novozilova was born in Taganrog, Russia. Her father was Nikolay Novozilov, a scientist and winner of the Lenin Prize, Lenin award, and her mother was Inna Prochaska, an engineer and a lecturer at the Frunze Military Academy in Moscow.

Tanya earned a Master of Arts (M.A.) degree from the Surikov Academy of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia.

She married Osip Preminger, and the couple has 4 daughters. Since 1972 she lives, works and teaches in Israel.

Preminger works mainly in natural materials. Her early sculptures were done from clay, wood, and stone, and later she began including earth, grass, water, snow and other materials.

Tanya has presented dozens of solo exhibitions in Israel in various venues, including : Negev Museum of Art, The Negev Museum, Open Museum Omer, Ramat Gan Museum, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Lutshansky Museum, Israel Painters and Sculptors Association, Painters and Sculptors Association Gallery, Tova Osman Gallery, Jerusalem Artists House, and Efrat Gallery.

Preminger has participated in over 240 symposiums, competitions and group exhibitions worldwide.

Her Monumental sculpture, monumental works and environmental projects are installed in more than 38 countries around the world.

In 2008 Preminger founded the “Green Gallery”- an open-air gallery for Land Art in Arsuf Kedem, Israel.

Awards

Grants

2013 Grant of “Artist” for Setouchi Triennale, Setouchi Trienale, Japan.

2009 Artist Residence grant, Pedvale Open Air Museum, Latvia.

2002 Artist-in-residence grant. University of Houston, Texas, USA.

1991 Artist-in-residence grant. Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, USA.

Selected works

File:Round Balance -Tanya Preminger 2008 France environmental art.jpg, alt=ROUND BALANCE, “ROUND BALANCE” 2008 Soil, grass, 260x900x900 cm. Saint-Flour, France.
File:Motherland, 2010. Tanya Preminger - sculpture installation.jpg, alt=MOTHERLAND, “MOTHERLAND” 2010 Earth,synthetic grass, polystyrene, 45x550x440 cm. Moscow, Russia.
File:Tanya Preminger "The mountain coming to Mohamed", Stone sculptor.jpg, alt=THE MOUNTAIN IS COMING TO MUHAMED, “THE MOUNTAIN IS COMING TO MUHAMED” 2002 Marble, 160x250x110 cm. Vernon, Canada.
File:Stratum - Setouchi Triennale Shamijima Japan - Tanya Preminger.jpg, alt=STRATUM, “STRATUM” 2013 Earth, grass, 6.5x28x18 m. Setouchi Triennale, Shamijima, Japan.
File:Tanya Preminger - Kronshtadt - land art.jpg, alt=KRONSHTADT, “KRONSHTADT” 2014 stones, granite, 50x580x350 cm. Kronshtadt, Russia.
File:"Made by God" -Tanya Preminger-stone artist.png, alt=MADE BY GOD, “MADE BY GOD” 1999, stone ,130x120x110 cm. Le Vent des Forest, France.
File:"Ecological man" - Tanya Preminger sculptor.jpg, alt=ECOLOGICAL MAN, “ECOLOGICAL MAN” 2017 rice straw, bamboo, chair, rope, telephone, 115 x 130 x 80 cm. Komdhara, India.
File:Preminger Tanya - Ritual Cut, 2009 Land art.jpg, alt=RITUAL CUT, “RITUAL CUT” 2009 Earth, grass 4.5x60x75 m. Pedvale Open-Air Art Museum, Latvia.
File:Harakiri - installation Tby anya Preminger.jpg, alt=HARAKIRI, “HARAKIRI” 2015 Installation Earth, Polyurethane, foam, 90x760x550 cm. Moscow Biennale, Russia.
File:Containers 2018, Tanya Preminger - stone sculptor.jpg, alt=CONTAINERS, “CONTAINERS” 2018 marble, 220x90x90 cm. 15x30X27 cm. Tongchuan, China.
File:Stone sculpture -Preminger, Israel.jpg, alt=SOUP, “SOUP” 1995 Marble, spoon 23x20x20 cm. Israel
File:Preminger Tanya - art Installation 1989.jpg, alt=WINDOW INTO ANOTHER WORLD, “WINDOW INTO ANOTHER WORLD” 1989 Soil, grass, mirror 90x500x300 cm. Givat-Brener, Israel.
File:Ural 2019 Marble Polevskoy. Russia.-Tanya Preminger Novozilova.jpg, alt=URAL, “URAL” 2019 marble, 400x300x80 cm. Mramorskoe, Ural, Russia.
File:“BACK FLIP BRIDGE”.jpg, alt=BACK FLIP BRIDGE, “BACK FLIP BRIDGE” 2009 Wood, 550x1850x80 cm. Massif du Sancy, France.

Selected symposiums, competitions and exhibitions

2020 “Corona in the Green Gallery” Exhibition. Green Gallery - open air gallery for Environmental Art. Israel.

2020 International Stone Sculpture symposium. Ganey Tikva. Israel.

2020 Galkot International Sculpture Symposium. Baglung. Nepal.

2019 The 3rd “Spoonbill Cup” Public Art Exhibition, China.

2019  ”The Marble Mile Festival”, Poleskoi, Ural, Russia.

2018  “China Tongchuan Xuanzang Road” international sculpture symposium. Tongchuan. China.

2018  FAD, El Primero Simposio Internacional de Esculturea. University of Mendoza. Argentina.

2018  International Stone Sculpture symposium .Maalot-Tarshiha. Israel.

2017  “Winners of Ministry of Culture Prize Exhibition”, MOBY Museum, Bat Yam, Israel.

2017  The 7th Beijing International Art Biennale, National Art Museum of China. China.

2017  International Land Art Residency, Narrative Movements Komdhara, Hooghly, India.

2016  “Bienal Internacional de Escultura Competition”, Resistencia. Argentina.

2015  "Center of point is on the side". The sixth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow.

2013   “Setouchi Trienale”, International Exhibition. Sakaide. Japan.

2012  "Hidden Cities" International ArtExpo, Koza Art Association, Istanbul, Turkey.

2011  Sea art festival, "Sea art festival" Busan Biennale, Busan, Korea.

2011  “100 years of Tsinghua University”  International Exhibition . Beijing, China.

2009  “Ritual Cut” project. Artist Residence grant, Pedvale Open Air Museum, Pedvale Open Air Art Museum,  Latvia.

2009  "Horizons Rencontre Art Nature"  International Exhibition, Massif du Sancy, France.

2008  "La Piera Musa Agresti" Prize, Cultural Center Domo Dorossa, Italy.

2003  Fuzhow International Sculpture Exhibition. Fuzhow, China.

1995   International Female Biennale. Stockholm, Sweden.

1991 "Israel Contemporary Sculpture". Museum HRA, Japan.

1988 "40 from Israel". Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA.

References

Art on Wry / Anne Marie Champagne

Information Center of Israeli Art in The "Israel Museum"


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External links

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Green Gallery

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Israeli sculptors
Living people
Israeli women sculptors
20th-century Israeli women artists
21st-century Israeli women artists
Land artists
Environmental art
1944 births