Keren Shalev sculpture drawing | Keren Shalev
The starting point of my work is attentiveness to the formal qualities of the components I work with: the materials, the space, their weight, their scale, their resistance, their dynamic, and their interactions with each other and with us- when I work with them and in the encounter with the viewer.
I examine these qualities from my personal perspective and experience with them, and they evoke mental images in me. I continue to nurture this relationship between formalism and the poetic sphere until a firm and clear vision is consolidated.
In this correlation, I focus on an experience of contemplation, which is tactile and sentimental.
Keren Shalev
Born in Israel, in 1982
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
Sculptures in public spaces
since 2019
Schiffswrack, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin (permanent sculpture)
Illusionary/ real encounter on the shore, Schlosspark Stammheim Kunst, Köln
2017-19
Schiffswrack, Schlosspark Stammheim Kunst, Köln
2015-16
Schiffswrack, Radial System V, Berlin
Kunst am Bau
2022
Sustainable dynamics, Paavo-Nurmi prime school, Berlin
2. place, Kunst am Bau competition- TU Dresden Institut für Energietechnik
Fundings
2022
Stiftung Kunstfonds, Neustart Kultur grant for freelance visual artists
2021
Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen
2019
Szloma-Albam Stiftung
Solo exhibitions
2022
not alone in the valley of stones, Odalisque showroom, Berlin
2021
nothingness ̇one piece ̇two elements, Alte Feuerwache Loschwitz, Dresden
2019
Silence & Structure, Tête, Berlin - text
Self Reflection on Homeostasis, 48 Stunden Neukölln, Berliner Berg Brewery, Berlin
Ausstellung with Jungekunstberlin, Bristol Hotel, Berlin
2018
Hiding in foreign shadows, under buildings and in between, unperceived existence-Shush gallery - online catalog
2017
Boat Wreck, Helmut, Leipzig - article
2016
Constructions, 48 Stunden Neukölln, Gordon, Berlin
2015
Consolidated-Scattered, Plateau gallery, Berlin
Two-person exhibitions
2022
Offene Ecken, with Anna Myga Kasten, Galerie Drei, Dresden
2018
Bilinguale Lautskulptur - Performance with Mirjam Dorsch, Verlorene Zeit, Berlin
2017
Gentle Destructions, exhibition with Zorka Wollny, Flugwerk, Berlin - Text by Paz Ponce
2016
Ein Ort des Jetzt, Installation with Stephan Sitaras, Ruberoid Festival, Acud macht neu, Berlin
2014
Running man - Performance with Udi Berner, ́Reconstructing Reality’- T Berlin, Berlin and at Hachalalit gallery, Tel Aviv
2013
Peaceful burning - Performance with Udi Berner, Greenhouse, Berlin and at Kunst im Haus- Die Teatrale, Berlin
Selected group exhibitions
2022
15 min of fame, Mobile Art Space with Skulputurverein, Berlin
The Abstract View, Junge Kunst Berlin, Museum Modern Art Hünfeld
un-structured, Axel Obiger gallery, Berlin
Galerie Asterisk - eine feministische Intervention, online exhibition
2020
with EDGE Neuroscience-Art, Online in Artsteps
2019
Broken spaces, Tapir gallery, Berlin
Konkret, Alte Feuerwache Loschwitz, Dresden
Enclaves, Monopol, Berlin
ZUKUNFTSVISIONEN2019, Görltz
2018
Das Kapital collection, SchauFenster Gallery, Berlin
The Abstract View, Junge Kunst Berlin, Stiftung Starke, Berlin
SCHAUfenster à la Art, Kunstpreis des Landkreises Alzey-Worms, Wörrstadt
2017
Fremde Werte, Galerie Drei, Dresden
Kostbarkeiten, Rathaus Marzahn, Berlin
Capriccio, Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin
Kunstgäste #6, Kulturbunker, Köln
Performing Arts Festival Berlin, K77, Berlin
Souvenir – Ein Stillleben, Art Vending Machine, Jewish Museum Berlin
2016
Berlin art week exhibition-"50 Contemporary artists"- EAF, Berlin
Erde, Stahl & Leuchten, Hinterm Spaeti, Berlin
Heimat - Identifikation im Wandel, Künstlerverein Walkmühle e.V., Wiesbaden
2015
Roundabout- ID Festival, Radialsystem V, Berlin
Don´t call it a context, Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin
2014
Danalogue- Crossing Borders, Infarm, Berlin
2013
Kunst im Haus- Die Theatrale, Berlin
2012
Twin cities, Brasov
2010
It's Called Culture, Abracsas, Tel Aviv and at Bass, Jerusalem
Education
2014-15
Museumskunde, Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin
2009-11
Teaching diploma. Kibbutzim College of Education, Israel
2004-9
B.A. Fine Arts. University of Haifa, Israel
2003-4
Sculpture, Hagalil Hama’aravi College, Akko, Israel
Curation
2021
The elusive air between the viewer and the artwork, with EDGE - Blurring the Borders between Art and Neuroscience e.V., 48 Stunden Neukölln, Berlin
2019
Extended Matter, Becher Triennale, Berlin Glas e.V, Berlin - catalog
Enclaves, Monopol, Berlin