Nir Alon

Nir Alon
Nir Alon
Born	Israel
Education	Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem (1988–1992)
Occupation(s)	Sculptor, Installation artist
Known for	Sculptures and installations using everyday objects
Awards	Israeli Ministry of Education and Culture Young Artists Prize (1996);

Nir Alon is an Israeli sculptor and an installation artist based in Hamburg.

Alon studied from 1988 until 1992 at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. 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 Hamburg. 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 Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Schwerin, Bonn, Mannheim, Frankfurt 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.^{[citation needed]}

His works are in public and private collections in Germany, Israel, Italy and United States.^[1]

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, Nahshon, 1996
Sample of pervert imitation, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv, 1997^[2]
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)^[3]
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^[4]
This way or another – Kunstverein Buchholz.
Etwas Grosses wird geschehen, Appel Gallery, Frankfurt, 2006^[5]
Zeichnungen nach Installation, Magnus P. Gerdsen Gallery, Hamburg, 2006
Now You Have A Problem Mister, MARKING SPACE. HAMBURG. JERUSALEM., Galerie ChezLinda, Hamburg, 2007^[6]
active constellation, works from the collections of Reinking and Lafrenz – The House of Art, Brno, 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. ISBN 9783937014531
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. ISBN 9781527226043

External links

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

References

^ "IMJ". Archived from the original on 2005-11-26. Retrieved 2006-05-03.
^ Chelouche Gallery
^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-08-09. Retrieved 2007-08-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ Sebastian Fath | Contemporary
^ Galerie Appel - Frankfurt
^ Kunstverein Kulturverein LINDA eV Hamburg St. Pauli Hein-Hoyer-Str. 13 chezLinda

[1] "IMJ". Archived from the original on 2005-11-26. Retrieved 2006-05-03.

[2] Chelouche Gallery

[3] "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-08-09. Retrieved 2007-08-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[4] Sebastian Fath | Contemporary

[5] Galerie Appel - Frankfurt

[6] Kunstverein Kulturverein LINDA eV Hamburg St. Pauli Hein-Hoyer-Str. 13 chezLinda

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