Keren Gueller
Born 1976 in Israel, lives and works in Tel Aviv.
Keren Gueller holds an M.F.A. degree from Bezalel, in collaboration with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a B.ED. in art and art education from Ha'Midrasha - Faculty of Arts, Beit Berl Academic College. Participates in the Artport Residency Program for 2022 - 2021. Senior Lecturer in Art and Art Education at Ha'Midrasha - Faculty of Arts, Beit Berl Academic College.
Gueller works mainly in video, sculpture, and installation. Her works study human behavior and environment. The works deal with autobiographical content, simple rituals and daily activities, and, through the tension between the documentary and the staged, they explore, dismantle, and reassemble social structures and rituals.
Exhibited solo exhibitions at the Petah Tikva Museum of Art, RIKSTOLVAN Gallery in Sweden, RawArt Gallery, New Gallery Teddy Jerusalem Artists' Workshops, Hanina Gallery, Kav 16 Gallery, Haifa Museum of Art, Ramat Gan Museum of Art and more.
Her works have been exhibited in many group exhibitions, including the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Herzliya Museum, MOBY - Bat Yam Museum of Contemporary Art, SBCAST Santa Barbara California Gallery, the Israeli Center for Digital Art in Holon, the Berlin Video Art Festival, Ha'Midrasha Gallery, Basic Art Gallery and Shanghai-Tech University Gallery in China.
Gueller has won several grants and awards for excellence in art, such as the Osnat Mozes Award for Excellence, a Young Artist Award from the Ministry of Culture and Sports, the Sharett Foundation's Art Excellence Award for Encouraging Creativity by the America-Israel Cultural Foundation, and grants from the Council The Lottery for Culture and the Arts, from the New Film and Television Foundation, and from the Independent Creators Foundation of the Ministry of Culture. Gueller is currently participating in the Pais artists incubator at the University Gallery, Tel Aviv University.
Exhibitions at RawArt Gallery
Education
2003-2005 MFA, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Tel Aviv, in cooperation with The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
1997-2001 B.Ed. with honors, Hamidrasha Faculty of Arts, Beit Berl College, Beit Berl
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Wet Collection, RawArt Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel, curated by: Maya Bamberger
2020 Florence Syndrome, Rikstolvan Gallery, Simrishamn, Sweden, curated by: Sandra Weil
2020 Persona Ficta, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Petach Tikva, curated by: Shlomit Breuer
2019 Coral, RawArt Gallery, Tel Aviv, curated by: Leah Abir
2019 Buffer, Hanina Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, curated by: Yonatan H. Mishal
2019 Biome, The New Gallery Artists' Studios Teddy, Jerusalem, curated by: Tamar Gispan-Greenberg
2016 Florence Syndrom, RawArt Gallery, Tel Aviv, curated by: Leah Abir (Catalog)
2013 Untitled. Home, Kfar Saba City Gallery, Kfar Saba, curated by: Revital Segev
2011 Opus 24, Line 16 Community Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, curated by: Sally Haftel Naveh
2010 You Have 60 Seconds, Tmuna Theatre Gallery, Tel Aviv, curated by: Maayan Amir
2008 Costume Party, The gallery, Kibbutz Beeri, curated by: Ziva Yellin
2007 I know what you threw last month, The Janco Dada Museum, Ein Hod, curated by: Ronit Milano
2006 Happy Holidays II, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, curated by: Tami Katz-Freiman
2002 Fischzang, Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, curated by: Simcha Shirman and Alona Friedberg
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Zumu Akko, Zumu, Akko
2023 Rewilding, Jaffa Museum, curated by: The Yona Fischer Certificate Program in Contemporary Curatorial and Museum Studies
2023 Zumo Acco, curated by: Milana Gitzin-adiram
2023 Protest, Resistence And Civil Disobedince in Israel, Museum On The Seam, curated by: Chen Shapira
2023 IN DOUBT, Agam Museum, curated by: Tal Bechler
2023 In The Mind's Eye, The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, curated by: Dr. Tamar Mayer
2023 The Autonomous Art Biennale, Gymnasia Herzliya Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, curated by: Rolla Khoury and Sandra Weil
2022 Nonfinito, artport, Tel Aviv, curated by: Vardit Gross
2021 Reality, Perhaps Virtual, Contemporary Art Center Ramla, Ramla, curated by: Smadar Sheffi
2021 We Hate Our Village 02 - Depressing Video Art from Israel, AD/AD - Project Space, Online Screening Event, curated by: Roy Menachem Markovich
2020 Texts, P8 Art Contemporary Gallery, Tel Aviv, curated by: Lee Barbu and Sally Krysztal-Kramberg
2020 Desktop - Artists During COVID-19, The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, curated by: Doron Rabina & Dalit Matatyahu
2019 Tabula Rasa, Ramat Israel Community Center, Tel Aviv, curated by: Oz Zloof
2019 Raw Art, RawArt Gallery, Tel Aviv, curated by: Maya Bamberger
2019 Impersonating Myself / Becoming Myself, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, curated by: Shoshan Brosh-Vaitz and Zhang Fang
2018 Class Photo, Beit Ariela Library, Tel Aviv
2018 Running in Circles, Parallel, Toronto
2018 70/70/70, SBCAST: The Santa Barbara Center of Art, Science and Technology, Santa Barbara
2018 Life Owner, HaMidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv, curated by: Izabella Volovnik, Erez Uzanand and Maya Zehavi
2018 ZUMU, Mobile Museum, Arad
2017 Talking Paper, Fresh Paint Art Fair, Hungarian Pavilion
2017 ZUMU, Mobile Museum, Yeruham
2017 Everyday Stones, RawArt Gallery booth, Art Market Budapest
2016 Kvutzatit (Group), Sukah Gallery, Tel Aviv
2016 Color Separation, Basis Gallery, Basis Art School, Herzliya, curated by: Shlomit Breuer
2016 Art School, The Helena Rubinstein Pavilion For Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
2015 Next, Docoaviv Festival, Cinematheque, Tel Aviv
2015 Video Parking, Artplus Hotel, Tel Aviv
2015 PLASTER 3, Warehouse 2- Jaffa Port, Tel Aviv
2015 Levinsky, Artspace, Tel Aviv
2014 Special Edition, Fresh Paint Art Fair, Tel Aviv
2014 Opening, Hamidrasha Gallery, Faculty of Arts, Beit Berl College, Tel Aviv
2013 Children's Talk, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art
2013 Local Pulse, Zaritsky Artists' House, Tel Aviv
2013 Local Pulse, Tel Aviv Artists’ House, Tel Aviv
2013 Reference, Binyamin Gallery, Tel Aviv
2012 Vacuum, RawArt Gallery, Tel Aviv
2012 Salon Talks, Tel Aviv Artists’ House, Tel Aviv
2012 Bristols, MoBY Museum of Contemporary Art, Bat Yam
2012 Another Place, Reacting Danziger foreign works, Dana Art Gallery, Kibbutz Yad Mordechai
2012 Working Class, Street Exhibition in the Loving Art, Making Art event, Tel Aviv
2012 Stage, City Gallery, Kfar Saba
2012 Burning Chametz, Hamelacha Workshop Gallery, Tel Aviv
2012 Shoukran, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
2011 Materials Exchange, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon
2011 Preview Berlin, International Video Exhibition, Berlin
2011 Household, Kibbutz Beeri; Kibbutz Urim; Tel Aviv
2011 Disruptions, Street Exhibition in the Loving Art, Making Art event, Tel Aviv
2011 Singular Crossings, The Artists' Studios – Art Cube Gallery, Jerusalem
2010 Common Law, Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv
2010 Round - 01, Multi-disciplinary artists complex Art Factory, Bat Yam
2010 Houses: Failure and Stubbornness, 10 Musrara Mix Festival, Jerusalem
2010 Ministry of Culture Award Winners Exhibition, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya
2009 Family Traces, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2009 Ghost, Mani House, Tel Aviv
2009 Ho"lololo", P8 Gallery, Jaffa
2009 Such as the Family, "Lev Ha-ir", Basement, Herzliya
2009 Fresh Paint Art Fair - 02, Hatachana, Tel Aviv
2008 PostPop, The Israeli Cartoon Museum, Holon
2008 Gift, P8 Gallery, Jaffa
2008 Close, Kalisher ,Contemporary Art Center, Tel Aviv
2008 Twosidedness, International Video Exhibition, Kulturhuset, Stockholm
2007 New in the Collection, Janco Dada Museum, Ein Hod
2007 The Rear, First Biennial of Contemporary Art, Herzliya
2006 Mixed Emotions, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa
2006 What Turns a Bird to a Bird, Hagra 41 Art Gallery
2006 Haganzach Project, The Israeli Center of Digital Art, Holon
2006 Thoughts on Feminine Autobiography, Hamidrasha Faculty of Arts, Beit Berl College, Tel Aviv
2005 May, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, M.F.A. Graduates Exhibition, Jerusalem
2005 Non-Stop Art, Tel Aviv Artists’ House, Tel Aviv
2005 Vacation, Rishon Letzion Cultural Center, Rishon Letzion
2003 Odem Festival, Video Art Program, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem
2003 Open Studio, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Exhibition for the M.F.A. program, Jerusalem
2002 Berlin, Video Art Festival, Berlin
2002 The Israeli Spirit, "Meimad" Studios, Tel Aviv
Artist/Teacher, The Gallery, Oranim Academic College, Kiryat Tiv'on
Grants & Awards
2019 Independent Creators Grant, Israel Ministry of Culture and Sport
2018 Israeli Lottery Council foe Culture and Arts Grant for digital catalog,
2016 Grant for publication of an artist's book, Beit Berl Academic College
2016 Israeli Lottery Council for Culture and Arts Grant,
2016 Outstanding Lecturer Leading Innovation Award, “Hamidrasha” Faculty of Arts, Beit Berl Academic College
2014 Grant in producing experimental videos, New Fund for Cinema and Television
2012 Grant in producing experimental film "Children, dream, language", New Fund for Cinema and Television and "Logi channel"
2011 "Jesse Cohen Project", The Israeli Center for Digital Art
2009 Young Artist Award, Ministry of Culture and Sports art and design awards,
2008 Grant in producing experimental videos, "Advertisements breaks", New Fund for Cinema and Television
2007 "Close" Project, Tel Aviv municipality
2006-2007 Graduate Scholarship in Art, America Israel cultural foundation
2005 Scholarship for Art Education, Bezalel Program
2003 Scholarship for Art Education, The Hebrew University
2001 Osnat Moses Scholarship for Excellence in the Arts, ”Hamidrasha”, Faculty of Arts, Beit Berl College
2000 Scholarship for Excellence in educational achievements, ”Hamidrasha”, Faculty of Arts, Beit Berl Academic College
1999 Scholarship for Excellence in education and teaching, ”Hamidrasha”, Faculty of Arts, Beit Berl Academic College
Residencies & Fellowships
2021-2022 Artport Residency,
Press
2022, Exhibition Review, Portfolio, 25.06.22, (Heb)
2022 Naama Riva, Exhibition Review, Haaretz, 24.05.22, (Heb)
2022 Daniel Milman, Ubiquitous Monsters, Erev Rav, 07.07.2022, (Heb)
2020 Hagay Hacohen, The bat who fought the emperor - The Art of Keren Gueller, The Jerusalem Post, 5.2.2020, (En)
2020 Naama Riba, Have you heard about the bats that nearly burned down Japan? Now they're in Petach Tikva, apparently, Haaretz, 4.2.2020, (Heb)
2016 Anat Barzilai, A review of Keren Gueller's solo show "Florence Syndrome", Calcalist, 19.12.16, Heb
2016 Keren Goldberg, A review of Keren Gueller's solo show "Florence Syndrome", Erev Rav, 19.12.16, Heb
2011 Galia Yahav, A review of Keren Gueller's solo show "Opus 24", Ha'aretz, 21.11.11, Heb
2010 Eli Armon Azoulai, Studio visit, Ha'aretz, 12.11.2010
Collections
Private collections