Dani Gal
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He studied at Bezalel Academy for Art and Design in Jerusalem, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste Stäadelschule in Frankfurt and in Cooper Union in New York. His films and installations have been shown at the 54th Venice Biennale (2011), Istanbul Biennale (2011), New Museum New York (2012), Kunsthalle St. Gallen Switzerland (2013), The Jewish Museum New York (2014), Berlinale Forum Expanded (2014), Kunsthaus Zurich (2015) Kunsthalle Wien (2015), Documenta 14 (2017), Centre Pompidou (2018), Club TransMediale Festival Berlin, Festival Steirischer Herbst, Graz (2020). In 2019 he was artist-in-residence with Blood Mountain Projects and research fellows at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute.
Selected Exhibitions
- 2020 - Steirisher Herbst (Paranoia TV) Graz
- 2019 - Weissenhof City, Statdsgallerie Stuttgar
- 2018 - FRONT International, Cleveland, OH, Screening at Centere Pompidou, Paris
- 2017 - Documenta 14
- 2016 - Collection on Display: Momentary Monuments, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich,
- 2015 - Europa, Die Zukunft der Geschichte, Kunsthaus Zürich
- 2014 - The Jewish Museum, New York, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Forum expanded - 66th Berlinale, Berlin
- 2013 - Kunsthalle St. Gallen, Turku Art Museum, FIN, Screening at 2013 - ICA, London
- 2012 - Stowaways Series, New Museum, New York, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA,
- 2011 - ILLUMInazioni, 54. Biennale di Venezia, Untitled, 12. Istanbul Biennial
Publications
Chanting Down Babylon, 2009 https://anagrambooks.com/chanting-down-babylon Contributors: Eva Birkenstock, Hannes Loichinger
Historical Records, 2018 https://www.snoeck.de/de/book/441/Dani-Gal%3A-Historical-Records Contributor: Marcus Gammel
An Elaborate Gesture of Pastness http://bloodmountain.org/programmes/current/ Contributors: Sa’ed Atshan, Noit Banai, Sabeth Buchmann, Burcu Dogramaci
Awards and Residencies
2020 - Radio Lab CTM
2019 - Residency at Blood Mountain Projects Vienna, Fellowship at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institue for Holocaust Studies. Vienna, AT
2012 - Hans Purmann Price
2009 - Ars Viva Award
2008 - Villa Romana, Florence, IT
External links
- Artist website: https://dani-gal.com/
- Gallery Kadel-Willborn: https://www.kadel-willborn.de/en/data/artists/110/dani-gal.html
- Historical Records: https://historical-records.com/
- Taking Measures - Usage of formats in film and video art: https://takingmeasures.ch/
- Three Works For Piano: https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/341662/dani-galthree-works-for-piano/
- Paranoia T.V: https://www.paranoia-tv.com/de/program/content/229-dani-gal-im-gesprch-mit-david-riff
- Blood Mountin Projects: http://bloodmountain.org/programmes/artists-in-residence/dani-gal/
- Arsenal Berlin: http://films.arsenal-berlin.de/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/15000
- CTM Festival: https://archive2013-2020.ctm-festival.de/archive/all-artists/a-e/dani-gal/
- Staatgalerie Stuttgart: https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/271633/dani-gal-michaela-melin-martin-schmidl-boris-sievertsweissenhof-city/
- Schirn Hunsthalle: https://www.schirn.de/en/magazine/context/political_art_now/dani_gal_lecture_performance/
- The Wire: https://www.thewire.co.uk/about/artists/dani-gal
- Art Forum: https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/201508/dani-gal-55013
- Vienna Wiesenthal Institue: https://www.vwi.ac.at/index.php/forschung/vwi-alumni/fellows-2019-2020/artist-in-residence/dani-gal
- Forward: https://forward.com/culture/208616/nazi-hunter-meets-nazi-architect/
- Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen https://www.arttv.ch/kunst/kunst-halle-sankt-gallen-dani-gal/
- Berlinische Galerie: https://www.berlinartlink.com/2018/02/01/truth-dani-gals-hegemon-at-berlinische-galerie/
- Crew United: https://www.crew-united.com/en/Dani-Gal_280977.html
- IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/find?q=Dani+Gal&ref_=nv_sr_sm
- Kunst Forum: https://www.kunstforum.de/person/gal-dani/