CV
Krauss Adi
Living and working in Tel Aviv, Israel
Education:
2017-2019
MFA Postgraduate Fine Art Program,
Hamidrasha, Faculty of the arts,
Beit Berl College
BFA Graduate of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, 2001-05
Specialization in Photography and Digital Imaging
MSO Graduate of Bio-Tech Institute of Tel Aviv, 1999-2000
Specialization in Multimedia
Winner of America-Israel Cultural Foundation Prize for Achievement in Photography, 2007
Exhibitions and Shows
Solo:
“129 Die in Jet!” – Sam Sebbe Gallery, Jerusalem, March 2006
“129 Die in Jet!” – Photography Department Gallery, Bezalel, Jerusalem, April 2006
Joint:
“Pause” – Jerusalem Cinematheque, April 2006
“Holon Now” – Digital Art Centre, Holon, May 2006
“Terminal 1” – National BG Airport, July 2006
“Artik 9” – Art Gallery, University of Tel Aviv, July 2007
“Silent Scream” – Z.O.A House, Tel Aviv, October 2007
“Visible 2013” – TBC Gallery, London, December 2013
“Unrelated – Artists support art” project, Tel Aviv, November 2016
“Ithaca” – Oranim Art College, Tivon, January 2017
“4th of July” – Yarkon Gallery, Tel Aviv, July 2019
“What matter wants” – Forum Givon, Tel Aviv, August 2019
Born as a photographer, Adi Krauss has orchestrated a space that
employs different aesthetic languages in order to make us reflect upon
the state of reality we live in, which is, in his eyes, a mix of consumerism
and cultural appropriation. The core of his installation, entitled Biblical,
is a series of trailers of a documentary, set in a call center that sells
biblical Hebrew courses. Next to it, the artist took footage from one of
the trailers, featuring flashing red light, and turn it into a work called
The Sun. Alongside these two works, Krauss has created a concrete
sculpture that transforms the most transient concept ever – that of
end of the season sales – into the most durable object ever: concrete
blocks. Closing this constellation of objects and ideas connected to
each other is a series of photocollages the artist created through the
“random cohabitation” of disparate images occurred on his screen.