Hila
Laviv


Hila Laviv is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Tel-Aviv. She earned a B.Ed.FA with honors from HaMidrasha Art School (2002) and an MFA from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (2010).
She has a wide range of works which include video works, collages, and large-scale installations.
Laviv’s works have been shown in prominent spaces and museums in Israel and Europe, among them, solo exhibitions at the Altonaer Museum, Hamburg; Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod; Warburg-Haus Library Hall, Hamburg; Dalarnas Museum, Falun, Sweden (with Judiska Museet Stockholm); Jagla-Ausstelungsraum, Cologne; Tel Aviv Artist’s Studios; and the Dvir Gallery, Jaffa. Laviv has also participated in group exhibitions at the Bezalel Gallery, Tel Aviv; Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin; MOBY Bat Yam Museum; Haifa Museum of Art; Rockefeller Museum, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Janco-Dada Museum; Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art; the Fifth Biennale for Drawing in Jerusalem; and the 2nd Herzliya Biennial for Contemporary Art.
Laviv has received numerous awards and grants, including the Artis grant, a one-year residency scholarship for graduates at the Bezalel Academy, the Mifal HaPais grant, the Joshua-Rabinowitz Arts Grant, a grant from the Tel Aviv municipality, an America-Israel Cultural Foundation (AICF) Scholarship, the Cultural office of Cologne grant, and the Schir Foundation grant.

I am a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Tel Aviv. My works derive from a desperate pursuit of ghosts, and they deal with the question of the reconstruction or re-enactment of a world that has disappeared with the radical use of archival materials. The range of works I create include meticulously-made collages, stop-motion videos, and large-scale installations in a variety of spaces such as interiors, exteriors, a white cube, an abandoned house, a library, a garden, and more. I carry with me memories from places I have never visited, passed down to me by my late grandmother (Noni Shalmon-Warburg, 1922-2021) and the objects in her house. This transformative experience has led me to wish for a seemingly impossible collaboration between the present and the past, that continues the story while also altering it. The shared language of thought and action produces objects that in themselves are related to times and places, but also wander between them, bridging and linking people who do not share the same era, yet their proximity and presence exist not only as a memory, but as a shared practice of the material and conceptual – continuous, changing, and expanding knowledge. My project is in part an attempt to create what might otherwise disappear from the world.


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Hila Laviv is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Tel-Aviv. She earned a B.Ed.FA with honors from HaMidrasha Art School (2002) and an MFA from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (2010).
She has a wide range of works which include video works, collages, and large-scale installations.
Laviv’s works have been shown in prominent spaces and museums in Israel and Europe, among them, solo exhibitions at the Altonaer Museum, Hamburg; Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod; Warburg-Haus Library Hall, Hamburg; Dalarnas Museum, Falun, Sweden (with Judiska Museet Stockholm); Jagla-Ausstelungsraum, Cologne; Tel Aviv Artist’s Studios; and the Dvir Gallery, Jaffa. Laviv has also participated in group exhibitions at the Bezalel Gallery, Tel Aviv; Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin; MOBY Bat Yam Museum; Haifa Museum of Art; Rockefeller Museum, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Janco-Dada Museum; Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art; the Fifth Biennale for Drawing in Jerusalem; and the 2nd Herzliya Biennial for Contemporary Art.
Laviv has received numerous awards and grants, including the Artis grant, a one-year residency scholarship for graduates at the Bezalel Academy, the Mifal HaPais grant, the Joshua-Rabinowitz Arts Grant, a grant from the Tel Aviv municipality, an America-Israel Cultural Foundation (AICF) Scholarship, the Cultural office of Cologne grant, and the Schir Foundation grant.

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