Alon
Kedem


Alon Kedem (b. 1982) lives and works in Jerusalem. Kedem holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.
Kedem has presented a number of solo exhibitions in Israel and abroad, including “Great Sunset”, at the Cipa Gallery, Beijing, China (2017), “Working Memory”, at the Brain Research Center, the Hebrew University (2021), and “Here is There” at the Hazi Cohen Gallery (2022). He has also participated in many group exhibitions in Israel and abroad, including “Take Painting” at the Petah Tikva Museum of Art (2016), “Fake News Fake Truth” at the Haifa Art Museum (2019), and “All Throughout the Days”, which is currently showing at the Ramat Gan Museum of Art.
Kedem has won several awards for his work, including the 2012 Moses Prize for Painting, and was featured as the only Israeli artist chosen to participate in the book “100 Painters of Tomorrow” published by Thames & Hudson, London.
Kedem’s works are included in many private collections in Israel and abroad, as well as in public collections such as the collections of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Israel Knesset, and more.

My painting largely engages with the question of how we perceive and construct reality; how, within open systems of knowledge, a link may be created between us and the world, between us and ourselves. I am interested in paintings that come together and deconstruct right in front of the viewer, and the viewer is an active partner in their construction. Painting is also a real attempt to meet, to see the other in the blended space of meanings. One might say that I’m addicted to painting, to its infinite possibilities, and to the freedom it offers within its predetermined space. I’m also addicted to the engagement with matter, to the sensuality of a substance that transforms into an image, yet remains a substance: material blends with material, one image encounters another; the fruitful tension between eye and hand, between consciousness and the body, imaginary and real, virtual and actual. In the space of painting, the boundaries between all of these categories blur and dissolve, and the viewer is free to embark on a journey.


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Alon Kedem (b. 1982) lives and works in Jerusalem. Kedem holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.
Kedem has presented a number of solo exhibitions in Israel and abroad, including “Great Sunset”, at the Cipa Gallery, Beijing, China (2017), “Working Memory”, at the Brain Research Center, the Hebrew University (2021), and “Here is There” at the Hazi Cohen Gallery (2022). He has also participated in many group exhibitions in Israel and abroad, including “Take Painting” at the Petah Tikva Museum of Art (2016), “Fake News Fake Truth” at the Haifa Art Museum (2019), and “All Throughout the Days”, which is currently showing at the Ramat Gan Museum of Art.
Kedem has won several awards for his work, including the 2012 Moses Prize for Painting, and was featured as the only Israeli artist chosen to participate in the book “100 Painters of Tomorrow” published by Thames & Hudson, London.
Kedem’s works are included in many private collections in Israel and abroad, as well as in public collections such as the collections of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Israel Knesset, and more.

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