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Asaf Gam Hacohen (B.1977, Israel) is an artist, curator, and lecturer.
Gam Hacohen was awarded the Israel Ministry of Culture Award in 2017, the Israel Mifal HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts’ support for a digital catalogue in 2017, and the Mifal HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts’ support for a solo exhibition in 2012. He participated in the artist residency program at ViaFarini in Milan in 2023.
Gam Hacohen holds an MA in Cultural Studies from Tel Aviv University, a BFA in Cinema Studies, and a Practical Engineering degree in Photography & Digital Media from Sapir College, and UX Design certification from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
Since 2011, Asaf has held seven solo exhibitions in galleries and art spaces across Israel and France, including at the Israel Parliament (the Knesset), Gallery Memoire de l’Avenir in Paris, the Indie Gallery in Tel Aviv , the Minshar Gallery in Tel Aviv, and DaPhotolab Gallery in Tel Aviv.
Gam Hacohen has participated in numerous group exhibitions in museums and galleries worldwide, including in Israel, the US, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Germany, the United Emirates, and Italy. Notable exhibitions include at the Museo D’arte Contemporanea Villa Croce in Genoa (2022), the Ashdod Museum (2019), the Nachum Gutman Museum in Tel Aviv, the Ras-al-Khaimah Art Festival, and at the Second Tel Aviv Art and Design Biennale at the Eretz Israel Museum, where Gam Hacohen’s work was chosen for the cover of the exhibition catalog (2023). His work will be featured in the Jewish Museum Frankfurt (2024), and the Krakow Jewish Festival (scheduled for 2025).
Gam Hacohen was one of the founders of the Indie Photography Group Gallery, and he also founded and managed the DaPhotoLab Art Gallery. He has curated over fifteen solo and group exhibitions. His artworks have been acquired by private and public collections, and are also on display at the embassies of Israel in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

It seems the world has gone mad; reality shifts so rapidly that it's nearly impossible to keep up, much less to digest and adapt to it. In our current world, the only certainty is uncertainty, so I have chosen to surrender and dedicate myself to the cause. This project is the result of this existential condition, expressing the improbable and Sisyphean effort of trying to hold this reality together. This ongoing artistic investigation, in which I began in 2014, explores the impact of the digital era on the cultural and aesthetic dimensions of urban landscapes, as well as on the concept of the city itself. The landscapes are fragmented, with the reality held within shattered into tiny pieces, then reattached with great effort by stretched pixels. The aesthetics of the guide are futuristic; despite its digital appearance, it is a completely manual and laborious technique. I take pictures of places with personal or cultural significance, break them into small pieces, and then stretch one pixel at a time, revealing the genetic spectrum of light and color that is characteristic of the location. This approach allows me to reconstruct these locations as calibrated spaces. The viewing experience of these works is based on a dual observation. The first, from a distance, presents an image that is vibrant and glittering like a jewel — a futuristic utopia. The second, from up close, exposes a "bitter truth": the daily grey, shredded reality in which the rules of the game have been broken, relationships severed, and all passersby live their lives on their own separate planes — physical detachment vis-à-vis a physical connection.

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Asaf Gam Hacohen (B.1977, Israel) is an artist, curator, and lecturer.
Gam Hacohen was awarded the Israel Ministry of Culture Award in 2017, the Israel Mifal HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts’ support for a digital catalogue in 2017, and the Mifal HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts’ support for a solo exhibition in 2012. He participated in the artist residency program at ViaFarini in Milan in 2023.
Gam Hacohen holds an MA in Cultural Studies from Tel Aviv University, a BFA in Cinema Studies, and a Practical Engineering degree in Photography & Digital Media from Sapir College, and UX Design certification from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
Since 2011, Asaf has held seven solo exhibitions in galleries and art spaces across Israel and France, including at the Israel Parliament (the Knesset), Gallery Memoire de l’Avenir in Paris, the Indie Gallery in Tel Aviv , the Minshar Gallery in Tel Aviv, and DaPhotolab Gallery in Tel Aviv.
Gam Hacohen has participated in numerous group exhibitions in museums and galleries worldwide, including in Israel, the US, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Germany, the United Emirates, and Italy. Notable exhibitions include at the Museo D’arte Contemporanea Villa Croce in Genoa (2022), the Ashdod Museum (2019), the Nachum Gutman Museum in Tel Aviv, the Ras-al-Khaimah Art Festival, and at the Second Tel Aviv Art and Design Biennale at the Eretz Israel Museum, where Gam Hacohen’s work was chosen for the cover of the exhibition catalog (2023). His work will be featured in the Jewish Museum Frankfurt (2024), and the Krakow Jewish Festival (scheduled for 2025).
Gam Hacohen was one of the founders of the Indie Photography Group Gallery, and he also founded and managed the DaPhotoLab Art Gallery. He has curated over fifteen solo and group exhibitions. His artworks have been acquired by private and public collections, and are also on display at the embassies of Israel in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

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