Dana
Yoeli


Dana Yoeli (b.1979) is a Tel Aviv-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice relies on a wide range of media, construction of large scale installations, video work, photography, drawing, and sculpture. Her work focuses primarily on the tension between personal story and collective ethos, and the roles that nostalgia, memory and ceremonies play in this relationship.
Yoeli’s work has been shown in prominent spaces and museums in Israel and Europe, with one-woman shows and special projects at the Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center in Tel Aviv, Magasin III Jaffa, the Petah Tikva Museum of Art, FRIZE Hamburg, the Herzliya Museum of Art, the Beit Bialik Museum, CIRCLE-1 Gallery in Berlin, the Chelouche Gallery in Tel Aviv, the Tel Aviv Artists’ Workshops, Kav 16 Gallery, the Dana Gallery at Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, the Bezalel Gallery in Tel Aviv, the Tavi Dresdner Gallery, and at her own studio in Jerusalem.
Yoeli has also participated in numerous group exhibitions in Israel and abroad, including at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien in Berlin, Forum for Living History in Stockholm, Sweden, the Artists’ House in Jerusalem, the Ashdod Museum of Art, the Haifa Museum of Art, the Guttman Museum, Bat Yam Museum of Art, KUBUS Hanover, GSA Glasgow, and other major galleries. Her works can be found in private and public collections in Israel and around the world.
Yoeli has been awarded many grants, awards, and fellowships, including the DAAD grant (2005), Noam Shodovsky Award for Young Artist (2005), winner of the Young Artist Award (2012), grant and artist residency on behalf of Schir-IDA (2013), Mifal HaPais book-publishing grant (2013), the Joshua Rabinovich Foundation Grant (2014, 2015), the Tel Aviv Municipality Grant and the Joshua Rabinovich Foundation (2015), the Ostrovsky Family Foundation Support (2016), the Mifal HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts Grant (2017), Behörde für Kultur und Medien Hamburg Research grant (2019), independent creatives support by Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sports (2022), Asylum Arts in the Neighborhood grant (2023), and the Mifal HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts grant (2024).

This series of oil on canvas works was created after the shock and trauma of October 7th, and is a result of the solace I found in the studio, and in beauty, in times of grief and pain. My figurative paintings are made of raw and sensual compositions, relying heavily on classic rococo imagery, which appear to be traditional tableau scenes. The image is a fragment enlarged to life or larger-than-life proportions. These are cinematic "zoom-ins", cropped images that nearly always depict a gesture or a tactile minimal scene. Because the pieces focus on a minor, usually unnoticed detail, the image becomes sensual and distinct.

Dana Yoeli (b.1979) is a Tel Aviv-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice relies on a wide range of media, construction of large scale installations, video work, photography, drawing, and sculpture. Her work focuses primarily on the tension between personal story and collective ethos, and the roles that nostalgia, memory and ceremonies play in this relationship.
Yoeli’s work has been shown in prominent spaces and museums in Israel and Europe, with one-woman shows and special projects at the Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center in Tel Aviv, Magasin III Jaffa, the Petah Tikva Museum of Art, FRIZE Hamburg, the Herzliya Museum of Art, the Beit Bialik Museum, CIRCLE-1 Gallery in Berlin, the Chelouche Gallery in Tel Aviv, the Tel Aviv Artists’ Workshops, Kav 16 Gallery, the Dana Gallery at Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, the Bezalel Gallery in Tel Aviv, the Tavi Dresdner Gallery, and at her own studio in Jerusalem.
Yoeli has also participated in numerous group exhibitions in Israel and abroad, including at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien in Berlin, Forum for Living History in Stockholm, Sweden, the Artists’ House in Jerusalem, the Ashdod Museum of Art, the Haifa Museum of Art, the Guttman Museum, Bat Yam Museum of Art, KUBUS Hanover, GSA Glasgow, and other major galleries. Her works can be found in private and public collections in Israel and around the world.
Yoeli has been awarded many grants, awards, and fellowships, including the DAAD grant (2005), Noam Shodovsky Award for Young Artist (2005), winner of the Young Artist Award (2012), grant and artist residency on behalf of Schir-IDA (2013), Mifal HaPais book-publishing grant (2013), the Joshua Rabinovich Foundation Grant (2014, 2015), the Tel Aviv Municipality Grant and the Joshua Rabinovich Foundation (2015), the Ostrovsky Family Foundation Support (2016), the Mifal HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts Grant (2017), Behörde für Kultur und Medien Hamburg Research grant (2019), independent creatives support by Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sports (2022), Asylum Arts in the Neighborhood grant (2023), and the Mifal HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts grant (2024).

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