Intrusions

18 July 2024- 12th September 2024

Solo Exhibition at Braverman Gallery curated by Adi Gura

Dana Levy’s multifaceted practice considers how historic architecture and sites embody lived experiences and change context over time. She often begins her projects with specific buildings, local people, and archives, creating works that delve into unique cultural histories and connect to overarching themes of place. Through symbolic imagery, Levy creates a haunting meditation on displacement, memory, and the passage of time.
Through her diverse body of work, Dana Levy invites viewers to reconsider the ways in which architecture, history, and environment intersect to shape individual and collective identities. Her art challenges us to confront the past, contemplate the present, and envision alternative futures, emphasizing the enduring relevance of our choices in shaping the world around us.

This Place We Once Remembered

April 22 – August 6, 2023

Glyndor Gallery Wave Hill, Bronx NY

In an age of reckoning and renegotiation with history, we must also contend with the stubborn resistance that some memories have to being forgotten. In This Place We Once Remembered, artworks and performances by eight former Wave Hill Winter Workspace artists-in-residence draw from lived experience and historical records to conjure memories that move between ancestral pasts and speculative futures. Informed by the tenets of the residency program, the exhibition reflects on Wave Hill as a place where artistic research and development connect nature, culture and site, and where past and present intersect.

Engaging historical places and landscapes as sites of representation, Ariel “Aryel” René Jackson, Dana Levy and Yelaine Rodriguez draw from personal histories, interdisciplinary research, fiction and imagination to contest the historical record. Somatic and performative works by Zachary Fabri, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow and Paloma McGregor engage the body’s capacity to carry memory forward and create living archives of ancestral traditions and violent histories. In works that reconcile multiple realities, Saya Woolfalk and Ezra Wube vivify alternative nature-culture possibilities built on non-human-centric values.

Reaching into both the past and future to reframe the present, personal and collective memories intertwine with the trajectory of the Anthropocene in This Place We Once Remembered, acknowledging site as a recollection of physical, historical, cultural and imagined characteristics, which tap into the imperfection and historical manipulation of memory and its transformational power.

This Place We Once Remembered is organized by Rachel Raphaela Gugelberger, Curator of Visual Arts, with Gabriel de Guzman, Director of Arts and Chief Curator; Betsey Perlmutter, Curator of Performing Arts; and Cecilia Lu, Curatorial Assistant.

Think We Must

May 13 – Jun 19, 2022

Think We Must

Akademie-Galerie Düsseldorf – Die Neue Sammlung   curated by Asya Yaghmurian 

Artists: Adam Broomberg mit CAConrad & Gersande Spelsberg, Natalie Czech, Martine Gutierrez, Shadi Habib Allah, Estefania Landesmann, Mischa Leinkauf, Dana Levy, Helmar Lerski, Adrien Missika, Frida Orupabo, Walid Raad, Hito Steyerl, Mikhail Tolmachev, Mario Garcia Torres, David Wojnarowicz

In place of a missing place

January 29 – April 8, 2022

Dissensus Legislation Planning Architecture Tel Aviv Museum

30/12/21​-​7/5/22

Curated by Meira Yagid-Haimovici and Hadas Yossifon

https://www.tamuseum.org.il/en/exhibition/dissensus-legislation-planning-architecture/

The works tend to issues concerning the highly centralized Israeli planning system and its favoring of security needs over civic and professional agendas. They present a maze of conflicts between systems and actors, to highlight the friction that the consensus tends to obscure. Are existing planning methods relevant within the current economic-political climate? Is it possible to move from consumer discourse to ethical discourse on common civil responsibility and solidarity?

Participants: Baruch Agadati; Uri Agnon; Ran Baram; Ronnen Ben-Arie, Sandy Kedar and Orwa Switat; Arno Brandlhuber+ Olaf Grawert and Christopher Roth; Mona Haj Yahya, Eli Khromov and Yuval Rosin; Israel Planning Administration: Erez Ben-Eliezer and Shahar Rosenak; Tali Keren; Daphna Levine, Meirav Aharon-Gutman and Shai Sussman; Ronit Levine-Schnur; Dana Levy, Michael Sfard and Oren Yiftachel; Masbedo: Nicolo Massazza and Jacopo Bedogni; Yael Moria, Yael Chen-Agmon and Studio MA; Ayala Ronel, Eytan Mann, Adam Hvkin and Fadi Dahabreh; Shira Rotkopf and Oded Kutok; Nava Sheer; Kassem Slalha and Avital Marmelstein; Ido Tsarfati; Einat Weizman

Auf Ins KAFF Syker Vorwerk – Center for Contemporary Art; Syke Germany

17.10.2021 - 26.12.2021

Auf Ins KAFF

Artists: Hadas Amster | Daniel Laufer | Dana Levy | Michaela Melián | Sala-Manca | Ali Shrago-Spechler

Curated by Nicole Giese-Kroner and Elianna Renner.

PHOTOMENTA Eretz Israel Museum

October 2nd 2021- October 2nd 2022

MUZA, the Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, is pleased to present the first Photomenta – a large-scale photography exhibition opening at the museum. The exhibition, which will take place every five years, presents hundreds of works by dozens of participants from numerous Mediterranean countries. Serving as a bridge that extends over seas and peoples, borders and political conflicts, the photographs on display offer a mental, artistic and narrative point of encounter with the “others” in our vicinity. The exhibition extends throughout the museum galleries, pavilions and archaeological garden, unfurling like a maritime map or fishing net. The exhibition’s various sites serve as port cities, while the series of photographs on display appear alongside the museum’s archaeological and historical treasures.

Participants:

Raida Adon (Acre, Israel); Oded Balilty (Israel); Laetizia Battaglia (Italy); Raed Bawayah (The Palestinian Authority/France);

Orit Adar-Bechar (Israel); Hicham Benohoud (Morocco); Noa Ben-Nun Melamed (Israel); Primož Bizjak (Slovenia);

Nadir Bucan (Turkey); Itamar Doari (Israel); Faten Gaddes (France/Tunisia); Ana Galan (Spain); Maya Geller (Israel);

Dor Guez (Jaffa, Israel); Raafat Hattab (Jaffa, Israel); Oded Hirsch (Israel); Marie Hudelot (France-Algeria); Max Juhasz (Crotaia); Yoram Kupermintz (Israel); Nicolas Lambouris (Cyprus); Dana Levy (Israel); Luca Locatelli (Italy); Adrian Paci (Albania/Italy); Maria Pansini (Italy); Theodor Papadakis(Greece); Francesca Piqueras (France); David Pisani (Malta); Siniša Radulović (Montenegro); Ritty Tacsum (Malta); Dafna Tal (Israel); Vertigo (Israel); Hinda Weiss (Israel); Ammar Younis (Kafr Ara, Israel); Tamir Zadok (Israel); Almin Zrno (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

EXAMPLES TO FOLLOW: EXPEDITIONS IN AESTHTICS AND SUSTAINABILITY

02.09.2021 - 30.11.2021

Curated by Adrienne Goehler

19th ETF! station in Haifa and Jerusalem, Israel

Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem: Wednesday 01/09/2021, 7pm

Pyramida Art Center, Haifa: Thursday, 02/09/2021, 8pm

In cooperation with Museum on the Seam

Life/Still Life/Land -Museum On The Seam

2/2 April 12 2021 – July 31 2021

Spectors- Ashdod Museum Of Art

Sept 2020- July 2021

Curators:Yuval Beaton, Roni Binyamini-Cohen

Perahia Behar David, Attoun Maya ,Levy Dana, Klein Angela, Kedar Cohen Dvir ,Porat Ronit, Orpaz Leigh, Miranda Arik ,Tichy Jan, Slavin Ran, Rodeh Alona, Raff Orit Zack Maya, Yitzhari Shiran, Yashaev Mark Rooms Other In from, Miranda Arik

VIDEONALE. 18 FLUID STATES. SOLID MATTER – Kunstmuseum-Bonn, Germany

March 4th 2021 - April 18, 2021

Last Man presented at

The VIDEONALE.18 – Festival for Video and Time-Based Art Forms presents 31 international artistic positions in the field of video and moving images in its competition. In an architecture specially designed for the exhibition (by Ruth Lorenz, maaskant Berlin), the various individual positions, including numerous room installations, condense into a complex narrative about the state of our world. The artists reflect – often from a very personal perspective – the big issues of the future such as migration (s); our handling of natural, animal and human resources; Body and identity politics as well as the question of how one relates to the other.

Artists of the VIDEONALE.18:
Paula Ábalos, Tekla Aslanishvili, Eliane Esther Bots, Viktor Brim, Adam Castle, Eli Cortiñas, Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby, Mouaad el Salem, Mahdi Fleifel, Ellie Ga, Beatrice Gibson, Russel Hlongwane, Heidrun Holzfeind, Che-Yu Hsu, Sohrab Hura, Ida Kammerloch, Michelle-Marie Letelier, Dana Levy, Anne Linke, Lukas Marxt & Michael Petri, Bjørn Melhus, Ana María Millán, Michael Klein & Sasha Pirker, Morgan Quaintance, Úna Quigley, Aykan Safoğlu, Patrick Staff, Rhea Storr, Ingel Vaikla, Ana Vaz, Gernot Wieland

Opening and festival program:
The VIDEONALE.18 opens online on March 3, 2021 and starts with a three-day festival program from March 4 to 6, 2021. During the festival days, the VIDEONALE will offer the 31 selected video works in stream as a “home museum” in addition to the exhibition ” at. In addition, video material on the artists, their positions and the exhibition is available online, thus opening up the opportunity to approach the works and their content independently.

Currents 119 solo exhibition St Louis Art Museum

February 26th 2021- August 15th 2021

Currents 119: Dana Levy

Israeli artist Dana Levy is known for poetic video, sculpture, and print installations that explore place, displacement, and migration by exposing the tensions among architecture, nature, the environment, and human history. In Currents 119: Dana Levy, the artist presents three new works concerned with landscape and memory.

Throughout her dreamy, surreal videos, Levy examines how the past resides in the present and how the choices we make—what to keep and what is destroyed—hold important implications. Levy is interested in how humans interact with historic architecture and see or feel the traces of history within buildings. Her multifaceted practice considers how historic architecture and sites embody lived experiences and change context over time. She often begins her projects with specific buildings, local people, and archives to create works that delve into unique cultural histories and connect to overarching themes of place.

Levy’s work moves beyond a traditional video format by seamlessly integrating moving images and projections with found images and objects, subverting their original functions and meanings to create new narratives. For this exhibition, she worked closely with members of the St. Louis community, from city residents to historians and cultural institutions. While the artworks in the exhibition start with St. Louis and its history, the city stands as an archetype for American urban centers.

Levy is the recipient of the 2019–2020 Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Fellowship, which includes a residency at the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis and a Currents exhibition at the Museum. The Museum’s Currents series is dedicated to the ongoing presentation of new works of contemporary art by living artists. Levy’s video work The Weight of Things, 2015–2019, will be on view concurrently as part of New Media Series—Dana Levy in Gallery 301.

Currents 119: Dana Levy is curated by Hannah Klemm, associate curator of modern and contemporary art, and Molly Moog, research assistant. The exhibition is supported in part by the Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Endowment Fund. The artist’s creation of works in the exhibition was supported by a grant from Artis.

Natural Glitch

September 9th- Decmber 31st 2020

Natural Glitch curated by Michal Baror at Musrara College New Gallery in Jerusalem  is on view until the end of the year.

including the photographic series Forget Me Not

Land Without Land

July 3rd 2020

Beit Hankin Multidisciplinary Gallery

New Media Room “Last Man” Bruno David Gallery

Jun 27th – Aug 30th

Press Release

Rock, Paper, Scissors

MAY 9 — JUNE 29, 2019

Dana Levy, Cheryl Molnar, Seçkin Pirim and Suzanne Song

Curated by David C. Terry

Opening Reception: MAY 9, 6-8PM

C24 Gallery

560 West 24th Street New York, NY, 10011

Even The Trees Bleed

April 12th-June 2019

Curated By Raphie Etgar

The Exhibition deals with the aesthetic, cultural, national and political meanings between trees and men as independent creatures discovering their weaknesses, instincts and interdependence upon one another, and between themselves to the natural environment surrounding them.

Artists include: Naoko Ito, Giuseppe Licari, Yael Bartana, Larry Abramson, Shen Shaomin, Garet Lapher, Miki Kratzman Dana Levy, Moshe Gershuni, Orit Hofshi, David Tartakover, Fouad Agbaria, Shirley Faktor,Joram Razov, Guli Silberstein, Natasha Shakhnes, Amir Yatziv, Nava Harel Shoshani

University of Michigan Museum of Art

April 27th - July 28th 2019

The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene awakens us to the physical and social effects of the Anthropocene, a much-debated term used to define a new geological epoch shaped by human activity. Structured around ecological issues, the exhibition presents photography, video, and sculpture that address subjects and themes related to raw materials, disasters, consumption, loss, and justice. More than thirty-five international artists, including Sammy Baloji, Liu Bolin, Dana Levy, Mary Mattingly, Pedro Neves Marques, Gabriel Orozco, Trevor Paglen, and Thomas Struth, respond to dire global and local circumstances with resistance and imagination—sustaining an openness, wonder, and curiosity about the world to come.

Interior Monologues

February 22–June 16

Visual Arts Center New Jersey

Curated by Mary Birmingham

This group exhibition explores the real, imagined, or implied narratives connected to interior spaces. Several of the artists in Interior Monologues depict real places—some populated by specific characters—while others invent new places based on their own experience or imagination. Many of the works suggest hidden histories or embedded memories and emotions. The interiors devoid of people are like empty stage sets waiting for actors to animate them. Whether public or private, all of these interior settings are activated by the presence (or absence) of humans.

Interior Monologues is a multi-media show, incorporating painting, sculpture, drawing, collage, video, and site-specific installation. Participating artists are: Matt Bollinger, Erin Diebboll, Susan Leopold, Dana Levy, Summer McCorkle, Anne Muntges, Casey Ruble, and Paul Wackers.

Whitehot Magazine review

February 15th 2019

https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/weight-things-at-fridman-gallery/4155

excerpt:

The Weight of Things, at Fridman Gallery is a work of art that must be experienced. The audio track of the rumblings of actual earthquakes allow the viewer to feel the vibrations of the earthquake depicted in the video. Sitting in the basement-level media room allows the viewer to feel not only the vibrations of the soundtrack, but also the subtle vibrations of the subway below one’s feet.

Levy’s source material, 19^th century etchings of two rooms at the Palace of Versailles – the bedroom of Luis XIV and the Salle of Constantine, reduce the vibrantly colored opulent chambers, to outlines that are further reduced to piles of rubble. Watching the clearing of the rooms gives the viewer a sense of purification that one feels when watching a team of professionals clear out a hoarder’s house, revealing walls and floors hidden for years, or when Marie Kondo comes in and makes people organize their own homes. The maximalist Baroque art and decoration, further maximized by the Rococo, falls away to the stark minimalism of empty rooms and there is a feeling of relief when the earthquake purifies them.

Whitehotreview

The Weight Of Things / Fridman Gallery

16th- January - 13th February

ZUMU Museum on the move

November 16th and December 28th

The Weight of things on Display at Zumu – Curated by: Milana Gitzin Adiram and Ofra Harnam

ZUMU is a mobile museum that aims to create fresh ways to broaden access to art, particularly in communities where that access is traditionally limited.

Israel’s first mobile museum aims to stop this cycle by traveling to a new city every few months, bringing the best of Israel’s contemporary arts scene directly to communities across the country.

Zumo won the 2018 Sothebys art prize

MACRO Asylum- The MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art Rome Italy

November 8th and November 26th

MACRO_Asilo_novembre_2018

Rassegna videoarte novembre

https://www.museomacro.it/pagine/presentazione-macro-asilo

Relational multidisciplinary device, “common” space, MACRO ASILO rethinks the museum as an institution, taking its cue from its constituent criteria [from ABC], offering itself as the venue in which to forge a new encounter between artists and the city, between art and society. Project by Giorgio de Finis.

The artists on the slate in the first few months of the project include: Michelangelo Pistoletto, Daniel Buren, Dora Garcia, Krysztof Bednarski, Pietro Gilardi, Alberto Garutti, Marzia Migliora, Liliana Moro, Pablo Echaurren, Gianni Pettena, Melania Mazzucco, Elina Chauvet, Wim Wenders, Alfredo Pirri, Gianni Asdrubali, Giovanni Albanese, Gianfranco Notargiacomo, Ria Lussi, Piero Mottola, Giuseppe Stampone, Fabrizio Crisafulli and the Stalker collective.

November 6th Screening of The Weight Of Things

November 26th Screening of Desert Station

Frankfurt Jewish Museum

10 to 15 November 2018

 The Fountain (2011, 03:03 min), This was Home (2016, 17:44 min) and Silent Among us (5:00 min, 2008)

BTRtoday interview with Kimberly Ruth

Sept 2018

BTRToday Art Uncovered interview with Kimberly Ruth on new projects, and works in progress http://www.btrtoday.com/listen/artuncovered/dana-levy/

 The World To Come: 
Art In The Age Of The Anthropocene 

Sept 18th-March 3rd 2018

A special program of recent video works from Israel at Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature

June 13th, 20th and 27th

Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature

A special program of recent video works from Israel

Curated by Hadas Maor

 In correlation with the France-Israel Season of culture Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature presents a special program of recent video works from Israel. The program is structured in three parts addressing the multifaceted relations between nature and culture in general, and specific aspects typical to the case of Israel, in particular. The program enables the viewers a broad acquaintance with recent and prominent endeavors extracted from the vibrant contemporary art scene in Israel. Evolving from the playful and the naïve to the poetic and the profound, the program emphasizes works which promote reflection and debate relating to aesthetic and political questions at the heart of the very being of Israel. Within this context the program also focuses on works addressing questions of place, memory and identity. Problematizing the complex relation between body and land in the specific context of the land of Israel, the harsh political realm of the region is manifested in the works in an array of subjective, poetic ways.

Participating Artists:

Michal Rovner, Amir Yatziv, Sharon Glazberg, Itay Marom, Dana Levy, Lee Yanor, Gilas Ratman, Sigalit Landau, Yosef Joseph Yaacov Dadoune, Hila Benari, Tal Shochat, Fatma Shanan, Ayelet Carmi and Meirav Heiman, Tzion Avraham Hazan, Raida Adon, Raafat Hattab, Thalia Hoffman, Daniel Kiczales, Itzik Badash, Yael Bartana, Nira Pereg

Animals and Nature June 13th

Nature and Culture June 20th

Culture and Identity June 27nd

I will be screening

Silent Among Us,  Aftermath, The Wake

This Was Home at The Petach Tikva Museum Of Art

June 7th 2018 - September 29th 2018

A selection of video works at Spot- The Petach Tikva Museum Of Art curated by Hadas Maor. including works by Dor Guez, Thalia Hoffman, Raafat Hattab and Dana Levy I’ll be screening my 3 screen work This Was Home.

NURTUREart’s Single Channel

May 12th 2018

Eden Without Eve will be screened at NURTUREart’s Single Channel at Anthology Film Archives In NYC

May 12 and 13
Doors at 2pm, Screening at 2:30pm
Free and open to the public

Curated by Vanessa Albury, Ivan Gilbert, and William Penrose.
Each 60 minute screening will be followed by a conversation with participating artists.

To the End of Land

28.4.18

28 April 2018, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi

 Curators: Drorit Gur Arie, Or Tshuva

Artists: David Adika, Anisa Ashkar, Yael Bartana, Yosef Josef Dadoune, Atar Geva, Avital Geva Sharon Glazberg, Leor Grady, Judith Guetta, Sigalit Landau, Dana Levy, Shahar Marcus, Nira Pereg, Orit Raff, Tomer Sapir, Dafna Shalom, Tal Shochat, Gal Weinstein, Sharon Ya’ari.

The exhibition presents a wide range of references and approaches to recent changes in the economic and social landscape in Israel, as manifested by the appearance of natural scenery in Israeli contemporary Art. Engagement with the land, its borders, scars, and produce runs through the work of many artists active in Israel today. The chosen title, “To the End of Land,” strives to draw attention to some of the cultural, social, and political aspects embodied in their artistic explorations of land. On the one hand, it points at the broad environmental-ecological dimension. It refers to the depletion of natural resources in the Anthropocene era, typified by acceleration of geological and environmental processes due to human activity, and to the resulting fear of “the end of land” as a meta-cultural concern which goes beyond national boundaries. On the other hand, it offers a porthole through which to look at some of the major cultural issues in present-day Israel, alluding, among others, to its land being a source of an ongoing strife.
Whether consciously or not, the local engagement with land and the accessibility of natural resources is thus charged not only with a romantic view of the local landscape or with internal questions of development and social status, but also with ideological and political questions pertaining to the reality of conflict and borders. The immediate, ironic link between land and territory in the context of a nation-state constantly shifting between change and entrenchment is clear at face level. This affinity is reinforced by the profound bond between man and land in Judaism. The Book of Genesis recounts the creation of Adam, the first man, from the earth, a link which is further emphasized through the etymological connection between the Hebrew words for man (adam) and land/earth/soil (adama).
Striving to shed light on additional dimensions in our intricate relationship with the place and land, the exhibition highlights individual life stories which reflect a rich cultural heritage as well as collective hopes for prosperity and rootedness. It touches on rituals of burial and regeneration, the transformations in the Zionist ethos of “land tilling” vis-à-vis market forces and globalization, and the challenges posed by a rapidly forging future.

Intervention

March 17th- May 6th 2018

Subte Exhibition Center

Montevideo, Uruguay

Curated by  Juan José Santos

Artists:
Lucia Antonini & Lucas Agudelo, Javier Arce, Ivan Argote, Tania Bruguera, Catalina Bunge & Ana Corti, Edgar Calel, Luis Camnitzer, Matilde Campodónico, Alan Courtis, Dora García, Cristina Garrido, Alejandro Leonhardt, Dana Levy, Iraida Lombardy, Cristina Lucas, Ark Grace Ndiritu, Nicolás Rupcich, Luis San Sebastián.

Contemporary Arabesque- at the Museum for Islamic Art in Jerusalem

January 18th 2018

Curated by Tamar Gispan-Greenberg

Participating artists:
Aya Ben Ron, Anisa Ashkar,
Dor Zlekha Levy, Dana Levy, Yoav Raban, Mahmood Kaiss, Ruba Salameh, Rimma Arslanov

Like a Story… Le Havre

25 NOVEMBER 2017 TO 18 MARCH 2018

Dead World Order on view at At MuMa Le Havre

The show includes work by  Yves Bélorgey Gabriele Basilico, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Charles Decorps, Véronique Ellena, Lucien Hervé, Matthias Koch, Manuela Marques, Sabine Meier, Corinne Mercadier, Olivier Mériel, Bernard Plossu, Anne-Lise Seusse and Xavier Zimmermann, Rebecca Digne, Christophe Guérin and Dana Levy

Mage

November 17th 2017– January 26th 2018

Radiator Gallery presents Mage  a group show with  the work of Aron Louis Cohen, Dana Levy, Enrique Ramírez, and Erica Stoller. The exhibition is accompanied by piece of performative writing and publishing by Christopher Hamamoto and Federico Pérez Villoro.
Organized by Roxana Fabius

This Was Home at Screen City Biennial

12-31 October 2017

Screen City Biennial – Migrating Stories  curated by Daniela Arriado (CL/NO) and Tanya Toft Ag (DK).
Screen City Biennial in Stavanger, the first Nordic Biennial dedicated to the expanded moving image in public space, returns in October for its third edition (previously Screen City Festival 2013 and 2015). Entitled Migrating Stories, the 2017 Biennial presents expanded moving image artworks from a broad international range of artists dealing with current complexities relating to migration. Artworks reflect upon journeys, diaspora and post-colonialism, transformation of place, and ‘alien’ realities. Artworks also address topics surrounding a post-oil future and migration in relation to climate change.

Artists:
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay (IN) / Christa Joo Hyun D’Angelo (KOR/US) / Dana Levy (ISR) / David Blandy (UK) / Duncan Speakman (UK) / Enrique Ramírez (CL) / Eric Corriel (US) / Evangelia Kranioti (GR) / HC Gilje (NO) / John Cleater (US) / John Craig Freeman (US) / Larry Achiampong (UK/GH) / Lodovica Guarnieri (T) / Lorenzo Gerbi (IT) / Lotic (US) / Marcel Odenbach (DE) / Marcus Neustetter (SA) / Margarida Paiva (PT/NO) / Maria von Hausswolff (SE) / Matti Aikio (NO/FI/SAMI) / Mirelle Borra (NL) / Olivia McGilchrist (JM/FR) / Rona Yefman (ISR) / Sam Wolson (US) / Shezad Dawood (UK) / Søren Thilo Funder (DK) / Tanja Schlander (DK) / Telcosystems (NL) / Tobias Zielony (DE) / Transforma (DE) / Trevor Snapp (US/KE) / Utopian Union (International) / Vasco Araújo (PT) / Yael Bartana (ISR) / Yucef Merhi (VZ)

City of Budapest artist award.

Oct 12th 2017

Levy awarded the 2017 talent award by the city of Budapest during Art Market Budapest.

Art Market Budapest guest of honor

October 12-15 2017

In collaboration with the Israel Museum, Art Market Budapest has selected and will personally present at the fair location the following artists:

• DANA LEVY as Guest of Honor of Art Market Budapest 2017
• ILIT AZOULAY as Guest of Honor of Art Photo Budapest 2017, the fair’s photo section.

The Israeli artist (currently living in New York) working chiefly with time based media and photography, was selected in cooperation with the Israel Museum (Jerusalem) as Guest of Honor artist of Art Market Budapest 2017.

Impermanent Displays A selection of works by Dana Levy is a central accompanying exhibition of Art Market Budapest 2017 at the fair location.

‘Lives Between’ opens at the Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv

August 31st 2017- Oct 24th 2017

The Center for Contemporary Art  presents Lives Between, a group show opening on August 31st. Featuring work by thirteen artists, the exhibition is curated by Sergio Edelsztein and Joseph del Pesco in collaboration with Kadist, San Francisco. An earlier version of this show was exhibited at Kadist, San Francisco in March 2017.

Curated by Sergio Edelsztein and Joseph del Pesco

August 31st – October 24th, 2017

The exhibition begins with a recognition of the growing number of international artists working and living between two places. Artists who were born in one country and, for a variety of reasons, have crossed oceans and borders to live in another. Because of this transition, their artistic practice and cultural identity is caught in tension between their country of residence and country of origin.

Some of the artists in the show migrated with their families as children, or were born somewhere else, but carry with them another culture through their parents, or through the color of their skin, and chose to make this paradox an aspect or impetus for their work. Others migrated later as adults, in a conscious move to improve their professional possibilities. Others simply move to survive.

In this way, these artists choose to live “in between” two places. Developing their personal and professional life in one place (working, raising a family), but when producing their work they address social and historical issues relevant “back home.” Many of them produce exclusively in their country or region of origin. Upon returning they realize they are both insider and outsider, and in a sense inhabit a third culture that exists between the two places. They come to learn the benefits and challenges of an interstitial identity.

But the exhibition takes shape not only in the artists’ biographies and production process alone. Each work is evidence of a process of thinking about the migratory and the transitional, cross-cultural contaminations, evidence of explorations into a cultural narrative, or manifestations of mobility. These artists are aware of their complicity in globalism’s trade routes, and are subject to the changing political climates in the two countries they live between. As a result they have a unique vantage point, and at a moment when borders are being renegotiated, and waves of refugees fleeing conflict zones have become urgent issues, both from a humanitarian perspective and as political points of contestation.

In the last few years, and especially in the last months, the terms migration and emigration are taking new significance. When our antecedents migrated to new worlds, they endured long sea voyages half way across the globe knowing they were tearing themselves away from familiar landscape, their family and culture in an irreparable way. Communication was expensive, slow and unpredictable, and few could afford a return visit.

Technical developments in travel and telecommunication in the 20th Century have changed this dramatically. Lately, the world has witnessed the influx of migrants from the Middle East moving into Europe, talking with those left behind on their cell-phones as they walk. Eventually they settle somewhere, but as soon as the political situation back home permits, they may return, or at least come back often to visit their loved ones via low-budget flights. In the meantime, they’ll work and live somewhere else, all the while keeping in touch daily and routinely with all the cultural, political, social and familial ties. Today, cultural and economic detachment from their origin country is no longer a concern, and for many it’s not an option.

Even before the present migration crisis in Europe, policymakers started to shift their views away from traditional colonial concepts of migration as a threat to (a superior, white, western) culture towards a more pragmatic view. The benefits of immigration are now clear both to the influx country as well as to the emigrating one, at least in terms of the economy. Europe and the US need more low-cost working hands to adjust for their shrinking and aging population (respectively). Aid agencies dealing with development, for instance, identified long ago that the best aid delivered to communities is not the one that goes through governments, as corruption and bureaucracy make these ineffective in many countries. But instead through the hundreds of millions in foreign currency funneled each month from workers in Europe and the US directly to their families back in Africa and Central America.

These are critical drivers of positive economic growth. Studies have already shown that large numbers of migrants return in the end to their land of origin, after having acquired skills, or just to retire comfortably in the warmer climate of their country of origin. Indeed, migration still appears to be one of the most natural instincts in human beings, as it wasn’t until the 19th Century that nationalist movements decided people “belonged” to a certain land, and that the land, in turn “belongs” to them. Still, in spite of all the favorable economic and social data on migration, for right wing xenophobes—in governmental positions or opposed to them—migration has become a major political issue used to rally support.

The case of artists is different than the hordes of refugees flocking to Europe these days. They belong to the migrating elites, along with the intellectuals, and businessmen that normally anticipate a large migratory movement. In any case, their actual movement and insertion is, in most cases, significantly smoother than work migrants and refugees in terms of documentation, social and professional support in their new home. Once integrated, their movement back and forth to the place of origin has always been part of their reality.

In the art-world things have been like this for a long time. Since the early 20th century artists have tended to move to cultural centers to profit from exposure and contact with other artists, a more sophisticated public, and a more robust market. Paris, then New York, London, today – Berlin, Mexico City and Brussels.

Looking at art exhibitions and catalogues in the last decade or so, we have become accustomed to reading wall-labels noting an artist “lives and works” between two or more different cities. Lagos and Paris, Brazil and Oslo, Tel Aviv and Berlin, Tehran and New York etc. These artists actually live in two places at the same time, enacting an under acknowledged but potent form of cultural exchange, mobility and cross-pollination in their work. From this point of view, we feel that artists living and working “in between” are a key example of what migration in the present day ought to be seen as: not only a survival strategy or new way to “make a living”, but an opportunity for multicultural exchange and the enrichment of new and hybrid forms of cultural production.

The participating artists are:

Aslan Gaisumov (Grozny, Chechnya / Moscow, Russia)
Binelde Hyrcan (Luanda, Angola / Nice, France)
Claudia Joskowicz (Santa Cruz, Bolivia / New York, USA)
Clarissa Tossin (Porto Alegre, Brazil / Los Angeles, USA)
Dana Levy (Tel Aviv, Israel / New York, USA)
Dani Gal (Jerusalem, Israel / Berlin, Germany)
Ella Littwitz (Tel Aviv, Israel / Ghent, Belgium)
Enrique Ramírez (Santiago, Chile / Paris, France)
Judi Werthein (Buenos Aires, Argentina/Brooklyn, USA)
Otobong Nkanga (Kano, Nigeria / Antwerp, Belgium)
Pawel Kruk (Koszalin, Poland / Bolinas, USA)
Rivane Neuenschwander (Belo Horizonte, Brazil / London, UK)
Runo Lagomarsino (Sao Paulo, Brazil / Malmö, Sweden)


Almost Home: Between Staying and Leaving a Phantom Land


May 7 – July 16, 2017

At Dorsky Gallery New York 11-03 45th Ave | Long Island City, NY 11101

Featuring the work of Wafaa Bilal, Keren Benbenisty, Juanli Carrión, 
Daniel Greenfield-Campoverde, Claudia Joskowicz, Ayesha Kamal Kahn, 
Dana Levy, Esperanza Mayobre, Elham Rokni, Karina Aguilera Skvirsky
Curated by Shlomit Dror

Opening Reception: Sunday, May 7, 2017, 2-5 pm

Featuring This Was Home- a 3 screen documentary 17:44min  2016

Lives Between group show Kadist San Fransisco

08 MAR 2017–06 MAY 2017

Silent Among Us video 2008 at Lives Between 

Artists: Pawel Kruk, Dani Gal, Runo Lagomarsino, Dana Levy, Aslan Gaisumov, Elham Rokni, Enrique Ramirez, Otobong Nkanga, Clarissa Tossin

The exhibition begins with a recognition of the growing number of international artists working and living between two places. Artists who were born in one country and, for a variety of reasons, have crossed oceans and borders to live in another. Because of this transition, their artistic practice and cultural identity is caught in tension between their country of residence and country of origin.

Exhibition co-curated by Joseph del Pesco and Sergio Edelsztein (Director, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv)

This Was Home Screening in Los Angeles

March 5th 2017

This Was Home screening in San Fransisco

Saturday March 4th

In conjunction with the Contemporary Jewish Museum San Fransisco

Join filmmaker Dana Levy and Kadist curator Joseph Del Pesco for a screening and discussion of This Was Home (2016; 17 min). This Was Home explores displaced generations: the artist, her father, and grandfather. Program is presented in conjunction with “Lives Between” at Kadist (organized with the Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv) and From Generation to Generation: Inherited Memory and Contemporary Art. 

At Kadist San Fransisco

The Wax Museum: Approaching Celebrities

18 Feb 2017

The Wax Museum: Approaching Celebrities

Curator: Revital Silverman-Grun

Participating artists: Nir Hod, Mike Kelley & Paul McCarthy, Dana Levy, Lior Modan & Jonathan Wertheim Soen, Edna Ohana, Shirley Siegal, Susan Wides 

Eccentric Spaces

Feb 16th 2017- April 1st 2017

Literature Of Storms Chapter 2 & 3 Eccentric Spaces- a group show at Riccardo Costantini Contemporary in Turin, Italy opening Feb 16th curated by Elena Inchingolo and Paola Stroppiana

Featuring works by Caroline Corbasson, Debbie Lawson, Dana Levy, Noa Pane, Anila Rubiku.

The 6th Biennale for Drawing Jerusalem

26 November 2016- 11 February 2017

The Return of Paper / Reflections on Drawing – Traces VI

Curated by: Edna Moshenson and Sally Haftel Naveh

Coup de Ville Triennial 2016

09 Sept> 09 Oct2016

The Wake will be on view at Coup de Ville Triennial  in Sint‐Niklaas, Belgium.
Artistic director: Stef Van Bellingen

http://www.art-agenda.com/shows/warp-presents-coup-de-ville-2016-triennial-for-contemporary-art/

The Wake screening

Sunday, July 24 5:30 PM

At the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

The Wake will preced: Un animal, des animaux by Nicolas Philibert

Eden Without Eve

Friday March 18 - 9PM

Screening at Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin as part of Rencontres Internationales 2016 New Cinema and Contemporary Art

Eden Without Eve world premiere

January 14th - 4PM

at Les Rencontres Internationales at Gaîté Lyrique Paris

Still/Life at Art Cube Gallery Jerusalem

Jan 9th 2016

The Abandoning 2010 2 channel video on two vertical flat screens

Emerging From The Swamp

29th November 2015

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Image from Emerging From The Swamp is Installed on a billboard ArtBasel Miami in Wynwood as part of Artist In Residence in Everglades Billboard project

The Weight Of Things featured on NYC Drawing Center’s blog

11-11-15

Watch video work here

Peekskill Project 6

27 September – 31 December 2015

Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art presents

Monoliths a two channel video installation with rocks, will premiere as part of Evening Star. A project curated by Roxana Fabius and Xavier Acarin as part of Peekskill Project 6