URI TZAIG . . .

Born in Israel in 1965; lives and works in Tel-Aviv.

Education

1990 Graduated from the School of Visual Theatre, Jerusalem, Major in Theatre direction, design and playwriting.

Solo Exhibitions

2004 Cast me Not Off, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel (with Avi Shaham)

Ancient Machines (with Avi Shaham), Argos, Brussels (April-June), cat.

2003 Galerie Micheline Swajcer, Antwerp, Belgium

Herzelia Museum, Israel

2002 Guiness Store House, Dublin, Ireland

Allah Akbar, Galerie Micheline Swajcer, Antwerp, Belgium

Master Lucas, with Avi Shaham, Ein Harod Museum, Israel

Art: Concept Gallery, Paris

Unlimited Contemporary Art, Athens

Moderna Museet, Stockholm

2001Heimer und Partner Gallery, Berlin

The Project, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels

The Other Hotel, Kojimachi Gallery, Tokyo

Trance, Swiss Institute, Video for Windows, New York

The Lux Gallery, London

2000 Moonstruck, FRAC Champagne-Ardennes, Reims, France

Duel, Artists Space, New York

Duel, gallery 400, Chicago, IL, USA

1999 Institute of Visual Arts, Milwaukee

L’Aquarium, School of Fine Arts, Valenciennes, France

Mot & Van den Boogaard Gallery, Brussels

Statements, Art Basel (Mot & Van den Boogaard Gallery)

B/W, Migros, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich

1998 Tempo, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, Holland

Infinity, Dance Project and Video Installation, ateliers du FRAC Languedoc- Roussillon, Montpellier, France

Erna Hecey Gallery, Luxembourg

Unlimited Contemporary Art, Athens

1997 Mot & Van den Boogaard Gallery, Brussels

Refusalon Gallery, San Francisco, Ca. USA

Boats & Islands, Gallery Erna Hecey, Luxembourg

Play, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia

1996 Refusalon Gallery, San Francisco, USA

Homeless, University Art Museum, Berkeley, Ca.

Derby-Lod, Artist in Residence Project, Omanutm Laam,Lod, Israel

1995 Migrateurs, Musee d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris

1994 The Earrings of Eva Braun, Artist in Residence, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

1993 Tel Aviv, Summer 1992, Bugrashov Gallery, Tel Aviv

The Israeli Suggestion to the Venice’s Aperto, Artifact Gallery, Jaffa, Israel

1990 Monologue, Artist’s House Gallery, Jerusalem

Group Exhibitions

2004 Brainstorming, Topographie de la Morale, Vassiviere Art Center, France

2003 Camera (with Avi Shaham), Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey

New Museum, New York

2002New Space: Opening show, Jan Mot Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

Community<Art<Collaboration, Fondation Evens, Paris in MUHKA, Antwerpen, Belgium

Attachment +, Brugge 2002, Belgium (cat.)

DIY, galerie Jan Mot, Brussels

Body Power/ Power play, Wurtembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany

Argos Festival, work survey, Cinema Nova, Brussels (cat.)

Pusan Biennale, Korea

Self/ In material Conscience (works of the FRAC PACA collection), Sandretto Foundation, Guarene, Italy

2001 Human FactorY, Unlimited Contemporary Art, Athens

International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Yokohama, Japan

Boston Cyber Arts Festival, Boston, USA

Connivences, 6^th Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France

Exploding Cinema- Cinema Without Walls, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (in collaboration with the Rotterdam Cinema Festival), NL

Trouble Shooting, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK

Νouvelles Acquisitions, FRAC Champagne-Ardennes, Reims, France

Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels, Belgium

Let’s Entertain : Life’s Guilty Pleasures, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany

Game Show, Mass. MoCA, USA

Pandaemonium, Biennale of moving images 2001, The Lux, London

The Overexcited Body, Museo Arengario, Milano, Italy (cat.)

To your left is the South, to your right is the North, depending, Refusalon Gallery, San Francisco (curated by Julie Deamer/ Four walls productions)

Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY

Festival do Rio BR 2001, Capacete Entretenimentos, Lapa, Brasil

Things to come, Galerie Erna Hecey, Luxembourg

2000 Bubbles, Center for contemporary non-objective art, Brussels (cur. by E. Doove)

3ness, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium (cur. by E. Doove, D. Blair, J.Dams)

Orbis Terrarum, Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerpen, Belgium (cat.)

Leder zijn voetbal, Kunsthal, Rotterdam (cat.)

Transfert, 10th edition of the Swiss Exhibition of Sculpture, Bienne, Switzerland

The republic of Arts, Palazzo delle Papesse, Sienna, Italy

Sporting Life, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sidney, Australia

Let’s Entertain, Center George Pompidou, Beaubourg, Paris

Version 2000, Centre pour l’Image Contemporaine, Geneva

The Republics of Arts, Palazzo delle Papesse, Sienna, Italy

Parachute, Montreal, Canada

Raum Aktueller Kunst, Vienna, Austria

Micropolitiques, Le Magasin, Grenoble, France

Let’s Entertain, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Portland Museum, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (cat.)

Une mise en scène du Réel, Villa Arson, Nice, France

Gate 2001, Athens (curated by M. Fokidi, sponsored by Olympiakos, cat.)

Au dela du spectacle, MNAM, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (cat.)

1999L.A. International, Blum & Poe hosting Mot & Van den Boogaard, Los Angeles

Opening Show, SMAK, Gand, Belgium

Xn 99, Espace des Arts, Chalon/Saone, France

Attention SPAM, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles

Wiener Festwochen, Vienna, Austria

Wiener Kunstverein, Vienna

Spiral TV, Nanjo and Associates, Tokyo, Japan

Farniente, Maison de la Culture, Amiens, France

You assume certain places exist, Mot & Van den Boogaard, Brussels, Belgium

New Museum, New York, NY

Young artists from Israel, The Jewish Museum, New York & New Museum, New York

Warming, The project, New York

Loplop/ re/ presents : back to basics, Sint-Pietersabdij, Gand, Belgium

8eme Biennale de l’image en mouvement, Centre pourl’Image Contemporaine,Geneva

Video show, public spaces, Athens

1998 The Earth is Round - New Narration, Musée Départemental, Château de Rochechouard, France

Medialization, Edsvik Konst och Kultur, Sollentuna, Sweden

Football and non-fictional film, Dokumentarfilminitiative, Mulheim / Ruhr, Germany

Videoprojection at the Kunstlerwerkstatt Lothringer Strasse, Munich

Israeli Art - From the Bay Area Collections, The Jewish Museum, San Francisco

Kadima, The East in the Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

Adopt-A-Highway, seven artists on the go with Refusalon & Dogenhaus, Dogenhaus Gallery, Leipzig, Germany

The Universal Square, International Filmfestival, Rotterdam, NL

Between, Museum of Modern Art, Jacksonville, Florida

1997 Hip,Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zurich

Esperanto, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York

Loplop/ re/ presents: the im/ pulse to see, Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (within the frame of the international film festival)

Unmapping the Earth, Kwangiu Biennale, South Corea

Documenta X, Kassel

Connexions Implicites, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris

Out of senses, MUHKA, Museum of Modern Art, Antwerpen, Belgium

Touch for seeing, Le Creux de l’Enfer, Thiers, France

47eme Venice Biennale (guest of Fabrice Hybert at the French Pavilion)

1996 EV+A 1996, Limerick, Ireland

Manifesta 1, The European Biennal, Rotterdam, Holland

Douzièmes Ateliers du Frac des Pays de Loire, Saint Nazaire, France

Hide and Seek, Art Focus, Jerusalem, Israel

We, together with Fabrice Hybert, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

1995 Neither Here Nor There, photography group exhibition, Gordon Gallery, Tel-Aviv

Accrochage, Richard Foncke Gallery, Gent, Belgium

Israeli Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Italy

Artist in Residence at the University Art Museum, Berkeley, Ca USA

1994 Israeli Artists, David McCain Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA

This is the Show and the show is many things, Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium

Artists in Residence, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

Migrateurs, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris

1993 Touching, International Poet’s Festival, Jerusalem

The Israeli Suggestion to the Venice’s Aperto, Artefact Gallery, Jaffa, Israel

Those at Home, Those in the Yard, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

1992 Theatre-project director, in the development town Kiryat Gat, Israel

Excavation, installation, Israel Festival, Jerusalem

Six Rooms, Sara Conforti Gallery, Jaffa, Israel

Sculptures from the Museum’s Collection, The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel (three sculptures purchesed by the Museum)

Curator of Retrospectives on Theatrical Objects, exhibition at the Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem

1991 Shelters, Tent and Bomb Shelter, The Magnes Museum, Berkeley, Ca USA

1990 Set designer for Four Stories, written and directed by Michael Kirby, Wooster Group,

New York for the Nissan Native Studio, Jerusalem

Catalogues & Books

2004 [Dualitas], published by Argos, Brussels, Essays by R.H. Ravitsky & Daniel Kurjakovic (includes a DVD with the videos Master Lucas & Look at Me)

2002 Moonstruck, catalogue of the exhibition, Le College editions/ Frac Champagne- Ardennes, Reims, France

2000 Uri Tzaig: Duel, catalogue of the exhibition, Artists’Space, texts by Jenelle Porter & Uri Tzaig, New York

Gate 2001, catalogue of the exhibition, text by Marina Fokidi, Athens

3ness, catalogue of the exhibition, text by Edith Doove, Museum Dhond-Dhaenens, Belgium

1999 1/12 - 12/1, catalogue/edition of the exhibition (Valenciennes, France &

Milwaukee, USA)

B/W, User Guide, catalogue of the exhibition, ed. Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zürich

1998 A User’s Guide to Games by Uri Tzaig, in If / Then Magazine, NL

Boom #1, summer 1998, ed.Sabinsky Press ltd., Tel Aviv

1997 Epilog to the conversation, Text published in Pesach Slabosky - never did

anything hard, catalogue published by the Tel Aviv Museum

1996 Re-experience, published for the Manifesta 1, Ed. Sommaires/ Pierre Leguillon, Paris

1995 The Universal Square, book published for the 95 Venice Biennale, Translations, Jerusalem

Back Yard, six short stories, Am Oved Publishing House

Kiryat Gat, Summer 1991 - Berlin, Winter 1993, narrative story published in Rechov #1, Hebrew Litterature Magazine, Tel Aviv University

The Story Teller, book published by the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

1993 Village: 7 Objects, a narrative story, published in Theory and Criticism, an

Israel commentary periodical

1992 Kiryat Gat, Summer 1992, a narrative story, published in Studio, art magazine

Publications & Reviews (selection)

Carras Maria Thalia, Uri Tzaig, Unlimited Contemporary Art, Athens & Art: Concept, Paris in Tema Celeste/ reviews No 92, Summer 2002, p 100

Leguillon Pierre, Reims by the Banks of the Dead Sea in Afterall, Issue 3, p 89-103, 2001

Shapira Sarit, The Counterpointed Medium (and the Amourous Twin), on the recent works of Uri Tzaig in Afterall, Issue 3, p 88-98, 2001

Bonnet Frederic, Verion 2000: let’s play in Parpaings, Jan. 2001

Book Review in De Witte Raaf, No 89, Jan- Feb. 2001

Leguillon Pierre, Uri Tzaig, FRAC Champagne-Ardennes in Art Press No 263, Nov. 2000

Kuni Verena, A game of two halves in Frieze N°49, Nov-Dec. 1999, p 92-93

Kurjakovic Daniel, Entropie am abendlichen Strand in Kunstbulletin, 7/8, p16-23, 1999

Deuelle-Luski Aim, Israeli Art: a Reflection in Art Press N°240, p 46-47

Huitorel Jean-Marc, When Art Does Sport in Art Press N°237, p 32

Ardenne Paul, La Terre est Ronde/ Nouvelle Narration in Artpress, sept. 1998, p 72-73

Nagoya Satoru, Kwangju Biennale, Unmapping the World in Flash Art No 198, Jan- Feb. 98, Vol. XXXI, p 73

Deuelle-Luski Aim, Not Playing The Game in Art Press N°225, June 1997, p 28-33

Unlimited Contemporary Art

Athens