Once the construction process is completed, the generic residential building undergoes an endless evolutionary process of changes, big and small, constantly performed by the hands and initiative of individuals. These changes transform the concrete structure to a living organism of sorts, which changes and adapts to the needs of the times and the occupants.
The long-exposure nocturnal photography, and the transition to black and white, allow to some extent the isolation of the buildings from their surroundings and facilitate.
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BIO
Eli Singalovski (b. 1984, St. Petersburg, Russia) is a visual artist who lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel and Hamburg, Germany. He received a B.F.A. from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem in 2014 and an M.F.A. from the HFBK, Hamburg in 2022.
He is a recipient of several awards and scholarships, among those are the Israeli Minister of Culture Award in the field of Visual Arts for the year 2021, the Lauren and Mitchell Presser Photography Award for a Young Israeli Artist for the year 2019 by the Tel Aviv Museum of Arts, The EPSON Award for excellence in the art of photography (Israel) and the Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen fellowship program (Germany).
His work has been showcased in solo and group exhibitions at various venues, including the
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel; The Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel; Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich, Germany; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; Feinberg Projects Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel; The Negev Museum, Beer-Sheva, Israel; Berlin Art Week, Berlin, Germany; Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany; Museum on The Seam, Jerusalem, Israel; Haifa City Museum, Haifa, Israel; Litvak Contemporary Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
His works are found in various public and private collections worldwide, including The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; The Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel; The Knesset Art Collection, Jerusalem, Israel; The Haaretz Israeli Art Collection, Tel Aviv, Israel; The Rosette Delug Collection, Los Angeles, California.
CV
Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, 1984.
Lives and works in Hamburg, Germany and Tel Aviv, Israel.
EDUCATION
2019-22 M.F.A., HFBK, Hamburg, Germany.
2010-14 B.F.A., Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem.
SOLO and DUO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Sunbreakers - Münchner Stadtmuseum (Munich city museum), Munich, Germany.
2021 Herzliya Museum, Southern Façade - The Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya,
Israel.
2020 Formal Solutions - Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2019 Anesthetic - Duo w/ Guy Aon, Bezalel Photography Gallery, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel.
2016 Sobriety - Feinberg Projects gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2015 Sunbreakers - Feinberg Projects gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 The Block - Minus 1 Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2023 Southern Union - The Lobby Art Space, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Unexpected Landscape - Arad Contemporary Art Center, Arad, Israel.
2022 Inside Out - TEO Center for Art & Culture, Herzliya, Israel.
Ne/aGA - Museum on The Seam, Jerusalem, Israel.
2021 SUTURE - Goethe Institut, Paris, France.
How Long Is Now? - The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.
2020 SHAMA (Over there) - ZUZU Gallery, Hefer valley, Israel.
ECHOS - Kunstverein Familie Montez, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
2019 Untitled - Spectrum Festival, The model house gallery, Jerusalem, Israel.
Demolition Party - Haifa City Museum, Haifa, Israel.
Photo Album - Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Urbane Parallelen - Düsseldorf/Haifa - Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
2018 Between Structure and Culture - PHOTO IS:RAEL - The 6th International photography festival, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Dreaming in Concrete - The Negev Museum, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
Jerusalem Spotlight - "KOLNOA", Israeli film festival, Prague, Czech Republic.
Concrete Folklore - Architects Association Gallery, Jaffa, Israel.
2017 The Great Derangement - Litvak Contemporary gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Black Box 2017 – 9x9 - Public space contemporary gallery, Jerusalem, Israel.
Science of Life - Jerusalem design week 2017, Museum of natural history, Jerusalem, Israel.
2016 Desert Experiments - Architects Association Gallery, Jaffa, Israel.
City Of Refuge - The Loby - Art Space, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Sometimes You See Your City Differently - Feinberg Projects gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Depth of Field - Beit HaGefen Art Gallery, Haifa, Israel.
2015 Close to Home - Zadik gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
MACROCOSMI - Patterns of another Order - Berlin art week 2015, Berlin, Germany.
Manual Project - The Cube gallery, Jerusalem, Israel.
Selected Photography Graduates Exhibition - The Open Museum of Photography, Tel-Hai, Israel.
2014 Black Box - Billboard Art Exhibition, Jerusalem, Israel.
Humanitarian Pause - Koresh 14 gallery, Jerusalem, Israel.
Untitled - Graduate Exhibition, The Photography dept. gallery, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel.
AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS and RESIDENCIY PROGRAMS
2023 Artist in Residence Munich - Ebenböckhaus, Munich, Germany.
2022 Artis Exhibition Grant.
2021 Minister of Culture Award in the field of Visual Arts for the year 2021 – The Ministry of
Culture and Sports, Israel.
2019 Lauren and Mitchell Presser Award for Young Israeli Photographer - Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Asylum Arts / Artport Tel Aviv - Career development program, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2018 Gabriele Basilico Prize 2018 - Shortlisted.
ACAC – Artist in Residence program - Arad Contemporary Art Center, Arad, Israel.
2017 Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen fellowship program - Schöppingen, NRW, Germany.
2014 The Revital Seri Scholarship for Academic Excellence, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel.
EPSON Award for excellence in the art of photography, Israel.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2024 "The Block – From the Haaretz Collection". Editor: Efrat Livny. Published by Minus 1
Gallery, The Haaretz Collection, 2024.
2022 "Arad: An Experimental Town". Editor: Hadas Shadar, Dr. Arch. Published by the Yehuda
Dekel Library - The council for Conservation of Heritage Sites in Israel, 2022.
2021 "Inward Gaze | Eli Singalovski – Herzliya Museum, Southern Façade". Exhibition catalogue,
Editor: Dr. Aya Lurie. Published by The Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, 2021.
"How Long Is Now?". Exhibition catalogue, Editor: Orly Rabi. Published by The Israel
Museum, Jerusalem, 2021.
2018 "The Object of Zionism – The Architecture of Israel". Editor: Zvi Efrat, Prof. Arch. Spector Books OHG Publishing, Leipzig, Germany, 2018.
"Concrete Folklore – Experimental Architecture in Israeli Synagogues in the 1960's and 1970's". Editors: Arch. Naomi Simhony, Arch. Dana Gordon. Israel association of architects and urban planners publishing, 2018.
2016 "Sunstroke: Brutalist Construction in Be'er Sheva – Re-examination of National Architecture". Editor: Dr. Hadas Shadar, Dr. Arch. Yad Itzhak Ben Zvi Publishing, 2016.
"Gates of Heaven" - Commissioned photo essay, Tablet Magazine, printed edition, Issue 1, Volume 2, 2016.
2015 "Granta Israel" - Issue III: "Close to home". Editors: Mira Rashty, Shira Levi. Resling Publishing and Sipur Pashut LTD publishing, 2015.
COLLECTIONS
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel.
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.
The Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel.
The Knesset Art Collection (Israeli Parliament), Jerusalem, Israel.
Haaretz Art Collection, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Rosette Delug Collection, Los-Angeles, California.
Nurith Jaglom Collection, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Various private and public collections