Gil Marco Shani

Gil Marco Shani (Hebrew: גיל מרקו שני‎; born 1968) is an Israeli painter, installation artist and educator, who lives and works in Tel Aviv.

Gil Marco Shani
Born1968
Tel Aviv, Israel
EducationBezalel Academy of Arts and Design
AwardsThe Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art
Websitewww.gilmarcoshani.com
Buses, 2018, Israel Museum of Art, Entrance
Buses, 2018, Israel Museum of Art, Without Doors
Buses, 2018, Israel Museum of Art, Interior

Biography

Gil Marco Shani was born in 1968 to Aaron and Leah Shani and raised in Tel Aviv, Israel. He graduated from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Bachelor of Arts (1994), studied Art Studies at the Slade School, London (1994) and Shoe Design at Afpic Vocational Training School, Paris (1998).

Gil Marco Shani is a painter and installation artist. He has received numerous awards including the Gottesdiener Art Prize for Young Artists 2008 [1][2] and the Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art 2018[3]. His paintings are part of the permanent collections of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art[4], the Israel Museum of Art[5] and private collectors in Israel and abroad.

In 1994 he exhibited in 'Transit' as part of 'Art Focus' and in 1997 he participated in 'Decorative Attendants', which merged human presence with exhibition objects as part of 'Threshold' in the "Young Artists Exhibitions" series held at the Israel Museum, curated by Sarit Shapira. This series, dedicated to installation art, was a milestone in the development of installation art in Israel in the 1990's. In 1999, Shani's solo exhibition 'Friendship' was held at the Dvir Gallery. In 2001 Shani built "Safari", an installation, as part of "Helena" (with Avner Ben-Gal and Ohad Meromi), an exhibit at the Helena Rubinstein Contemporary Art Pavilion, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. This exhibit was seminal in formulating contemporary trends in the Israeli installation art.

From the Sander Prize committee[6]: "Shani's paintings feature a schematic outline on a uniform background, and they mark events, many of which bubble under the surface of polite culture. Shani's superb installations are challenging architectural interventions implanted in the heart of the museum and examine the basic assumptions of the museum experience in all its aspects. The spaces he created, such as: motel rooms, tropical forest, nightly stairway or enclosed bus depot, are surprising environments, charged and rich in details. Shani succeeds in surprising visitors each time in an artificial environment, full of beauty that is enveloped by a petrifying silence and feelings of threat and anxiety." The ambitious installation 'Buses'[7] exhibited at the Israel Museum in 2018 is the culmination of Shani's work and one of the important achievements.

Shani is a faculty member and senior lecturer at the Art Department, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.[8]

In 2018, his son Lev was born in Tel Aviv, co-parented with Renan Mosinson.

Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions
  • 1996: 'Erasure of Hand' (with Ram Samocha), Borochov Gallery, Tel Aviv

— 'Decorative Attendants', installation at the exhibition Threshold (part of the Chapter: Young Israeli Artists Exhibition Series), The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Curated by Sarit Shapira

  • 1997: 'Pig', Mary Fauzi Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1999: 'Friendship', Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 2001: 'Recent Works' (with Uri Tzaig), Kojimachi Gallery, Tokyo

— 'Safari', installation at the exhibition 'Helena', Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv; Curated by Ellen Ginton (catalogue)

  • 2003: 'Rain', installation at ArtFocus 4, Museum of Underground Prisoners, Jerusalem; Curated by Suzanne Landau and Yigal Zalmona (catalogue)
  • 2007: 'Dome', artist’s book, published by Revolver Press, Frankfurt, Germany

— 'Redbreast', Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv

  • 2009: 'Blue Paintings', exhibition of Nathan Gottesdiener, Foundation Award laureate, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv; Curated by Ellen Ginton (catalogue)

— 'L’entreprise', Forde Art Gallery, Geneva

  • 2011: 'Stairway', installation at The Second Strike Herzliya Biennale, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art; Curated by Ori Dessau (catalogue)
  • 2014: 'Belgrade', Tempo Rubato Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 2018: 'Buses', The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Curated by Aya Miron (catalogue)

Selected group exhibitions
  • 1994: 'Transit': ArtFocus 1, New Central Bus Station, Tel Aviv; Curated by Sarit Shapira (catalogue)
  • 1996: 'Lost and Found', Mary Fauzi Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 1998: 'Spring at the End of Summer', Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv; Curated by Ellen Ginton
  • 2000: 'Ladies and Gentlemen: Contemporary Israeli Art', Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv; Curated by Ellen Ginton

— 'Wall Flowers', Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya; Curated by Arik Miranda (catalogue) — First International Art Biennial, Buenos Aires — Summer Exhibition, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv

  • 2001: 'Israeli Art Today', The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan; Curated by Galia Bar Or and Itaru Hirano

—'I Hate You in June', Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod; Curated by Ulli Knall and Patricia Ellis

  • 2002: 'Gallery Swap', Sadie Coles HQ Gallery, London 2002–03 Chilufim—Exchange of Artists and Art: Israel–Nordrhein–Westfale, Kunstmuseum Bonn; Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld; Museum am Ostwall Dortmund, Germany; Curated by Susan Landau, Dalia Levin, Micha Levin, Dieter Ronte, Martin Hentschel, and Ingo Bartsch (catalogue)
  • 2004: 'The Mediterraneans', MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome; Curated by Sarit Shapira
  • 2005: 'Such Stuff as Dreams are Made Of: Contemporary Israeli Art', Chelsea Art Museum, New York; Curated by Manon Slome (catalogue)
  • 2006: 'Once Upon A Time... : Contemporary Fairytale', ARCOS—Museum of Contemporary Art in Sannio, Benevento, Italy; Curated by Dobrila Denegri(catalogue)
  • 2007: 'Fleeing Away From What Bothers You Most', Magasin III, Stockholm; Curated by Sarit Shapiraand Elisabeth Millqvist

—'Labyrinth', Botkyrka Konsthall, Stockholm; Curated by Pia Sandström and Joanna Sandell

  • 2008: Real Time: Sixty Years of Art in Israel, The Sixth Decade, 1998–2008, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Curated by Amitai Mendelsohn and Efrat Natan (catalogue)
  • 2009: Show of Shows and Recent Works, Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 2010: Reviewing Works that Matter, Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 2011: Life: A User’s Manual, The Ruth Youth Wing, TheIsrael Museum, Jerusalem; Curated by Aya Miron (catalogue)
  • 2012: 'Regards sur l’art contemporain israélien', Villa Emerige, Paris; Curated by Nathalie Mamane Cohen and Nathalie Zaquin Boulakia

—'Installation view', The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

  • 2013: 'Time of Humane Experience', Inga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
  • 2014: 'The Drawing Room', Magasin III, Stockholm; Curated by David Neuman

— 'Potent Wilderness': Works from the Igal Ahouvi Art Collection, The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University; Curated by Sarit Shapira (catalogue)

  • 2015: 'In Wonderland', Tempo Rubato Gallery, Harlem, New York
  • 2016: 'Critically Correct / Power Misused', Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
  • 2017: '1967 Turns 50': Wartime Art, Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod; Curated by Dana Arieli

—'Same Same But Different': From the Haaretz Collection, Minus1 Gallery, Tel Aviv; Curated by Efrat Livny (catalogue) — Yael’s Dream and Nightmares, Art+Text Gallery, Budapest; Curated by Nicola Trezzi

Prizes and grants
  • 1994: Mary Fisher Prize, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
  • 1999: The Young Artist Award, Israel’s Ministry of Science, Culture and Sports
  • 2001: Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Tel Aviv–Yafo municipality
  • 2003: Beatrice Kolliner Prize for a Young Israeli Artist, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • 2004: America–Israel Cultural Foundation scholarship
  • 2005: The Shmuel Givon Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
  • 2008: Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation Israeli Art Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • 2017: Outset Israel grant[9]

— National Lottery Council for the Arts grant for publishing an artist’s book

  • 2018: Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art 2018[10]

Artist books and catalogs
  • 2000: "Friendship", Dvir Gallery
  • 2001: Safari / Safari, Tel Aviv Museum
  • 2001: Bird Watching School / Birding School, Tel Aviv Museum
  • 2007 Dome Gil Marco Shani, Revolver Press
  • 2018: Buses, Israel Museum | English Buses Catalog, Buses Hebrew Catalog
  • Studio View, TLV, 2016
  • Studio View, Berlin, 2017
  • Mirror, Squares and Circle, Oil on Canvas
  • Kitchen 2, Oil on canvas, 230 cm X 300 cm
  • Studio View, Berlin, 2017
  • Studio View, Berlin, Grove Oil on Canvas
  • Studio View, Berlin, Stairwell and Kitchen
  • Studio View, Berlin, Stairwell 2 and Kitchen 2
  • Self Portrait, Berlin, 2017
  • Self Portrait 2, Berlin, 2017

References
  1. "Art, Etc. / Blue Period". Haaretz.
  2. "Israel Museum Artist". Israel Museum.
  3. "Sandberg Prize 2018". Israel Museum.
  4. "Tel Aviv Museum of Art Collection". Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
  5. "Israel Museum Artists". Israel Museum.
  6. Sander Prize Committee
  7. "Israel Museum/Exhibitions". Israel Museum.
  8. "Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Faculty". Bezalel.
  9. "Outset UK Israel Artists". Outset UK.
  10. "Sandberg Prize 2018". Israel Museum.
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