DANI GAL
*1975 Jerusalem, IL
Lives in Berlin, D

Education
2005 Cooper Union for the Advancment of Science and Art,
New York City, USA
2000 – 2005 Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste Städelschule,
Frankfurt/Main, D (Prof. Ayse Erkmen)
1998 – 2000 Bezalel Academy for Art and Design, Jerusalem, IL
1997 – 1998 Avni Institute, Tel Aviv, IL

s= solo show g=group show co= collaboration p= performance

Exhibitions and projects

2014
The Jewish Museum, New York, USA, cur. Jens Hoffmann (s)
Tel Aviv Museum of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, IL, cur. Ellen Ginton (s)
Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innnsbruck, AT, cur. Karin Pernegger (s)
Zochrot, Tel Aviv, IL (s)

2013
Kunsthalle St. Gallen, cur. Giovanni Carmine, CH (s)
Nacht und Nebel, Turku Art Museum, FIN (s)
Failed to Bind, Galerie Kadel Wilborn, Düsseldorf, DE (s)
When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, cur. Jens Hoffmann, MOCA Detroit, USA
Performa, cur. RoseLee Goldberg, NYC, USA
The Compromised Land: Recent Photography and Video from Israel,
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase NY, USA
Silent Space Stand Still. An exhibition exploring the use of sound,
cur. Maria-Thalia Carras, Sofia Tournikioti, Locus Athens, GR
New Kids of the Block, Kunsthalle TANSA, Berlin DE

2012
Dumitrescu‘s Dream - Le Grand Relay, Lap #1, Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Zurich, CH (s)
Performa 11 Biennial, New York City, NY, USA
Bremer Kunstpreis, Bremen, DE, (g)
Nacht und Nebel, Stowaways Series, New Museum, NY, USA, (g)
When Attitudes Became Form, Become Attitudes, cur. Jens Hoffmann,
Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA, (g)
Schlagwörter und Sprachgewalten, cur. Nadja Schneider, Kunsthaus Baselland, CH, (g)
Israel Now- Reinventing the Future, cur. Micol Di Veroli, MACRO Museum, Rome, IT, (g)
Weighted Words, cur. Ellen Mara de Wachter, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK, (g)
Demonstrations. Making Normative Orders, (Dani Gal & Achim Lengerer),
cur. Sabine Witt, Britta Peters, Fanti Baum, Frankfurter Kunstverein, DE, (g)

2011
Kunstverein Arnsberg, Arnsberg, DE (s)
12. Istanbul Biennale (g)
History Lessons, MUMOC, Vienna, AT (performance, lecture)
The Second Strike, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, ISR
54. Biennale di Venezia, IT (g)
The Secret Garden, Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Zurich, CH
6 conversation pieces and a didactic poem, COCO, Vienna, AT (p, g)
Tracing Shadows in the Dark, Holy Trinity Church, London, UK (sc)
Forum Expanded, Berlinale, Berlin, DE (p)
Fruits, Flowers & Clouds, solo presentation, MAK, Vienna, AT (s)

2010 Dani Gal / Patricia Dauder, Galerie Kadel Wilborn, Karlsruhe, DE (g)
Chanting Down Babylon, w139 Arts Centre, Amsterdam, NL (s)
Dumitrescu's Dream, Lüttgenmeijer, Berlin, DE (s)
Street and Studio. From Basquiat to Séripop., cur. by Cathérine Hug
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, AT (g)
Art Basel 41 Statements with Freymond-Guth & Co. Fine Arts (s)
Indefinite Destinations, DEPOT, Istanbul TR, The Red House Center for
Culture and Debate, Sofia, BG (g)
Try different keywords, Galeria Estrany- de la Mota, Barcelona, ES (g)
History/ Ars Viva Price, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, D (g)
History/ Ars Viva Price, migros museum für gegenwartskunst, Zurich, CH (g)
All the memory of the world, GAM- Galleria Civica d’ Arte Moderna e
Contemporanea, Turin, IT (g)

2009 The Shooting of Officers, Freymond-Guth & Co. Fine Arts, Zurich (s)
Chanting Down Babylon, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, D (s)
Project Room, Pecci Museum Prato, IT (s)
Dorothea von Stetten art price, Kunstmuseum Bonn, D (g)
Come in, friends, the house is yours! Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, D
& Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, D(g)

2008 Walking On Thin Ice, Artnews Projects, Berlin, D (g)
L’éducation sentimentale, Freymond-Guth & Co., Fine Arts, Zurich, CH (g)
Voiceoverhead (Dani Gal & Achim Lengerer), Smart Project Space,
Amsterdam, NL (co, p)
Freisteller / Villa Romana Preisträger 2008, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, D (g)
Rubble Rouser, Berlin, D (g)

2007 The Lost Moment, Kunstfabrik, Berlin, D (g)
La Battaglia, Freymond-Guth & Co. Fine Arts, Zürich, CH (s)
Port D Suisse, with Freymond-Guth & Co, Zürich, Villa Lautengarten Basel, CH (g)
Role MoDl, The John Institute, Zürich, CH (g)
The film as a page of victor hugo rewritten in the style of nerval, JET, Berlin, (g)

2006 If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller, Freymond-Guth & Co. Fine Arts Zürich, CH (g)
Cooling out Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, D (g)
Cooling out Lewis Glucksman Gallery Cork, I (g)
Cooling out Kunsthaus Baselland, CH (g)
TV as a Fireplace Kunsthalle Wien, Ursula Blicke videolounge, Wien, A (g)
The déjá vu of Avner Kaufmann B-books Berlin, D (sc)
blows into microphone...it is all right Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Wien, A (g)

2005 Transmitted fictions in collaboration with Achim Lengerer, Ausland, Berlin, D (p)
No big Dal Kunstverein Gelsenkirchen, D (g)
bits and pieces T-Online, Darmstadt, D (s)

2004 Let my vinyl lick your finger in collaboration with Shannon Bool,
Pavillion am Main, D (co)
Ripples Hafen 2 in collaboration with Nora Schulz Offenbach am Main, D (co)
Hold up The Or Gallery Vancouver B.C. CA (s)
Hier und jetzt Anita Beckers Gallery, Frankfurt am Main, D (g)
heute Wiesbaden Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst + installation in
Wiesbaden museum, D (g)

2003 Blaupausen group exhibition in NASPA Bank WiesbaDn, D (g)

2001 Actual Size, Don’t Miss Frankfurt am Main, D (s)
Strange attitudes Anita Beckers Gallery, Frankfurt am Main, D (g)

Projects with voiceoverhead (Dani Gal & Achim Lengerer)

2009 Come in, friends, the house is yours! Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, D
& Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, D(g, p)

2008 Voiceoverhead, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, NL (g, p)
Freisteller / Villa Romana Preisträger 2008, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, D (p)

2007 Space of communication, Portikus Frankfurt/Main, D (g, p)
Voiceoverhead, INSA Art Space, Korea, (s, p)
Festivals

2004 Unsichtbares International media art award-prize nominee.
Work presentation on SWRand ARTE channels

2003 BACKUP Festival for new media, Weimar, D
IN OUT Festival for digital image, Prague, CZ

Awards/ Residencies

2009 Ars Viva, Kunstpreis Kulturkreis der Deutschen Wirtschaft
Dorothea von Stetten art price, (shortlisted)
Künstlerstätte Schloss Bleckede, Lüneburg, D, (residency)

2008 Villa Romana Kunstpreis / Fellowship, Florence, IT

2007 Arbeitsstipendium Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn, DE
Künstlerhaus Worpswede, Residency, Worpswede, DE

2003 Preis der Allgemeine Hypotheken Bank Rein Boden