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ZOHAR FRAIMAN

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EXHIBITIONS

ARTISTS

Catoline, 170 x 130 cm, oil on canvas, 2022

Cinder Sisters, 110 x 90 cm, oil on canvas, 2023

Hair Today Gone Tomorrow, oil on canvas, 95×65 cm, 2023

Matchmaker, 140×175 cm, oil on canvas, 2022

Nero Nails, 35×50 cm, oil on canvas, 2022

Nitzotzot, 59 x 59 cm, oil on canvas, 2021

Phones Eat First, 80 x 80 cm, oil on canvas, 2023

Rosemary’s Kitty, 60 x 60 cm, oil on canvas, 2022

Tending Trending II, 140 x 175 cm, oil on canvas, 2023

Tending Trending, 65 x 80 cm, oil on canvas, 2023

Travelling Without Moving 170 x 135 cm, oil on canvas, 2023

Ugat Gvina, 115×195 cm, oil on canvas, 2023

Zohar Fraiman, Tucker Brunch, 2022, oil on canvas, 90 x 70 cm, courtesy PRISKA PASQUER GALLERY

Zohar Fraiman, rat geber, 2021, oil on canvas, 100×120 cm, courtesy PRISKA PASQUER, Cologne

Zohar Fraiman,Prime Time, 2020, oil on canvas, 130×110 cm, courtesy PRISKA PASQUER, Cologne

Zohar Fraiman, Time to Say Goodbye, 2020, oil on canvas,150×150 cm, courtesy PRISKA PASQUER, Cologne

Zohar Fraiman, Porsche Divorce, 2020, oil on canvas, 110×180 cm, courtesy PRISKA PASQUER, Cologne

Zohar Fraiman, My Love Don’t Cost a Thing, 2020, oil on canvas, 75 x 50 cm, courtesy PRISKA PASQUER, Cologne

Zohar Fraiman, Muffin Palace, 2020, oil on canvas, 150×150 cm, courtesy PRISKA PASQUER, Cologne

Zohar Fraiman, Me, Myselfie and I, 2021, oil on canvas, 80 x 85 cm, courtesy PRISKA PASQUER, Cologne

Zohar Fraiman, Me, Myself and I, 2020, oil on canvas, 120×130 cm, courtesy PRISKA PASQUER, Cologne

Zohar Fraiman, Kiss, 2021, oil on canvas,130 x 130 cm, courtesy PRISKA PASQUER, Cologne

Zohar Fraiman, Just the Two of Us, 2021, oil on canvas, 95 x 65 cm, courtesy PRISKA PASQUER, Cologne

Zohar Fraiman, Iron, Maiden, 2020, oil on canvas, 50×60 cm, courtesy PRISKA PASQUER, Cologne

Zohar Fraiman, I Just Called to Say, 2020, oil on canvas,120×130 cm, courtesy PRISKA PASQUER, Cologne

Zohar Fraiman, Hot Tub Bling, 2020, oil on canvas, 40 x 30 cm, courtesy PRISKA PASQUER, Cologne

Zohar Fraiman, Giving Head, 2020, oil on canvas, 150×135 cm, courtesy PRISKA PASQUER, Cologne

Zohar Fraiman, Fun Do, 2020, oil on canvas, 105×120 cm, courtesy PRISKA PASQUER, Cologne

Zohar Fraiman, Feeling Fab, 2020, oil on canvas, 95 x 80 cm, courtesy PRISKA PASQUER, Cologne

Zohar Fraiman, B and Me, 2020, oil on canvas, 70×60 cm, courtesy PRISKA PASQUER, Cologne

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ZOHAR FRAIMAN

Zohar Fraiman wurde 1987 in Jerusalem, Israel, geboren und lebt und arbeitet seit 2009 in Berlin. Sie studierte an der Jerusalem Studio School, Israel, und schloss ihr Studium als Meisterschülerin an der Universität der Künste Berlin ab (2015).

Fraiman untersucht den Einfluss, den die Digitalisierung auf die Geschlechtsidentität und unser Leben im Allgemeinen hat, was sich in unserer Besessenheit von den sozialen Medien und unserer Sucht nach Smartphones widerspiegelt. In ihrer Arbeit erkundet sie, wie Identitäten gebildet und durch welche Mechanismen sie in digitalen Räumen wie Instagram, Tinder und Tik Tok rekonstruiert werden. Mit viel Humor, leuchtenden Farben und gebrochenen Charakteren, die auf Cartoons, Retro Werbung, ikonische Popkultur und die Werke alter Meister verweisen, hinterfragt Fraiman die Praxis der internetbasierten Selbstinszenierung und kritisiert, wie wir in bildbasierten Netzwerken und sozialen Plattformen Geschlechter und auch uns Selbst auf übertriebene und oft verzerrte Art und Weise darstellen. Zohar Fraiman erforscht diese Themen auf spielerische Weise, und es liegt an uns, ob wir diese Einladung annehmen, uns selbst und unsere Gewohnheiten zu hinterfragen.

Fraimans Arbeiten sind regelmäßig in internationalen Gruppen- und Einzelausstellungen zu sehen, darunter im Han Pin Art Museum, Hangzhou (2015, China), Museion Atelierhaus Bozen (2016, Italien), Künsthalle Lüneburg (2017, Deutschland), Schloss Achberg (2017, Deutschland), Turps Gallery London (2018, UK), Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig (2019, Deutschland), Petach Tikva Museum of Art (2019, Israel), Show Me Your Sheroes – PRISKA PASQUER GALLERY, (2021, Deutschland), ARCO Madrid (2022, Spanien), Artissima – Galerie Russi Klenner, (2022, Italien), Art Cologne – PRISKA PASQUER GALLERY, (2022, Deutschland), Kunsthalle Wilhelmshafen (2023, Deutschland), Tending Trending – PRISKA PASQUER PARIS, (2023, Frankreich), Dissonance – Platform Germany, Stadtgalerie Kiel, (2024 Deutschland), Solo Booth – Art Brussels (2024, Belgien), Game of Phones -Galerie Russi Klenner (2024, Deutschland), Dissonance #3 – National Gallery Bucharest, (2024, Rumänien), Meme Me – kuratiert von Katharina Schilling, Haus am Lützowplatz (2024, Deutschland).

Im Jahr 2022 veröffentlichte Fraiman ihr Künstlerbuch mit dem Titel ‘Self-ish’ in einer limitierten Auflage von 300 Exemplaren, die von der Künstlerin signiert und nummeriert wurden. Das Buch reflektiert das digitale Leben und erforscht Themen wie Identität, Selbstdarstellung und den Einfluss der sozialen Medien. In Anknüpfung an Fraimans ‘Self-ish’-Serie befasst sich die Publikation mit dem Konzept des Selfies und der Art und Weise, wie wir uns online präsentieren, und schafft einen einzigartigen Dialog zwischen zeitgenössischer Kunst und digitaler Kultur.

Zohar Fraiman
Geboren 1987 in Jerusalem, Israel. Lebt und arbeitet in Berlin.

Ausbildung

2013—2015 Meisterschülerin in Fine Arts, University of Arts Berlin, by Prof. Burkhard Held
2011—2013 Studies of Fine Arts at the University of Arts Berlin, by Prof. Burkhard Held
2005—2009 Master’s class, Jerusalem Studio School, Israel
2003 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

Einzelausstellungen

2025 (forthcoming) ›You-phoria‹ curated by Malte Lin Kröger, Kunstpalais Erlangen, Germany
(forthcoming) Solo Booth – Art Düsseldorf, Represented by Galerie Russi Klenner – Berlin, Germany
2024 Viral Rival, Städtische Galerie im Park Viersen, Germany
2024 Meme Me, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany
2023 Tending Trending, Priska Pasquer Gallery, Paris, France
2022 Self-ish, Galerie Russi Klenner, Berlin, Germany
2021 Show Me Your Sheroes, Gallery Priska Pasquer, Cologne, Germany
2017 Die Bösen Dürfen Nicht Weinen, Galerie Russi Klenner, Berlin, Germany
2014/15 INFOLD ENFOLD UNFOLD, Dorothea Konwiartz Stiftung, Curated by Michal B. Ron, Berlin, Germany
2014 Devils and Brides, Tempelhof Museum, Curated by Thibaut de Ruyter, Berlin, Germany

Gruppenausstellungen (Auswahl)

2025
Waking Visions‹ Samurai Museum Berlin, Germany
(forthcoming) Galerie Russi Klenner, Berlin, Germany
The Artist is Naked‹ Kunstpalais Erlangen, Germany

2024
Timeless Innovation – Innovation Intemporelle, PRISKA PASQUER PARIS, France
Dissonance, National Gallery Bucharest, Romania
60 x 50, invited by Philip Grözinger & Jonas Burgert, Smac Berlin, Germany
Living on My Own, Behncke Gallery, Munich, Germany
Par(i)ty with Us, AquabitArt Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Horsing Around, Galerie Lake, Oldenburg, Germany
Dissonance – Platform Germany, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Germany
Liminal, Priska Pasquer Gallery, Cologne, Germany

2023
Salondergegenwart, Hamburg, Germany
Full Stop, Werkstatt, Berlin, Germany
Zustands Bericht – Works from the Herrmann Collection‹ Kunstraum Potsdam, Germany
The Way I See It‹ Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Germany
HumAin‹ Räume, Berlin, Germany

2022
Holy Holes‹ Galerie Oel Früh, Hamburg, Germany
Art Cologne‹ Priska Pasquer Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Artissima‹ Galerie Russi Klenner, Turin, Italy
Minibar II‹ Galerie Oel Früh, Hamburg, Germany
Image Fetiches‹ Curated by Laetitia Gorsy, Galerie Stephanie Kelly, Dresden, Germany
Art Düsseldorf‹ Priska Pasquer Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
Shattered‹ curated by Philipp Bollmann, Sexauer Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Twist & Shout‹ She Bam Gallery, Leipzig, Germany
Sammlung Simonow – Vol. 3‹ Delphi Space, Freiburg, Germany
Misa – Curated by Mirna Funk‹ Misa.Art
ARCO Madrid‹ Galerie Russi Klenner, Madrid, Spain

2021
Israelische Kunstler*innen in Deutschland‹ Kunsthalle Trier, Germany
Soft Agitators‹ curated by Gilles Neiens, Saarländische Galerie Berlin, Germany
Kayfuyem‹ curated by Philipp Schreiner, Galerie Waidspeicher, Erfurt, Germany
Direkte Auktion‹ curated by Annika von Taube and Charlie Stein, Xberg Tower Postbank, Berlin, Germany
Sammlung Simonow‹ die wellenmaschine, Berlin, Germany
The Fine Hands Show‹ curated by Thibaut de Ruyter, Museum Ploshchad Mira, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Omanut – Kunst heute‹ Städtische Galerie im Park Viersen, Germany
WINDS OF CHANGE‹ curated by Priska Pasquer and Christiane Maria Schneider, Priska Pasquer Virtual Gallery
Welche Stimmung fandest du dort vor?‹ curated by Larissa Kikol, Galerie Russi Klenner, Berlin, Germany
ARCO E-XHIBITIONS‹ virtual exhibition of Galerie Russi Klenner artists, participating galleries at ARCOmadrid and ARCOlisboa
Lusus Naturae, BCMA Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2020 Seance Fiction, Kunstverein Familie Montez, Frankfurt, Germany
2020 D’Angelo, Fraiman, Kennedy, Galerie Russi Klenner, Berlin, Germany
2020 You’ve Got Mail, MOM art space, Hamburg, Germany
2020 Actionprinting@BRIX, Haus der Statistik, Berlin, Germany
2019 Magna Rota, Maya Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (Duo Exhibition) [Catalog]
2019 Magna Rota, Maya Gallery, Kunstverein Schweinfurt, Germany (Duo Exhibition), [Catalog]
2019 VOIX, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, Germany, [Catalog]
2019 Keeping at Distance, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Israel
2019 Paint – the seen, the unseen & the imagined, Messums Wiltshire, England
2019 Connected, Honold Fine Art at BIASA CUBE, Kerobokan, Kuta – Bali, Indonesia
2019 Im grossen Schiff der Gefühle, Projekthaus Torstr. 111, Berlin, Germany
2018 Zündung, Gallery Turps, London, England
2018 Die Jahrhundert-Bar, Ventilator, Berlin, Germany
2018 Breathing The Ultimate Wave, Sprechsaal, Berlin Germany
2018 Stolen Images, Meinblau Projektraum, Berlin, Germany
2018 Painting XXL part 1, AusstellungsHalle 1a, Frankfurt, Germany
2018 Painting XXL part 2, Galerie Leuenroth, Frankfurt, Germany
2018 Monster und Geister, Museum Überlingen, Germany
2017 entfesselt!, Curated by Martin Oswald, Schloss Achberg, Germany, [Catalog]
2017 PAINTING XX, Curated by Enno Wallis, Kultur Bäckerei, Sparkassestiftung Lüneburg, Germany, [Catalog]
2017 Farbauftrag, Curated by Jaqueline Krickl, Haus Am Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany, [Catalog]
2017 Under Influence, Curated by Michaela K. Kühn, Galerie Dukan, Leipzig, Germany
2017 Vanitas Fair, Lachenmann Art Galerie, Konstanz, Germany (Duo Exhibition) [Catalog]
2017 COCOON, Bar Babette, Berlin, Germany
2016 Open the Void, The Grass is Greener Galerie, Leipzig , Germany (Duo Exhibition)
2016 Engel / Angeli, Südtiroler Sparkasse, Bozen/Bolzano, Italy [Catalog]
2016 The Names Have Been Changed, Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin, Germany
2016 Berlin School of Painting, Villa Renata, Basel, Switzerland
2016 Blanke Teile, Schaufenster, Berlin, Germany
2016 PULSE, Prize Winners and Outstanding Young Artists Exhibition of The University of Fine Arts Berlin, Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin, Germany [Catalog]
2016 Schwarzkäppchen Is Not The Murdering Type, Atelierhaus Museion Bozen / Bolzano, Italy (Duo Exhibition)
2016 Sammlung Simonow, Kunsthalle Bozen / Bolzano , Italy
2016 Am Rand des Nichts, Galerie erstererster, Berlin, Germany
2016 Warten Gucken Nicht Verstehen Weiter Gehen, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2016 Anti Physis, Kreuzberg Pavillon, Curated by Zohar Fraiman, Berlin, Germany
2015 Berlin Girls, Lachenmann Art Galerie, Konstanz , Germany [Catalog]
2015 Into the Neon Light, Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin, Germany
2015 Malerei ist jetzt, Han Pin Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
2015 CAA Inter-Youth Art, Chinese Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
2015 Some of my Favorite Things, Curated by Michal B. Ron, Berlin , Germany
2014 Was Wir Für Euch Entblössen, Galerie Queen Anne, Leipzig , Germany
2014 ROTROTROT, Schaufenster, Berlin , Germany
2014 SCHAU06, Malzfabrik, Berlin , Germany
2013 Physis Projekt, Griechisches Botschaft, Berlin, Germany
2013 Luxus plus, Fluxus Museum, Potsdam , Germany
2013 Physis, Veria, Greece
2012 Reise Nach Jerusalem, Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien, Berlin, Germany [Catalog]
2012 Reise Nach Jerusalem, Artist House Jerusalem, Israel [Catalog]
2012 Fraiman and Zukerman, Galerie Queen Anne, Leipzig, Germany

Stipendien & Förderungen

2022 Neustart Kultur, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Germany
2014 Dorothea Konwiarz Stiftung, Berlin, Germany
2014 Elsa Neumann Stipendium, NaFöG [Nominated], Berlin, Germany
2014 Schulz Stübner Preis [Nominated], Berlin, German
2013 The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grant, Canada
2007 Full Studies Honor Scholarship, Jerusalem Studio School Master Class, Israel

Residencies

2013 Physis, Veria, Greece
2008 JSS in the Villa di Pieve, Umbria, Italy
2006 International School of Painting and Sculpture, Umbria, Italy

Publikationen / Auswahlbibliographie

2024
Me, Myself and Many – Zohar Fraiman im Haus am Lützowplatz, Kunst:Art, Dr. Julia Behrens, May 2024

Art Brussels : 7 artistes qui se réapproprient la peinture, The Steidtz, 6.May 2024

Art Brussels : 7 artistes qui se réapproprient la peinture

Zohar Fraiman – Game of Phones‹ Tagesspiegel, January 2024

2023
Mit den Smartphones kamen die selfies, Ullrichs Bildseminar / folge 133, pp 61-62, Article by Wolfgang Ullrich, ART – das Kunstmagazin, November 2023

Art in the Age of Generative AI, Public Art Magazine, Issue 204, September 2023
https://www.artinpost.co.kr/product/detail.html?product_no=4573&cate_no=48&display_group=1#none

2022
Self-ish, Artist Book, published by Zohar Fraiman, 300 copies, signed and numbered
Artissima 2022: what’s new about painting?‹ Juliet Contemporary Art Magazine, 6.Nov 2022

Artissima 2022: what’s new about painting?

Zohar Fraiman: ‘Nosotros comisariamos nuestra imagen en línea’‹ Elemmental Online, 25.Feb 2022

Zohar Fraiman: “Nosotros comisariamos nuestra imagen en línea”

2021
Zohar Fraiman – Show Me Your Sheroes‹ Kunstforum International Ba.275, Juni-Juli 2021, ‘Utopia’, pp 276-278, written by Renate Puvogel
https://www.kunstforum.de/artikel/zohar-fraiman/

5 Artists to Watch‹ Artnet online, May 4. 2021

Here Are 5 Artists in the Artnet Gallery Network That We’re Watching This May

Zohar Fraiman – Show Me Your Sheroes‹, Monopol online, April 2021
https://www.monopol-magazin.de/shows/zohar-fraiman-show-me-your-sheroes-curated-gloria-aino-grzywatz

2020
Berlin‹, Art Press, n° 479, July-August 2020, pp. 80-81, written by Thibaut de Ruyter
Art Starter‹, Art das Kunstmagazin, September 2020, pp 76, written by Larissa Kikol

2019
VOIX‹, Catalog MNW Berlin-Leipzig at Museum der Bildende Künste Leipzig
Magna Rota‹, Schweinfurter Tagblatt, written by Karl-Heinz Körblein
Magna Rota‹, duo exhibition catalog with artist Julius Bobke, text by Larissa Kikol

2017
Entfesselt! Malerinnen der Gegenwart‹, catalog, text by Martin Oswald

2016
PULSE‹, Prize Winners and Outstanding Young Artists Exhibition of the University of Fine Arts, Berlin
From Images To Pictures‹, Grass is Greener, Interview with Esther Niebel

2015
Painting is Like a Dance‹, Age of Artists, Interview with Dirk Dobiey
Berlin Girls‹, Galerie Lachenmann

2013
Reise Nach Jerusalem‹, Kerber Publishing
Shiff Collection Catalog

2010
Kra II‹, The New Spirit Foundation

Ausgewählte Sammlungen

Kunstsammlung Jena / City Musuem + Art Collection Jena
Miettinen Collection
Peters-Messer Collection
Sammlung Haus N
Dubi Shiff Art Collection Tel Aviv / Miami
Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf
Deurle Collection, Belgium
Art Us Collectors, Stuttgart
Irena Hochman Fine Art Ltd. Collection
Jiménez-Colón Collection

100,000 Years of Beauty‹ by Élisabeth Azoulay, published by Paris Gallimard, Future Book, pages 234-235

ART – das Kunstmagazin, Mit den Smartphones kamen die selfies‹ Ullrichs Bildseminar / folge 133, pp 61-62, Article by Wolfgang, November 2023

Public Art Magazine, Art in the Age of Generative AI, Issue 204, September 2023

Elemmental Online,‘Nosotros comisariamos nuestra imagen en línea’, 25.Feb 2022

KUNSTFORUM International, Zohar Fraiman, Show me your Sheroes, Article, Jun-Jul 2021

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ZOHAR FRAIMAN

Zohar Fraiman was born in Jerusalem, Israel, in 1987 and has been living and working in Berlin since 2009. She studied at the Jerusalem Studio School, Israel and graduated as a master student from Berlin University of the Arts (2015).

Fraiman is an artist who examines the influence of digitalization on identity and our lives in general as reflected in our obsession with social media and our addiction to smartphones. Her work explores how identities are formed and through which mechanisms they are reconstructed in digital spaces such as Instagram, Tinder and Tik Tok. With an abundance of humour, bright colours and fractured characters that bear reference to cartoons, retro advertising, iconic pop culture and the works of old masters, Fraiman questions the practice of internet based self-staging and criticizes exaggerated and distorted ways of expressing both gender and the self within image based networks and social platforms. Zohar Fraiman explores these issues in a playful manner, and it is up to us to feel invited to question ourselves and our habits.

Fraiman’s work is regularly featured in international group and solo exhibitions, including at the Han Pin Art Museum, Hangzhou (2015, China), Museion Atelierhaus Bozen (2016, Italy), Künsthalle Lüneburg (2017, Germany), Schloss Achberg (2017, Germany), Turps Gallery London (2018, UK), Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig (2019, Germany), Petach Tikva Museum of Art (2019, Israel), Show Me Your Sheroes – PRISKA PASQUER GALLERY, (2021, Germany), ARCO Madrid (2022, Spain), Artissima – Galerie Russi Klenner, (2022, Italy), Art Cologne – PRISKA PASQUER GALLERY, (2022, Germany), Kunsthalle Wilhelmshafen (2023, Germany), Tending Trending – PRISKA PASQUER PARIS, (2023, France), Dissonance – Platform Germany, Stadtgalerie Kiel, (2024 Germany), Solo Booth – Art Brussels (2024, Belgium), Game of Phones – Galerie Russi Klenner (2024, Germany), Dissonance #3 – National Gallery Bucharest, (2024, Romania), Meme Me – curated by Katharina Schilling, Haus am Lützowplatz (2024, Germany).

In 2022, Fraiman released her artist book titled ‘Self-ish’, a limited edition of 300 copies, each signed and numbered by the artist. The book reflects on digital life, exploring themes of identity, self-representation, and the influence of social media. Tying into Fraiman’s ‘Self-ish’ series, the publication delves into the concept of the selfie and the way we present ourselves online, creating a unique dialogue between contemporary art and digital culture.

Zohar Fraiman
Born in Jerusalem, Israel, 1987. Lives and works in Berlin

Education

Solo Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions (Selection)