Zvi Goldstein at home in Jerusalem
 

Zvi Goldstein

Born 1947, Transylvania, Romania

Lives and works in Jerusalem


Education

1966-69

Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel

1969-1972

Brera Academy, Department of Sculpture, Milan, Italy, Diploma in Fine Art

1978-2014

Lecturer, later professor at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv, Israel

 

Solo Exhibitions

2021

Winds from Jericho, Moderna Museet Malmö, Sweden

2017 

1978, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel

2016

Distance and Differences, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium

2015

Reconstructed Memories (Lariam B), Galerie Daniel Marzona, Berlin, Germany

2011

Haunted by Objects. Weltreisen im Innern meines Kopfes, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany

2010

Haunted by Objects, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

1998

To be there, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany, and Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany

1995

Zvi Goldstein, Mala Galerija, Ljublijana, Slovenia

1995

Recent Work, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

1994

Zvi Goldstein, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

1993

Zvi Goldstein, The Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada

1992

Zvi Goldstein, De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Zvi Goldstein, Konrad Fischer Gallerie, Düsseldorf, Germany

1990

Black Hole Constructions, D.A.A.D. Gallerie, Berlin, Germany

1989

The Glory of Abstraction, Kunstraum München, Munich, Germany

Zvi Goldstein, Galerie Sylvana Lorenz, Paris, France

1987

Where Are You Going America?, International with Monument Gallery, New York, USA

Third World and World 3, Artist Studios/IKA Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel

Tiers-monde et monde 3, Center Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

1986

Die Sprache des Bauens, Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany

1983

Structure ans Superstructure, The Tel-Aviv Museum, Tel-Aviv, Israel

1982

Zvi Goldstein, Gimel Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel

Element F, Noemi Givon Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Progress and Universalism in the Third World!, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

1981

Zvi Goldstein, Gimel Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel

1980

Zvi Goldstein, Museum für (Sub-)Kultur, Berlin, Germany

1978

Zvi Goldstein, Galeria Lia Rumma Gallery, Rome, Italy

1977

Manifesti, Studio Deambrogi/Cavellini, Milan, Italy

Zvi Goldstein, Galeria banco, Brescia, Italy

Zvi Goldstein, Incontri Internazionali D’Arte, Rome, Italy

1976

Aspetti politico-economici. Autoaffermazione e ambizione artistica, Galleria Banco, Brescia, Italy

Conferenza regristrata, Galeria Piero Cavellini, Brescia, Italy

1975

Zvi Goldstein, Cultural Center of Belgrade, Serbia

Zvi Goldstein, Yodfat Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

Works 1970-1975, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

Lavori da 1970 al 1974, Galeria Banco and Galeria Cavellini, Brescia, Italy

1974

Zvi Goldstein, Galerie Folker Skulima, Berlin, Germany

Zvi Goldstein, Galeria Schema, Florence, Italy

Zvi Goldstein, Cavellini Gallery, Brescia, Italy

Zvi Goldstein, Banco Gallery, Brescia, Italy

Zvi Goldstein, Galeria Diagramma, Milan, Italy

1973

Funzionalismo Critico, Galeria Diagramma, Milan, Italy

Fenomeni naturali, teorie delle conoscenze, teorie de applicazione, Galeria Diagramma, Milan, Italy

1972

Chiaro – Scuro, Galeria le Bertesca, Milan, Italy

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022-2024

Something New, Something Old, Something Desired, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

2021

The Little Catalogue of the S.M.A.K. Collection, The Exhibition, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium

Humankind Nature Politics - Joseph Beuys in the Context of the Collection, Museum Haus Lange and Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany

2019

The Collection (1) – Hightlights for a Future, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium

2015

Adventures of the Black Square, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK

2013

Zugaben, Freunde der Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Museen Haus Lange and Haus Esters Krefeld, Germany

2011

The Second Strike. 3rd Herzliya Biennial for Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel

2008

Translocalmotion. 7th Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai, China

2005

EindhovenIstanbul, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands

2002

Startkapital, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany

2001

Wechselstrom, Sammlung Hauser und Wirth in der Lokremise, St. Gall, Switzerland

2000

The Oldest Possible Memory, Sammlung Hauser und Wirth in der Lokremise, St. Gall, Switzerland

1998

24th Biennial of Sao Paolo, Sao Paolo, Brazil

1997

Niemandsland, Museen Haus Esters and Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany

1995

ORIENT/ATION, 4th Biennial of Istanbul, Turkey

1992

Schwerpunkt Skulptur, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany

1990

The Ready Made Boomerang, The 8th Biennial of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Life-Size, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

1988

Aperto 88, XLIII Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

1987

documenta VIII, Kassel, Germany

1982

Here and Now, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

1980

Borders, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

1978

Trigon, Kulturhaus, Graz, Austria

1974

Contemporanea, Area Aperta, Rome, Italy

 

Selected Books and Catalogues

2021

Zvi Goldstein. Perfect Worlds, Possible Worlds – From My Archive, exh. cat., Moderna Museet Malmo, Malmo, Sweden

2017

Zvi Goldstein. 1978, exh. cat., Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel

2016

Zvi Goldstein. Distance and Differences, exh. booklet, S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium

2014

Zvi Goldstein – The Limit of my Knowledge, Works 1969-2010, edited by Eva Meyer-Hermann, compiled by Johannes Schmidt, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, published by Distanz Verlag, Berlin, Germany

2012

Art of the 20th century, Cologne, Germany, Taschen

2011

The Second Strike, exh. cat., Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, 2011

2010

Zvi Goldstein, ROOM 205, Verlag Walther König, Cologne, Germany

2004

Zvi Goldstein, On Paper, Verlag Walther König, Cologne, Germany

2002

Julian Heynen, Niemandsland Kunst. Flucht in die Wirklichkeit, Lindinger+Schmid, Berlin, Germany

2001

Wechsel-Strom. Sammlung Hauser und Wirth, Teil 2, exh. cat., Sammlung Hauser und Wirth in der Lokremise, St. Gall, Switzerland, Oktagon, Cologne, Germany

The Oldest Possible Memory. Sammlung Hauser und Wirth, Teil 2, exh. cat., Sammlung Hauser und Wirth in der Lokremise, St. Gall, Switzerland, Oktagon, Cologne, Germany

2000

Julian Heynen, Ein Ort der denkt / A place that thinks, Haus Lange and Haus Esters by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Modern Architecture and Contemporary Art, Krefelder Kunstmuseen, Krefeld, Germany

1999

c/o Haus Lange – Haus Esters, 1984 / 1999, Krefelder Kunstmuseen, Krefeld, Germany

Zvi Goldstein. To Be There, exh. cat., Kunsthalle Nürnberg and Krefelder Kunstmuseen, Germany, Oktagon

1997

The 20th Century Art Book, Phaidon, London, UK,

1992

Schwerpunkt Skupltur, exh. cat., Krefeld Kunstmuseen, Krefeld, Germany

1992

Achille Bonita Oliva: Superart, Giancarlo Politi editore, Milan 1992

1990

Zvi Goldstein. Black Hole Constructions, exh. cat., DAAD Gallery, Berlin, Germany

The Ready Made Boomerang, 8th Sydney Biennial, exh. cat., Sydney, Australia

1989

The Glory of Abstraction, exh. cat., Kunstraum München, Munich, Germany

1988

Achille Bonita Oliva: Superarte, Giancarlo Politi editore, Milan 1988

1988

Aperto 88, XLIII Biennale di Venezia, exh. cat., Venice, Italy

1987

documenta VIII, exh. cat., Kassel, Germany

Zvi Goldstein. Tiers-Monde et Monde 3 – Modeles Anomaux, exh. cat., Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France

1986

Zvi Goldstein. Die Sprache des Bauens, exh. cat., Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany

1983

Structure and Super-Structure, exh. cat., The Tel-Aviv Museum, Tel-Aviv, Israel

1982

Here and Now, exh. cat., The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

1975

L’arte Moderna (L’arte Concettuale), Nuova Edizione, Milan, Italy

The Israel Museum, exh. cat., Jerusalem, Israel

 

Selected Magazines, Critiques, and Interviews

2016

Hili Perlson, Are We Finally Ready For Zvi Goldstein's Radical Vision for A New Artworld?, Artnet, July 28, 2016

2012

Annelie Pohlen: Zvi Goldstein. Haunted by Objects. Weltreisen im Innern meines Kopfes, Kunstforum International, vol. 214

2011

Ory Dessau, Haunted by Life: Zvi Goldstein’s Recent Projects, Cura Art Magazine, issue 007, February 2011

2008

Ory Dessau, To Be There, Studio Art Magazine, issue 174, Tel-Aviv, Israel

2005

Julian Heynen, Art and Life, Studio Art Magazine, issue 159, Tel-Aviv, Israel

1998

Doris Lösch: Wandreliefs und Skulpturen von Zvi Goldstein in Nürnberg, in: Neue Bildende Kunst. Zeitschrift für Kunst und Kritik, no. 2, Berlin 1998

1995

Sara Breitberg-Semel, Zvi Goldstein Speaks, Studio Art Magazine, issue 63, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Yigal Zalmona, B-Bau. Some observations on Vegetable Construct and Olive Model, Studio Art Magazine, issue 63, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Adam Berg, The Metaphor of the Exotic, Studio Art Magazine, issue 63, Tel-Aviv, Israel,

Neue Bildende Kunst. Zeitschrift für Kunst uns Kritik, Berlin, Germany, edition 4/5

Sculpture and Philosophy of Modernism (a Reflection on the Reference to Technology in the Work of Zvi Goldstein), C Magazine, issue 45, Toronto, Canada,

1990

Zvi Goldstein, Future, Kav 10 Art Magazine, Tel-Aviv, Israel

1989

Lilly Wei, The Peripatetic Artist: 14 Statements, Art in America, New York, USA

Rainer Metzger, Zvi Goldstein, Kunstraum München, Flash Art, no. 146. May - June 1989

1988

Achille Bonito Oliva, Flash Art, Milan, Italy, no. 140

David Robbins, Where Are You Going America?, Artscribe International, New York, USA

1987

Nancy Marmer, Documenta 8: The Social Art in America Dimension?, New York, USA

Elanor Heartney, Zvi Goldstein at International with Monument, Art in America, New York, USA

Dalia Manor, Aesthetics and Politics, Prosa Art Magazine, Tel Aviv, Israel, no. 97-98

Gregorio Magnani, Flash Art, Milan, Italy, No. 137

Michael Hübl, Documenta 8, Kunstforum international, Bd. 90, Germany

1981

Art Press International, Juin 1981, Paris 1981

 

Awards

2016

Rappaport Prize, Tel-Aviv, Israel

2013

The EMET Prize for Art, Science and Culture, Israel

2002

The Lennon-Ono Grant for Peace, New York

1999

The Jerusalem Price for Arts, Jerusalem, Israel

1990

D.A.A.D, Artist in Residence, Berlin, Germany

1988

Prize of the Ministry of Education and Culture, Israel

1987

Aaron Levi Prize of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

1985

Laureate of the Mies Van der Rohe Stipendium, Krefeld, Germany

1984

The Sandberg Prize of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel