Guy Ben-Ner
1969
born in Ramat Gan, Israel
lives and works in Tel Aviv
1993-1997
Hamidrasha Art Teachers School, Israel
2001-2003
Columbia University MFA program
AWARDS
2008
Sanberg Prize, Israel Museum
2007
1. Prize for "Stealing Beauty“ KunstFilmBiennale, Cologne
D.A.A.D. Residency, Berlin
2005
1. Prize for "Wild Boy“, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
Israeli Pavilion of the 51. Biennale di Venezia
2003
The Rema Hort Mann Foundation Fellow
2002
The Dean's Fellowship, Columbia University, New York
The Caroline Newhouse Sculpture Fellowship, New York
2001
The Givon - Tel Aviv museum prize
A grant from the Ministry of Education, Israel-NY
The Dean's Fellowship, Columbia University, New York
1994
The Kiefer-Wolf Prize for a Young Artist
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023-2024
We’ve Lost, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
2022-2023
Go Back Where U Came From, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2019
Berkeley’s Island (1999), Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
2016
Escape Artists, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2015
Guy Ben-Ner: Soundtrack, Cleveland Insitute of Art, Fran and Jules Belkin Media Gallery, Cleveland, USA
2014
Soundtrack, Gimpel Fils, London, UK
At Home, VCUarts Anderson Gallery, Richmond, USA
Soundtrack, Postmaster Gallery, New York, USA
2013
Soundtrack, Aspect Ratio, Chicago, USA
Guy Ben-Ner, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Soundtrack, Pinksummer, Genova, Italy
2012
12x12 IBB-Videolounge, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
New Works, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin
Stealing Beauty, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada
Second Nature, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2011
Spies, SITE Gallery, Sheffield, UK
Name Dropping, Gimpels Fils Gallery, London, UK
Stile Der Stadt Videopanel 2011/ Haus 3, Internationales Videokunstfestival Hamburg, Altonaer Museum, Hamburg, Germany
2010
Filme, Zeichnungen und Installationen, Kunsthalle Mainz, Germany
Flying Lessons, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
Second Nature, Postmasters Gallery, New York, USA
2009
Doblar a lo largo de la line, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Sprain
Flying Lessons, Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, Germany
Thursday the 12th, Mass MoCA, North Adams, USA
Fold Along the Line, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, San Angel, Mexico
Second Nature, Pinksummer, Genua, Italy
Second Nature, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin
Moby Dick by Guy Ben-Ner, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, USA
2008
Real Life: Ron Mueck and Guy Ben-Ner, Shawinigan Space, National Gallery of Canada, Shawinigan, Canada
Stealing Beauty, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar, Sweden
Wild Boy, Objectif exhibitions, Antwerp, Belgium
2007
Stealing Beauty / I'd Give It To You If I Could, But I Borrowed It, Postmasters Gallery, New York, USA
Stealing Beauty, DAAD Gallery, Berlin
Stealing Beauty, Gimpel Fils Gallery, London, UK
video des monats, videolounge, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Treehouse Kit, Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada
2006
Guy Ben-Ner, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
Guy Ben-Ner, Center of Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia
Treehouse Kit and Berkeley's Island, Postmasters Gallery, New York, USA
Guy Ben-Ner, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Wild Boy, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
2005
Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA
Treehouse Kit, Israeli Pavillion, 2005 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy - traveled to: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin / Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel / Adelaide Art Festival, Adelaide, Australia
Wild Boy, Postmasters Gallery, New York, USA
2004
Guy Ben-Ner, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
2003
Elia - A story of an Ostrich chick, The Herzliya Museum, Herzliya, Israel
Moby Dick, Postmasters gallery, New York, USA
2001
The Trilogy, A screening, The Herzliya Museum, Herzliya, Israel
1998
20% more for free, Julie M Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1995
Wet me, The Hertzeliya Museum, Herzliya, Israel
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Die Wirklichkeit ist sowieso da, Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf
2020
Global(e) Resistance, Centre Pompidou Paris, France
Study Of Things, Guangdong Times Museum, China
2017
Soundtracks, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA
Extra Bodies, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
2016
Besser Scheitern. Fail Better, Altes Rathaus, Ingelheim, Germany
2015
Jahrhundertzeichen. Tel Aviv Museum of Art visits Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
The Methadone Metronome, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK
Uncommon commonalities, Aspect Ratio, Chicago, USA
2014
Fremd bin ich Eingezogen, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany
Manifesta 10, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Coming Soon: real imaginary futures, Buro Floor, Maastricht, Netherlands
She Was a Film Star Before She Was My Mother, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, USA
2013
Image Employment, MoMA PS1, New York, USA
WYSIWYG: What You See Is What You Get, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Besser scheitern, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Porosités, Centre d'Art le LAIT, Albi, France
Le Pont, Museum of Marseille, Marseille, France
Day After Day, University Art Museum, Albany, USA
Homebodies, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
Zizhiqu (Autonomous Regions), Guangdong Times Museum, China
2012
Imaginäre Reisen, Instiut Imaginärer Inseln, ArtPod at Amerikahaus, Berlin
The Kids are Allright, Kohler Art Center, Sheybogan, WI / Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, USA
Art any way: exploring the wheel, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
BEYOND TIME, International Video Art today, Kulturhuset Stockholm, Sweden
Project 35, Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt, Centre d'Art, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
Da zero a cento, le nuove età della vita, Triennale Bovisa, Milan, Italy
Künstlerkinder von Runge bis Richter, von Dix bis Picasso, Kunsthalle in Emden, Emden, Germany
Stage Presence - Theatricality In Art And Media, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Idea is the Object, D'Amelio Terras, New York, USA
Family Talk, Futura, Prague, Czech Republic
Phänomen Wohlstand - Motorenhalle - riesa efau, Kultur Forum Dresden, Dresden, Germany
The Weight of Lives I’m Not Living, Artspeak, Vancouver, Canada
Here In Your Space, Grand Central Art Center, California State University Fullerton, Santa Ana, USA
2011
Blowing on a Hairy Shoulder, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, USa
Life. A Users Manual, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Possession, The Art Foundation, Athens / Gentili Apri, Berlin
Uncanny Valley - Wohnwelten in der Kunst, Architektur Sommer Rhein-Main, Germany
Medi(t)ation, Asian Art Biennial. National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, Taiwan
SUMMER SHOW, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
The Israeli Center for Digital Art - Mobile Archive, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz, Switzerland
The Global Contemporary. Kunstwelten nach 1989, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany
I was a male Yvonne de Carlo, MUSAC Leon, Spain
Incongru. Quand l'art fait rire, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
COLORIFIC! We Make An Art Rainbow, Postmasters Gallery, New York, USA
Common Love, Aesthetics of Becoming, The Wallach Art Gallery, New York, USA
Machine Raum - Choosing another strategy, Vejle Kunstmuseum, Vejle, Denmark
Blowing on a Hairy Shoulder / Grief Hunters, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Project 35, Gertrude contemporary art spaces, Melbourne, Australia
Szenenwechsel, Museum Kunst der Westküste, Alkersum / Föhr, Germany
Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven, Canzani Center Gallery/Bureau for Open Culture at Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, USA
2010
SCHÖNER WOHNEN, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
1st Ural Industrial Biennial, NCCA Jekatarinburg, Russia
Trembling Time. Recent Video from Israel, TATE Modern, London, UK
Adaptation, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, USA
The Curse of Bigness, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, USA
How to Read a Book, Locust Projects, Miami, USA
Zu(m) Tisch, Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Ludwig, Ludwig Galerie Schloss Oberhausen, Germany
Bilder in Bewegung: Künstler & Video, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
MORALITY ACT III, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Fold Along The Line, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain
Videozone V, The 5th International Video Art Biennial in Israel, Tel Aviv, Israel
International Video, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, USA
Res Publica, Moscow museum of modern art, Moscow, Russia
Overview: Israeli Video 2000-2010, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
Real Life, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada
Resurrectine, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Inc, New York, USA
Group Show, Kerstin Engholm Galerie, Vienna, Austria
REMOTE VISION, Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
2009
Höhepunkte der Kölner KunstFilmBiennale in Berlin, KW KunstWerke, Berlin
Guy Ber-Ner, PERFORMA 09, New York, USA
Guy Ber-Ner, ART TLV 09, Tel Aviv, Israel
Blurrr 7, The Seventh International Biennial of Performance Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Family Ties, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Die ideale Ausstellung, ACC Galerie Weimar, Germany
The Puppet Show, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston / Frye Art Museum, Seattle, USA
The View from Elsewhere, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
No sound, Aspen Art Museum, Seattle, USA
Parenthesis, Western Bridge, Seattle, USA
Isolation, Golden Threat Gallery, Belfast, UK
Best of Loop, MOCA Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, USA
TULCA 2009, Galway Arts Centre, Galway, Ireland
Real Life: Ron Mueck and Guy Ben-Ner, Glenbow Museum, Calgary / Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
TINA B., The Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Prague, Czech Republic
Zulu: Hunters and Other Fantasies, Nachum Gutman Art Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
Adaptation: Video Installations by Ben-Ner, Herrera, Sullivan and Sussman & The Rufus Corporation, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis / Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, USA
On second reading, Galería Estrany De La Mota, Barcelona, Spain
2008
Guy Ber-Ner, Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China
Joy of Everyday Life, Mito Tower, Mito, Japan
Made UP!, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
Worlds on Video. International Video Art, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze, Italy
My (public) space, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
L'Impresa dell'Arte (The Enterprise of Art), Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Palazzo Roccella, Napoli, Italy
ONLYCONNECT, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA
Distortion Of An Unendurable Reality, Pianissimo, Milan, Italy
The Puppet Show, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Adaptation, Smart Museum of Art/University of Chicago, USA
Mummy is Nasty, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
Between the Images, IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden
Liverpool Biennial, UK
THE KRAUTCHO CLUB / IN AND OUT OF PLACE, 176 Gallery, London, UK
Mobile Archive, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, Germany
Forgotten Bar Project, Galerie im Regierungsviertel, Berlin
SEE history 2008, Kunsthalle Kiel, Germany
Drei Farben - Rot, Rohkunstbau, Potsdam, Germany
Accwaa to Israel I & II, Jüdisches Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
The Enterprise of Art / L'impresa dell'arte, PAN, Naples, Italy
Swetlana Heger / Guy Ben-Ner / Daniel Segerberg, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Sweden
Eventually We'll Die - Young Art in Israel of the 90s, Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya, Israel
Real Time: Art in Israel 1998-2008, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
History Will Repeat Itself, Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poalnd
All-Inclusive. Die Welt des Tourismus, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Laughing in a Foreign Language, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
2007
Skulpturprojekte Münster, Münster, Germany
Experimental Playground, International Biennial of Media Arts, Melbourne, Australia
Birdwatching: Landscape and Leisure, Foreman Art Gallery, Bishop University, Sherbrooke, Canada
53rd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, 3-8 May 2007, Oberhausen, Germany
Why Look at Animals, ArtSpace, New Haven, USA
Structure and Stories, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, USA
History will repeat itself, HMKV, Dortmund / KW, Berlin
KunstFilm Biennale, Cologne, Germany
The rite of spring/Voci dalla luna: omaggio a Federico Fellini, Museo d`Arte di Nuoro, Nuoro, Italy
Voci dalla luna: omaggio a Federico Fellini, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone, Italy
Playing with Solitude, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
The Rear, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel
Art Summer University, Tate Modern, London, UK
Pensa Piensa Think, Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
2006
Guy Ben-Ner and Misaki Kawai, take floor Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Action, FRAC Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, Marseille, France
Inside-Out/Del Reves, MARCO Museum, Vigo, Spain
52., Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany
Holy Land: Diaspora and the Desert, Heard Museum, Phoenix, USA
Video Venice, Adelaide Arts Festival, Adelaide, Australia
Homesick I, Akureyri Art Museum, Iceland
Homecooked, The Jewish Museum, New York, USA
Roland Flexner / Guy Ben Ner, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
Hybridity - The Evolution of Species and Spaces in 21st-Century Art, 21c Museum, Louisville, USA
Mini Israel, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
2005
Traum und Trauma, Haus der Kulture der Welt, Berlin
Carneval des animaux, Marc de Puechredon, Basel, Switzerland
Realismusstudio-tainment, NGBK, Berlin
51st Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
BROOKLinVIDEO, Futura, Praguewild boy/Premieres, screening series, MoMA PS1, New York, USA
who is the protagonist?, Guild & Greyshkul, New York, USA
2004
RealismusStudio - Spielformen der Bewusstseinsindustrie, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin
Moby Dick, MoMA QNS Lobby Projections Video X, Momenta Art, New York, USA
a perfect day for bananafish, Postmasters Gallery, New York, USA
video lounge, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, USA
Becoming father- becoming infant, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, USA
Storytelling, George Eastman House, Rochester, USA
2003
Brewster 2003, Site-specific art event, Brewster, New York, USA
Hunter College exhibition, Hunter College, New York, USA
MFA show, Columbia University, New York, USA
2002
Enough about me, Momenta Art, New York, USA
2001
Video one, Hifa museum, Hifa, Israel
New Israel video art, Tel Aviv cinematech, Tel Aviv, Israel
Men at home, Kalisher gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
The 33rd year- Artists against the occupation, Beit h'aam / Om el Phahem, Israel
A video room, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
2000
Video marathon, Art In General, New York, USA
Untitled, Alon Segev gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
ZimZum, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany
1999
Israeli Video art, the Tel Aviv cinematech, Tel Aviv, Israel
Berkely's island, Hagada hasmalit, Tel Aviv, Israel
1998
L'art dans le mond, passage de Retz, Paris, France
Double rivage, Centre Régional d'Art Contemporain, Site, France
Good kids - bad kids, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Spring at the end of summer-Young Israeli art, Tel Aviv museum, Israel
Retail Price, Pyramida Center for Contemporary art, Haifa, Israel
1997
Hamidrasha, Ramat Gan Museum for Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel
1996
untitled, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Fictitious reality in Israeli Photography, Yavne, Israel
Virtual, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
1994
Painting above and beyond, Ramat Gan Museum for Israeli art, Ramat Gan, Israel
Neither here, nor there, Gordon gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2023
Guy Ben Ner - We've Lost, Kunstmuseum Luzern
Guy Ben Ner: Go Back Where U Came From, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2010
Guy Ben Ner - Flying Lessons, Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg
2011
Oliver Basciano, Guy Ben-Ner. Spies, Art Review
Ossian Ward, Guy Ben-Ner. Name Dropping, TIME OUT New York
2010
Thom Donovan, Guy Ben-Ner, BOMB Magazine 111
Kristina Tieke, Guy Ben-Ner, ARTIST Kunstmagazin 83
Flying Lessons. Guy Ben-Ner, Kat. zur Ausstellung im Edith Ruß Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg
2009
Maurizio Cattelan, Guy Ben-Ner. Feeling Lured, FLASH ART
Karen Rosenberg, Guy Ben-Ner. Performa Hub, New York Times
2008
All Inclusive. A Tourist World, Kat. Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main
History Will Repeat Itself, Kat. zur Ausstellung HMKV hartware medienkunst verein, Dortmund; KW Kunstwerke Berlin
2006
Alex McDonald, There is a Whale in My Sink. State of the Arts, Australia
Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith, Best of 2005 - Biennial/Survey shows, Frieze
2005
Martin Herbert, Best of 2005, Artforum
Guy Ben-Ner. Self-Portrait as a Family Man, Kat. Israeli Pavilion at 51st Venice Biennial
Chiara Lunardelli, On Now, On Soon, Museum and Gallery Shows Around the World, Flash Art
Priya Bhatnagar, Guy Ben-Ner, Contemporary issue # 74, London
Blake Gopnik, Some Disassembly Required, The Washington Post
Carly Berwick, Better Than the Real Thing, Arts&Letters, New York Sun
Dana Gilerman, A Modest Man at MOMA, Haretz, Israel
Martin Herbert, Man About the House: Guy Ben-Ner's home videos, Modern Painters
Blake Gopnik, At PS1, Few Artists are Ready to Graduate, The Washington Post
Karen Rosenberg, Guy Ben-Ner, review, Artforum
Karen Rosenberg, Artists on the Verge of a Breaktrough, New York Magazine
Dean Daderko, It Takes a Video Project, Gay City News
Goings On About Town, Guy Ben-Ner, The New Yorker
2004
Ken Johnson, Guy Ben-Ner, Arts Briefly, The New York Times
Stephen Maine, Dateline Brooklyn, Artnet-Reviews
2003
Howard Halle, Thar he blows, Time Out New York
2001
Yair Garbuz, Don't touch my island, Studio Art magazine
