Nir Alon () is an Israeli sculptor and an installation artist based in Hamburg.
Alon studied from 1988 until 1992 at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. In 1996 he received the prize for young artists of the Israeli Ministry for education and Culture. In 1998 he participated in an exchange exhibition in Hamburg. In 2001 he received a working scholarship as a guest artist to Harburg. Since then he works and lives in Hamburg. He had solo exhibitions in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Schwerin, Bonn, Mannheim, Frankfurt and Hamburg. He preferably develops his sculptures from cast-off everyday life articles such as furniture, suit-cases, lamps, light bulbs and cables, whereby the installations are arranged directly at the place of exhibition and in the reference to these. Thus it obtains an urgent effect with most economical means.
His works are in public and private collections in Germany, Israel, Italy and United States.
Selected exhibitions/installations Cultural tracks-Trivial traps, Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem, 1993 Very delicate foundations, Kidmat-Eden-Gallery, Tel Aviv, 1994 Correct posture, Gross-Gallery, Tel Aviv, 1996 Game of suppositions and refutations, Nahshon Gallery, Nahshon, 1996 Sample of pervert imitation, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv, 1997Chelouche Gallery Installation, Schleswig-Holstein-Haus, Schwerin, 2001 Operant Conditioning (Show), Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, 2002 A state of being present, Installation, Hamburg, 2003 Tell me about love, Installation, Kunsttreppe, Hamburg, 2004 Ostentatiously stagger (guest), Atelierhaus Bonn, 2004 Ein Tag, ein Raum, ein Bild - Special show, Sebastian Fath Contemporary, Mannheim, 2004 Tell me about love (part II), Installation, Westwerk, Hamburg, 2004, (download catalogue 1.5 MB) An installation kit for a wanderer artist (Guest), Hamburg, 2004 A funny game (Melancholy), Kampnagel Hamburg, 2005 In case of leftovers, Sebastian Fath Contemporary, Mannheim, 2005Sebastian Fath | Contemporary This way or another – Kunstverein Buchholz. Etwas Grosses wird geschehen, Appel Gallery, Frankfurt, 2006Galerie Appel - Frankfurt Zeichnungen nach Installation, Magnus P. Gerdsen Gallery, Hamburg, 2006 Now You Have A Problem Mister, MARKING SPACE. HAMBURG. JERUSALEM., Galerie ChezLinda, Hamburg, 2007Kunstverein Kulturverein LINDA eV Hamburg St. Pauli Hein-Hoyer-Str. 13 chezLinda active constellation, works from the collections of Reinking and Lafrenz – The House of Art, Brno, Czech Republic, 2007.
Bibliography Rik Reinking, Eva Martens, Petra Nietzky, Hajo Schiff, Robin Hemmer, Thomas Schönberger, Anne Vieth, Sculpture@CityNord: Das temporäre Skulpturenprojekt 2006, Modo, Freiburg, 2007. Nir Alon, Anke Feuchtenberger, Stefano Ricci, Ich/I/Je/Io, Mami Verlag, Hamburg, 2008. Michele Robecchi, The Ground on Which I Stand: Nir Alon & Gazmend Ejupi, STP Books, London, 2019.
External links Official website: http://www.nir-alon.com/
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