PENNY HES YASSOUR
Born 1950 in Israel
Lives and works at kibbutz En-Harod Ihud
Teaches at Bezalal Art Academy, Jerusalem at the Architecture department and the interdisciplinary department since 2000.
EDUCATION
1972 ‘75 B.A studies at the Fine Art Department and the Geography Department, Hifa University
1988 ‘89 Studies at the Art History Department, Tel Aviv University
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Phantom Landscapes, Stux Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Bochum Art Museum Germany (A Cooperation with Patrick Feigenbaum, Paris)
2007 dsArt Galarie, Frankfurt, Germany
2007 Deep Skin, Herzelia Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel
2006 and I was filled with shame and fear, installation work featured in the exhibition: Light Art with Artificial Light, ZKM, Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
2005 GreenBlueprint (Lament), Bauhouse Fisher, Wuppertal, Germany
2004 After Images, Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Germany
2004 Special Drafts, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2003 UnseenScene (10th Letter), Kunsthaus Hamburg, Germany
2003 UnseenScene (10th Letter), Kunstverein Oldenburg, Germany
2003 UnseenScene (9th Letter), Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
2001 The Irrationality of Rationality Itself, installation work featured in the exhibition: Israeli Art Today, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
2000 Echolalia, Kasseler Kunstverein, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel
2000 Museum of Modern Art, Ein-Harod, Israel
1999 Space is never less than doubled or Daddy dear, come to the Luna-Park
1998 La ville d’ a cote / Unmentionable Neighborhood MAC, Galeries Contemporaines des Musees de Marsille, France
1997 Mental Maps - Involuntary Memory, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; a project featured in DeutshLANDbilder
1997 Mental Maps - Involuntary Memory, Kassel, 1997, Documenta X, Kassel, Germany
1995 Mental Maps - Default Space, National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zachenta, Warsaw, Poland, featured in the exhibition: Where is Abel, Thy Brother?
1993 Mental Maps - Production Halls, Museum of Modern Art, Ein-Harod, Israel
1990 Artist’s Studios, Aika Brown Gallery, Jerusalem
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Eric Dupon Galerie Paris
2008 Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin - Centrum Judaicum
2006 Mini Israel, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2005/6 ZKM museum, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany: Lightart from artificial Light (overview of the artistic creation with light in the twentieth centaury)
2004 Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2003 Das Recht des Bildes – The Jewish Perspective in Modern Art, Bochum Art Museum, Bochum, Germany
2003 Haifa Museum of Art, 2nd Tri-annual for Installation: “UnseenScene”, (letter 9th)
2003 Drawing Exhibition, Binneth Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1996 “Critical Utopia”, Ein-Harod Museum of Art
1994 “The Sense that Something Happened”, Haifa University Art Gallery
1994 “Anxiety”, Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel
1994 Artist House, Tel Aviv
1994 “The Suitcase”, Gallery Bugrashove, Tel-Aviv
1994 “Different Natures”, La Défanse, Paris; Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona
1994 Informationsdienst, Gallery Barbara Gross, Munich; Grazer Kunstverein, Graz
1993 Informationsdienst, Galery Barbara Weiss, Berlin; Art Acker, Berlin; Gallery Marc Jancov, Zürich
1992 Informationsdienst, Kunstlerhous, Stuttgart; Gallery Kubinski, Cologne; Unfair, Cologne
1992 The Second Biennale of Sculpture, Ein-Hod, Israel
1991 “The Center of the World”, John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, England
1989/90 Contemporary Israeli Art, travelling exhibition in Sweden, Denmark, Spain
1988 Regga Gallery, Tel-Aviv
1987 Tel-Hai 87’ – Contemporary Art Meeting
1987 “Landscape Structures”, Herzelia Museum of Art
1987 Meimad Gallery, Tel-Aviv
1987 “Towards a Godless Myth”, Artist House, Jerusalem
1985 “The front Line”, Ein-Harod Museum of Art
1985 “June 85”, painting, sculpture and an installation in Tel-Aviv/Jaffa
1984 “Cycles”, a Contemporary Art Meeting, Ra’anana
1983 Tel Hai 83’, a Contemporary Art Meeting, Tel Hai
1980 The Biennale for Young Artists, the Museum of Modern Art, Haifa
1980 “Landscape, Climate, Earth”, Kibbitz Gallery’ Tel Aviv
AWARDS
2003 The Prize of the Minister of Culture, Israel 2003
2000 Award of Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, INC New York
1999 Arnold – Bode - Prize, (Founder of Documenta) for the contribution to Documenta X, Kassel, 1997
1994 The Prize of the Visual Arts Section, Ministry of Science and the Arts, Israel.
SPECIAL PROJECTS
2009 Stage Installation for "The Tempest" Shakespeare, director: Jarg Pataki, Freiburg Theater, Germany
PUBLICATIONS
2008 NO SO NO ROUS Catalogue accompanying exhibition in Kubbutz Gallery Tel-Aviv
2003 ”UnseenScene (10. Brief)” Catalog accompanying exhibition in Oldenburger Kunstverein and Kunstahaus Hamburg, 2003
1998 La Ville d’à côtè / Unmentionable Neighborhood, published by the bureau des compètences et dèsirs/fordacity
1995 “Mental Maps - Production Halls”, Museum of Art, Ein-Harod, 1995.
Text by Jean Francois Chevrier: MENTAL FABRICATION
Text by Galia Bar Or: MENTAL - MONUMENTAL
1994 Atlas: A Spatio-Historical Voyage, artist book; published by Villa Arson, Nice, France
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2008 NO*SO*NO*ROUS Catalog.
2005 Light Art with Artificial Light, ZKM – museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany.
2004 “After Images” Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Germany
2003 ”UnseenScene (10. Brief)” Catalog accompanying exhibition in Oldenburger Kunstverein and
Kunstahaus Hamburg.
2001 “Israeli Art-Today, Messages to the New Millennium”, the exhibition Visual Documents - the Museum of
Modern Art, Saitama.
2001 “Israeli Art-Today, Messages to the New Millennium”, the Museum of Modern Art, Saitama.
2001 Penny Yassour, ECHOLALIA, Kasseler Kunstverein, Jonas Verlag.
2001 Israeli Art-Today, Messages to the New Millennium, the Museum of Modern Art Saitama.
2000 Arnold-Bode-Pris 1980/2000 Positionen zeitgenössischer Kunst, Jonas Verlag.
2000 Art in America, May; Report From Israel, Wider Focus by Richard Vine
2000 Kunstverein + Kunsthalle, Das Fridericianum Magazin no. 5 herbst.
2000 Kunstverein + Kunsthalle, Das Fridericianum Magazin no. 4 herbst.
1997 Documenta X- short guide,
1992 X mal documenta X, Über Kunst und Künatler der Gegenwart Vein Nachlesebuch zur 10.Documenta, Kunsthochschule,Universität Gesamthochschule Kassel.
1997 Art das Kunstmagazin nr. 9 September.
1997 German Art from Beckmann to Richter, Images of a Divided Country; edited by
Eckhart Gillen, Berliner Festspiele GmbH and DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne; English
Translation: DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne
1997 Kunstforum International, bd. 138 September – November. Die Documenta X
1998 Kunst+Unterricht, Erinnern und Gedenken, Heft 227. November.
1999 Studio, Art Magazine no. 109 Nov.-Dec.
1999 Kunstverein + Kunsthalle , Das Fridericianum Magazin no. 3 herbst.
1999 Erinnern und Erben im Deutschland, Versuch einer Öffnung, Eva Schulz – Jander u.a.Hersg.
Euregio verlag.
1995 Mental Maps - Production Halls”, Museum of Art, Ein-Harod.