Nir Alon is an Israeli sculptor and an installation artist. Alon studied from 1988 until 1992 at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design

Bezalel Academy of Art and Design

Bezalel Academy of Art and Design is Israel's national school of art, founded in 1906 by Boris Schatz. It is named for the Biblical figure Bezalel, son of Uri , who was appointed by Moses to oversee the design and construction of the Tabernacle ....

 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

Hamburg

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. In 2001 he received a working scholarship as a guest artist to Harburg. Since then he works and lives in Hamburg. He had single exhibitions in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

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, Schwerin

Schwerin

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, Bonn

Bonn

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, Mannheim

Mannheim

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, Frankfurt

Frankfurt

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 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

Germany

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, Israel

Israel

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, Italy

Italy

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 and United States

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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
  Nahshon, Israel
  Nahshon is a kibbutz in central Israel. Located to the north of Beit Shemesh, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In 2007 it had a population of 412....
  
  , 1996
• Sample of pervert imitation, Chelouche Gallery, Tel-Aviv, 1997
• 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, 2005
• This way or another – Kunstverein Buchholz
  Buchholz
  -Places:In Germany*Buchholz in der Nordheide, a town in the district of Harburg, Lower Saxony*Französisch Buchholz, a part of Pankow in Berlin*Märkisch Buchholz, in the Dahme-Spreewald district, Brandenburg...
  
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• Etwas Grosses wird geschehen, Appel Gallery, Frankfurt, 2006
• Zeichnungen nach Installation, Magnus P. Gerdsen Gallery, Hamburg, 2006
• Now You Have A Problem Mister, MARKING SPACE. HAMBURG. JERUSALEM., Galerie ChezLinda, Hamburg 2007
• active constellation, works from the collections of Reinking and Lafrenz – The House of Art, Brno
  Brno
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  , Czech Republic, 2007.