NIRIT TAKELE
NIRIT TAKELE
1985 Born in Ethiopia, made Aliyah to Israel in "Operation Solomon" 1991
Lives and works in Tel Aviv
EDUCATION
2011-2015 B.F.A Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, School of Multidisciplinary Art, Israel
SOLO EXHIBITION
2019 Three views, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Shulamit Nuss, Hagit Peleg Rotem
2018 Flying with Angels, Tafeta, Addis Fine Art Project Space, London, Uk
GROUP EXHIBITION
2020 You Belong Here, c24 Gallery, New York, US. Curator: David C.Terry
2019 Shave Lehakir, Bank of Israel, Curator: Ravit Dekel
On Money, Forte Gallery, Illustration Week Tel Aviv, Curator: Tamar Lamdan, Carmit Shine
Prism, Artspace Tel Aviv Gallery, curator: Nir Harmat, Tel Aviv
Meztayrim Chaim, Magen David Adom exhibition, bank discount, Tel Aviv
1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Solo exhibit with Addis Fine Art Gallery, Industria, West Village, N.Y, US
2018 Israeli Fine Art, Africana, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Curators: Eliya Maharat Shlomon, Edom Belete
70 Years: Individual - State, Trumpeldor Gallery Be'er Sheva. Curator: Cohava Peterman-Lipschutz
HeArt, The Leviev Heart Center, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan. Curators: Shir Davidi, Dorit Lautman
2017 Tav Teken, Supreme Court, Jerusalem. Curators: Orna Yair
Dangerous Art, Haifa Museums of Art. Curator: Revital Silverman Grun
Equals, Fresh Paint Art Fair 9, Tel Aviv. Curators: Shiri Broza, Keren Broza
Artist's Greenhouse, solo exhibit, Fresh Paint Art Fair 9, Tel Aviv
Woman to her Sis, The Herzlielinblum Museum of Discount Bank, Tel Aviv. Curators: Shulamit Nuss, Vera Pilpoul
2016 Bread & Roses, Tel Aviv Artist's Studios. Curator: Dani Ben Simhon
Painting Camp 2016: Activists, The Negev Museum of Art, Be'er Sheva. Curator: David Vakstein, Dalia Manor
Zoom 2016, Ticho House – The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Curators: Gila Limon, Tal Bechler, Timna Seligman
2015 Material identity...cultural identity, The Yavne Art Workshop, Yavne. Curator: Ronnie Reuben
Survival War, Graduation Exhibition at Shenkar College. Curators: Gal Weinstein and Yonatan Amir
2014 Come To Bat-Yam, Ribak Museum, Bat-Yam. Curators: Larry Abramson, Joshua Simon
2013 Change / Exchange, The African Studies Gallery, Tel Aviv
AWARDS
2019 Ministry Of Culture and Sports Award- A Young Artist Award for 2019
2017 Sothebys' 'Under The Hammer' prize, Artist's Greenhouse, Fresh Paint Art Fair 9, Tel Aviv
2014 Award for academic excellence, The Talia Sidi prize, Shenkar College
RESIDENCY PROGRAM
2018 Residency Program, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Collaboration with 'Africa First' artist Residency Program by Serge Tiroche, Contemporary Art Gallery Addis Fine Art and Eliya Maharat Shlomon
COLLECTION
Nirit Takele's Paintings have been acquired by public and private collections, amongst them:
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Bank of Israel
Start Collection
West Collection, Philadelphia, US
Shenkar College
Nirit is a bold colorist, building up faceted figurative bodies through the application of near abstract flat forms. With a sharp understanding of the power adjacent colors impart upon one another, her figures pop from the canvas, with vivid dimensional depth. She explores her Cultural heritage in her works, illustrating the everyday life of the Israeli Ethiopian community and finding inspiration in old Ethiopian sagas and folk tales remembered from her youth.
