Roee Rosen

Roee Rosen
Born Rehovot,israel
Nationality Israeli
Education Tel Aviv University, School of Visual Arts, Hunter College
Known for Multidisciplinary Art,
Movement Israeli art,Modern Art

Roee Rosen is an Israeli multidisciplinary artist.

Biography

Roee Rosen was born in Rehovot in 1963. He studied philosophy and comparative literature studies in Tel Aviv University until 1984 and graduated with BFA from School of Visual Arts, New York in 1989. Rosen received MFA from Hunter College in New York in 1991. He is a professor at Ha Midrasha College of Art in Kfar-Saba and at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem.

Invented figures

As part of his art, Rosen invents non existing artists, whose works he says to "rediscover". Some of this virtual artists are Justine Frank, a Jewish surrealist artist, feminist and nymphomane; and Maxim Komar-Myshkin, a pseudonym for Russian emigrant poet and painter Efim Poplavsky, born in 1978 and immigrated to Israel in 2003. By his pseudobography Komar-Myshkin established "Buried Alive" collective, participated in closed exhibitions and committed suicide in 2011.[1]

Justin Frank exhibition in Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Maxim Komar-Myshkin exhibition in Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Maxim Komar-Myshkin exhibition in Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Exhibitions

Rosen has exhibited all over the world with different media, including paintings, video art, installations, multimedia, artist books and writing.[2]

Solo

Roee Rosen latest solo exhibition is "Roee Rosen – A Group Exhibition" in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 2016. It's called group exhibition, but in fact it's a solo project, including exhibition "Live and Die as Eva Braun and Other Intimate Stories", presented under his own name as well as two exhibitions, presented under name of his two fictional invented artists - Justine Frank and Maxim Komar-Myshkin.[3] "Live and Die as Eva Braun and Other Intimate Stories" was first exhibited in Israel Museum in Jerusalem, where it caused controversy, particulary due to depiction of the Holocaust related theme.[4] In 2012 he had an personal exhibtion, called "Vile, Evil Veil" in Iniva Institute of International Visual Arts in London.[5] His exhibitions also included multiple shows in Rosenfeld Gallery in Tel Aviv, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art,[6] Meseum of Israeli Art in Ramat Gan.

Group

Roee Rosen participated in group exhibitions, held in numerous galleries and museums. Most notable exhibitions include participation in [[AV Festival ]] in Newcastle upon Tyne in 2016,[7] "Gender in art" in Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków,[8] The Sixth Moscow Biennial, "Secular Judaism" in Nachum Gutman Museum of Art in Tel Aviv, "Host & Guest" exhibition the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, "Cargo-Cult" in Bat Yam Museum of Art, "The Grand Plywood" in Sommer Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv, "Alias" in The Bunkier Sztuki Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, "Aesthetikos" in Haifa Museum of Art and others.

Publications

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