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Zvi Goldstein (* January 21, 1947 in Cluj, Romania) is a visual artist living in Jerusalem.

Goldstein was born to Hungarian parents on January 21, 1947 in Cluj, Romania. In 1958 he emigrated to Israel. From 1966 until 1969 he studied art at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, continuing his studies from 1969 until 1972 at the department of sculpture at Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan. Following his studies he worked in Italy and travelled widely in Europe and the USA until 1978 when his new artistic strategy took him back to Jerusalem. Since 1981 Goldstein acts as lecturer and later professor at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. In the 1990s a number of carefully prepared travels took him to particular places in Greece, Turkey, Asia and mainly in Africa, following a quest for cultures and sites still under a strong non-western and hermetical tradition. [1]

During the 1970s Goldstein worked within the tradition of conceptual art using photography, film, audio recordings, performance, objects, and not at least text as his media exploring perceptional, social and political phenomena. Discontented with the Post-Modern discourse in the West, in 1978 he decided to choose Jerusalem as a place on the edge between Orient and Occident and made it the geographical as well as conceptual base for his art. At the same time he turned to object-related sculpture based on a kind of open constructivist approach. [2] - In the 2000s Goldstein gave his work a new and additional dimension by two books, which are not written in his mother toungue(s) but in a particular kind of English, both readable and ideosyncratic, to fit into the dominant language of global communication. In On Paper (Cologne 2004) stories and reflections on subjects like autobiography, gardening, philosophy, war, art theory, or lifestyle blend into an impressive picture of his position between different cultures. The book was followed by a long poem titled Room 205 (Cologne 2010) which describes the musings and hallucinations during a one-minute open-eye recall. [3]

Selected solo-exhibitions: 1975 - The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel 1983 - The Tel-Aviv Museum, Tel-Aviv, Israel 1986 - Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany 1987 - Center George Pompidou, Paris, France 1989 - Kunstraum München, Munich, Germany 1990 - D.A.A.D. Galerie, Berlin, Germany 1992 - De Appel, Amsterdam, Holland 1993 - The Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada 1995 - Mala Galerija, Moderna Galerija, Ljublijana, Slovenia 1998 - Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany, and Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany 2010 - The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel [1] Selected group-exhibitions: 1974 - Contemporanea, Area Aperta, Rome, Italy 1978 - Kulturhaus, Graz, Austria 1987 - Documenta VIII, Kassel, Germany 1988 - Aperto 88, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy 1990 - The Ready Made Boomerang, The 8th Biennial of Sydney, Sydney, Australia 1995 - New Orient/Ation, The 4th Biennial of Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey 1998 - Biennial of San Paolo, San Paolo, Brazil. 2000 - The Oldest Possible Memory, Sammlung Hauser und Wirth in der Lokremise St. Gallen, Switzerland 2002 - Startkapital, K21 Kunstammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany 2005 - EindhovenIstanbul, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands 2008 - The 6th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China.

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel The Tel-Aviv Museum, Tel-Aviv, Israel Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Krefeld, Germany George Pompidou Center, Paris, France Sammlung Hauser und Wirth, Switzerland F. C. Flick Collection

1984 - The Sandberg Prize of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel 1985 - Mies van der Rohe-Stipendium (artist in residence), Krefeld, Germany 1987- Aaron Levi Prize of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel 1988 - Prize of the Ministry of Education and Culture, Israel 1990 - D.A.A.D Berliner Künstlerprogramm (artist in residence), Berlin, Germany 2002 - The Lennon Ono Grant for Peace, New York

Zvi Goldstein, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel, 1975 Zvi Goldstein - Structure and Super-Structure, The Tel-Aviv Museum, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 1983 Zvi Goldstein - Die Sprache des Bauens, Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany, 1986 Zvi Goldstein -Tiers-Monde et Monde 3 - Modeles Anomaux, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France, 1987 Zvi Goldstein - The Glory of Abstraction, Kunstraum München, Munich, Germany, 1989 Zvi Goldstein - Black Hole Constructions, D.A.A.D. Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 1990 Zvi Goldstein, De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1992 Zvi Goldstein, Mala Galerija, Liublijana, Slovenia, 1995 Zvi Goldstein, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel, 1995 Zvi Goldstein - To Be There, Kunsthalle Nürnberg and Krefelder Kunstmuseen, Oktagon, Germany 1998 Zvi Goldstein – Sirocco – Day 4, 24th International Biennial of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil 1998

• Zvi Goldstein, On Paper, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König ,Cologne, Germany, 2004 (= Kunstwissenschaftliche Bibliothek, vol. 29)
• Zvi Goldstein, Room 205, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, Germany, 2010

[1] Zvi Goldstein, On Paper, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König ,Cologne, Germany, 2004 (= Kunstwissenschaftliche Bibliothek, vol. 29)

[2] Zvi Goldstein - To Be There, Kunsthalle Nürnberg and Krefelder Kunstmuseen, Oktagon, Germany 1998 [3] Zvi Goldstein, Room 205, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, Germany, 2010 [4] http://www.imj.org.il/exhibitions/presentation/exhibit.asp?id=724

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