NATALIA ZOURABOVA /× ×˜×œ×™×” זורבוב
Born in Moscow (Russia) in 1975,
Lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel
Member of The New Barbizon group (Israel) 2010 - present
Founder of Shmezalel school of art (Israel) 2013 - present
Founder of The Louvre gallery (Tel Aviv Israel) 2018 - present
Education:
2000-2003 University of Fine Art (UdK), Berlin, Germany
1998-2000 Institute of problems for contemporary art (ICA), Moscow, Russia
1995- 2000 Russian Academy of Theatre Art, Moscow (set design), Russia
1986-1993 Moscow Art Academic Lyceum, Russia
Solo exhibitions:
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2023 Season of rains, curator Ekene Onyema, NgwoCCA, Nigeria
2023 Arad , curator Vardit Gross, Gallery Artport , Tel Aviv , Israel
2022 Here, Now, curator Yivsam Azgad, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
2020 Ray of light, Gallery Inga, Tel Aviv, Israel
2019 Devochki, curator Aya Lurie, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary art, Israel
2019 Red heat, Gallery Iragui, Moscow, Russia
2016 Small works, Gallery Minshar, Tel Aviv, Israel
2015 Table of drawings, exhibition-supermarket, Artport center for Young art, Israel
2014 Painting of tomorrow, Gallery Rosenfeld, Tel Aviv, Israel
2013 Five facts about me, Gallery Iragui, Moscow, Russia
2012 From the wedding to the funeral and back , curator Sarit Shapira, Fresh Paint 5 , Israel
2012 Times in Acrylic and Oil, Gallery Noga, Tel Aviv, Israel
2010 In search of a lake, curator Haim Maor, The Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Senate gallery, Israel
2008 Via Hevron, Gallery Iragui, Moscow, Russia
2006 Wanderings , curator Ora Kraus, Rehovot Municipal Art gallery, Israel
2005 Wanderings, curator Ora Kraus, Janco Dada Museum , Ein-Hod, Israel
Selected group exhibitions:
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2022 The New Barbizon, Rosenblut& Friedman Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2022 Individually Collective (With The New Barbizon), curator: Natalia Rizdvenko, Sighnaghi Museum, Georgia
2022 Song of Israeli street, curator: Orna Yair, Supreme Court of Israel
2022 Force of Nature, Inga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Israel
2022 We the Women ( With The New Barbizon) ,curator: Hagit Peleg Rotem, TEO, Herzliya, Israel
2021-2022 Anna K, curators: Roni Taharlev, Anna Kogan, Rothschild Fine Art Gallery, Israel
2021 Women portraits (With The New Barbizon), curator :Avi Lubin, Art Cube Artists Studios, Jerusalem
2021 Summer painting Pleinair Pribislav, curators: Hana Sommerova, Jaroslav Grodl, Czechia
2021 Between districts (with The New Barbizon), curator: Iris Mandel, Ashdod, Israel
2021 The 4th Mediterranean Biennale of Contemporary Art, curators: Belu Fainary, Avital Bar Shay, Haifa
2020 Open skies (with The New Barbizon), curator: Avi Lubin, Tel Aviv, Israel
2020 Tabook Festival, Splendid isolation, Tabor, Czechia
2020 2nd Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary art A beautiful night for all the people, curators: Valentin Diaconov and Anastasia Mityushina, Moscow, Russia
2019 America (with The New Barbizon), curator: Avi Lubin, Gallery HaMidrasha, Tel Aviv, Israel
2018 Museum Zumu, Arad, curator: Milana Gitzin Adiram, Towel's factory, Arad, Israel
2018-19 I to eye, curator: Shir Yamaguchi, The Ruth Youth Wing, Israel Museum, Israel
2018 Museum Zumu, Yeruham, (with Oded Webman), curator: Milana Gitzin Adiram, Israel
2017 Mothers, (with Zoya Cherkassky and Mandy Kunze), Tapetenwerk, Leipzig, Germany
2017 American dream (The New Barbizon), curator: Amy Heft, Visual Art Center, Texas University, Austin, USA
2017 The Kids Want Communism (with The New Barbizon), curator: Yehoshua Saimon, Kunstleraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2017 Regarding Africa (with The New Barbizon), curator: Ruti Direktor, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
2017 Back to Life (The New Barbizon retrospective exhibition) , curator: Yaniv Shapira, Ein Harod Museum of Art, Israel
2016 The Kids Want Communism (with The New Barbizon), curator: Yehoshua Saimon, MOBY, Bat Yam Museum of Art, Israel
2016 The First Congress of Soviet Artists (with The New Barbizon), curators: Avdey Ter Oganyan and Vit Havranek, gallery Tranzitdisplay, Prague, Czechia
2016 Open sketchbooks, curator: Orly Maiberg, Herzliya Museum, Israel
2015 We the people, curator :Rita Kersting, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
2015 Printing matter, curator: Vardit Gross, New York Book Fair, MoMA Ps1, USA
2015 Artist book fair, curator: Vardit Gross, Artport Center of Young Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2014-15 Melting walls, curator: Sarit Shapira, The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2014 Portraits and landscapes (The New Barbizon), curator: Dorit Levite-Harten, Gallery Circle 1, Berlin, Germany
2014 Vienna Art Fair, Austria
2014 Chicago triangle (with The New Barbizon), curator: Ruti Direktor, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
2014 New Barbizon- open studio, The New Central Bus station, Tel Aviv, Israel
2014 Drawings in Hura (with The New Barbizon) , curator: Moshe Balmas, Hura Community Center, Israel
2014 Drawing outside (with The New Barbizon), curator: Haggay Segev, Bar David Museum of Art, Israel (catalog)
2013 Centrifuge, curator Chen Tamir, Nathan Cummings foundation, New York ,USA
2013 The Second International Mediterranean Biennale for Contemporary Art in Sakhnin, curator: Belu Fainaru, Israel
2013 White nights in Perm (with The New Barbizon) , curator: Marat Guelman, PERMM, Perm Museum, Russia
2013 XXL, gallery Rosenfeld, Tel Aviv, Israel
2013 Beer Sheva Market (with The New Barbizon), curator: Dalia Manor, The Negev Museum of Art, Israel
2012 Artist- Model, in coop. with Zoya Cherkassky, Oranim gallery, Israel
2012 Cargocult (with The New Barbizon), curator: Max Lomberg, MOBY, Bat-Yam Museum of Art, Israel
2011 Fresh Paint 04, Independent artist’s Greenhouse, Israel
2010 Art Forum Berlin, Germany
2010 14- th International Moscow Art Fair (ART Moscow), Russia
2010 Grobman, curator: Rufina Valsky, gallery Kishon, Tel Aviv, Israel
2010 Moscow in a suitcase, curator: Celine Berger, LES SALAISONS, France
2010 Bread and Roses, Gallery Minshar, Tel Aviv, Israel
2008 Destination Unknown, The Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2000 Ryskraecken, curator: Cecilia Dahlback, SEGMENT, Vasternorrland County Museum, Sweden
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Projects:
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2018 Shmezalel Museum Final , Jaffa, Israel, curatorship, final exhibition of Shmezalel art school
2018 Shmezalel in Yeruham, Israel ( with Oded Webman)
2017-16 Shmezalel Museum, Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel, directing, an outdoor school of art
2017 Triumph of Painting , gallery Gate 3, Haifa, Israel, curatorship
2013-14 Shmezalel school of Art, Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel ,directing
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Awards:
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2019 Discount Artistic Encouragement Award, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel
2018 The Minister of Aliyah and Integration's Yuri Stern Prize to Oleh Artists, Israel
2011 Igal Ahouvi Art Collection Promising Artist Award, Israel
2000 5th Moscow Theatre Festival "The best Moscow debuts», Russia
1999 National Competition of the Russian Society of Theatre Art, Moscow , Russia
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