Maya Aroch (b.1988, Givatayim, Israel) lives and works in Tel Aviv. She gained her BFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem and her B.Ed from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. She also participated in an exchange program with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria.
Maya Aroch
Selected exhibitions: After Hours, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (2022); Changing Room, Alfred Gallery, Tel Aviv (2019); The Believers, MoBY, Bat-Yam (2019); A Poem and A Promise, Tel Aviv Artists’ Studios Gallery (2018); Wa(h)re Angst, Alfred Kern Turm and Emma Kreativzentrum, Pforzheim, Germany (2017); Playful Grounds, Traces VI, the 6th Biennial for Drawing, Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem (2017);Three Songs, Artist Wall, Bezalel Academy of Art, Jerusalem (2015); No Man's Land, Central Gallery, Tel Aviv (2015); Waffen und Konserven, What the Shop gallery, Vienna (2013); Moving Images III, Screening Show, FridayExit Gallery, Vienna (2013); HEP project, Laaksola, Finland (2010)
Selected awards and grants: Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality grant for special projects in the arts (2018); "Keshet" Foundation, Excellence Prize for Final Project, Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem (2014)
Aroch’s work is charged with a primeval and ritual vigor. It holds a mysterious and somewhat coded atmosphere referring to an ancient world and at the same time to a contemporary one, turning conceptual questions into sensory and sensual experiences. Combining both two-dimensional and three-dimensional practices, which nourish one another, Aroch succeeds in creating rich and versatile installations considering the space as her ‘painting’. In her uncanny worlds she seeks inspiration in archaeological and ritual findings, exploring the ambivalence between words and signs and their concrete meaning to illusionary situations. Portrait photo by David Chaki.
Maya Aroch website; After Hours - exhibition text; Changing Room - exhibition text ; Sweatshop - exhibition text ; A Poem and a Promise - text
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