Igor Zeiger

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Igor Zeiger

FRSA
Igor Zeiger self portrait.jpg
Igor Zeiger Self Portrait
Born(1977-04-16)April 16, 1977
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
NationalityIsrael
EducationTashkent University of Information Technologies
Studio Gavra School of Photography
Known forPhotography, Curatorship
Websiteigorzeiger.com

Igor Zeiger FRSA (born 1977) is an Uzbekistan-born Israeli artist and curator.[1]

Biography[]

Igor Zeiger was born in 1977 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan to Mark Zeiger, an engineer and Larisa Yavetz, schoolteacher. He graduated from Tashkent University of Information Technologies with master's degree in communications. Zeiger immigrated to Israel in 2000, living first in kibbutz Ramat Hashofet, then Rehovot and moving to Tel Aviv in 2011.[2] Igor Zeiger lives and works in Jaffa.

Career[]

Zeiger started with documentary photography as an autodidact. He studied in Studio Gavra School of Photography in class of Sagit Zluf Namir, graduating in 2012. His mentors included David Adika, Gaston Zvi Ickowicz and Nissan N. Perez. In April 2015, Zeiger's photograph was published on the cover of "Israeli Lens" magazine, predecessor of international "Lens Magazine".[3] In 2016, Igor's photograph was chosen as a poster photo for Paco Anselmi documentary film "Karam: A Matter Of Karma", screened at TLVFest.[4] Zeiger lives and works in Jaffa. Zeiger is Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is also a member of Israeli Association of Visual Artists and Royal Photographic Society. Zeiger founded artistic cooperative Beam Collective together with two fellow artists Maria Rosenblatt and Erica Tal-Shir in 2018.[5]

Zeiger works have been published in the several magazines and newspapers around the world, including Haaretz, Calcalist, Moskovsky Komsomolets, Sky Arte Italia, Devour Madrid, Israeli Lens, Lens Magazine, Noviny Kraje and The North American Post.

Maria Rosenblatt (left), Alec Soth(center) and Zeiger during the opening of the International Photography Festival 2019 in Israel

Exhibitions[]

Solo[]

Group[]

  • 2014 “Picture Peace”. Circle 1 Gallery. Berlin. Germany.[9]
  • 2014 “Picture Peace”. Beit-HaGefen Arab Jewish Culture Center. Haifa, Israel.[10]
  • 2015 "Another". Curated by Shenhav Levi. Gan Meir Gallery. Tel Aviv Municipal LGBT Community Center. Tel Aviv.[11]
  • 2015 "Beauty Where You Find It". Curated by Connie and Jerry Rosenthal. "LightBox" Gallery. Astoria, Oregon. USA.[12]
  • 2016 "Postage Required". Vermont Center for Photography. Brattleboro. VT. USA[13]
  • 2016 "Secret Art". "Meni House" - Bank Leumi Museum. Tel Aviv.[14]
  • 2016 "Books, gentlemen...books". Curated by Hanita Elizur. "Green House" Gallery, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv.
  • 2016 "Intervals". Minshar Art Gallery. Tel Aviv [15]
  • 2016 "Foodprocessor - food as a tool of sending a message". Curated by Dalit Merhav, "Sarona Art" Gallery. Tel Aviv.[16]
  • 2016 "Shades of gray: perspective of an old age". Curated by Hanita Elizur. The New Gallery. Bat Yam Art Institute. Bat Yam. Israel
  • 2016 “Imagination 2016”. Contemporary Israeli Art Exhibition, Bank Hapoalim Art Center, Tel Aviv.
  • 2016 "Traces of real". Curated by Doron Furman. "Central" Gallery. Tel Aviv[17]
  • 2017 "Abject Art". Curated by Doron Furman. Central Gallery. Tel Aviv[18]
  • 2017 "Secret Postcard" Project. Fresh Paint 7 Art Fair. Tel Aviv
  • 2017 "Books, gentlemen...books". Curated by Hanita Elizur. Social Sciences Faculty Library & Gallery, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv.
  • 2018 "Queer Performance: From Gilbert & George to the Present Day". As part "Dangerous Art" exhibitions cluster curated by Svetlana Reingold. Haifa Museum of Art[19]
  • 2018 "World Fair", Canton Museum of Art, Canton, Ohio, USA
  • 2018 "Secret Postcard" Project. Fresh Paint 8 Art Fair. Tel Aviv [20]
  • 2018 "From nine to five". Curated by Hanita Elizur. Artist House Gallery. Rishon LeZion, Israel
  • 2018 "Nope, still can't see any difference". Curated by Olga Yerushalmy-Sorokin. Abrahams Gallery. Tel Aviv.[21][22]
  • 2019 "Barbarians: a censorship archive". Mamuta Art Research Center at Hansen House. Jerusalem[23][24]
  • 2019 "From nine to five". Curated by Hanita Elizur. Social Sciences Faculty Library & Gallery, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv.[25]
  • 2019 "Facade". Curated by Doron Furman. Central Gallery. Tel Aviv[26]
  • 2019 "Impersonation". Curated by Doron Furman. Central Gallery. Tel Aviv
  • 2019 "Sexy Summer in Little Tel Aviv". Curated by Yohanan Cherson. Ben Ami Gallery. Tel Aviv[27]
  • 2019 "Between Eros and Nudity". Curated by Olga Yerushalmy-Sorokin and Ksenia Nazarov. Abrahams Gallery. Tel Aviv.
  • 2019 "Standart Deviation". Curated by Sagit Zluf Namir. Photo:Israel 2019, Tel Aviv.[28]
  • 2020 “Art in Quarantine“. Curated by Diogo Marques. “Wr3ad1ng d1g1t5” Project. Lisbon. Portugal[29]
  • 2020 “Art in Isolation“. North Dakota Museum of Art. Grand Forks, North Dakota. USA
  • 2020 "Re-volver". Curated by Luíza Marcolino. Fine Art Gallery. Federal University of Minas Gerais. Belo Horizonte. Brazil
  • 2020 "PO-MO II". Curated by Hikmet Şahin. Art Gallery. Faculty of Fine Arts. Selçuk University. Konya. Turkey.
  • 2020 "Reconstruct". Curated by Lars Deike and Richard Schemmerer. "Pride Art Atelier" gallery. Berlin. Germany.[30]
  • 2020 "Art Thru The Lens". Yeiser Art Center. Paducah, Kentucky, USA
  • 2020 eSSeRCi SeNZa eSSeRCi 2020 (XIII edizione). “Dada Boom” Center of Contemporary Art and Photography. Viareggio, Lucca, Italy
  • 2021 “Twenty of Pandemics and other demons“, Aguadilla y del Caribe Museum of Art, Puerto Rico
  • 2021 "Either Way", Curated by Olga Yerushalmi and Ksenia Nazarov. Central Gallery for Contemporary Art. Tel Aviv, Israel
  • 2021 "The Haifa Way: 70th Anniversary of Haifa Museum of Art". Haifa Museum of Art, Israel.[31]
  • 2021 "Stone, paper, scissors and other non-childish games". Curated by Olga Yerushalmy-Sorokin and Ksenia Nazarov. Abrahams Gallery. Tel Aviv[32]
  • 2021 "Reference". La Culture Initiative. Amiad Center. Jaffa. Curated by Itay Blaish.

Curatorship[]

  • 2015. "Same as You". "Mazeh 9" Municipal Gallery. Tel Aviv.[33]
  • 2016. "Faces. Israeli Portrait in classical and modern view". Mansion House Gallery, Tel Aviv.
  • 2017. "Nonplace: dance and movement". Central Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv [34]
  • 2020. "Eros and Thanatos". "Beam Collective" gallery. Jaffa.
  • 2020. "Curated by Social Networks". "Beam Collective" gallery. Jaffa.
  • 2021. "Same as You. Take Two". "Beam Collective" gallery. Jaffa.


Collections[]

Igor Zeiger works are in permanent collection of Haifa Museum of Art, Jerusalem Municipal Library, Yeiser Art Center, Caribbean Art Museum, Puerto Rico and United Kingdom Government Art Collection[35][36]

Bibliography[]

  • "UN//TITLED", An Anthology of Queer Contemporary Art (2016-2020). Published by "Balaclava.q"

References[]

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  13. ^ "Past Exhibitions". Retrieved 2018-10-17.
  14. ^ "Secret Art of Israeli Artists". 2009-12-08. Retrieved 2018-10-17.
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  16. ^ Steinberg, Jessica. "With Passover in the air, freedom to enjoy a show, or two". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 2018-10-28.
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  19. ^ Buganim, Eitan (2017-11-09). ""Dangerous Art" exhibitions cluster". הארץ. Retrieved 2018-08-07.
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  36. ^ Steiner, Kristof. "Karam: Самые крупные революции начались с геев и трансвеститов". Kvir.ru. Retrieved 2020-01-05.

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