Maya Zack (; born in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1976) is an artist-filmmaker who creates video art and installations.
Biography Maya Zack studied at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. Her work has been exhibited internationally and earned film awards and art prizes, among them the Isracard and Tel Aviv Museum Prize for an Israeli Artist, Idud Hayetzira Prize – Israeli Ministry of Culture, Adi Prize (Adi Foundation and the Israel Museum Jerusalem), Celeste Kunstpreis Berlin, Israel Lottery Council of the Arts, Center for Contemporary Art Tel Aviv.
Solo/group exhibitions include Moscow Biennial for Young Art 2012, MLF Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch Rome, Alon Segev Gallery Tel Aviv, Galerie Natalie Seroussi Paris, The Jewish Museum New York, LACE L.A., The Jewish Museum Berlin, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, The Israel Museum Jerusalem, California Center for the Arts Museum Escondido, Figge von Rosen Galerie Cologne.
Zack's videos, installations, drawings and computer-generated visualizations deal with the human attempt to impose order and form onto reality in order to cope with its chaotic nature. Her work reflects on the relation between memory and history.
She is a lecturer at Bezalel.
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
2016 Counterlight, Tel Aviv Museum Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch, Rome, Italy
2014 Outlined Absence, Manifesta 10's parallel projects, Taiga Space, St. Petersburg The Mystical Shabbat, Alon Segev gallery, Tel Aviv
2013 The Shabbat Room, a permanent installation at The Jewish Museum Vienna Maya Zack : Videos, at Moving Image Art fair, London. With Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch.
2012 Made to Measure, Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch, Rome, Italy
2011 Living Room, The Jewish Museum, New York, U.S.A. Curator: Aviva Weintraub. Camera Obscura, Galerie Natalie Seroussi, Paris. Curator: Marie Shek.
2010 Mother Economy - video and drawings, CUC Gallery, Berlin. Curator: Avi Feldman Living Room, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv Black and White Rule – Open Set, Yafo 23, Bezalel Gallery Jerusalem.
2009 Reading Room, Bialik House Museum, Tel Aviv. Curator: Marie Shek.
2008 Mother Economy, The Jewish Museum, Media Center Gallery, New York. Curator: Andrew Ingall. Nalbishech Salmat Beton Vamelet, Be’eri gallery, Kibutz be’eri. Curator: Ziva Yelin. (with Raya Bruckenthal)
2005 Videos + drawings, Alon Gallery, Ramat Hasharon
2004 Concrete and Cement, Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv (with Raya Bruckenthal) Mockument, Alon Gallery, Ramat Hasharon
2002 The Baron E.T. von Home, Artists Studios Gallery, Tel Aviv (with Raya Bruckenthal)
2001 Hier seid Ihr zusammen, Kav 16 Gallery, Tel Aviv.
Videography Counter-Light (work in progress), 2016 Black and White Rule, 2011 Mother Economy, 2007 Concrete and Cement 2: Door to Door, 2005 Meme 2. - The Units, 2004 Meme 1, 2003 Concrete and Cement 1: Preparations for the Resembling People Ceremony, 2003 Hier Seid Ihr Zusammen, 2000.
Awards and residencies Artis Grant Program, 2016 Outset Contemporary Art Fund, 2016 Claims Conference, 2016 The Ostrovsky Family Fund, 2015 Israel Lottery Council Grant For Culture and Arts, 2015 The Shpilman institute for Photography, Tel Aviv, 2013 Israel Lottery Council Grant For Culture and Arts, 2012 'Idud Hayetzira' Award, The Israeli Ministry of Culture, 2011 Isracard and Tel Aviv Museum of Art Prize, 2011 Artis Grant, 2011 Adi Prize for Jewish Expression in Art and Design, by Adi Foundation and Israel Museum in Jerusalem, 2010 The New Israeli Foundation for Cinema and Television, 2009 Israel Lottery Council Grant For Culture and Arts, 2008 Celeste Kunstpreis, Art Prize Berlin, 1st prize Artist Category, 2008 Israel Lottery Council Grant For The Arts, 2007 The New Israeli Foundation For Cinema and Television, 2007 The Center of Contemporary Art Fund for Video, 2005 The Young Artist Award, The Israeli Ministry of Culture, 2005 The Center of Contemporary Art Fund for Video, 2002 Tel Aviv Municipality, The Arts Department, 2002 Excellence Award, Bezalel, Academy of Art and Design, Fine Arts Department, Jerusalem, 2000
Publications
Maya Zack: Acting Memory (Arles: Actes-Sud 2015) Maya Zack: The Shabbat Room (Vienna: The Jewish museum Vienna and Verlag für moderne Kunst 2014)
Collections Israel Museum Jerusalem Jewish Museum Berlin Tel Aviv Museum of Art Jewish Museum Vienna Beth Hatefutsoth Museum, Tel Aviv. Daimler Art Collection, Stuttgart/Berlin ORS Doron Sebbag SIP-The Shpilman Institute for Photography Tel Aviv Tiroche Deleon Collection
References
External links Maya Zack homepage Maya Zack at the Jerusalem Print Workshop website Rooms Furnished With Memories by Rachel Wolf, in Art and Design, New York Times. August 4, 2011 Maya Zack’s Tel Aviv Exhibition Is Genius Marred Only by Self-restraint, Tal Niv, Ha'aretz, Aug 13, 2016 Salvage and Sabotage - Maya Zack, W.G. Sebald, Walter Benjamin and Chris Marker, A Further Inquiry on Image and Text , by Janet Sternburg, The Times Quotidian.com 2011/11/28 La memoria odora di Kugel, Manuela De Leonardis. IL MANIFESTO, Italy Oct. 24 2012 Maya Zack, l’horreur du temps présent, Ellie Armon Azoulay, Artpress no' 393. Oct. 2012