Uri Katzenstein b. 1951, Tel Aviv.
Education
1976-1979 Art Institute, San Francisco, California
1974-1976 Indiana University, Indiana
1972-1973 Avni Institute of Art and Design, Tel Aviv
Teaching
2002-present University of Haifa, Arts Faculty
1998-2002 Beit Berl College, Faculty of Arts - Hamidrasha, Head of the Department of Sculpture
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2017 Anna's Assignment, Anna Akhmatova Literary and Memorial Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
2015 Backyard, Midlife Retrospective, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art
2011 Weight, Digital Art Lab, Holon
2008 Room of Hope, Goren Gallery, the Academic College, Emek Yzreel
2007 Hope Machines, CCA Tel Aviv | Galerie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
2004 Vehicles, Trace Gallery, Cardiff, Wells, UK
2001 Home, Venice Biennale, the Israel Pavilion
2000 Families, Duke University, North Carolina, USA
The Family of Brothers, Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv
1996 Love Dub, Artists' Studio, Tel Aviv
1993 Missive, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1987 Works, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
1981 New no.2, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017 11th Kaunas Biennial, Kaunas, Lithuania
2016 Men and Women from the Museum's Collection, Bar-David Museum of Art and Judaica, Bar'am
(dis)place, Ashdod Art Museum
2015 Blood Printing, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Capsule at Jessi Cohen, the Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon
2014 Over the Rooftops of Berlin, Galerie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
Fine Mechanics, the Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon
2013 Three Trees, no-se-no, New York, USA
Hood-iconophilia, Manofim – Jerusalem Contemporary Art Festival
About Stupidity, the Petah Tikva Museum of Art
2012 Yom Gagtzi Music Performance, Ozen Bar, Tel Aviv | MoBY: Museum of Bat Yam, Bat Yam
Hollow, the 2nd Biennale of Israeli Internet Art
2011 Resonance Boxes, Rubin Museum, Tel Aviv
Ad-dress, Jerusalem Artists House
u.a.i, Habait Halavan, Nir Oz
Neo-Barbarism, Rothschild 69 projects, Tel Aviv
Constructiodeconstruction, Tape Modern, Berlin, Germany
Weight, the Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon
2010 Evett, HaMidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv
Bread and Roses, Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv
Poeteka, Festival of Poetry, Tirana, Albenia
Ciclo de Video Arte, Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Erased Walls, the 3rd Mediations Biennale, Posnan, Poland | Bratislava, Slovakia | Berlin, Germany Trembling Time, Tate Modern, London, UK
2009 Who am I and what is my name? NCCA, Ekaterinburg, Russia | MoCA: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
P.O.V Israeli Photography, Hatahana, Tel Aviv
Factory, Yom Gagtzi, MoBY: Museum of Bat Yam
Family Pictures, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2008 AIACE Invideo Festival, the Israeli representative, Milano, Italy
Israel in den Augen lokaler FilmemacherInnen, Top Kino, Vienna, Austria
Territorial Bodies, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Den Haag, Holland
Memo, artlv. Caretakers, the Balcony, Tel Aviv
Degenerate Art, Dan Gallery, Tel Aviv
Israeli Short Works, Jerusalem Film Festival, Jerusalem Cinematheque
The White Sport, Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv
Fresh Paint, Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv
VideoZone – 4, Opening Performance, Radio HALAS, the Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon
2007 Pathos, Gallery Dieter Reitz, Kassel, Germany
Sipa: Seoul International Prints, Photography Art Fair, Seoul, Korea
Asia – Europe Mediations, National Gallery Po, Poland
Hapzura, sound interventions, the Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon
La La Major, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya
2006 Maf06, New Media Arts Festival, Bangkok, Thailand
Trace: In New York, Franklin Furnace, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Karamel, Azoi Herzel, Jerusalem Film Festival, the Chan Theatre, Jerusalem
Hope Machine (2nd version), Hearat Shulayim, Bloomfield Science Museum, Jerusalem
2005 Little Red Riding Hood, Dot Fifty One, Art Bazel, Miami, USA
Realizing a Future, Contemporary Voices, the Jewish Museum, NYC, USA
Zoya vs. Igal. Referee: Uri Katzenstein, Galerie der Künste, Berlin, Germany Hunger, the Jerusalem Film Festival, Kalisher Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
Such Stuff as Dreams are Made on*, Chelsea Art Museum, NYC, USA
2004 Alphabet, Gavel Konstcentrum, Stockholm, Sweden
The Puppet Show, Zman Leomanut, Tel Aviv
Video Zone, Cinematheque, Tel Aviv
2003 The Claim of Images, KunstMuseum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
(Pro)cmotp, Home, the Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Families of Men, the Art Department Study Gallery, University of Haifa, Haifa
Haifa 2nd International Installation Triennale, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa
Communication Interferences, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa
Art Focus, Contemporary Israeli Art, various exhibition venues, Jerusalem
2002 Parallel Worlds, K&S Gallery, Berlin, Germany
First Prize, 2nd Biennale Internacional de Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Perfume, Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv
Borders of Sculpture, Tefen Museum, Tefen
Where are the Children? Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv
Self Portrait, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
2001 Self Reflection, Artists' House, Tel Aviv
Israeli Video Art, the University Gallery, University of Haifa, Haifa
1999 Back Room Noise, Refusalon Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Drawing the Line, Ambrogonio Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
Wonderland, the New Studio, Ramat Eliyahu
Fantasia, Arad Museum, Arad | MoBY, Bat Yam
7/10, Artists' Studio, Tel Aviv
Works on Paper, Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv
Local Ready Made, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1997 Series, Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv 4th Biennale of Sculpture, Ein Hod
Memo/Random, Ami Steinitz Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
1996 Ketav, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Visions of a New Morning, Hambach Palace, Germany
Signs, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1995 Ritual Reality, Channel 2, Israeli Television
1994 Dejavoodoo, Art Focus, the Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan
The Suitcase, Bograshov Gallery, Tel Aviv
1993 Recent Acquisitions, the Jewish Museum, NY, USA
Worum Gehts, Romer Museum, Hildesheim, Germany
Makom, Contemporary Art from Israel, Museum of Modern Art, Shtiffung, Ludwig, Vienna
Anti-Pathos, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1992 Who is Signed Under the Duck? Bograshov Gallery, Tel Aviv
Design Line Art, the Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan
Post-Script, the Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
1991 Israeli Art around the 90's, Panta Rai, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Ermany Artists' House, Moscow
São Paulo Art Biennial, the Israeli Presentation, Sao Paolo, Brazil
1990 Opening Exhibition, Artists' Studio, Tel Aviv
1st Biennale of Sculpture, Ein Hod
1989 Artists for Human Rights, Bograshov Gallery, Tel Aviv
Eclipse, Bograshov Gallery, Tel Aviv
1988 Forty from Israel, Brooklyn Museum, NY, USA
The Critics Choice, Artifact Gallery, Tel Aviv
Fresh Paint, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1987 Theatrical Views, Kalisher 5 Gallery, Tel Aviv
Solo Exhibition, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv 1984 Sound Art, Baca, Brooklyn, NY, USA
This is Not a Sculpture, the Kitchen, NYC, NY, USA
1983 Live Radio with Isaac Jackson, Fashion Moda, NY | WBAI Radio, NY, USA
Yom Gagatzi, 8/BC, NY, USA
Selected Live Performances
2016 Yom Gagatzi, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Men Explain Things to Me, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
UKOIDM at Tectonics Festival, Tmuna Theatre, Tel Aviv
UKOIDM, Levontin 7, Tel Aviv
UKRS, Urban Art Rave at Bascula, Tel Aviv
Instrumenta, Jaffa Museum, Tel Aviv
UKRS, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya
Experimental Israel, Radio HALAS
2011 Weight / Where to? The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon
2010 SURNAME, Mediations Biennale, Posnan, Poland
2009 Yom Gagatzi, MoBY: Museum of Art FACTORY, Bat Yam
Caretakers, Blurr, the 7th Biennale of Performance, CCA, Tel Aviv | Habama, Jerusalem
2008 Love Song, ART, Tel Aviv
2006 Man with no Shirt, Barzilay Club, Tel Aviv
2005 Hope Machines, Hapzura: Art Lab, Holon | Hateiva, Tel Aviv
Hope Machines, the 9th Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul Technological University – M.I.A.M, Istanbul, Turkey
Hearat Shulayim, Bloomfield Science Museum, Jerusalem
2004 Hope Machines, the Jewish Museum, NYC, USA
2003 SURNAME, the 2nd International Installation Biennale, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa
2002 SURNAME, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv 2001 Ciclo de performances, Centro Galego de Arte, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
SURNAME, Action Express, Rachel and Israel Pollack Gallery, Tel Aviv
1998 Frogman/Mirror/Frogman, Turtle Key, London, UK | The Place, London, UK
1995 Ritual Reality no. 67, TV show
1992 Samara – a Rock Opera by Hillel Mittepunkt, Tzavta Theatre, Tel Aviv
1986 Medias, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
1984 This is Not a Sculpture, the Kitchen, NYC, NY, USA
1983 Confessione Pollo, Danceteria, the Terminal Show, NYC, NY, USA
Yom Gagatzi, Limbo Lounge, no-se-no, New York, USA
Iconic Milk Man, Brooklyn Museum, Baca, USA
1982 Of Pain and Pleasure, Fashion Moda, NYC, NY, USA
Atomic Parking Lot Muzak, Fashion Moda, NYC, NY, USA
Discography
2008 0_1 Compilation, Studio Magazine, Israel. (vocals, music in collaboration with Ohad Fishof).
2006 C. sides compilation 2006 (''In the Garden", vocals, music in collaboration with Binya Reches).
2004 Anne Li - Ehud Banai. N.M.C Rec. (guest musician playing theramin on two of the album tracks).
2003 Shabatot vechagim, compilation (the series sound track) – (vocals, music) Remember Ben, Hed-Artzi Rec.(vocals on a reches track).
9111 Oosh – Her, Ishay Adar MCI Records (vocals on three tracks)
9111 Winston Rock Collection, Nana Disc (love song, vocals music) Ksassa, The Electronic Fact (ORY) Records (love dub, vocals, music) Skin O. Daayba, Earsay, The Third Ear Records (vocals, music with Ohad Fishof)
9111 Love Dub, Kasba Records LTD (vocals, music words). Stuff, compilation Kasba Records LTD (vocals, music words)
Awards and Prizes
2005 The Fund for Video-Art and Experimental Cinema in Israel , The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2003 Scholarship, The New Fund for Cinema and Television (NFCT), Tel Aviv
2002 First Prize, 2nd Biennale Internacional de Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2000 Tel Aviv Museum of Art and Isracard Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
1998 Prize, Ministry of Education and Culture
1992 George and Janet Jaffin Prize for Excellence in Plastic Arts, America-Israel Cultural Foundation
1989 Prize for completion of project, Ministry of Education
1982 Prize for the Encouragement of Creative Art, Ministry of Education and Culture
1982 Scholarship, the Kitchen, New York, USA