About
Dov Ganchrow
1970 USA/IL
Dov Ganchrow is a product designer and associate professor in the Industrial Design Department at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, from which he graduated with honors.
Among his interests are cultural fringes, making technologies, science-art intersections, tools, martial arts, and high-altitude trekking. These also inform on our relationship with our surroundings, as well as individual identity residing between Nature and Nurture.
Currently an independent designer, for over a decade and a half he collaborated with the late prof. Ami Drach on diverse design projects spanning the fields of medical, consumer, furniture, and museum exhibit design alongside the creation of more personal, experimental, and conceptual works.
He has exhibited extensively at many international venues including the Pompidou Center, MOMA, Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt, and is included in private and museum collections such as New York’s MAD Museum, the Jewish Museum NY, Israel Museum, MUDAC, and the Pompidou Center. His design works are often characterized by intelligent use and manipulation of materials and technologies, a dialogue with prehistory, the incorporation of Readymades, as well as humor.
Exhibitions:
2023 – “Walking the Fields of Dreams” together with artists Aron Demetz and Hans Lemmen, at the VISAVU Gallery, Woudrichem UNESCO World Heritage site, the Netherlands.
Curation: Mariette van der Ven
2023 – “Looking at Ourselves” in collaboration with Prof. Yonatan Loewenstein’s lab at HUJI’s Center for Brain Sciences and Prof. Leore Grosman’s lab at HUJI’s Institute of Archaeology, The Martine De Souza-Dassault Brain Art Gallery, the Edmond & Lilly Safra Center for Brain Sciences, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
Curation: Dr. Michal Mor
2019 – “Beast of the Anthropocene”. Showcased for the 3D Print Forum, Tokyo Garden Terrace, KioichoTower, Tokyo, Japan.
Curation: Rie Ito
2016 – “Connector: A Tribute to Ami Drach”, Vitrine Gallery, HIT – Holon Institute of Technology, Holon, Israel.
Curation: Dana Arieli Horowitz/Ezri Tarazi
2015 – “Li.Tzor”. The Geological Museum, Ramat Hasharon, Israel.
Curation: Rachel Shashporta
2012 – “Do” Together with Irit Abba. Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Marcelle Klein/Maya Vinitsky
2008 – “Parkenlicht”. The Artists House, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Daniella Talmor
2006 – “Minor”. The Artists House, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Aryeh Berkowitz
2005 – “Installation Situation”. Designer installations, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel.
Curation: Daniella Talmor
2001 – “Chair Installation”. Hazira Performance Art, Jerusalem, Israel.
2001 – “Bin Seats”. Periscope Contemporary Design Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Sari Paran
2000 – “Ta’arooha – Temporary Name: Middle Eastern Restaurant” Installation, together with Ezri Tarazi and Zivia Kay.
Ami Steinitz Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel (2000); The Artists House, Jerusalem, Israel (2000).
Curation: Ami Steinitz/Ruth Tzadkah
1999 – “Plans for/of a Drawer”. Askola Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Iris Paz
1997 – “Artist Card”. Together with Tamara Rickman. The Artists House, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Alex Mietlis
1997 – “Lightbulb”. Periscope Contemporary Design Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Sari Paran
1993 – “Prints”. Shilo 4 Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel.
Curation: Dovi Polakov
Group exhibitions:
2024 – “Color”. DMH – Design Museum Holon, Israel.
Curation: Liora Rosin and Yuval Saar
2024 – “Most Likely; Designers, Archaeologists, and Mysterious Objects”. The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.
Curation: Nurith Goshen and Oded Friedland
2023 – “Born of nature”. Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, Taipei, Taiwan.
Curation: Ben Chiu and Jerry Lin
2023 – “Jaffa 110”. Jaffa municipality, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Oz Zaloof
2023 – “Plates for Democracy”. Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Shlomit Bauman
2023 – “What is the Measure of Man”, the Tel-Aviv Biennale of Crafts and Design 2023. MUZA Eretz Israel Museum, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Henrietta Eliezer Brunner, Nir Haramat, Tomer Sapir.
2023 – “Home Away from Home Away from Home; A Tribute to Workers’ Restaurants”. Asif, Culinary Institute of Israel, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Rona Zinger and Liora Rosin.
2022 – “The Worlds Backyard: The Israeli Version”. Artists House Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Sari Faran, Ilana Carmeli Lanner.
2022 – “Go for Broke”. The 2022 Jerusalem Design Week, Hansen House, Jerusalem, Israel.
Curation: Shahar Kedem
2022 – “Define Design”. The Shenkar Jacob and Tamar Rosen Gallery, Ramat Gan, Israel.
Award curation: Baroness Ariane de Rothschild, Renate Menzi, prof. Dina Shahar, prof. David Rawet, Shlomit Bauman, Yoav Ziv, Hadar Shapira
2021 – “3D in the Future”. D-house; Urban Laboratory, part of the Milan Design Week, Milan, Italy.
Curation: Naomi Kaempfer
2021 – “The Voice of Things”. West Bund Museum (in collaboration with the Pompidou Center), Shanghai, China.
Curation: Bernard Blistene
2021 – “A Stone’s Throw Away”, part of the Menofim art event. Azrieli Gallery, Haddasah Academic Collage, Jerusalem, Israel.
Curation: Tali Kayam, Doron Altaratz
2021 – “PUNCH. GENERATE. FREAK” installation, with David Oppenheim, Sarit Youdelevich, and Doron Altaratz. Part of the “Runaway Circus” themed Jerusalem Design Week, Hansen House, Jerusalem, Israel.
Curation: Anat Safran and Tal Erez
2021 – “Ra’ashanim”. Hansen House, Jerusalem, Israel.
Curation: Tal Mor Sinai
2021 – “Nature Culture Begins”. ARCADE Design a la Campagne, Chateau de Ste Colombe en Auxois, France.
Curation: Marine Hunot
2021 – “Time Capsule: Selected Designers from the last Venice Design Biennial”. SPARC* Contemporary Art Space (Venice, Italy), online via the artsy.com platform
Curation: Francesca Giubilei and Luca Berta
2021 – “Black Box: From the Museum Collection”. DMH – Design Museum Holon, Israel.
Curation: Maya Dvash, Noga Shimshon, Rona Zinger
2020 – “The Israeli Uncanny”. Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel.
Curation: Svetlana Reingold
2020 – “Creative (un)Makings: Disruptions in Art/Archaeology”. The International Museum of Contemporary Sculpture, Santo Tirso, Portugal.
Curation: Prof. Doug Bailey, Sara Navarro
2020 – “XYZT: Material Investigations”. Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Shlomit Bauman
2020 – “Craft and Design Bianalle 2020″. Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Yuval Saar, Henrietta Eliezer-Brunner, Liora Rosin, Nir Hermet, Merav Rahat.
2020 – “Extraordinaire”. MUDAC Design Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Curation: Amélie Bannwart, Marco Costantini, Claire Favre Maxwell, Carole Guinard, Susanne Hilpert Stuber, Chantal Prod’Hom
2020 – “FAB Lab” display. The Bloomfield Science Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.
Curation: Maya Halevy
2019 – “Forms of Smiles”: Monkey Business Product Design Process. DMH – Design Museum Holon, Holon, Israel.
Curation: Adi Hammer Yakobi
2019 – “Prehistory, a Modern Enigma”. George Pompidou Center, Paris, France.
Curation: Mari Stavrinaki, Remi Labrusse, Decile Debray
2019 – “Medicalization”. Azrieli Gallery, Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem, Israel.
Curation: Tal Schwartz and Galit Shvo
2019 – “Garden of Eden” exhibition. Part of DESIGNART TOKYO at the Spiral, Tokyo, Japan.
Curation: Anat Safran and Tal Erez
2019 – “Ninja Design Awards” exhibition. Part of the Ureshino Design Week, Ureshino, Japan.
Curation: Kei Yoshino
2018 – “DESIGN. VE – Design After Darwin. Adapted for Adaptability”. Palazzo Morosini Gatterburg, Venice, Italy.
Curation: Francesca Giubilei
2018 – “DIA Design Intelligence Award”. China Academy of the Art, Hangzhou, China.
Curation: Morah Lou
2018 – “Israel: Seventy Years of Craft and Design”. Mingei Museum, San Diego, CA, USA.
Curation: Smadar Samson
2018 – “Zoom in Hummus”. Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Liron Tzanhany
2018 – “Terra Cotta Rave”. Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Shlomit Bauman
2018 – “Solutions 2018”. Innovative and trend-setting product-awards exhibit at the Ambiente Fair, Frankfurt, Germany.
Curation: Sebastian Bergne
2018 – “IDEA: The Design Supermarket”. SUPERSTUDIO, part of the Milan Design Week, Milan, Italy (2018); Round Tower, Copenhagen, Denmark (2018); Part of the Dutch Design Week at TAC, Vonderweg 1, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (2018).
Curation: Niklas Jacob
2018 – “Uncanny”. DMH – Design Museum Holon, Holon, Israel.
Curation: Noga Shimshon
2017 – “Alien Matter”. Part of the Transmediale Fair, Haus Der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany.
Curation: Inke Arns/Daniel Rourke/Morehshin Allahyari
2017 – “Printing the World”. George Pompidou Center, Paris, France.
Curation: Marie-Ange Brayer
2017 – “Violent Object”. Vitrine Gallery, HIT – Holon Institute of Technology, Holon, Israel (2017); Vollgutlager Alte Kindl Brauerei, Berlin, Germany (2017).
Curation: Shira Keret/Itay Laniado
2017 – “Secrets”. Hansen House, Jerusalem, Israel.
Curation: Maya Dvash/Bezalel Master’s students
2017 – “Eyeglasses”. DMH – Design Museum Holon, Holon, Israel.
Curation: Maya Dvash/ Hadar Gorlik.
2017 – “The Autarkic Studio”. Jerusalem Design Week, Hansen House, Jerusalem, Israel.
Curation: Johnathan Hopp
2017 – “Anthropocene”. Subalterno1 Gallery, Milan, Italy.
Curation: Stefano Maffei/Marcello Pirovano/Andrea Gianni
2017 – “Tresor: Contemporary Craft”. Messe, Basel, Switzerland.
Curation: Christoph Voelcker
2017 – “Islands”. Jerusalem Design Week, Bezeq Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
Curation: Tal Erez
2017 – “In Between: Twenty Years of Local Design”, Periscope Contemporary Design Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Sari Paran/Galina Arbely
2017 – “FUTURES”. Gwangju Design Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea.
Curation: Mickyoung Choi/Sanghun Sul
2017 – “Purmundus”. Formnext, Messe, Frankfurt, Germany.
Curation: Corinna Ray
2016 – “Smart Materials, Stupid Materials”. Vitrine Gallery, HIT – Holon Institute of Technology, Holon, Israel.
Curation: Shlomit Bauman
2016 – “Chair Games”. The NB Haifa School of Design (WIZO) Gallery, Haifa, Israel.
Curation: Anat Gatenio
2016 – “Designer, Collector”. Fresh Paint 8, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Renana Banit
2016 – “Matter of Fact; Local Ceramic Production Today”. The Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Maya Ben David/Johnathan Hopp
2016 – “TECHNO.LOGICAL VESSELS: Ceramics Design from Israel”. Sant Pau Recinit Modernista, Barcelona, Spain.
Curation: Shlomit Bauman
2015, 2016 - “Making a Difference / a Difference in Making”. BOZAR Center of Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium (2015); The Red Dot Museum, Essen, Germany (2016).
Curation: Marta Male-Alemany
2015 - “Bio-Design; Hybrid Fabrications”. HIT-Holon Institute of Technology, Holon, Israel.
Curation: Yael Eylat Van-Essen
2015 – “Broken / Whole”. Neve Schechter, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Yuval Saar
2015, 2016 – “Metropolis: The Urban Experience”. Art Center, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel (2015); Bar David Museum of Arts and Judaica, Kibbutz Baram, Israel (2016).
Curation: Adi Schelach
2015 – “De-Tech”. Hansen House, Center for Design, Media and Technology, Jerusalem, Israel.
Curation: Maya Dvash/Bezalel Master’s students
2015 – “Fifty Years of Youth Wing Children”. The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.
Curation: Roma Keinan
2015 – “Workplace for the New World”. Bureau Europa, Institute for Architecture and Design, Maastricht, Netherlands.
Curation: Ina Hollmann/Saskia van Stein/Edwin Gardner/Christiaan Fruneaux
2015 – “FuturArchaique”. MUDAC Design Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland (2015); Centre d’Innovation et de Design, Grand Hornu Museum, Hornu, Belgium (2015).
Curation: Yves Mirande
2015 – “Award Winning Exhibition”. ’The Store’ Gallery Theater, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Shira Keret/Itay Laniado
2014 – “Special Edition”. Fresh Paint exhibition, Meir Tower, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Yifat Gurion/Sharon Tillinger
2014 – “Any Tokyo”. Zojoji Temple, Tokyo, Japan.
Curation: Maho Masuzaki, Masato Tanaka, Akio Aoki, Mamie Nishida
2014 – “Tools: Extending our reach”. The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, NY, USA.
Curation: Cara McCarty/Matilda McQuaid
2013 – “The Mangalistim”. The Havah Gallery, Holon, Israel.
Curation: Anat Cohen/Guy Morag Tzepelvitz
2013 – “Slow Motion”. Fresh Paint 6 / Fresh Design 1, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Yaakov Kaufman/Chanan De Lange/Tal Gur/Dov Ganchrow
2013 – “Games of Light and Shade”. The Bloomfield Science Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.
Curation: Dea Bokman/Cevier LeMage/Ferine Vefluse/Sofi Manof
2013 – “Imprinting on Clay: Cultural Memory in Contemporary Ceramic Art”. The Seventh Biennalefor Israeli Ceramics, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Anat Gatenio
2013 – “Naghap”: Hanukah Top exhibit. Studio Alef Alef Alef, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Studio Alef Alef Alef
2012 – “Slow Design”. Budapest Design Week, Erzsebet ter 13, Budapest, Hungary.
Curation: Rita Maria Halasi
2012 – “Stanley Saitowitz: Judaica”. Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Curation: Stanley Saitowitz/Connie Wolf
2012 – “Complastica”. DMH – Design Museum Holon, Holon, Israel.
Curation: Ezri Tarazi/Nadia Zinger/Yaron Hirsch/Dana Ben-Nissan
2012 – “Giving Light for Maor” Art Station Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2012 – “Beastly Designs”. The Museum of Design in Plastics, Arts University College, Bournemouth, UK.
Curation: Susan Lambert/Pam Langdown/Louise Dennis
2012 – “Growth Curve; Designer Retrospectives”. The historic train station, Jerusalem, Israel.
Curation: Rachel Bucsumboim/Dan Hochberg
2011 – “BEZALEL Legacy Innovation Inspiration”. Sotheby’s, London, England.
Curation: Janice Blackburn
2011 – “PROMISEDESIGN: New Design from Israel”. PIERRE BERGE & ASSOCIES, Place du Grand Sablon, Brussels, Belgium (2011); Espace d’art Le Moulin, Valette-du-Var, France (2011); Passage de Retz, Paris, France (2011); Circuito Ventura Lambrate, Milan, Italy (2011).
Curation: Vanni Pasca/Ely Rosenberg
2011 – “Ceramic Design: Techno.Logical Implements”. The Sixth Israeli Ceramics Biennale, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Shlomit Bauman
2011 – “Periscopective”. The Artists House, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Zivia Kay
2011 – “Granny Tales”. Paradigma Design Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Ezri Tarazi/Anat Benvinisti
2011 – “Field” installation with David Amar. Part of the “Waste not, want it” Arts Co. project for Bloomberg, Finsbury Square, London, England.
Curation: Sigrid Kirk
2011 – “PERISCOPTIVA”. Gwangju Design Biennale, Gwangju Biennale Park, Korea.
Curation: Zivia Kay
2011 – “Dream Objects”. Sotheby’s, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Nirith Nelson
2010 – “From Mediterranean Traditional to Israeli Contemporary Design”. The Design Exchange, Toronto, Canada.
Curation: Alon Razgour
2010 – “Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life”. The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Curation: Daniel Belasco
2010 – “Da Naydi”. Paradigma Design Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Ezri Tarazi
2010 – “Houses on the Boulevard”. Rothschild Street outdoor exhibit, Tel- Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Ilan Vizgen
2010 – “A Chair is a Chair is a Chair”. Paradigma Design Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Ezri Tarazi/Anat Benvinisti
2010 – “Eat Drink Art Design”. MAD – Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY, USA.
Curation: Jennifer Scanlan
2009 – “Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life”. The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, USA.
Curation: Daniel Belasco
2009 – “New Design Generation”. Houjie, China.
Curation: Carlo Vannicola/Paola Palma
2009 – “Survival”. Havva Gallery, Holon, Israel.
Curation: Maya Dvash
2009 – “LG Five”: Teddy Bear installation. Jaffa port, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Maya Dvash
2009 – “Israeli Design display”. Sotheby’s Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Nirith Nelson
2009 – “CASA ’09”. Furniture Design Exposition, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Iris Zohar
2009 – “NON OBJECTIVE”. Lodz Design Festival, Lodz, Poland.
Curation: Marek Cecula
2008, 2009 – “Object Factory: The Art of Industrial Ceramics”. Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Canada (2008); Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY, USA (2009).
Curation: Marek Cecula/Dagmara Kopala
2008 – “ASA 25; Design from Israel”. Espace Villeneuve-Bargemon and Galerie du Center Design Marseille, Marseille, France.
Curation: Alon Razgur
2008 – “Neo”. Israel ’09 Furniture Fair, Ganey HaTa’arooha, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Maya Dvash
2008 – “NOWHERE/NOW/HERE”. LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacie’n Industrial, Gijon, Spain.
Curation: Roberto Feo/Rosario Hurtado
2007 – “Dream Makers”. The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.
Curation: Alex Ward
2007 – “Water in Art and Life”. The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.
Curation: Hagit Alon
2007 – “It’s a Small World After All”. The Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Sara Reiman Shor
2007 – “Neo”. Israel ’08 Furniture Fair, Ganey HaTa’arooha, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Maya Dvash
2006 – “Periscope for Israeli Design”. SOHO Design Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2006 – “The Gallery’s Choice”. High Touch, a place for contemporary art, Herzliah, Israel.
Curation: Daphna Naor
2006 – “Solos: New Design from Israel”. Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, NY, USA.
Curation: Ellen Lupton/Ezri Tarazi
2006 – “REORIENTED DESIGN ISRAEL”. The Saint Etienne Biennale, France.
Curation: Ely Rosenberg
2006 – “Models”. Industrial Design Departmental Gallery, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel.
2005 – “Macef Design awards” exhibit, Milan, Italy.
Curation: Gaetano Pesce/Oliviero Toscani/Elio Fiorucci/Gilda Bojardi/Nello Martini/Massimo Mini
2005 – “PROMISEDESIGN”. Copenhagen International Furniture Fair, Copenhagen, Denmark (2005); DESIGNMAI, Berlin, Germany (2005); Triennale, Milan, Italy (2005).
Curation: Vanni Pasca/Ely Rosenberg
2005 – “Ceramics”. HIT – Holon Institute of Technology, Holon, Israel.
Curation: Shlomit Bauman
2005 – “Dialog: Artists in Roni Naim’s Metal Shop”. Habarbanel 3, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Tamara Rickman
2005 – “SAFE: Design Takes on Risk”. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA.
Curation: Paola Antonelli
2004 – “Prizes in Art and Design”. The Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel.
Curation: Daniella Talmor
2004 – “The Third Biennale for Israeli Ceramics”. Eretz Israel Museum, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Marek Cecula
2004 – “100% Tiles” Designboom competition, “100% Design”, London, England.
Curation: Fernando and Humberto Campana/Barnaba Fornasetti/Kazuhiro Yamanaka/Ian Rudge/Birgit Lohmann
2004 – “Israel ’05 Furniture Design” Exhibition. Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Galit Gaon
2003 – “The Art of Recycling”. Alex de Rothschild Craft Award. The Henkin Design Gallery, Holon, Israel.
2003 – “About Design”. The Bezalel Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2003 – “Public Space”. The Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Yael Moria /Sigal Bar Nir
2003 – “Industrious Designers” (3). Museum of Decorative Arts, Riga, Latvia (2003); Stockholm Furniture Fair, Stockholm, Sweden (2003); Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague, CzechRepublic (2003).
Curation: Vanni Pasca/Ely Rosenberg/Nirith Nelson
2003 – “Safe/Unsafe”. The Bezalel Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Ezri Tarazi
2003 – “The Magic of Plastic” installation, Plasto-Ispak Exposition, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Galit Gaon
2003, 2004 – “FABRICation”. The Kfar Saba Museum, Kfar Saba, Israel (2003); The Ashdod Museum, Ashdod, Israel (2003); The Arad Museum, Arad, Israel (2004)
Curation: Yael Veisel
2003 – “Hard Softness”. Havva Gallery, Holon, Israel.
Curation: Aryeh Berkowitz
2003 – “Young Israeli Art: The Jacques and Eugenie O’Hana Collection”. Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Meira Yagid-Haimovici
2003 – “What Next”?. SOHO Design City, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Aryeh Berkowitz
2003 – “Combina Complet”. Periscope Contemporary Design Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Sari Paran/Zivia Kay
2002 – “Israeli Habitat”. Dwek Gallery, Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Jerusalem, Israel.
Curation: Nirith Nelson
2002 – “Industrious Designers” (2). ‘Abitare il Tempo’, Verona, Italy (2002); Tendence 2002, Frankfurt, Germany (2002).
Curation: Vanni Pasca/Ely Rosenberg
2002 – ”Design on Design”. Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Meira Yagid-Haimovici
2002 – “…and again we go…”: re-use in art and design. Mierov House Art Center, Holon, Israel.
Curation: Aryeh Berkowitz
2002 – “Israel 2003 Furniture Design” Exposition, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Galit Gaon
2002 – “A Sea of Chairs”. The Design Center, Bnei-Brak, Israel.
2002 – “Couples”. The David Yellin Academy Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel.
Curation: Tamara Rickman
2002 – 2005 – “Domains”. International Design Center, Nagoya, Japan (2002); Designers Block, Tokyo, Japan (2002); The Museum of Modern Art, Taipei, Taiwan (2003); Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea (2003); New International Expo Center, Shanghai, China (2003); Jintai Museum, Beijing, China (2003); Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts, New Delhi, India (2005); RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (2005).
Curation: Nirith Nelson
2001 – “The Creo Scitex Penguin Parade”, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Daphna Naor
2001 – “Improvization”. Askola Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Iris Paz
2001 – “Industrious Designers” (1). ‘Abitare il Tempo’, Verona, Italy.
Curation: Vanni Pasca/Ely Rosenberg
2001 – “Not Themselves”: re-use in design. The Artists House, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Aryeh Berkowitz
2000 – “A Decade of Design Awards- a Retrospective”.
Israel 2001 Furniture Design Exposition, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Galit Gaon
2000 – “2000 Objects for a New Millennium”. Gallery 91, New York, NY, USA.
Curation: Yoshiko Ebihara
1998 – “50 Products X 50 Years”. Reading ‘A’ power plant. Vital – the Tel Aviv Center for Design Studies, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Avner Sadot
1998 – “Israel ’99 Furniture Design” Exposition, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Galit Gaon
1998 – “Faculty show”. Askola Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Iris Paz
1998 – “Out of the Box: Young Designers for Packaging”. Openspace Piano Ammezzato, Milan, Italy.
Curation: Edna Goldstaub Dainotto
1997 – “Cellular Phone”. Askola Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Iris Paz
1997 – “Void”. Ami Steinitz Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Ami Steinitz
1996 – “Asahikawa Furniture Design Fair” exhibition, Hokkaido, Japan.
Curation: Minoru Nagahara
1996 – “National Furniture ’97 Exposition”, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Isika Gaon
1996 – “Inaugural Exhibition”, Periscope Contemporary Design Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Sari Paran
1996 – “Ozone Design”, Ozone Plaza, Shinjuku Park Tower, Tokyo, Japan.
Curation: Minoru Nagahara
1994 – “Sharett Fund” exhibition, Mishkan Museum or Art, Ein Hod, Israel.
Curation: Dudi Raved
1989 – 1992 – Industrial Design Department summer exhibition. Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem and Dizengoff Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Curation: Chanan De Lange
Awards, Collections, and Patents:
2025 – “The Original” (2019) included in the Fattal Hotels Art Collection, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2025 – “Light Fittings; Draft Lamp” (1997), “Bin Seats; Bumps and Devil” (2000), “Parkenlicht lamp” (2008), “Do Cut, Teapot #2” (2012), “Holster Hack “(2017), included in the Tel-Aviv Museum of Art for its Architecture and Design Department Collection, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2025 – “Purgy Truck o3” (2024), included in the DMH Design Museum Holon’s design collection, Holon, Israel.
2025 – “The Inevitable Hand-Axe” (2022) included in the Museum of Stone Tools (online), UNE University of New England, Australia.
2025 – “Grid” (2024), included in the educational Study Collection, at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.
2024 – “Abfall 01” and “Abfall 02” (2021) included in the Hebrew University, Jerusalem’s Institute of Archaeology public art collection, Israel.
2024 – Winning design concept for the ISEES- Israel Society of Ecology and Environmental Studies invited 2050 climate change school backpack design.
2021 – “V300” (2016), “Parkenlicht light” (2008), “Bin Seat” (2000), “Ballistic Arabesque” (2011) included in the DMH (Design Museum Holon), Holon, Israel.
2022 – ERASMUS + teaching/training mobility scholarship at the Center of Prehistoric Archaeology of the Near East at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
2021 – Shortlisted for “the Edmond de Rothschild Award for Product Design 2021”.
2020 – “Mifal HaPais” Culture and Arts committee New Design Projects grant.
2019 – “FIFA-UFC” Punching bag, “Top Fifty” selected work for the Ninja Design Award, Ureshino Design
Week, Ureshino, Japan.
2018 – “DIA Design Intelligence Award. Top 100, Design Yiwu– Special Award”, China Academy of the Art, Hangzhou, China.
2018 – “V300: Ceramic Casting Mold System” (2016), to the China Academy of the Arts DIA Awards Design Collection, Hangzhou, China.
2018 – “Solutions 2018” Award for the concept and design of Monkey Business’s “King Tong” product, Ambiente fair, Frankfurt, Germany.
2017 – Israeli patent no. 216632 “Wearable Utility Instrument Assembly”; co-inventor Yaron Hanover.
2017 – Design patent: Monkey Business, “King Tong” kitchen utensil, Europe: 004528727-0001.
2017 – Design patent: Monkey Business, “Tulip” honey dipper, Europe: 004528628-0001.
2016 – works from both the “BC-AD: contemporary prehistoric stone tool design” (2011) and the “Do: cut ceramic” (2012) series included in the Pompidou Center design collection, Paris, France.
2016 – “Do: cut ceramic” (2012) work included in the MUDAC Design Museum design collection, Lausanne, Switzerland.
2016 – Finalist in collaboration with Tsurnamal Turner Landscape Architects in the “Tel-Avivs North Seashore Park and Linear Park” design competition. The Municipality of Tel-Aviv Jaffa, the Israeli Landscape Architects Association, the Israeli United Architects non-profit organization.
2015 – US Patent no. 9,179,726 “Wearable Utility Instrument Assembly”; co-inventor Yaron Hanover.
2015 – “Mifal HaPais” Culture and Arts committee publication grant.
2014 – First prize for the design of an “Urban Bike Stand”, Israel Ministry of Tourism, Israel Government Tourist Corporation, Holon Design Museum.
2014 – Design patent: Monkey Business, “Cookie Cup” cookie cutter, Europe: 002579037-0001, Israel: 56983.
2013 – “Mifal HaPais” Culture and Arts committee publication grant.
2013 – Design patent: Monkey Business, “Coffee Break” sugar containers, Europe: 002281089-0001, Israel: 55092
2013 – Design patent: Monkey Business, “Lion’s Head” kitchen towel holder, Europe: 002282541-0001, Israel: 55093
2012 – “Jungle bag clips” (2009) included in the Museum of Design in Plastics collection, Arts University College at Bournemouth, UK.
2012 – Design patent: Monkey Business, “Lori Load” mobile phone holder, Europe: 002028969-0001.
2012 – Design patent: Monkey Business, “Telly” memo pad holder, Europe: 002039461-0001.
2011 – “Parkenlicht” Masks (2008) acquired by Arts Co, at Sothebys’ London, UK.
2011 – Design patent: Monkey Business, “Boris” mobile phone holder, USA: D715,2835, Europe: 001969460-0001.
2010 – “Netilat Yadaim” (2008) hands-cleansing vessel included in the Jewish Museum, New York’s design collection, USA.
2009 – “+/- Hot Plate” (2004) series included in the Museum of Art and Design, New York’s design collection, USA.
2009 – Honorable mention, Henry J. Leir Prize, the Jewish Museum, New York, USA.
2008 – Yehoshua Rabinowitz Foundation for the Arts Grant.
2008 – “Bin Seat” (2000) from the Mel Byars collection, included in the Israel Museum Jerusalem’s Design collection, Israel.
2005 – Selected work- “RE-Think + RE-Cycle” Macef Design competition, Italy.
2004 – “Habitat” (2003) included in the Haifa Museum of Art’s collection, Israel.
2004 – Selected work- “100% Tiles” Design competition, Designboom.
2003 – Israel Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports Design Award.
2003 – Second prize, Alix de Rothschild Craft Awards; “The Art of Recycling”.
2002 – “Seven Drawers” (1999) included in the Tel-Aviv Museum of Art’s Design collection, Israel.
2001 – Israeli patent no.123239: Pocket Knife.
2000 – The Arthur Goldreich Foundation grant.
1996 – Contemporary Design Award, National Furniture ’97 Expo/Competition, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
1996 – Finalist in the Asahikawa International Furniture Design competition, Hokkaido, Japan.
1992 – Sharett Fund, America-Israel Foundation prize.
1992 – Meisler Award for Outstanding Product Design.
1989, 1990, 1992 – Industrial Design Department Award for Excellence, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel.
1988 – National Tae Kwon Do champion, Israel.
Articles, texts, catalogs and books:
2025 – “Thinking ‘tools’; Looking at Ourselves”
Proceedings for Cumulus P/References of Design conference Budapest 2024 (Hungary)
Volume 1, ISBN Volume 1: 978-952-7549-02-5
https://doi.org/10.63442/PZPS6059
2025 – “Chamfer”
Texture – an online materials journal, Israel
https://textura-mag.org/poems/8607/
2024 – “To Computational Archaeology and Back: The Round-Trip Journey of Stone Artifacts Between Physical and a Digital Existence”
Archaeologies: Journal of the World Archaeological Congress
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11759-024-09498-5
2024 – “Hand-axe landscape: scar and ridge features”
The Design Science Foundation, volume 2, Tokyo, Japan
https://thedesignsciencefoundation.org/en/article/667/
2024 – “Written in Stone, Ancestral Stones and Stone Stories: Reimagining Human Relationships with Stone from the Paleolithic to the Present”
Archaeologies: Journal of the World Archaeological Congress
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11759-024-09502-y
2023 – “Destroying the Ordinary for the Extraordinary”
Revista Además de, number 9, (ISSN 2444-121X) Published by the National Museum of Decorative Arts (MNAD) and the Association of Friends of the MNAD, Madrid, Spain. https://doi.org/10.46255/add.2023.9.135
2023 – “Virtual reality utilization for left atrial appendage occluder device size prediction”
Coauthored with Shai Tejman-Yarden, Dor Freidin, Netanel Nagar, Yisrael Parmet, Muhamed Abed, Oliana Vazhgovsky, David Yogev, Efrat Mazor-Drey, Sumit Chatterji, Roy Beinart, Israel Barbash, Victor Guetta, Orly Goitein
Cell Press – Heliyon 9, e 14790, pp. 1-9, published by Elsevier, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, April 4, 2023
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e14790
2022 – “Rotational – International Contemporary Craft Course”, co-author Nitsan Debbi,
Tripod (an online, tri-lingual, academic peer-reviewed journal), issue #3, The Department of Ceramic and Glass Design at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
https://tripod-journal.bezalel.ac.il/en/rotational-international-contemporary-kraft-course/
2021 – “Tel Saki, 2020”
The Zionist Phantom (Israel) (Hebrew/English) by Dana Arieli Horowitz, pp. 156 – 157
2021 – “Materiality”
Black Box exhibition catalog/tour guide (English/Hebrew), DMH – the Design Museum Holon (Israel), pp. 16-22
https://www.dmh.org.il/en/articles/materiality/
2020 – “Product Design to Readymade: A Lineage of Object Making”
Ineligible: A Disruption of Artifacts and Artistic Practice, project/exhibition/conference book (English/Portuguese), by Doug Bailey and Sara Navarro, the International Sculpture Museum Saint Tirso, Portugal, pp. 72 – 91
2020 – “MAN MADE”, Cultures of Stone; an interdisciplinary approach to the materiality of stone, book
Published by Sidestone Press, the Netherlands, pp. 203-121
Editors: Gabriel Cooney, Bernard Gilhooly, Niamh Kelly, Sol Mallia-Guest
2018 – “System Intervention”
Design Unlimited (Turkey/UK), Maker Movement/Democracy in Design (English/Turkish), pp. 46 – 47
2018 – “Man Made”
Design Unlimited (Turkey/UK), Maker Movement/Democracy in Design (English/Turkish), pp. Cover, 16 – 17, 40 – 41
2017 – “Field Trip: Contemporary Prehistoric Tool Design”,
Author: Dov Ganchrow, Concept/Editor: Maya Vinitsky,
English/Hebrew editing and translation: Dafna Raz, Talya Halkin
Publisher: Studio Amidov
ISBN: 978-965-572-315-1
2016 – “An Exercise in Logic and Form”
Ceramics Monthly (USA), December 2016, pp. 59 – 63
2016 – “The Olympic Stadium, Berlin, 2009”.
Phantoms: A Journey in the Footsteps of Dictatorships (Hebrew) by Dana Arieli Horowitz, pp. 100 – 101
2015 – “Amidov: Design Fields”,
Author: Dov Ganchrow, Concept/Editor: Maya Vinitsky,
English/Hebrew editing and translation: Orna Yehudaioff, Talya Halkin
Publisher: Studio Amidov
ISBN: 978-965-555-805-0
2015 – “MAN MADE: contemporary prehistoric flint tool design”. In Thoughts About Craft (Hebrew), Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, History and Theory Department.
Published by Resling, pp. 288 – 305
Editors: Ori Bartal, Reuven Zahavi, Eran Erlich
2013 – “Cutting Through Time”
Knives Illustrated (USA), April 2013, volume 27, pp. 66 – 69
2012 – “BC-AD: a Contemporary Look at Flint Tools”
Bezalel Journal, Issue No. 26 – Conflict: Antagonism and Creation (Hebrew) History and Theory Department, Bezalel, editors: Yona Weitz/Na’aman Hirschfeld
http://bezalel.secured.co.il/zope/home/he/1349198192
2012 – “Do: Definitions of a Plan, a Section and a Silhouette”,
Exhibition catalog (Hebrew) interview with Irit Abba, Ami Drach and Dov Ganchrow,
Concept/Editor: Maya Vinitsky
2009 – “+/- Hot Plate: Word from a Designer”
“Object Factory 2: The Art of Industrial Ceramics” exhibition catalog, MAD – Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY, USA, pp. 100 – 101
2008 – “Word from an Exhibitor”
“Object Factory: The Art of Industrial Ceramics” exhibition catalog, Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Canada, p. 107
2018 – “Parkenlicht” catalog,
Editor: Daniella Talmor
2001 – “Boss Blade of the High Wild”
Tactical Knives (USA), July 2001, vol. 7, number 4, pp. 56 – 59
2001 – “Obstruction Language”, co-author: Dr. Roy Tzohar
Improvisation: The Culture of ‘Getting-by’ (Hebrew)
Askola gallery catalog (Israel),
2001 – “Bin Seats” catalog,
Editor: Hagit Shemesh
1999 – “Plans for/of a Drawer” catalog,
Editor: Iris Paz
1997 – “A Treasure’s Point”, co-author: Raviv Ganchrow
Masa Aher (Israel), May 1997, Issue 67, pp. 35 – 38, additional images, pp. 3, 73, 75, 76 (Hebrew)
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