GIL SHACHAR, ARTIST   Artist Website http://www.gilshachar.com   FB https://www.facebook.com/gilshacharartist   Gil Shachar / Kunstgebiet.Ruhr http://www.kunstgebiet.ruhr/kuenstler/gil-shachar   Wikipedia /German http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Sh                               Wikipedia/Hebrew גיל שחר http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92%D7%99%D7%9C_%D7%A9%D7%97%D7%A8   1965  Born in Tel Aviv, Israel  1988-92  Studies at  Art Teachers College, Ramat Hasharon  1994-96  Teacher at Art Teachers College, Ramat Hasharon, teacher at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem  Since 1996  lives and works in Germany   Selected One Man Shows   1992  Artist´s House, Jerusalem  1993  Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv Toronto1994  Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv  1995 (http://www.juliemgallery.com/#!gil-shachar/chut) Haifa University Art Department, Haifa  1996  Oranim Institute Art Department, Oranim.  The Artist‘s Studio Gallery, Tel Aviv 1998  Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg.  Löhrl Gallery, Mönchengladbach  1999  Forum For Contemporary Art, Worpswede.  Artfocus, Jerusalem  2001  John Doe, Duesseldorf2002  Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya  2003 Löhrl Gallery, Mönchengladbach  2004  Eboran Gallery, Salzburg   2005 Goch Museum, Goch.  Löhrl Gallery, Mönchengladbach.  http://www.bildende-kuenstler06.de/euregio.htm Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv  2008 Löhrl Gallery, Mönchengladbach (http://www.galerieloehrl.de/?location=artists_details&Name=shachar&language=de). Museum and Gallery im Prediger, Schwäbisch Gmünd. Tel Aviv Museum of Art (http://www.tamuseum.org.il/) Tel Aviv  2011 The Secret Life of Sculptures, Museum of the City of Ratingen (http://www.stadt-ratingen.de/freizeit_kultur_sport_tourismus/museum/). Nature and Image, Altana Kulturstiftung, Bad Homburg (http://www.altana-kulturstiftung.de/). Museum of the City of Siegburg. Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv  2012  Löhrl Gallery, Mönchengladbach 2014  Circle1, Berlin (with Roy Mordechay / http://circle1berlin.com/gil-shachar-roy-mordechay-hals-und-beinbruch/)   Selected Group Shows   1992  Contemporary Sculpture, Tel Aviv Museum of Art 1993 Israel‘s Suggestion for the Aperto of The Venice Biennale, Artifact Gallery, Tel Aviv.  In The House, In The Courtyard, Israel Museum, Jerusalem  1994  Seperate Worlds, Tel Aviv Museum of Art  1996  Desert Cliché, Israel Now - Local Images, Arad Museum, Arad, Bass Museum, Miami, Florida, Grey Art Gallery, New York  1999  HEAVEN, Kunsthalle Duesseldorf, Tate Gallery, Liverpool  2001 Kinderblicke - Kindheit und Moderne von Klee bis Boltanski,  Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen.  8. Triennale der Kleinplastik, Fellbach  2002  Portraits: From Antiquity to the Present, Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Wächserne Identitäten, Kolbe Museum, Berlin. The Land of Shadow, Tel Aviv museum of Art  2003  Ninôs (Children), CASA-Centro de Arte de Salamanca  2004  Love is in the Air, Time for Art, Tel Aviv.  The Pupet Show, Time for Art, Tel Aviv  2005  Die Neuen Hebräer, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin. Die Obere Hälfte – Die Büste Seit Auguste Rodin, Städtische Museen Heilbronn,Kunsthalle Emden, Museum Liner Appenzell  2006  SURreal.Aspekte des Figuralen aus der Sammlung, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg http://www.museumdermoderne.at/en/collection. Fatamorgana: Illusion and Deception in Contemporary Art, Haifa Museum of Art  2008  Territorial Bodies, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Den Haag  2009  Spotlight, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg  2010  Family/Tree, Tel Aviv Museum of Art.  An die Natur, Collection of the Altana Kulturstiftung, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Langen Foundation, Neuss.  Krieg/Individuum, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Münster.  http://archiv.monopol-magazin.de/kalender/termin/20104369/kunsthalle-muenster/Gil-Shachar-KriegIndividuum.html Körper Codes, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg  2012  Good Night, Israel Museum, Jerusalem.  Zündstoff, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden-Rot. Der Nackte Mann, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz  2013   ArTricks, Israel Museum, Jerusalem  2014  Zeichen gegen den Krieg, Stiftung Museum Lehmbruck, Duisburg (http://www.lehmbruckmuseum.de/?p=4549). Additionen der Gegenwart, Kunstmuseum Bochum (http://www.kunstmuseumbochum.de/ausstellung-veranstaltung/details/sammlung-hense)                                                                    Prizes and Scholarships   1991  The America-Israel Cultural Foundation Award, Tel Aviv1992  The America-Israel Cultural Foundation Award, Tel Aviv1993  Artist/Teacher Award, Ministry of Education, Jerusalem1994  Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, founded by Anselm Kiefer, Jerusalem  1996  Wilhelm Lehmbruck Scholarship, Duisburg1998  Atelier Scholarship, Mönchengladbach  1998  Barkenhoff Scholarship, Worpswede  2001  Kuenstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf  2003  Leube Baustoffe, Artist in Residence Program, Austria  2005  The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (http://www.pkf-imagecollection.org/artist/Gil_Shachar/works/#!957) 2015 Kunststiftung NRW http://www.kunststiftung-nrw.de/de/aktivitaeten/foerderprojekte/visuelle_kunst/#/  

Gil Shachar's sculptures maintain intricate relations with painting, due to different modes of existence. His sculptures look like images that have donned three-dimensionality and walked out of the painting, leaving the background behind. Thus they appear very lonely, withdrawn, delicate and vulnerable, soft-skinned, context-less; they are monolithic units which maintain no interrelations. At times, the memory of the flat square source is still imprinted in their form; their surface is generally painted, too; yet these are images that have detached themselves from the mirror, moving toward (a possibly dangerous) existence in the realm of the real. Absurdly, the reinforcement of existence brings them in contact with death, which is present in various forms in all the works. Nurit David, Unicorn, The Death of Doubling __________________________________________________________ GIL SHACHAR, Catalogue Text by Barbara Wally https://www.yumpu.com/de/document/view/21111773/gil-shachar-julie-m-gallery