David Frenkel
David Frenkel
Lives and works in Tel Aviv
Tel: 052-355-2925
Education
2013-2017 Tel Aviv University, M.A.(with honors), Interdisciplinary
Program in the Arts
2004-2006 Beit Berl College - Hamidrasha Faculty of Arts, Studio Art, Photography
1990-1993University of Haifa, B.A.(with honors), Philosophy and Psychology
Solo Exhibitions
2022“Landscape Becoming Portrait”, Artists' House, Jerusalem, Curator: Nogah Davidson
2021"Bird Milk", Pop Up Solo Exhibition, Kiryat Hamelacha,
Tel Aviv, Curator: Nogah Davidson
2017 "Sounds From the Deep Freeze", Hamidrasha Gallery - Ha'Yarkon 19, Tel Aviv, Curator: Boaz Arad
Group Exhibitions
2021“Touching Light”, Beit Ariela, Tel Aviv,
Curators: Kamilla Lozinsky and Rei Dishon
2020“Corona Time”, Kibbutz Gan Shmuel Gallery,
Curator: Adi Yekutieli
2019"Medarom Festival", Residency project show, Ofakim, Curator: Lilach Dekel-Avneri
2018"The Moment After", Indie Photography Group Gallery,
Tel Aviv, Curator: Inbal Cohen Hemo, Accompaniment:
Ronit Poratand Orit Bertini Shavit
2018"Refugees - Response Exhibition", The Red House, Tel Aviv,
Curators: Hagar Shapira and Shira Moshe
2018"Saluga - Community Art", The Library of Social Sciences,
Tel Aviv University, Curator: Nili Viztum
2017"Nonplace - Movement and Dance", Central Gallery,
Tel Aviv, Curator: Igor Zeiger
Scholarships and Awards
2020“ Behind the Scenes - Artists Talk about their Work”, A short film grant by Mifal HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts
2019 Artist Residency, Medarom Festival, Ofakim
2016 Dean's Award of Excellence, Tel Aviv University,
Faculty of the Arts
Publications & Lectures
2021 Uzi Zur reviews "David Frenkel’s Bird Milk",
Haaretz, April 2021
2020 "Editor’s Choice - David Frenkel”, Terminal Art Magazine, 68 (July 2020):13
2019T el Aviv University, "Art Brut” - guest lecture in the
MA seminar “Art and Obsession”by Dr. Eyal Dotan
2019 Bat Yam Museum for Contemporary Art,
"Removing Mountains” - an essay following a trilogy of exhibitions curated by Hila Cohen-Schneiderman
2019 Tel Aviv Museum of Art, "Ferdinand Cheval’s Ideal Palace"
2019 Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem, "Uncontrollable Clusters:
On Hoarding and Art"
2019 Petach Tikva Museum of Art, "Community Art -
What Art Can Do?"
2018 Tel Aviv Museum of Art, "Village Fool: From Court Jesters to Jokers"
2017 Erev Rav online magazine, "Cherries and Other Machines"
2017 Ha'Midrasha Gallery - Ha'Yarkon 19, Tel Aviv, "The Body
as an Image Generator"
2015 Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, "The Missing Image" Conference, "On Photography and Madness: Following Charcot's Pathology Museum"
