Alona Rodeh is a Berlin-based visual artist, scenographer, and urban practitioner working in the intersection of virtual and physical space. Her research-driven practices explore material cultures and audiovisual expressions of feelings of safety. She creates large immersive environments incorporating light and sound, directs short films, publishes artist books, practices night walks, and more. With a focus on public space, she works both inside and outside institutional bodies, collaborating closely with state and municipal bodies. She advocates for Dark Sky International, an NGO focused on restoring darkness and decreasing light pollution.
TEAM
ART IN PUBLIC SPACE Mascha Fehse
CGI Lead Rachid Moro
PROGRAMMING Eagle Wu
MODELING, DESIGN Nevo Bar
INTERN Noga Gerzon
REPRESENTATION
Christine König Galerie, Vienna
Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
EDUCATION
2008−2009 MFA Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Tel Aviv
2008 (Erasmus) MFA Sculpture, Royal College of Art London
1999−2003 BFA Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
2002 (Erasmus) BFA Akademie der Bildenden Kunst, Vienna
JURYS
2024 Competition artistic photo series Berlin underground stations U-Weberwiese and U-Schillingstraße
2024 Percentage-for-Art (Kunst am Bau) Competition Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin: Art meets Science
2021 Percentage-for-Art (Kunst am Bau) Competition Community Center Zille-Haus, Moabit Berlin
2021 Dizengof Prize for Visual Artists, Tel Aviv Municipality
2021 Adams Prize, Shenkar College of Engineering and Design
ART IN PUBLIC SPACE
2024 LONG-TERM Nightcaps, Brunnenviertel Berlin
2024 PERMANENT: The Tale of the Scale and the Skull, PETRI Berlin. Entdecke die Archäologie
2024 TEMPORARY Slow Swan Social Club, Lichtparcours Braunschweig
2022 PERMANENT: Old Empire New Light, Ananeh Art Center, Ein Yael Jerusalem
2021 TEMPORARY Nightcaps, CURRENT: Festival for Art and Urban Space, Stuttgart
2019 PERMANENT: Jessy, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon
2018 PERMANENT: Unterwegs, Johann-Gottfried-Herder-Gymnasium, Berlin Lichtenberg
2017 LONG-TERM The Curves of Jaffa, Jaffa Fire Station, Tel Aviv
2016 TEMPORARY The Farewell Kiss of Fire from Water, Dizengof Square Tel Aviv
GROUP SHOWS
2024 Access Kafka, Jewish Museum Berlin
2024 A Nights Journey, Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin
2023 Heute Leider Nicht, Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Berlin
2023 CLUB, Kunstbrücke am Wildenbruch, Berlin
2023 Irregular Objects, CDA pavilion at the 14th Gwangju Biennial, South Korea
2023 Blue for Distinction, Red for Correction—curated_by Agnieszka Pindera, Christine Koenig Galerie, Vienna
2023 On a Night Trip, Foundation Welt der Versuchungen, Erfurt
2023 Motel Zifzif, Zumu Museum on the Move IL
2022 Pattern Recognition. Revisiting the Municipal Collection Erlangen, Kunstpalais
2022 After Life, the Center for Digital Art, Holon
2022 On Equal Terms, Uferhalen e.V Berlin Partner of Berlin Art Week
2021 Fugen, Die Möglichkeit einer Insel, Berlin
2021 You Got To Get In To Get Out, La Casa Encendida Madrid
2021 Freedom of Sleep, Fondation Fiminco Paris
2021 Specters, Ashdod Art Museum
2020 Wilds Ago: Phantoms of Youth from the Haaretz Collection, Tel Aviv
2019 Murals, the Israeli Center for Digital Art
2019 In the Spotlight of the Night: Life in the Gloom, Marta Herford
2019 In the Spotlight of the Night: Cities never Sleep, KAI10 I Arthena Foundation Düsseldorf
2018 Ray Tracing, Galeria Propaganda, Warsaw
To the Moon and Back, screenings: ZK/U Berlin, Berlin Independent Film Festival
2017 Playing Hide and Law, Tranzit/SK, Bratislava
2016 The Analogy Between Bulbs and Buds, Botanischer Volkspark Berlin
2015 Back To Berlin, Herzliya Museum of Art
2015 The Crystal Palace and the Temple of Doom, Petach Tikva Museum of Art
2015 Emergency Measures, Dallas Power Station
2014 Chicago Triangle, Haifa Museum of Art
2014 Installation View, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden
2013 Go Get Your Knives, Galerie Salon Akademii, Warsaw
2013 Under the Weather, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv
2012 Deviants, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon
2012 Revisiting Rockefeller, Rockefeller Archeological Museum, Jerusalem
2012 Black Eurhythmics, performance, IKT congress, CCA Tel Aviv and Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2011 Don't Try, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv
2011 End of History, Künstlerhaus Speckstraße and Kutscherhäuser, Hamburg
2011 Shesh Besh, Petach Tikva Museum of Art
2011 On the Road to Nowhere, Ashdod Museum
2010 Manimal, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art
2007 I Believe, 1st Herzliya Biennial, Herzliya
GRANTS, PRIZES
2024 Best Immersive and Time-Based Art, B3 Festival of the Moving Image, Frankfurt
2024 Stiftung Kunstfonds_SoloProjekt
2024 Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
2024 Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung
2024, 2017, 2014, 2013 Israel Lottery Council for Culture and Arts
2024, 2021, 2014 Project funding, Artis
2022 NEUSTART KULTUR Modul D Deutscher Künstlerbund e.V.
2021 NEUSTART KULTUR Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn
2020 Research stipend, Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe
2019 Exhibition funding, Stiftung Kunstfonds
2019 Travel funding, Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe
2017 Project funding, Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe
2013, 2010, 2008 Project funding, Rabinovich Foundation
2013, 2012 Exhibition funding, Outset Israel
2013 Project funding, Ostrovsky Family Fund
2011 Young Artist Prize, the Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sport
2009 Artist-Teacher Scholarship, the Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sport
SOLO SHOWS, LARGE-SCALE
2024 INTERZONE, Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen
2022 CITY DUMMIES Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
2020 The Long Stretch, Christine König Galerie, Vienna
2019 Art Berlin, represented by Christine König Galerie+Galerie Jochen Hempel
2019 Architecture of The Nights, Kunstpalais Erlangen
2019 DARK AGES 2020, Salzburger Kunstverein
2018 New Positions Art Cologne, represented by Christine König Galerie, Vienna
2018 I Wear My Sunglasses At Night, Bivy, Anchorage
2017 The Runner (LIVE), KOENIG2 by_robbygreif, Vienna
2017 MiArt Milan, represented by Grimmuseum, Berlin
2016 Art Berlin Contemporary, represented by Grimmuseum, Berlin
2015 Safe and Sound (Evolutions), Grimmuseum, Berlin
2015 Safe and Sound (Evolutions), Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
2014 Safe and Sound II, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2013 Neither Day Nor Night, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv Museum
2013 Above and Beyond, CCA Tel Aviv
2012 Resurrection of Dead Masters, ARCH2 (Faculty of Architecture, University of Manitoba) + Plug In ICA, Winnipeg
2011 The Etheric Body, Collection Gallery Petach Tikva Museum of Art
2010 Fire, Work! Kav 16 Community Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
PERFORMANCE, Walks (SELECTION)
2024 The Mood Organ, Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen
2024 Nightwalk Hasenheide Berlin in tandem with Ozan Zakariya Keskinklić, LABA Berlin Mar’a’yeh Fellowship, Künstlerhaus Bethanien
2024 Nightwalk Regierungsviertel Berlin, Berliner Ensemble in the frame of The Omer Count, Ariel Efraim Ashbel and Friends
2024 Nightwalk Gleisdreieck, HAU Berlin in the frame of The Omer Count, Ariel Efraim Ashbel and Friends
2024 Night as Other Frontier: walk and boat ride in search of darkness, Liebling Haus Tel Aviv
2023 Nightwalk and intervention in public illumination, Climate Care Festival, Floating University Berlin
2023 Nightwalk Hamburg in the frame of Alles ist schon da, PARKS and HFBK Social Design Class, Hamburg
2023 Nightwalk Recyclart Molenbeek, Brussels
2023 Nightwalk South Tel Aviv In the frame of CITY DUMMIES, solo show at Rosenfeld Gallery, organized by Tatarbut, Tel Aviv Municipality
2021 Nightwalk at Humboldthain Park, Berlin In the frame of Curating on Shaky Grounds, organized by Artis and On Curating, Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK)
2021 Nightwalk at Schlossgarten, Stuttgart In the frame of CURRENT – Art and Urban Space, Stuttgart
2021 Nightwalk on the subject of light and work at Fondation Fimonco, Paris, in the framework of Freedom of Sleep, a curatorial project by Anabelle Lacroix
2018 Hands-on Lights, Workshop and guided walk around Haus der Statistik, Berlin, in the framework of Making Futures, a collaboration between Raumlabour and UDK Berlin
2016 Day and Night: A Brief History of High Visibility Clothing, presented by KubaParis at Art Berlin Contemporary
2016 Sirens for Dummies, a lecture performance about the history of alarms at Transmediale festival Berlin, Sonic Somatic Festival, Florence
2014 The Artists, performance at Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw
2011 Black Eurhythmics, performance at IKT congress, CCA Tel Aviv and Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2011 Chewing the Scenery, performance with Maya Dunietz at the offsite Swiss Pavilion 54th Venice Biennial
2010 Eroica for a Dear Man, performance with Maya Duneitz at the Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon
2010 Friday, performance with Maya Dunietz at Yaffo 23, Jerusalem
2006 Sand Blinded Eyes, performance with Rona Geffen at the 6th International Biennial for Contemporary Music, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
RESIDENCIES, FELLOWSHIPS
2024 LABA Berlin Mar’a’yeh Fellowship, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2021/2022 Public Immersion: a collaboration between KØS Museum of Art in Public Spaces, Denmark and IAC (Inter Arts Center), Sweden
2021 International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) NYC, funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe
2021 Cité Internationale des Arts, supported by Goethe Institute
2019 Making Futures, Haus der Statistik Berlin
2016-2017 KUNSTrePUBLIK and ZK/U Artist Dis-Placement residency, The Berlin Fire Brigade
2017 Nordisk Kunstnarsenter Dale, Norway
2013-2014 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2012 The Austrian Federal Ministry for Education Arts and Culture, Vienna
Alona Rodeh is a Berlin-based visual artist, scenographer, and urban practitioner working in the intersection of virtual and physical space. Her research-driven practices explore material cultures and audiovisual expressions of feelings of safety. She creates large immersive environments incorporating light and sound, directs short films, publishes artist books, practices night walks, and more. With a focus on public space, she works both inside and outside institutional bodies, collaborating closely with state and municipal bodies. She advocates for Dark Sky International, an NGO focused on restoring darkness and decreasing light pollution.
TEAM
ART IN PUBLIC SPACE Mascha Fehse
CGI Lead Rachid Moro
PROGRAMMING Eagle Wu
MODELING, DESIGN Nevo Bar
INTERN Noga Gerzon
REPRESENTATION
Christine König Galerie, Vienna
Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
2024
(Upcoming) INTERZONE, Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen
2022
CITY DUMMIES Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
2020
The Long Stretch, Christine König Galerie, Vienna
2019
Art Berlin, represented by Christine König Galerie+Galerie Jochen Hempel
Architecture of The Nights, Kunstpalais Erlangen
DARK AGES 2020, Salzburger Kunstverein
2018
New Positions Art Cologne, represented by Christine König Galerie, Vienna
I Wear My Sunglasses At Night, Bivy, Anchorage
2017
The Runner (LIVE), KOENIG2 by_robbygreif, Vienna
MiArt Milan, represented by Grimmuseum, Berlin
2016
Art Berlin Contemporary, represented by Grimmuseum, Berlin
2015
Safe and Sound (Evolutions), Grimmuseum, Berlin
Safe and Sound (Evolutions), Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
2014
Safe and Sound II, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2013
Neither Day Nor Night, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv Museum
Above and Beyond, CCA Tel Aviv
2011
The Etheric Body, Collection Gallery Petach Tikva Museum of Art
2010
Fire, Work! Kav 16 Community Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
ART IN PUBLIC SPACE
2024
PERMANENT: The Tale of the Scale and the Skull, PETRI Berlin. Entdecke die Archäologie
2024
Slow Swan Social Club, Lichtparcours Braunschweig
2022
PERMANENT: Old Empire New Light, Ananeh Art Center, Ein Yael Jerusalem
2021
Nightcaps, CURRENT: Festival for Art and Urban Space, Stuttgart
2019
PERMANENT: Jessy, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon
2018
PERMANENT: Unterwegs, Johann-Gottfried-Herder-Gymnasium, Berlin Lichtenberg
2017
The Curves of Jaffa, Jaffa Fire Station, Tel Aviv
2016
The Farewell Kiss of Fire from Water, Dizengof Square Tel Aviv
2024
On Hold, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
2023
On a Night Trip, Foundation Welt der Versuchungen, Erfurt DE
Blue for Distinction, Red for Correction—curated_by Agnieszka Pindera, Christine Koenig Galerie, Vienna
Heute Leider Nicht, Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Berlin
CLUB, Kunstbrücke am Wildenbruch, Berlin
LICHTPARCOURS 2024 Kick-off exhibition Braunschweig
Motel Zifzif, Zumu Museum on the Move IL
2022
Pattern Recognition. Revisiting the Municipal Collection Erlangen, Kunstpalais
After Life, the Center for Digital Art, Holon
On Equal Terms, Uferhalen e.V Berlin Partner of Berlin Art Week
2021
Fugen, Die Möglichkeit einer Insel, Berlin
You Got To Get In To Get Out, La Casa Encendida Madrid
Freedom of Sleep, Fondation Fiminco Paris
Specters, Ashdod Art Museum
2020
Wilds Ago: Phantoms of Youth from the Haaretz Collection, Tel Aviv
2019
Murals, the Israeli Center for Digital Art
In the Spotlight of the Night: Life in the Gloom, Marta Herford
In the Spotlight of the Night: Cities never Sleep, KAI10 I Arthena Foundation Düsseldorf
2018
Ray Tracing, Galeria Propaganda, Warsaw
To the Moon and Back, screenings: ZK/U Berlin, Berlin Independent Film Festival
2017
Playing Hide and Law, Tranzit/SK, Bratislava
2016
The Analogy Between Bulbs and Buds, Botanischer Volkspark Berlin
2015
Back To Berlin, Herzliya Museum of Art
The Crystal Palace and the Temple of Doom, Petach Tikva Museum of Art
Emergency Measures, Dallas Power Station
2014
VideoRover Season 8, NURTUREART, AC Institute, NY
Chicago Triangle, Haifa Museum of Art
Installation View, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden
2013
Go Get Your Knives, Galerie Salon Akademii, Warsaw
Under the Weather, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv
2012
Deviants, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon
Revisiting Rockefeller, Rockefeller Archeological Museum, Jerusalem
Black Eurhythmics, performance, IKT congress, CCA Tel Aviv and Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2011
Dont Try, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv
End of History, Künstlerhaus Speckstraße and Kutscherhäuser, Hamburg
Shesh Besh, Petach Tikva Museum of Art
On the Road to Nowhere, Ashdod Museum
2010
Manimal, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art
2007
I believe, 1st Herzliya Biennial, Herzliya
2024
Nightwalk Regierungsviertel Berlin, Berliner Ensemble in the frame of The Omer Count, Ariel Efraim Ashbel and Friends
Nightwalk Gleisdreieck, HAU Berlin in the frame of The Omer Count, Ariel Efraim Ashbel and Friends
Night as Other Frontier: walk and boat ride in search of darkness, Liebling Haus Tel Aviv
2023
Nightwalk and intervention in public illumination, Climate Care Festival, Floating University Berlin
Nightwalk Hamburg in the frame of Alles ist schon da, PARKS and HFBK Social Design Class, Hamburg
Nightwalk South Tel Aviv In the frame of CITY DUMMIES, solo show at Rosenfeld Gallery, organized by Tatarbut, Tel Aviv Municipality
2021
Nightwalk at Humboldthain Park, Berlin In the frame of Curating on Shaky Grounds, organized by Artis and On Curating, Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK)
Nightwalk at Schlossgarten, Stuttgart In the frame of CURRENT – Art and Urban Space, Stuttgart
Nightwalk on the subject of light and work at Fondation Fimonco, Paris, in the framework of Freedom of Sleep, a curatorial project by Anabelle Lacroix
2018
Hands-on Lights, Workshop and guided walk around Haus der Statistik, Berlin, in the framework of Making Futures, a collaboration between Raumlabour and UDK Berlin
2016
Day and Night: A Brief History of High Visibility Clothing, presented by KubaParis at Art Berlin Contemporary
Sirens for Dummies, a lecture performance about the history of alarms at Transmediale festival Berlin, Sonic Somatic Festival, Florence
2014
The Artists, performance at Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw
2011
Black Eurhythmics, performance at IKT congress, CCA Tel Aviv and Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Chewing the Scenery, performance with Maya Dunietz at the offsite Swiss Pavilion 54th Venice Biennial
2010
Eroica for a Dear Man, performance with Maya Duneitz at the Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon
Friday, performance with Maya Dunietz at Yaffo 23, Jerusalem
2006
Sand Blinded Eyes, performance with Rona Geffen at the 6th International Biennial for Contemporary Music, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2022
NEUSTART KULTUR Modul D Deutscher Künstlerbund e.V.
2021, 2014
Project funding, Artis
2021
NEUSTART KULTUR Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn
2020
Research stipend, Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe
2019
Exhibition funding, Stiftung Kunstfonds
Travel funding, Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe
2017, 2014, 2013
Project funding, Israel Lottery Council for Culture and Arts
2017
Project funding, Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe
2013, 2010, 2008
Project funding, Rabinovich Foundation
2013, 2012
Exhibition funding, Outset Israel
2013
Project funding, Ostrovsky Family Fund
2011
Young Artist Prize, the Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sport
2009
Artist-Teacher Scholarship, the Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sport
2023
Percentage-for-Art (Kunst am Bau) Competition Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin: Art meets Science
2021
Percentage-for-Art (Kunst am Bau) Competition Community Center Zille-Haus, Moabit Berlin
Dizengof Prize for Visual Artists, Tel Aviv Municipality
Adams Prize, Shenkar College of Engineering and Design
2021
Public Immersion: a collaboration between KØS Museum of Art in Public Spaces, Denmark and IAC (Inter Arts Center), Sweden
2021
International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) NYC, funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe
Cité Internationale des Arts, supported by Goethe Institute
2019
Making Futures, Haus der Statistik Berlin
2016-2017
KUNSTrePUBLIK and ZK/U Artist Dis-Placement residency, The Berlin Fire Brigade
2017
Nordisk Kunstnarsenter Dale, Norway
2013-2014
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2012
The Austrian Federal Ministry for Education Arts and Culture, Vienna