About
Yaacov Chefetz
Born in Israel.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
1982-2002 The Dancing Studio ‘Gaaton’. Course Title: “The Dialogue between Plastic Arts and Modern Dancing.
1984-1992 ‘Oranim’ Academic College, School of Education. Head of Sculpture and Installation Program.
1992-Present ‘Galil Maaravi Academic College’. Course Title: The History of the 20th Century Arts, Installation and Performance.
1992-Present ‘Technion’ Israel Institute of Technology, Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning. Senior Lecturer. Course Title: Basic Design 1-2-4-5.
2004-Present ‘Shenkar’ College of Engineering & Design, School of Engineers. Course Title: Design in Two Dimensions; Architectural Structure Drawing.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Since 1972 an active artist. Participating in art events and exhibitions, in Israel and abroad. Curator and initiator of exhibitions and art events. Building outdoor sculptures (three in T.A.), installations, and performances (from 1974) in Israel and abroad.
SIGNIFICANT PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS
Selected Person Art exhibitions:
1974 ‘The Meal’, performance in kibbutz Eilon
1975 ‘Body Measurements’, Kibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv.
1976 Kibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv. ‘Structures’, Installation.
1979-1980 Outside and Kibbutz Gallery. ‘Mashchara’ with D’yab Mazel.
1981-1983-1989 Sara Levi Gallery. Tel Aviv. Drawings after Mashchara
1986 The Haifa Museum of Art. ‘The open Mashchara’, installation.
1992 Ramat-Gan Museum for Israeli Art. Sculptures. (Catalogue).
1993 Sara Levi Gallery. Tel Aviv. Drawings after the Mashchara Project.
1995 Haifa Museum of Modern Art. Installation. (Catalogue).
1988 Lobelsky Gallery, N.Y city. ‘Border Line’ (catalogue).
1998 ‘MASHCHARA’. Digital print for Golda Center, Tel Aviv.
1999 Kibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv. “After his death”, Installation (catalog)
2000 The International Art Event in Bidgodzs, Poland. Installation.
2002 The Hebrew Union College Art gallery. Special installation, “There They will try to change my name”.
2003 The Open-Museum, Tefen, ‘Tow Dimensional works’.
2006 The second Lodz Biennale.
2007 Constant Gallery, Ramat-Gan. Installation.
2009 Drawings and Photos “Haifa, Summer 2006”, Artura Gallery, Tel Aviv – Yafo.
Artists House, Tel Aviv. ‘Spring Flowers’. Photo-print
2010 Oranim Gallery. Reconstruction Season, 1975-1995. Mashchera
2011 Kayma Gallery & Studio. Tel Aviv, Jaffa.
Documentary Movie ‘Shaj Tan’, 46 minutes. Lodz Movies Festival.
2015 ZAZ Festival. Performance
2020 Um El Faham Gallery “Only good intentions”
2021 Gallery Wischodnia, Lodz. Poland, Hans Journey
2022 Pyramida Art Center, Haifa
Selected Group Art exhibitions:
1975 ‘The Third Floor Gallery, Tel Aviv. Projects.
1980-83 Tel-Hai Event, Environmental project.
1984 The Chicago Council of Art. Israeli Art in the 70-80’s.
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. 80 Years of Sculpting.
1986 The Goethe Institute, Tel Aviv. Homage to Joseph Beuys.
Spring space Gallery. N.Y city. Israeli Art.
1989 Bio-89 Biennale. Portugal. Sculpture.
1990 Hara Museum, Tokyo. Israeli Art. Sculpture.
1991 Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City.
1992 The Brooklyn Museum, N.Y. Israeli Art.
1993 The Brooklyn Museum, N.Y 20’Th century sculpture drawings (21
Drawings acquired by the museum).
Tel-Aviv University Art Gallery. ‘Water Tower in Israel’. Sculpture.
The international Artist Museum event in Mizpe-Ramon.
1995 ‘Five Years to 2000’, Herzelita Museum of Art. Curator and participant.
1997 Cardiff Art Event, Welsh. Installation.
1998 The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. ‘The Mashchara Project’.
1999 The Municipal Gallery, Saltsburg, Austria. Israeli Art.
2000 The Artist Museum Event for 20 Years. Bydgoszc, Poland.
2002 Um El Fachem Gallery.
2003-2004 Saragossa Art Events, Spain. Installation.
2004 The Lodz Biennale, Poland. Installation.
2006 Muzeum Sztuki w Lodz. A permanent project (from the Lodz 2006 Biennale).
2007 Pyramida Art Gallery, Haifa. ‘Non Site’, Curator and displaying. Photography.
2008 The Drawing Biennale. The Artist House. Jerusalem.
2009 Installation in “Lucid as Crystal”, Kaima Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo.
– Installation and Photos, ‘Calm’, Kunstpunkt-Berlin. Berlin. Germany.
Vox Populi. Belzig, Germany. One week, Performance-installation
2010 “To Dream Reality” Video (After performance) ‘Tuchistan President’,
Pyramida Gallery. Haifa.
“Identity”, Plan. D. Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Performance at the “SHE” festival. Theater “Karov” Tel Aviv.
Video Art. At the convention of the Hebrew Language. “Other Language”.
2011 Judischer Zeichen Kultur Bahnhof Eller, Düsseldorf. “Mental Space”
2011 Haifa Museum of Art. Walking, ‘Actions’, 1974-78-80
The international Performance ZZ. Tel Aviv, Haifa
Lviv (Lwow) Ukraine, I international Performance Festival.
Lodz Film Festival, Poland. Video and “drawings”.
2022 Onomato Gallery, Dusseldorf
2022 Moterenhalle , Dresden
List of Sculpture in the urban Environment 1982- 2004*
1982 Three sculptures in the ‘Open Museum’, the industry-Garden, Tefen.
1983 One sculpture in Tel-Hai 83.
1984 One sculpture in Santa Barbara, U.S.A (Private collection).
1989-1992 Three sculptures in Tel Aviv.
1988 One sculpture in Tel-Nof Airport.
1994-1996-2003 Three sculptures in Herzeliya
1988-1995 Two sculptures in Jerusalem
1998-1999 Two Maalot-Trshicha
1986 One sculpture for a private collection, Allentown. Pen. U.S.A.
1986 One sculpture for private collection, N.Y, U.S.A
1997 One Arad, Israel
1998-1999 Two sculptures in Haifa
1998 One sculpture in Ashkelon
1999 One sculpture ‘Keshet Eilon’, Kibbutz Eilon
2002 One sculpture in Kfar-Saba
2003 One sculpture in Petach-Tikva
2003 One sculpture in Carmiel
2004 One sculpture in Nahariya
* (As of 2004 I am not placing any more sculptures in public spaces).
Projects and performances since 1974
1973-1975 ‘Body Measurement’, Experiments and an examination of Attendance. Photos and Video.
1974 ‘The Meal’. Project in Kibbutz Eilon dining room. Performance.
1978-1997 ‘Rainfall Region’, Activities across the country (collaboration with Dov Haller). Mail-Links, projects, exhibitions (Haifa Museum, Artist-House, Jerusalem). Catalogue.
1974-1993 ‘The Mashchara Project’, (1980 Installation with Dyab Mazal.
1982 Two sculptures, Mashchara No. 3-5 in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
1998 Installation in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem).Drawings
1978-1982 Established the ‘kibbutz Common’, Platform for criticism By Kibbutz Artists. Curator and participant, (‘the red Gallery’).
2002 “Vou Tut Mear Vei” (Yiddish), where does it hurt me. Performance, Installation, Drawings.
– ‘They All are Heroes’, project for the Lodz city (festival of four Cultures), urban project.
2003 ‘The Miracle of Bread and Honey’, Performance-Installation. Saragossa, Tel Aviv.
2003-2004 Initiator with Adam Klimczak (Poland) the ‘Moving Studio’. Project with Israeli, Polish and Germans students. The students traveled in trains and did documentation by photograph.
– The conclusion was presented in the Lodz Art Academy and in Haifa.
2003-2007 ‘Amanita Virus’ (Latin, The Destroying Angel – a name of fungus). Two-Dimensional project (mental space). Performance in Tel-Aviv-Paris-Lodz.
2004-2006 Continuation of the Amanita Virosa Performance. Tel Aviv,
– Istanbul in the Galata Perform Center. Istanbul.
2008 Performance-Installation in the International Performance Event, ZAZ, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Mizpe-Ramon.
2008 Organizer and curator of Performances and installations in the Rapoport Studio, Ramat-Gan.’ The Menorah is Returning’. Organized and curator of the Project ‘Radio-Performance’.
– Four hours of Broadcast in Channel 2. The Art Gallery of the Wizo Design Academy-Haifa
2009 ‘Tuchestan President Teaching how to Build a Bridge’. Video-Performance.
– “Hamaabada”, Jerusalem.
– ‘Easy Hand’, Video-Performance. Kunstpunkt-Berlin. Berlin, Germany.
2010 Text and Performance. Hey (she), Karove Theatre, (Cooperation with actor), Tel-Aviv.
– Curator. ‘The Tunnel Gallery’ at Balfur St. Haifa. (Two projects belong to Specific site).
– Initiator and curator. Waadi Saalib– Layers. A project on site-specific. With multi- media using (photography, video, architects, archives and free Response).
– ‘The Market’, at Talpiuot Market-Hadar. International Performance event. Cooperate with Miklat 209, Tel Aviv. Partner and curator.
– The international performance festival, ZAZ. .performance. Tel Aviv, Haifa.
– “A Red Scarf on your Neck”, Performance. Kibbutz Gallery. Tel Aviv.
2011 “The First of May” Performance, 24 hours on Marx and Marxism. ‘Chalallit’, Tel Aviv.
– Kayma Gallery Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Performance, Easy- Hand -2
– Lvov, Ukraine. International performance festival, Performance “My Blood Pressure”
– Head of project with the municipality of Haifa. A center for Study,
– Discussion and display in the urban expanse of Haifa.
HONORS/PRIZES
1969 & 1970 ‘The Sharet Fund. Ministry of Education and Culture.
1979 The Havazelt Fund Prize.
1986 The Histadrut Prize for Sculptor (with Yechezkel Shtraichman for painting).
2004 Ministry of Education and Culture supporting for art and artists.
2010 Haifa fund.