As a painter I explore the world and my experience of it. I create images through constant observation of what is closest to me - home, family, friends - vis-à-vis the large cultural context in which I live. Everything around me - streets, landscapes, people - penetrates my work in movement and rhythm. My art has a primordial, naïve and unleashed force about it, as I seek to capture the pulse of life both consciously and unconsciously. My work maintains a dialogue with Neo-Expressionism and minimalism as well as with primitive archaic cultures. I believe that essentially a painter works from a feeling of blindness and all the while strives very hard to observe and to grasp what is inside of him. He must feel and understand, accept and express.
1966 Born in Tajikistan
1982 Immigrated to Israel
1988-1992 BFA from the Bezalel Art School in Jerusalem
2014-2016 MFA from Haifa University
Lives and Works in Tel Aviv
Solo Exhibitions
1994 Artists’ House, Jerusalem
1995 Wall Paintings, Art Center, Jerusalem
1996 Wall Painting, Phenomena Festival, Talpiot, Jerusalem
1997 Bineth Gallery, Tel Aviv
1997 Photography School in Musrara, Jerusalem
1997 Nachshon Gallery, Kibbutz Nachshon
1999 “A Walk”, Bineth Gallery, Tel Aviv
2001 “Alex Kremer”, Galerie Walsch, Vienna, Austria
2002 “Paintings, 1999-2001”, Bineth Gallery, Tel Aviv
2004 “No Space”, Dwek Gallery, Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Jerusalem
2005 Bineth Gallery, Tel Aviv
2007"Selected works 1996-2007",Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
2009"Valley of Hinnom", Tel Aviv Museum, Curator Varda Steinlauf
"The Season Sky", Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
"Don't Hunt the Wolf",Jerusalem Print Workshop, Curator: Arik Kilemnik, Irena
Gordon
2011 "Pianist", Gordon Gallery,Tel Aviv
2012 "At the End of the Day", Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
2014 "Tirza Freund/ Alex Kremer, Zisman Gallery, Tel Aviv
2015 "Ghosts",Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv
2015 "Walking Distance", Rothschild Fine Art, Tel Aviv
2017 "BADOGOODOG", Rothschild Fine Art, Tel Aviv
Group Exhibitions
1992 Uri & Rami Nechushtan Museum, Kibbutz Ashdot Yaacov, Israel
1993 “Portfolio”, Bineth Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1993 Artists’ House, Jerusalem
1994 “Artfocus”, Artists’ House, Jerusalem
1997 “Portfolio”, Bineth Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1997 'The House at Musrara”, The Art Center, Jerusalem
1998 “Tromi”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1998 Israeli artists exhibit in Jordan
1998 “Good Kids, Bad Kids”, Childhood in Israeli Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1998 “In the Name of the Land, In the Name of the Lord. Art and Realities in
1998 Jerusalem” , The Artists’ House, Jerusalem
1999 “Exhibition 25”, Etchings, The Print Workshop, Jerusalem
1999 “Now”, Bineth Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1999 “Voice From Here and There”, new acquisitions in the Department of Prints
and Drawings, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2000 Prints from the Jim Dine and Cabri Workshop Project, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
2001 “Exhibition 28”, new etchings, The Print Workshop, Jerusalem
2001 “Impressions”, drawing in Israel now, The Artists’ House, Jerusalem,
2001 The Print Workshop, Jerusalem, The Anna Ticho House, Jerusalem
2001 Winners of the Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport Exhibition, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2002 “Focus on Painting”, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
2003 “Young Israeli Art, The Jacques and Eugenie O’Hana Collection”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2004 “70 to the Tel Aviv Museum”, prints, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
2005 “Impressions”, drawing in Israel now, The Artists’ House, Jerusalem, The
Print Workshop, Jerusalem, Curator: Dror Burstein
2006 "Darchey Eretz", Ashdod Museum of Art - Monart Centre, Ashdod,
Curator: Jonah Fisher
2006 "Etchings from the Brain", The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Curator:
Meira Perri Lahman
2007 "Hosted by Kupferman", Kupferman's House, Kibbutz Lohamei Ha'ghetaot
"Home", Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
2008 "To Know Fire", Florentin Gallery, Tel Aviv
"In Conflict", Jerusalem Print Workshop, Curator: Arik Kilemnik, Irena Gordon
"Inner Landscapes", Jerusalem Print Workshop, Curator: Irena Gordon
Collections
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Rachel and Dov Gottesman
Zeev Holtzman
Special Projects
1993“Floating Lessons”, (performance), School of Visual Theater, Jerusalem
2001 Live Performance Painting, La Bohème Révoltée, The Opera, Director:
Markus Kupferblum, Porgi & Bess Jazz Club, Vienna, Austria
2003 “Trio Abstract”, performance of music and painting, The Jazz, Blues and
Videotape Festival, Tel Aviv Cinemateque, Israel
2016 "To draw a dragon" performance at Fine Art department Haifa University
2016 "A score for migrating Pelicans" performance at Artists house" Jerusalem
2016 "The perfect circle" performance at Barbur Gallery Jerusalem
2017 "Black sun" performance at The Gottesman Etching Center - Kibbutz Cabri, Israel
Prizes and awards
1999 Shtruck Prize for Art Printing (Etching), Bezalel Art School in Jerusalem
2001 The Young Israeli Artist Prize from the Ministry of Science, Culture and
Sport, Israel
2008 Beno Gutter award, Tel Aviv Museum of Contemporary Art
2015 Ya'acov Pins print award, Israel Museum of Art