Ori Gersht

Ori Gersht

Ori Gersht

Ori Gersht was born in Israel in 1967, but has lived in London for over 30 years. Throughout his career his work has been concerned with the relationships between history, memory and landscape. He often adopts a poetic, metaphorical approach to explore the difficulties of visually representing conflict and violent events or histories.

Gersht approaches this challenge not simply through his choice of imagery, but by pushing the technical limitations of photography, questioning its claim to truth. Frequently referencing art history, Gersht's imagery is uncannily beautiful; the viewer is visually seduced before being confronted with darker and more complex themes, presenting a compulsive tension between beauty and violence. This has included an exploration of his own family’s experiences during the Holocaust, a series of post-conflict landscapes in Bosnia and a celebrated trilogy of slow-motion films in which traditional still lives explode on screen.

 

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Solo Exhibitions

2018

Fragile Land    —    New Orders

Yancey Richardson Gallery

New York

Fragile Land    —    New Orders

Talley Dunn Gallery

Dallas, Texas

2016

Floating World

Ben Brown Gallery

London, UK

Floating World

Kohn Gallery

Los Angeles, USA

 

Floating World

Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art

Tel Aviv, Israel

2015

Reflecting History - Govert Flink and Ori Gersht

Museum Kurhaus Kleve

Kleve, Germany

 

Slivers

Tel Aviv Museum of Contemporary Art

Tel Aviv, Israel

 

NaturGewalten Ori Gersht – Fotografien und Filme

Museum Sinclair-Haus

Bad Homburg, Germany

Don't Look Back

Towner Art Gallery

Eastbourne, UK

On Reflection

CRG Gallery

New York, USA

2014

On Reflection

Ben Brown Gallery

Hong Kong

 

Ori Gersht: Portraits

Pizzuti Collection

Columbus, Ohio, USA

 

Ori Gersht: Still Life

Columbus Museum of Art

Clumbus, Ohio, USA

2013

Nogah Engler and Ori Gersht

Mummery + Schnelle

London, UK

Against Time

Centre for Contemporary Art

Tel Aviv, Israel

 

All Will Come to Pass

Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art

Tel Aviv, Israel

 

Cells

CRG Gallery

New York, USA

 

Liquid Assets + selected works

Angles Gallery

Los Angeles, USA

 

Ori Gersht: Overview

Gund Gallery

Ohio, USA

2012

Evaders

Museo Madre

Naples, Italy

History Repeating

Museum of Fine Art Boston

Boston, USA

 

Still and Forever

Brand New Gallery

Milan, Italy

 

This Storm is What We Call Progress

Imperial War Museum

London, UK

2011

Lost In Time

Santa Barbara Museum

Santa Barbara, USA

 

Falling Petals

CRG Gallery

New York, USA

 

Falling Petals

Angles Gallery

Los Angeles, USA

Falling Petals

Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art

Tel Aviv, Israel

2010

Places That Were Not

Angles Gallery

Los Angeles, USA

 

Places That Were Not

Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art

Tel Aviv, Israel

Places That Were Not

Mummery + Schnelle Gallery

London, UK

2009

Evaders

CRG Gallery

New York, USA

2008

Selected Films

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Washington, USA

 

Folding Time

Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art

Tel Aviv, Israel

The Forest

Musée d'Art de Toulon

Toulon, France

 

Time Folds

Angles Gallery

Santa Monica, USA

 

Ori Gersht & Jan Breughel the Elder

Ingleby Gallery

Edinburgh, Scotland

Pomegranate

The Jewish Museum

New York, USA

 

 

2007

Time After Time: Exploding Flowers and Other Matters

The Armory Show, CRG Gallery

New York, USA

 

The Forest & Blow Up

Yale Centre for British Art

New Haven, USA

 

The Clearing

Stills Gallery

Edinburgh, UK

Time After Time

Mummery + Schnelle Gallery

London, UK

The Forest

Mic Toi Rerehiko Gallery

Auckland, New Zeeland

2006

The Forest

Tel Aviv Museum

Tel Aviv, Israel

Liquidation

Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art

Tel Aviv, Israel

The Clearing

Angles Gallery

Los Angeles, New York

The Forest

CRG Gallery

New York, USA

The Clearing

Photographers Gallery

London, UK

The Clearing

SpaceX

Exeter, UK

The Clearing

Photo Gallery

Cardiff, UK

The Clearing

Galway Art Festival

Galway, Ireland

The Clearing

Leeds Metropolitan University

Leeds, UK

2005

Liquidation

CRG Gallery

New York, USA

 

Erzhal Mir Vom Krieg: Ori Gersht & Simon Norfolk

Zephyr Gallery

Mannheim, Germany

2004

Blaze

Andrew Mummery Gallery

London, UK

 

Blaze

Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art

Tel Aviv, Israel

 

History in the Making

Photo España

Madrid, Spain

 

Ghost and Concrete City Scans

Angles Gallery

Santa Monica, USA

 

Ghost

The Armory Show, CRG Gallery

New York, USA

2003

Black Soil

CRG Gallery

New York, USA

2002

White Noise

Angles Gallery

Santa Monica, USA

 

Afterglow

Art Room Now, Tate Britain

London, UK

 

Afterglow

Helena Rubenstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art

Tel Aviv, Israel

Mass Culture

Andrew Mummery Gallery

London, UK

2001

White Noise

Galerie Martin Kudlek

Cologne, Germany

Mass Culture

Refusalon Gallery

San Fransisco, USA

 

Afterwars

Belfast Exposed

Belfast, UK

LISTE 01

The Young Art Fair, Basel, Andrew Mummery Gallery

Basel, Switzerland

 

White Noise

Gallery Noga

Tel Aviv, Israel

 

White Noise

Andrew Mummery Gallery

London, UK

2000

AfterWars

Gardner Arts Centre

Brighton, UK

Pitch

Chisenhale Gallery

London, UK