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