Liliana Orbach (from Israel / Asia)Interdisciplinary artist, independent video art curator, lecturer and coordinator of international art related projects and events. Born in Argentina. Lives and works in Tel Aviv. Israel.
Has earned her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Arts and teaching credentials at the Faculty of Fine Arts, National University, Argentina and her Master of Arts Degree in Arts at the California State University, Fullerton, U.S.A. She is currently a PhD in Arts candidate at the Multimedia department, Poznan Academy of Arts, Poland.
Has co-founded the first Professional Visual Artists Association in Israel, serving as its chairperson between the years 2005 to 2007. Recently, she has launched Muzaplus, an independent space for interdisciplinary art in Jaffa, Israel.
Works in collaboration with local and foreign artists, writers, musicians and performers in a variety of art related projects. Has participated in many national and international art related events, which have been held within Israel and abroad.
Has been invited to organize art related events, to curate video art programs and to deliver lectures about Israeli art, as well as about her own work, at museums and universities.
Among her video installations, projects and collaborations it can be mentioned What has risen may sunk and what has sunk may rise, a video installation in collaboration with Polish artists Dominik Lejman and Marek Wasilewski, at The Artists’ House – Tel Aviv (2013) and at WRO Atelier, Wroclaw, Poland (2012); Chronicle of an Erasure - video art work and live piano performance, in collaboration with Israeli composer Hagar Kadima, at Hateiva auditorium, Jaffa, Israel (2010); Waiting for an Echo, video installation, in collaboration with American writer Mark Daniel Cohen, at The New Gallery, Jerusalem (2006) and at Wschodnia Gallery, Lodz, Poland (2007); The Goldberg Variations - A Different Outlook, video art and live piano performance, in collaboration with the pianist Meir Wiesel, at Tzavta auditorium, Tel Aviv (2008); The Oasis Edge, a multimedia installation at the II International Art Biennial - Buenos Aires, National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2002); Markers, Art and Poetry in Venice, a visual–poetry collaboration at The 49th Venice Biennial, Italy (2001) and Construction in Process VII: This Earth is a Flower, organized by The International Artists‘ Museum, in Bidgozdsz, Poland (2000).
Some of the multimedia exhibitions and video festivals in which she took part, are detailed as follows: Water in Art and Life, an international multimedia exhibition at The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel (2007); Forest Man, an Israeli and Turkish video art exhibition, at The New Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel (2006); Autres Voies / Vois Multiples, Videoformes festival, France (2005-07); Intimacy-Digital Skin-Part II, at the Third Annual New Media Arts Festival, Bangkok, Thailand (2005); Hold Me Tight, a video art exhibition at the Janco-Dada Museum, Ein-Hod, Israel (2003-04); The Colors of Water, a multimedia exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum, Israel (2002-04); Local Time 5, video art screening, at the Tel Aviv and Jerusalem Cinemateques, Israel (2002); Wasser! Wasser!!, a multimedia exhibition at the Nature and Men State Museum, Oldenburg, Germany (2002); Hands, a multimedia exhibition at The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel (2001-02).
Her documentary pieces and work commissions are gathered as follows: Definiciones, Acordes y Disonancias, a selection of her video works presented at the video art festival IVAHM12 - Madrid, Spain (2013) and at CINETORO film festival, Instituto Iberoamericano, and Frontera Sur gallery, Cali, Colombia (2012); Di Libe Brent a Shrek, an experimental short film, at AVAHM12 - video festival, Madrid, Spain and at NIO 1 - video festival, Pereira, Colombia (2012); Di Libe Brent a Shrek, an outdoors installation at Open City - Lublin, Poland (2011); screening of a selection of her video works as part of Mobile Archive, an Israeli Center for Digital Art video traveling project, at Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Galerija Nova, Zagreb, Croatia; WYSPA Art Institute. Gdansk, Poland; Hamburg Kunstverein, Germany (2007-13); Definitions in Simple Language, a selection of her video works, at the Art Opening Season Event in Tel-Aviv. Artists’ House. Tel- Aviv, Israel (2007); Manifesta 4 - Documenta 11 and The 4th Berlin Biennial, two short documentary video works presented at The Third Ear Cinema. Tel- Aviv, Israel (2006); Manifesta 4 - Documenta 11, The II International Art Biennial-Buenos Aires and The 50th Venice Biennial, three short documentary video works, screened at the Petach-Tikva Museum of Art, Israel (2003); The 49th Venice Biennial and Markers in Venice, two short documentary video works, screened at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque, Israel (2002).
Within her curatorial and editing work, it can be cited New Beginnings, compilation of video art works by international artists, at Muzaplus, Jaffa, Israel (2013); Home Affairs - Selected works, a compilation of video art works by Israeli artists, at NIO 2 - video festival, Pereira, Colombia (2013); Home Affairs, compilation of video art works by Israeli artists, at CINETORO film festival, Cartago and at Frontera Sur Gallery, Cali, Colombia (2012); Homemade 4, a compilation of video art works by Israeli artists, at the International video art festival Loop–Barcelona and La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain (2011); My Home is your Home, a compilation of video art works by Israeli and foreign artists, at the Loving Art. Making Art - Art opening season in Tel Aviv, Israel (2011); Homemade 3, a compilation of video art works by Israeli artists, at Lodz Culture House Cinema and Wschodnia Gallery, Lodz, Poland (2006); Homemade 2 - Selected Works, a compilation of video art works by Israeli artists, at the Macadamia Video Festival, R. Rojas Cultural Center-UBA, Buenos Aires and the Museum of Contemporary Art – MACRO, Rosario, Argentina (2005), previously presented at the Intermedia Department, Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan, Poland and at Kino-Lab, Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland (2004); Homemade 1, a compilation of video art works by Israeli artists, at the Second International Four Cultures Dialog Festival, Cytryna Cinema, Lodz, Poland (2003).
As organizer and coordinator, she promoted and was in charge of the Óptica video Art festival screenings in Israel, which was screened at the Tel Aviv, Sderot, Haifa and Jerusalem Cinematheques, in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes, the Embassy of Spain in Tel Aviv and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem (2011); co-organized Good Night and Bad Luck, an Israeli and Polish artists exhibition, as part of the Polish season in Israel, at the Artists’ House, Tel Aviv, Israel and Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland (2009); co-curated and produced Unfolding Memoirs, a video and performance exhibition by Israeli artists, in collaboration with Polish artist Marek Wasilewski, at ON Gallery, Poznan, Poland (2006) and served as coordinator of Markers, Art and Poetry in Venice, an international “a lattere” project, at The 49th Venice Biennial, Italy (2001).
During the year 2012 she was invited to give an artist talk at the WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland and gave a lecture at CINETORO film festival, Cartago, Colombia (2012). Was also invited to lecture at the CENAR-National Center for the Arts, MUNA- National Museum of Anthropology, the National University, MARTE- Art Museum and the University of Technology’s Communications department, San Salvador, El Salvador (2009).
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Liliana Orbach (proposed) organize screening in partnership with:
Muzaplus
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