Curriculum Vitae
Education
1993-1995 Ha'midrasha art college, Beit Berl
1995-1998 B.A Fine Art, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
Awards, grants and Residencies
2023 - Film London Jarman Award, nominee
2021 - Audience Award, Swedenborg Film Festival, London
2020 - Ostrovsky Family Award for the Experimental Film, Jerusalem Film Festival
2020 - Special Mention Award - Oberhausen Film Festival
2019 - Staff Stiftung, Germany
2019 - Elephant Trust, UK
2018 - Award for an Established Video Artist, Ministry of Culture
2018 - Outset
2016- Arts Council England - Grants for the Arts
2015- Artis Contemporary
2015- Arts Council England - International Development Fund
2015- Ostrovsky Family Fund for Experimental Cinema
2015 - Künstlerhäuser Worpswede, Germany (residency)
2012- Cimema Project, the Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts
2011 - Center for Contemporary Art Fund for Video & Experimental Cinema
2011 - Bambi Foundation, Berlin
2010 - British Council, London
2010 - Outset Contemporary Art Fund
2009 - Arts Council Englan
2007 - Experimental film award, Jerusalem Film Festival
2006 - Delfina Bursary award, London
2004 - Delfina Studios, London
2004 - The New Fund for Cinema and TV
2003 - Rabinovich Foundation – grant for an artist book
2003 - Center for Contemporary Art Fund for Video & Experimental Cinema
2002 - Givon prize, Tel-Aviv Museum of modern Art
2002 - Bertelsmann Foundation, Germany
2000 - Ministry of Science Culture & Sport award for a young artist
1998 - Elhanani award (excellence prize for a “Bezalel” graduate)
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022 - Karen Russo, Retrospective, Crypto Fiction, London
2019 - Myths of the Near Future, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Tel-Aviv
2016 - Haus Atlantis, Große Kunstschau, Worpswede
2014- We Are Golden, Circle1 - Platform for Art & Culture, Berlin
2013 - Mole Man, Barbican Centre, London
2010 - The Remote Viewing Project, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv
2009 - On a Clear Day We Can See Forever, Paradise Row Gallery, London
2008 - Aesthetics of Disappointment, Faye Fleming & Partner (formely Arquebuse), Geneva
2007 - One in the Other Gallery, London
2006 - Dvir Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2005 - Economy of Excess, VTO, London
2005 - Delfina, London
2001 - A Doll’s House, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2000 - Spontaneous Human Combustion, Herzliya Museum, Israel
Selected Group Exhibition
2023 - B3 Biennial of the Moving Image, Frankfurt
2023- Salon for a Speculative Future: Women Artists’ Print Portfolio, MOCA, London
2022 - Brewers Towner International, Towner Eastbourne
2022 - Changing & Growing 10 Years, KM Gallery, Berlin
2021 - Swedenborg Film Festival, London
2021 - Marseille Underground Film & Music Festival, Marseille
2021 - Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor
2020 - The City & the City & the City, Frestonian Gallery, London
2020 - Jerusalem Film Festival, Jerusalem
2020 - Kassel Documentary Film Festival, Kassel
2020- Uppsala Short Film Festival, Uppsala
2020 - International Film Festival Oberhausen
2020- Alchemy Film Festival, Hewick
2020 - Marseille Underground Film Festival
2020 - Ministry of Culture Awards, Ashdod Museum
2019 - Drawing Biennial, The Drawing Room, London
2018- Dioramas (screening), TRANSIT ARTS, Glad Cafe, Glasgow
2018- November Film Festival, London
2018 – Nightfall, Tel-Aviv Artists Studios
2018 – Jerusalem Film Festival
2018 – Emplacing, Close up Film Centre, London
2017- More Love Hours Than Can Ever Be Repaid, Raw Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2017- European Media Art Festival, Osnabrueck
2017- Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London
2016- Swedenborg Film Festival, London
2016- Things to Come, Petach-Tikva Museum
2014- Culture Loops, Museum Bärengasse, Zurich
2014- No Man’s Land, Jerusalem Artist House
2014- Cinema South Festival, Sderot
2013- Urban Wandering, Barbican Centre, London
2013- Ministry of Culture prize, Ashdod Museum
2013- The World is Almost Six Thousands Years Old, The Collection Lincoln & Usher Gallery, Lincoln
2013- Drawing Biennial, the Drawing Room, London
2013- Mythographies, Bezalel/Yaffo 23, Jerusalem
2012 - ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, the Mall Galleries, London
2012 - Cabinets of Curiosities in Contemporary Art - From Astonishment to Disenchantment, Hertzliya Museum, Israel
2012 - Inter Sections – Science in Contemporary Art, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
2012 - The Curator’s Egg, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
2011 - 28th Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival, Kassel, Germany
2011 - The Edge of Reason: Mapping the Invisible, Kino Kino Centre for Contemporary Art and Film, Sandnes, Norway
2011 - Drawing Biennial, The Drawing Room, London
2011 - Aestheticos, P.K Hoenich Center for Art, Science and Technology, Faculty of Architecture, Technion, Haifa
2011 - Escape, The artist's house, Tel Aviv
2010 - The City and the Stars, STILLS - Scotland’s Centre for Photography, Edinburgh
2010 - Trembling Time, screening, Tate Modern, London
2010 – The Big Rip-Off, Camden Art Centre, London
2010 - The Young Israelis, Lesley Heller gallery, New York
2010 – Angst hat große Augen, Werkleitz Festival, Halle (Saale), Germany
2010 - Overview: Israeli Video 2000-2010, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
2009 - Other worlds: the Hayward Gallery Project Space in South Korea, Platform in KIMUSA, Seoul, Korea
2009 - Deceitful Moon, Hayward Gallery Project Space, London
2009 - Saturn Rings, Dvir Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2009 - The Man with the Pumpkin Head, Ein Harod Museum, Israel
2009 - Slump City, SPACE, London
2009 - Fucking Tourists, ReMap, Athens biennale, Athens
2008 - Three BY Three, Yinka Shunibare space, London
2008 - Expenditure, Busan biennial, Korea
2008 - Jerwood Drawing Prize 2008, Jerwwod Space, London
2008 - Won't Get Fooled Again, Café Gallery Projects, London
2008 - Real Time: Art in Israel 1998–2008, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2008 - Depletion, works from the Sebbag collection, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Tel-Aviv
2008 - Demons, Bat-Yam Museum, Israel
2008 - Artfocus 5 - Can Art do More?, Talpiot Beit Benit Congress Centre, Jerusalem
2008 - the White Sport, Minshar for Art, Tel-Aviv
2007 - An Archaeology, 176, works from the Zabludowicz collection, London
2007 - Off Screen, Montevideo- Netherlands Institute for Media Art, Amsterdam
2007 - Videospread, Paris Subway Transit – RATP, France
2007 - Surrealist Ball, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
2006 - Wanderland: Israel - Palestine, Krefeld Museum, Krefeld, Germany
2006 - Write on Write off, The Great Unsigned at Chapman Fine Arts, London
2006 - In Between Places, Vivian Horan Gallery, New-York
2006 - “Everything Must Go”, VTO, London
2006- “Black Moon Island”, One in the Other, London
2006 - “Disruptions”, Petach-Tikva Museum, Israel
2005 - “Dreams and Trauma”, Haus Der Kulturen Die Welt, Berlin, Germany
2005 - “Video London”, Espai Ubú, Barcelona, Spain
2005 - "Take It Further!” Andrew Mummery Gallery, London
2005 - “Why don’t You Say It?” Hertzliya Museum, Israel
2005 - “Future Landscapes”, Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery, Shrewsbury
2004 - "Etude pour un Premier Amour", Dvir Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2004 - Delfina, London
2004- "Frigid", Tal Esther Gallery, Tel Aviv
2004 - Works from the O'hana collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
2003 - The 20th Film Festival, Jerusalem
2003 - Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
2003 - "Video Invitational", FA Projects, London
2003 - “Video Zones”, Herzliya Museum, Israel
2003 - “Video Works”, Dvir Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2003 - "Parallel Worlds", K&S gallery, Berlin
2002 - “The 35th Year”, Plonit Gallery, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2002 - “Where are the Children”, Givon Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2002 - “Special for Studio”, Camera Obscura Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2002 - “Drawings” Tel-Aviv Artist’s Studios”, Tel-Aviv
2002 - “Narrative and Other Tales”, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
2001 - “Video Works”, Bezalel Academy Gallery, Tel-Aviv
2000 - “Erection”- Pe’er gallery, Tel-Aviv
1999 - “Regarding Rafi”- Nufar Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
1998 - “Les Fous du Roi”, Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Nimes, Nimes, France
1998 - “Not to be looked At”, Le Miroir, Marseille, France
Bibliography
Publications
Karen Russo Haus Atlantis, Kunstlerhauser Worpswede, 128 p', 2019
Karen Russo - The Remote Viewing Project, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, 64 p', 2010
Encyclopedia Thermica, Fiction, critical theory & images, Omanut La'am Press, 324 p, 2004
Catalogues & Essays
The City &The City & the City, Frestonian Gallery, London, 2020
Haus Atlantis - Visual Essay, Tohu Magazine, 10.11.2016
Die Externsteine. Zwischen wissenschaftlicher Forschung und völkischer Deutung. Eikermann L, Haupt S, Linde R, Zelle M (Eds); Veröffentlichungen der Historischen Kommission für Westfalen, 31. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag: p’ 533-554. 2018
Things to Come, Petach Tikva Museum, 2016
The Projected Image, Hamidrasha 16, Beit Berl College of Art Magazine, 2013, p' 121-129
The Edge of Reason: Mapping the Invisible, KINOKINO Center for Art and Film, Sandnes, Norway, 2011
Angst hat große Augen, Werkleitz Gesellschaft e.V, KUNSTrePUBLIK, Halle (Saale) 2010
Israeli Art Now, Modan Publishing, Israel 2009
Other worlds: the Hayward Gallery Project Space in South Korea, Platform in KIUSA, Seoul, Korea, 2009
The Man with the Pumpkin Head, Ein Harod Museum, Israel, 2009
Expenditure, Busan Biennial, Korea, 2008
The Civil Contract of Photography, Ariella Azoulay, Zone Books, New York, 2008
Jerwood Drawing Prize Award 2008, The Centre for Drawing, Universitity of the Arts, London 2008
Real Time: Art in Israel 1998–2008, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 2008
Depletion, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Israel 2008
Can Art Do More?, Art Focus 5, Israel, 2008
Demons-Contemporary Artists from Poland and Israel and the Spirits of Time, Bat-Yam Museum, Israel, 2008
Wanderland: Israel-Palestine, Haus der Lange, Kunstmuseem Krefeld, Kerber Press, 2006
Narrative and Other Tales, Haifa Museum of Art publications, Israel, 2002
Ha'midrasha 4 – Artist’s texts, page 59-90, Babel Publishing, 2001
A Doll’s House, Joint 4, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem 2000
Selected Press & Reviews
Ben Shields, Karen Russo's Films Explore the Manipulative Power of Nazi Imagery, Hyperallergic, 14.11.2020
Keren Goldberg, Myths of the Near Future at the Tel-Aviv Museum, Exhibition review, Art Review, March 2020
Interview by Reut Barnea, Calcalist, 05.12.19
Avi Pitchon, Karen Russo: Myths of the Near Future, Ha'aretz Weekend edition, 01.11.19
Raimar Stange, "Die Gegenwart der Geschichte als Zukunft?", Artmagazine, 18.08.16
Radek Krolczyk, "Medienkünstlerin Karen Russo beschäftigt sich mit Bernhard Hoetger", der Kreiszeitung, 28.07.2016
Iain Sinclaire, "Into the Underworld", London Review of Books, Vol. 37 No 2, 22.1.2015, p' 7-12
“Darkenss, Chaos & Romanticism: Interview with Karen Russo”, & Magazine, issue 1, 2014, p’ 121- 126
Avner Shapira, "Karen Russo's Externsteine", Ha'aretz weekend magazine, 5.3.2012
Lilly Wei, “Critic’s Pick Karen Russo”, ARTnews, October 2010, p’ 128
Ellie Armon-Azoulay, “The CIA after Kandinsky”, Ha’aretz, Art & Culture, 30.05.10, p’ 1
Galia Yahav, “Karen Russo at the CCA”, Time Out Tel-Aviv, May 6-13, 2010, p’ 103
Michele Robecci, “Karen Russo at Paradise Row”, Flash Art, No 267, July-Sep 2009, p’ 99
Skye Sherwin, “Karen Russo at Paradise Row”, Time Out London, May-June 2009
Peach McGee, “Secrets of Hackney’s Mole Man", Dont Panic, May-June, 2009
JJ Charlesworth, "Karen Russo- Future Greats", Art Review, issue 09, March 2007, p' 94
Martin Herbert, "Karen Russo", Art Review, issue 09, March 2007, p' 138
Rachel Somerstein, “In Between Places”, “ARTnews”, October 2006, p’ 184
David Lillington,“Ghosts, Magic, Enchantment”, Metropolis M, No 2, April-May, 2006, p’ 45-51
Michele Robecchi, “Karen Russo”, “Contemporary”, 2006 Annual issue, February 2006, p’ 96-97
Martin Herbert, “Karen Russo- Delfina”, Time Out, 21-28 September, 2005
JJ Charlesworth, "Untitled",”Flash Art”, February 2005
Juan S. Froutchmann, "De un pais en llamas", “La Luna” newspaper, 4.10.2002
Irit Tamari, "Book Review", Time Out Tel-Aviv, p' 80, 14.10.04
Shaul Seter, "Russo", Studio magazine 156, p' 20-21
Hannah Hertzig, "All of Nature is a Singular Force", Haaretz newspaper, 22.12.04
Yoram Meltzer, "A Private, Interesting and Unpredictable World", Maariv, 15.10.04
Rona Segal, "Rotten Priest", Profile & Interview, Hair Newspaper, p'-52-54, 24.6.04
Efrat Shalem, "And the Devil was an Angel", Studio Art Magazine, no’ 114, Cover, interview & a Special commissioned work
Elad Keinan, "Voodoo, Will-o’-the-Wisps and an Alchemical Wedding", 42 degrees Magazine, issue no' 6, 2000
Shimon Adaf, "Caution, Landslide Ahead (This is a Metaphor)", “Maariv", Nov’ 1999