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Rechov Ditza 1/30, Jaffa 68116, Israel, +972 (0)52 3561580 email: ronene[at]gmail.com

Ronen Eidelman is an Israeli artist, writer, activist and cultural producer. Engaged with linking art, culture and grassroots politics. Born in New York City, Grew up in Jerusalem and based in Tel Aviv, Israel, Co-founder and editor of Erev-Rav the leading online art and culture magazine in Hebrew.  Founded and edited numerous art and social political magazines and journals such as  "Maarav" (www.maarav.org.il)  which he created for six years. A graduate of the MFA program for "Public Art and New Artistic Strategies' at Bauhaus university in Weimar, Germany, and for more than ten years was active in anti-occupation and anti-capitalist direct action groups. Ronen likes hats and enjoys wearing many kinds.

Exhibitions and Projects - October 2009,  Artist, Where Everything Is Yet to Happen. 1st chapter: “Can you speak of this? -Yes, I can”. Installation, SPAPORT BIENNIAL (Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzegovina) - October 2009, Solo Exhibition, Medinat Weimar temporary bureau in Stockholm, Installation, Tegen2 Gallery (Stockholm, Sweden) - September 2009 Artist, Pró?na Street project, Exhibition/intervention, Prozna St. (Warsaw, Poland) - June 2009 Artist, The Space in Between, Outdoor Video Installation, Inbal+Suzanne Dellal courtyard (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel) - June 2009 Artist, CONTROL, Exhibition & street intervention, 2B Gallery (Budapest, Hungary) - September 2008 Artist, Dissident Art, Exhibition, 55 Notre-Dame West (Montreal, Canada) - August 2008 Artist, Be[com]ing Dutch Exhibition/intervention, Van Abbe museum  and different locations (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) - June 2008 Artist, Medinat Weimar Artistic Project & Events, different locations (Weimar, Germany) - May 2008 Artist, Overlapping Voices - Israeli and Palestinian Artists, exhibition, Essl Museum (Vienna, Austria) - April 2008 Artist, Visual Foreign Correspondents, screening and exhibition, de Balie (Amsterdam, Holland) - April 2008 Artist, Vorhang auf: Lüften! exhibition, Neuen Museum (Weimar, Germany) - September 2007 Artist, Hassan Beck Street on the Corner of Abu Lughud Artsitic Project & Performance, Charles Clore Park, Manshia (Tel Aviv-Jaffa) - July 2007 Artist, Pizza, Kebap, Kunst (Weimar, Germany) - Febuary 2007 Artist, Loose Control - Illuminating Public Sphere (Jena, Germany) - September 2006 Solo exhibit, For and Against T-shirts, Dear Noga gallery (Jaffa, Israel) - July 2006 Co-curator and Artist, Drafted Art: exhibition and petition against the war in Lebanon - June 2006 Co-Producer and Artist, Sugia: arts conference (Jerusalem) - November 2005 Producer/curator, Three Cities Against The Wall: exhibition of Israeli, Palestinian & American art critical of Israel's separation barrier (Tel Aviv, Ramallah, & New York) - August 2005 Speaker, C-Sides: Festival for Independent Electronic Music and New Media Arts (Jerusalem) - August 2005 Artist, Rishut Harabim: public art festival (Tel Aviv) - July 2005 Artist, Interference/Intersection Festival for Experimental Cinema & Video (Jerusalem) - June 2005 Co-Producer and speaker, Sugia: arts conference (Jerusalem) - May 2005 Artist, May Day exhibition of Israeli poster art, Tel Aviv Cinematheque - May 2005 Artist, 57x57 exhibition of Israeli Independence Day poster art (Tel Aviv) - September 2001 Co-Producer, Novalog 2001 exhibition of new media art (Tel Aviv & Berlin) selected Activism - 2003-2007 Co-Founder and Participant, Anarchists Against The Wall, direct action group focused towards resistance against Israel’s separation barrier - 2002-2006 Co-Founder and Participant, annual Israeli Activism Festival - 1995-2006 Board Member and Participant, Green Action eco-social organization - 2000 Co-Founder and Member, Israeli Independent Media Center (Indymedia) Employment - 2004-Present co-founder and co-editor, Maarav: Art and culture Online magazine - 2005-Present Lecturer and student adviser, Mishnar College of Art (Tel Aviv) - 2003-Present Freelance graphic designer, serving non-profit sector - 1999-Present Freelance writer, contributor to Ha-Ir, Time Out, Walla, 42 Degrees, Mitzad Sheini, News from Within, and Hakivun Mizrach - 2000-2004 Lecturer and student advisor, Camera Obscura (Tel Aviv) and Musrara School of Photography, Digital Media & New Music (Jerusalem) - 2003 Producer, Bip Show with Sharon Kantor on Bip Cable Network - 1999-2003 Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief, 42 Ma'a lot: Urban culture magazine, Khan political journal and Od socio-political art journal - 1998-2003 Partner and Art Director, Groovability Design firm (Tel Aviv) - 1997-1998 Art Director, Moon Multimedia (Tel Aviv) - 1996 Apprentice to award-winning designer David Tartakover - 1995-1996 Producer and DJ, Radioactive Waste program on 101 FM (Jerusalem) - 1989-1992 First Sergeant - Field Intelligence, Israeli Defense Forces (Mandatory Service) Education - 2006-2008 Master of Fine Arts, program for Public Art at the Bauhaus university in Weimar, Germany. - 2005-2006 Fellow, Kolot Israeli lay-leadership program - 1994-1998 Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Graphic Design, Vital: The Tel Aviv Center for Design Studies - 1984-1989 High school diploma (full matriculation), Shalom Hartman Institute (Jerusalem) Selected Writings - "Artist who love to hate the wall, art practices and the security barrier in Palestine", forthcoming book, Theorizing Cultural Activism: Practices, Dilemmas and Potentialities to be published "Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex, Race", 2009 - "Public Response to Works of Art," in the forthcoming book Experience Into Art to be published by University of California Press in Fall 2009 - "Pipi, Poo, Hitler, Auschwitz, Shoa and Nazi symbolism in contemporary Israeli Art" Wonderyears " New Reflections on the Shoah in Israel, NGBK, Berlin. - Dozens of reviews and opinion pieces in Hebrew for Maarav, art and culture online journal. Examples in English: "You can do or say almost anything, but who's listening?", "Turning a dead giraffe into an idea"