SHACHAF DEKEL | CV
Awards | Grants
2019 Nomination finalist for Roy W. Dean Grant Fall 2019
2019 AWARD for Best Documentary at the NYC WebFest
2019 Nomination for Best Documentary Short at the Israeli Documentary Film Awards
2019 Nomination for best web documentary series and screening at Seoul Webfest
2018 Nomination for Director in Nonfiction category - The International Academy Web Television Awards in LA
2017 The Israel National Lottery - Council for the Arts grant
2017 Maamuta artists residency at Beit Hansen, Jerusalem
2017 ARTPORT and ASYLUM - ARTS - artist career development program
2015 The Israel National Lottery - Council for the Arts grant
Festivals and Screenings:
2019 DOCAVIV Festival | WebiDocs event - initiative, curator and host
2018 The International Academy Web Television Awards in LA | Nomination for Director in Nonfiction category
2018 at the Israeli Film Fund pavilion at the next CANNES Film Festival.
2018 pitching event at COPRO 2018
2017 screening and talk at Creative Mornings TLV. Hosted at Edmond de Rothschild Center
2017 screening at the Milano Design Film Festival
2017 screening and lecture at the Jerusalem Design Week
2017 screening at Baskula Tel Aviv, curated by International Photography Festival.
2016 screening at Elma Hotel for the arts. Part of Pathos Mathos live performance.
2016 screening at the Petah Tikva Museum. curator: Or Tshuva.
2016 "Hisuf" a group exhibition at P8 gallery. curator: Erga Yaari
2016 The righteousnessof Sodom. OTCA gallery, TLV.
2016 Fresh Paint fair, TLV.
2014 "Stations". outdoor video art screening at Suzane Dalal.
2014 "Haanakit" at Sadnaot Haomanim, Tel Aviv. curator: Eitan Buganim
2014 screening at NEXT! Doc Aviv Festival. Cinematheque Tel Aviv. curator: Doron Solomons
2014 MABATIM. Beit Lin, Tel Aviv. curator: dr. Smadar Shefi.
2013 screening at Beit Bialik, Tel Aviv
2012 special screening and talk at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque, Israel
201, AIVA video art festival, Sweden
2012 EPOS art film festival at Tel Aviv museum of art. Israel
2011 LOOP BARCELONA, Spain
Solo exhibitions:
2018 The Mapo Experiment, TLV presentation at Beit Kandinof
2013 "RITUTIM" solo exhibition in E_WERK Freiburg Germany. A collaboration with SCHIR organization
2011 "Guy Was Here" a photo series and installation at Tivon contemporary art gallery. curator: Taly Cohen Garbuz
Selected group exhibitions:
2017 "The Last Picnic" group exhibition at Mamuta, Beit Hansen Jerusalem
2013 "Small Step". group exhibition at Nahum Gutman Museum, TLV. curetor: Miri Ben Moshe
2013 "Medium" Sitespesific 3 exhibition, Tel Aviv
2012 "Afterwards" Israeli video art at the TOTAL Museum, Soul Korea
2011 "Body Gestures" at Herzliya Museum for contemporary art
2010 "With This Ring" at Beit Hatfusot Museum, TLV
2009 "Love Art" at 45 Kibutz Galuiot st. TLV
YOTSRIM group exhibition | curating
2016 group exhibition at Hanina Gallery. curating: Shachaf Dekel
the exhibition included one work of art by most of the documentary series which included art, design. performance, poetry, dance, illustration, animation, fashion design, architecture and more. during the exhibition several events were included: A dance performance by Iris Erez, screening of the documentary film "Yona Volach tapes" and talk with Yaron Shin the animator and designer of the film and a gallery talk and screening with Shachaf Dekel.
video about the exhibition:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfIF7RTpM3c&index=43&list=PLgKpBvqHPaWoMsPpXSsNdAGgR7Kqxt8TL
Special projects:
2009 WHcreation - Co founder, designer and curator with Limor Weisberg.
A virtual international contemporary art gallery. www.whcreation.org was a nonprofit organization.
2005 “Imal’e - a pregnancy dairy”, Babel publishing. Initiative, writing, illustration and design.
A diary which offers the means for artistic expression to women during their pregnancy.
Education
2010 video editing at Camera Obscura Academy Tel Aviv
1996-2000 BA in visual communication at the Gerrit Rietveld academy, The Netherlands
1995-6 fine arts at the Utrecht’s art academy, The Netherlands