Alejandra Okret curriculum vitae
Biographical Notes
1966 Born in Montevideo, Uruguay.
1998 - today Lives & works in Modi’in, Israel
Studies
1993-7 Painting, Fine Art Academy (N.A.B.A.), Milan, Italy
1990-2 Studies for M.A. in Art History and Museology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
1986 -1990 Art History, B.A. & General Humanities B.A. (Spanish and Latin American Literature, Feminism, Communications, Japanese Art, Japanese Culture, Education) Hebrew University, Jerusalem
1976 Studies Painting with Miguel Angel Parejas, Uruguay
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Accelerated Thoughts, Artist Wall at Artist’s House Tel Aviv, (Zine)- Alejandra Okret in Conversation with Nurit David text by Nurit David
2018 A Moment Before the Words, Agripas 12, Jerusalem, curator Yanai Segal
2015 Fe de Erratas, Agripas 12 Gallery, Jerusalem, curator Tamar Gispan- Greenberg
2014 Zebras, Agripas 12 Gallery, Jerusalem, curator Tamar Gispan-Greenberg
2012 Fragole a Gennaio, Jewish Museum of Venice, Italy. curator Živa Kraus
Fragole a Gennaio, Ikona Gallery, Venice Ghetto, Italy. curator Živa Kraus, Texts: Memories, Reminiscences and Thoughts through the Aperture of Time, Hagai Segev/ Alejandra Okret's January Strawberries Glisten with their Juicy Scent, Audrey Sklar Levy/On January Strawberries, Gila Miller. Launching of the Artist Book Frutillas, Fragole, Strawberries
2010 Musing Pink, Gross Gallery, Tel Aviv, curator Noemi Shalev
2008 Alejandra Okret, From the Gallery Collection, Seeman Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, curator Hagai Segev
Ciao Milano, Artist House, Tel-Aviv, curator Hagai Segev. (Zine) texts: Hagai Segev/ Audrey Sklar Levy
Japana, Janco-Dada Museum, Ein Hod, Curator Elinor Eshet (cat.)
2006 Inside the Transparent, Kyriat Haomanim, Kyriat Tivon, curator Yfat Ben Nathan
2005 Pieces of Sky, Kibbutz Nahshon gallery, curator Yahel Kainy
2003 The Glass Maker’s Daughter, Artists' House, Jerusalem, text Hagai Segev
2001 Postcards from the Edge, Hottentot Gallery, Haifa, curator Gila Miller, text Hagai Segev (cat. - Artist Book) design Alejandra Okret & Gila Miller
White Zen, Popolus Gallery, Tel Aviv
1998 Introduction, Kfar Daniel, text Hagai Segev
1996 Poesie, Vittorio Mazzuconi Fundazione, Milano, text Claudio Olivieri, Guardati Queste Carte
Duo and other Collaborations Exhibitions
2020-21Verisimilitude, four Artist’s Walls: Alejandra Okret, Doron Adar, Yehuda Armoni, Ophira Shpitz, Sklar Levy Gallery, Modi’in, curator Audrey Sklar Levy
2019 I posti delle fragole, duo with Carlotta Alberti, Laboratorio Carlotta Alberti, Valtournenche, Italy, text Alejandra Okret
Wandering between light and Time, duo with Lucy Elkivity, Municipal City Gallery, Rishon Le Zion curator Efi Gen (cat.)
2017 Green Celadon with Lilach Bar Ami, Anat Michaelis Levi. Guest artists: Kimiko Yusida and Lu Yang. The Artist House, Tel Aviv, curator Nitza Perry (cat.)
2010 Visual Thoughts, Dwek Gallery, Mishkenot Shananim, Jerusalem, curator Irena Gordon
1996 Donne sull orlo da una crisi di creativita / Women on the Turning Point of Creativity, Alejandra Okret, Ivana D’oro, Carlotta Alberti, Patrizia Chiatti. Castello di Vezio, Varena, Italy. Curator Alejandra Okret, Text Ivana D’Oro
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 Mebudadim (Isolated), Community Gallery Modi’in, curator Nitza Pery
2020-21 The Salon at Agripas Street, Agripas 12 Gallery, Jerusalem, curators Rina Peled & Max Epstein
2020 The Spirit of Things, N.D. Gallery, Ramat Gan curator Jennifer Bloch
2019 Interiors, The Rive Gauche, Tel Aviv curator Mira Cedar
Mother’s Portrait, Tel Aviv Artist House, curators Irith Levin & Dorit Keidar (cat.)
Dress and its Symbol, Agripas 12 Gallery, Jerusalem, curators Nomi Tannhauser & Rita Mendes Flohr, (cat.)
B-Structure, Sara Erman Gallery, Tel Aviv, curator Anat Michaelis
Agripas 12-Fresh Paint Tel Aviv, Satellites event, Belle Shafir Studio, Tel Aviv, curator Hagai Segev
2018 Locally-Lo Kal Li (Local Art/Not Easy for Me), Modi’in Artist House, curator Gabi Yair
In Print Artist Book Fair 2018, Hansen House, curator Jenna Romano
Artists' Book-Chapter II, Manofim, Agripas 12 Gallery, Jerusalem, curator Shosh Averbuch
On the way to Ithaka, Modi’in Artist House, curator Gabi Yair
Artists' Book, Art Space Tel Aviv, curator Shosh Averbuch
2017 Between Heaven and Earth, Sara Erman Gallery, curator Anat Michaelis
Like a Whisper, Agripas 12, Jerusalem, curators Alejandra Okret & Doron Adar
Summer Exhibition II, Sara Erman Gallery, curators Sara Erman
Between Sacred and Profane, Kol Ha ot, Jerusalem curators Gabi Yair & Bitya Rosenak
2016 Ark, from Oded Shatil's collection, 8 Lieberman Gallery, Tel Aviv, curator Yair Barak
Traces VI, Drawing Biennale- curators Edna Mosenson & Sally Haftel Naveh, (cat.)
Paper Shredder, Agripas 12 gallery, Jerusalem Curators Max Epstein & Oded Zaidel,
Original Copy-A Visual Gaze at Oxymoron, Modi’in Artist House, curator Doron Adar
Camouflage, Agripas 12 Gallery, Jerusalem, curator Dina Yakerson
Back to Eden, Yavne Artist House, curators Anat Michaelis-Levy & Sara Erman
Stains (Ketemim), Modi’in Artist House, Modi’in, curator Gabi Yair
2015 Black and White, Neve Schechter, Tel Aviv curator Shira Friedman
Caught in the Thicket, Modi’in Artist House, curator Gabi Yair
Exposed, Beit Meirov Art Gallery, Holon, curator Nitza Perry
Beuys, Beuys, Beuys, Meshuna Gallery, Tel Aviv, (cat.) curator Liav Mizrahi
Teiot, Beit Hanzen, Jerusalem, curators Max Epstein, Vasyl Sribny
Metzion, Agripas 12 gallery, Jerusalem, curators Max Epstein, Nina Adina Rose,
Under the Lamplight, Agripas 12 Gallery, Jerusalem, curators Doron Adar, Oded Zaidel
Vashti, Neve Schechter, Tel Aviv, curator Shira Friedman (cat.)
2014 The Independent, Agripas 12 Gallery, Jerusalem, curator Tamar Gispan-Greenberg (cat.)
Prima, Artist House Modi’in curator Gabi Yair
2013 Eat,Love, Beit Meirov Art Gallery, curator Nitza Perry
Agripas 12, Fresh Paint Tel Aviv, curators Oded Zaidel, Max Epstein & Leonid Zeiger
2012 Not for Sale, Inside Oded Shatil's collection, Contemporary Art Gallery Kyriat Tivon, curator Taly Cohen Garbuz (Zine)
2011 Furl Unfurl, Rehovot City Gallery, curator Ora Kraus (cat.)
2009 Drawings to Murder Magic ZINE Project 1, The Center for Recent Drawing, London, curator Andrew Hewish
Almond Fields, event, Gallery Kibutz Nahshon, curator Yahel Kainy
2008 Difdufim, Seeman Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, curator Hagai Segev
2007 Traces III, drawing biennale, Artists' House, Jerusalem, curator Dalia Manor
1999 33 x 33, Artists' House, Jerusalem, curator Zvi Tolkovsky (cat.)
Dialogue, Zionist American House, Tel Aviv, curator Hagai Segev,
Dialogue, Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem curator Hagai Segev,(cat.)
1997 Jacaranda Trees, Unicef Fair for Latin America, Milan, Italy
Poesie di Riso, Vercelli Art Biennale, Vercelli, Italy
1995 Graduates exhibition, Palazzo della Ragione, Milano, Italy, curator Claudio Olivieri
Prizes
2007 Shoshanna Ish-Shalom Prize for artistic creation, Artists' House, Jerusalem
Special Projects
2020 White Tablecloth Map, Art Performance opening the exhibition on Vienna, The Salon at Agripas Street, Agripas 12 gallery, Curated by Rina Peled and Max Epstein video: https://vimeo.com/485374078
2019 Colloquium Wandering between Light & Time, with: Efi Gen, Adi Angel, Doris Arkin, Prof. Yael Guilat, Dr. Gilad Padva, Gila Miller, Gabi Yair, Lucy Elkivity & Alejandra Okret. Colloquium Wandering between Light & Time, video, Produced and directed by Alejandra Okret & Lucy Elkivity, edited by Ana Clara Polar Mintz & Michal Zfoni, music Jorge Drexler, Two versions: 5 min, full version 50 min.
Nihonga, Art and Design, Cuckoo’s Nest, Tel Aviv, curators Tamar Shain-Paz and Dar Rotem
2018 The paper contains it all, in situ installation, duo with Lucy Elkivity, at Lucy Elkivity’s Studio, Ohavim Omanut, Tel Aviv
Clouds, Bushey Synagogue, London, curator Efrat Colover
2017 Inspiration Notebook 2016-2017 of Neve-Schechter Centre for Contemporary Art and Culture, curator Shira Friedman
Strawberries Ceremony, Performance/Conversation, Neve-Schechter Centre for Contemporary Art and Culture, curator Shira Friedman
Strawberries Ceremony, Performance at Summer Exhibition II, Sara Erman Gallery, curator Sara Erman
2013 - 2019 Member of Agripas 12 Collective Gallery
2012 Frutilla, Fragole, Strawberries, Artist Book, (Limited edition of 8) Art design Alejandra Okret & Shimon Scheneider
Launched Ikona Gallery, Ghetto, Venezia, at the exhibition Fragole a Gennaio curator Živa Kraus
2011 Outreach to Fukushima, Children to Children,Physics' Conference on Slow Dynamics Complex Systems, 2012 Symposium, Art Project with my students to support the rehabilitation efforts for the children of Fukushima.
2010 ZINE Project 1- Drawings to Murder Magic (relating Antonin Artaud)", The Center for Recent Drawing, London, England, edited by Andrew Hewish
Curatorial Work
2021 cat. text Dana Arieli My Father has a Ladder, The Zionist Phantom, (to be published)
2020 cat. text Doron Adar, A Cinematic Gaze, exb., Dissolve into Landscape
2019 Surrender to Landscape Chapter II,duo Doron Adar, Carlotta Alberti, Val Tournenche, Valle d’ Aosta, Italy (cat.)
Surrender to Landscape Chapter I, duo Doron Adar, Carlotta Alberti, Agripas 12 Gallery, Jerusalem (cat.)
2017 cat. text Doron Adar, Ripples of an Art Gallery, exb., 900 Moments
2019 Antartica es aquí, solo exhibition Ivana D’Oro, Cinema Festival of Mountains, Ushuaia, Argentina
2018 Antártida es aquí, text to solo exhibition Ivana D’Oro, Instituto Borges, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2017 Like a Whisper, Agripas 12 Gallery, curated with Doron Adar (cat.)
The Mimosa Hour, group exhibition, Artist House Modi’in (cat.)
Mini Mimosa, group exhibition, Rav Tchumi, Modi’in
2016 cat. text Dana Arieli, The Phantoms: Journeys Following the Relics of Dictatorships, (Limited Artist Book edition)
Aqua Bella, solo exhibition of Bitya Rosenak, Agripas 12 Gallery, Jerusalem
2012 Jewish Humour, curatorial research for the exhibition. Jewish Museum Venice, Italy
1996 Donne sull orlo da una crisi de creativita, Carlotta Alberti, Patrizia Chiati , Ivana D’Oro, Alejandra Okret, Castello di Vezio, Varena, Italy
1991 New Discoveries on Jewish Russian Art, co-curated, Zionist Confederation, Course Shalom Tzabar on Museology
Selected Bibliography
Janet Rudman, (interview) Encuentro con la artista plástica Alejandra Okret
https://www.semanariohebreojai.com/articulo/2953/encuentro+artista+plastica+alejandra+okret
Efi Gen, Adi Angel, Doris Arkin, Dr. Yael Gilat, Gila Miller, Dr. Gilad Padva, and Gabi Yair Colloquium Wandering Between Time and Light Elkivity Okret https://vimeo.com/381206715
Janet Rudman, (interview) Semanario Hebreo, “Periplos de una Artista”, Jan. 2020
Portfolio Art Magazine, “Wandering between light and time”, ,עבודה בעניים https://www.prtfl.co.il/archives/117817 ,August 14th 2019.
Alicia Shahaf, Art Blog שפת הלב,, September 6th 2019.
Ziva Koort, Art Blog מעבר למראה, לוסי אקויטי ואלחנדרה אוקרט, מיצב נדודים בין אור לזמן, תערוכה "נדידה" September 8th, 2019.
Dorit Kedar, On March exhibitions in the Artist’s House Tel Aviv, Center of Inter-Religious Peace, March 2019
Steve Klein, Rank and File: Celebrating Women from Milan to Modi'in, Haaretz, May 2017.
Zebras, Haaretz, 2014
Protocollage 2013 Writing the Visual Methologies in Visual Culture Research, p.45-60. Resling Books, Bezalel Accademy, Israel. 2014 Dana Arieli-Horowitz, Ory Bartal, Naomi Meiri-Dann (Editors),
Shira Friedman, Kabala in Pink, Makor Rishon, (Hebrew) Feb. 2010.
טעינה וורודה, אלחנדרה אוקרטhttps://www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/art/exibitions/event-1.3484885
Mirit Golan,Poetry in Painting ( Shir Be Tziur( Modi’in News, 11th December, 2007
Shira Friedman, Dance Construction, Maalot HaRikud, Nov. 2008
Dana Gillerman, Stars on the Floor, (Hebrew) Ha’aretz, October 2005 https://www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/1.1048842
Rabbbi Doctor Haim Rechnitzer, Particles, 2003.
Zehava Lupu, Strawberry Fields for Ever, Modi’in News, January 2004 pp 100-101, Hebrew
Uzi Zur, End of the Year Trip, Ha’aretz, Friday, July 4th, 2003 pp 4ה Culture and Literature (Hebrew) https://www.haaretz.co.il/misc/1.893119
Shira Fur, Bimba & Adolf, Route Number 1, The Big Explosion and The Tragedy of the Versailles Hall- Exhibitions at the Artist house in Jerusalem, Kol Hazman Jerusalem Weakly, 27 June 2004 (Hebrew)
Meir Ronen, Evocation of Thing Past,The Jerusalem Post, Friday, July 11, 2003
David Rapp, Situation Reports on Postcards, Ha’aretz, Friday, October 5, 2001
Gila Miller, The Sources of Creativity, Seminar at Machon Shechter
Limor Kalifa, Alejandra Okret Sends Postcards, October 2001, Modi’in News
Meir Ronen,The Old as New, Jerusalem Post, Friday, 24 September, 1999