Hilla Ben Ari
2016
A comprehensive book introducing Hilla Ben Ari’s works, published in April 2016. The book provides a retrospective observation of Ben Ari’s multidisciplinary practice, which includes video, paper, sculptural, print, and installation works.
The starting point for the book is the solo exhibition "Naama" (2015, Mishkan Museum of Art in Ein Harod, Israel). From which derived links and connections to Ben Ari’s rich creative oeuvre. The article by Dr. Galia Bar Or, the curator of the exhibition, offers a fresh look at Ben Ari’s works from the early 2000s to 2016. The text deals with the question of the space of action of bodies with regard to the skeleton as a construction, as a meaningful theme within Ben Ari’s work. Through this theme, Bar Or examines the relationship between time and space in Ben Ari’s works, her preoccupation with the female body, and the fragile element of the individual/unit within cultural, social, and political structures.
- Copies: 1000
- Pages: 98
- Type of binding: hardcover
- Languages: Hebrew, English
- Dimensions (cm): 29X20.5
- Reproductions: Yahel Dotan
- Printing: A.R. Printing LTD
- Binding: A.R. Printing LTD
- Publication: Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod
- Place of publication: Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel
- Supported by: Israel Lottery Council For Culture & Arts, Ann and Ari Rosenblatt, Orna Rotman, Oranim Academic College of Education
- ISBN: 9789657497067
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Hilla Ben Ari (born in 1972, Kibbutz Yagur) is a multidisciplinary artist working in video, installation, sculpture, and print. She lives and works in Tel Aviv. Her practice incorporates elements of dance and theatre and centers on the female body and its permeable boundaries. Another significant aspect of her work lies in archival research and in dialogue with creations of past artists. Ben Ari holds a BFA from the Ceramics Department at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (1999) and an MA in Poetics and Comparative Literature from Tel Aviv University (2006). Her works have been exhibited in numerous exhibitions in Israel and abroad, including at Ticho House – The Israel Museum, the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Art Ein Harod, MACRO Museum, and MAXXI Museum in Rome, the Bonn Museum of Art, and the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts.
Among her many awards are the Becky Dekel Award (2025), the Senior Video Artist Award, and the Yaakov Pins Prize (2016).
