Elyasaf Kowner (b. 1970, Haifa, Israel),
multidisciplinary artist, lecturer and graphic designer.

Solo Exhibitions / Screenings

‘Spiritual Gym ’, Peninsula Jewish Community Center, Foster City, California, 2009
‘Kindergarten Performance’, Marc Chagall School, Tel Aviv, 2008
‘Temporary Disappearance’, Yair Gallery, Tel Aviv, 2007
'Learning Pain from Trees', Herzliya museum, Herzliya, 2006
‘15‘, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, 2005 +
'I wandered relentlessly', Hilchot Shchenim B, The Center for Digital Art, Holon, 2004
'First Portrait', Tel Aviv Museum, 2003
'In Great Condition', Miklatok Gallery, Kibbutz Maabarot, 2003
'Car Portraits', Janco-Dada Museum, Ein Hod, 2002
'Inner Light', Brauda Academy Gallery, Carmiel, 2002
'Fragments', evening of video art screening, Herzliya museum, Herzliya, 2001
'Video Works', 'Rosenfeld' Gallery , Tel Aviv, 2001
'Elastic View Point' video-art show, Left Bank Cultural Center, Tel Aviv, 2000
'Checking up the Distance' exhibition, the Royal Academy, The Hague, 1997
'Closed in a Box' exhibition, 'The Krane' gallery, East Village, New York, 1993

Selected Group Exhibitions / Screenings

'Street Art for Street Papers', Megafon auction, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway, 2008
'Water in Art and Life', Israel Museum [Curated by Hagit Alon], Jerusalem, 2007
'ffwd_mag#3 DVD screening', a+m bookstore, Milano, Italy, 2006
PI Five Video Festival [Curated by Agricola de Cologne], Szczecin, Poland, 2005
'21st World Wide Video Festival', Amsterdam, 2004
Screening of ‘Artattack’ program #10, Gwangju Biennale, Korea, 2002
‘Zoom in - zoom out’, Realities, Media and Myths in Israeli Video Art,
‘Art in General’, New York; ‘Black Box’, Argos, Brussels;
Centre pour l'image contemporaine, Saint-Gervais, Genève, 2002
‘Cinderella’s Revenge’ exhibition, Christinerose Gallery+, Soho, New York, 1994

Learning Pain from Trees, 3:00 , 2005

Awards & Grants

Grant from the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Foundation, 2009
Creativity Encouragement Prize for the Visual Arts, Israeli Ministry of Culture, 2008
Grant for video, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, 2006
Grant for video art [Another Face], The New Foundation for Cinema, 2005
Grant from the Foreign Ministry Division for Cultural and Scienti€c Ties, 2004
Grant for an experimental €lm [In my Home],The New Foundation for Cinema, 2003
‘First Portrait’, a full year grant, Israel National Lottery, 2002
'Roslyn Lyons' support for catalogue, 2002
America Israel Cultural Foundation award, 2001
Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Graduated with honors, 1999
Sandberg award for ‘After My Death’ Project, Bezalel Academy, 1999
Distinguished student at the visual communications department, Bezalel Academy, 1997

Reviews & Essays

'The Trees Whisperer', Galia Yahav, Timeout Tel Aviv Magazine, 2006 +
'Trapped in the Gestures of the Day-To-Day', Ilana Tenenbaum, '15', Haifa Museum, 2005
‘In Great Condition’, The Green Paper, Haim Maor, 2003
'Stencil Graffiti' by Tristan Manco, Thames & Hudson, 2002
Interview in ‘Art Attack’ TV show, program No. 10, 2001
‘On Fashion’, The Village Voice, New York, 1994 +
‘One Foot on the Sidewalk, Another in the Brain‘, David Lindsay, New York Press, 1994 +

Publications

'Facing the Wishes', Pardes Publishing House [ISBN 978-965-7171-42-4], 2007 +
'Interview: Elyasaf Kowner', videochannel.newmediafest.org, 2006 +
'ffwd_mag#3', DVD+Magazine, Invernomuto, Italy, 2005 +
'15', CD Rom Catalogue (a Hebrew limited edition), Haifa Museum of Art, 2004
'World Wide Catalogue' CD rom, Amsterdam, 2004
'Car Portraits' catalogue, Janco Dada Museum, 2002 +
'Moments in Growth', A journey book, The Hague, 1997 +

Lectures and Visiting Artist

Pecha Kucha #4, Jaffa, Israel, 2008
Lecturer, Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Ramat Gan, 2000 - 2008
Lecturer, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, 2005 - 2006
'Meet the Artist', Video Zone 3, International Video Art Biennial, Tel Aviv, 2006 +
Visiting artist in 'Newtopia', 'Bauhaus Center', Tel Aviv, 2006
Visiting artist and screening of 'Recent Works', Rosh Pina Cinematheque;
Sderot Cinematheque; Jerusalem Cinematheque, 2005
Visiting Artist, Akademia Sztuk Piknych, Lodz, Poland, 2005
Lecturer in a video art workshop, Rakefet Levi Stage Design School, Tel Aviv, 2004

Collaborations / Related Activites
Image production for the book 'News from Home' [Amos Gitai], 56th Berlin Film Festival, 2006
Curator of 'Local Time #5', Tel Aviv Cinematheque’, Tel Aviv, 2002 +
Production of video documenting ‘Sudden Birds’ dance by Yasmeen Godder, 2002
Designed ‘Art focus 3’ project in cooperation with Michael Gordon, 1999
'Elyasaf Kowner, Paris', graffifi campaign, New York, 1993-1994 +

Videography

Murder Here by Artist, 6:32, 2008
6:40 (Pecha Kucha), 6:40, 2008
Ya Syndrome, 5:23, 2008
Jodey, 1:00, 2007
The Laundromat, 2006
Polania, 2:10, 2006 +
Red Light/Red Heat, 5:30, 2006
In my Home, 11:30, 2005 +
The Handed Thread, 5:00, 2005
Making Poems in Writing, 4:00, 2005
Houdini Triptych, 0:18, 2005
Green Grass, 3:30, 2004
Dynamism of a Phone Booth, 0:40, 2004
Le Rendez-vous, 7:00, 2004 +
Snow Way, 4:00, 2004 +
Understood Nothing, 5:00 min, 2004
Violent Emotion, 3:00 min, 2003
Fufyk, 4:00 min, 2003
Aftershock, 13:00 min, 2003 +
The Road to Knowhere, 2:30 min, 2003
Dual Movie, 15:00 min, 2002 +
Call Me, 03:00 min, 2002 +
Sunset, 8:30 min, 2002
Car Portraits, 05:00 min, 2002
Perfect Form, 01:00 min, 2002 +
Diamond on the Beach, 7:30 min, 2001
Amne, 08:30 min, 2001 +
Dad Explains about Weapons and Numbers, 5:00 min, 2001
Every Time I am (reading) Somebody, 4:00, 2001 +
In the Center, 15:00 min, 2001 +
The Painting, 7:00 min, 2001
On the Shoulders, 4:00 min, 2000
Up and Down, 4:00 min, 2000
Sea Baby, 03:40, 2000 +
After My Death, 12:00 min, 1999
Measuring the Distance on a First Winter’s Day, 46:00 min, 1997