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  la defense  

september 2008
la defense
permanent installation

almere business center
willem dreesweg 14 - 24, almere
the netherlands

commissioned by the rijksgebouwendienst >>
architecture by un studio >>

 
 
 
 
   

may 2008
heads or tails
permanent sculpture in two parts.
two giant marble eggs (each weighing 7 ton) rise out of the river. which came first the chicken or the clamp?

maasstraat park
staart-west , dordrecht
the netherlands

to read the press release (dutch), click here >>

 
 
 
 
  superheroes and schlemiels  

7 march - 8 june 2008
superheroes and schlemiels
jewish memory in comic strip art
jewish historical museum, amsterdam

a group exhibition by leading comic artists including will eisner, ben katchor and robert crumb. ram katzir has created for this exhibition a comics in which max the matze saves superman from a mid life crisis.
a co-production with the musée d’art et d’histoire du judaïsme in paris.

to read the press release, click here >>

a drawing workshop by katzir will be held in the museum on saturday 13 april at 14.30

 
 
 
 
  Office Space - Ram Katzir 2007  

december 2007
small far 
click here to view a visual diary of japan >>

office space - an outdoors interior >>

mori ame- a forest indoors >>

'art and public space' a lecture by ram katzir
center for art & architecture, kanazawa
on sunday 2 december at 20.00

 

 
 
 
 
    october 2007
aomori contemporary art centre, japan
group exhibition of artists in residence , autumn 07

20 october - 11 november 2007
http://www.acac-aomori.jp


opening ceremony on saturday 20 october at 10.00 'little big sculptures' a lecture by ram katzir on saturday 3 november at 14.00
 
 
 
 
   

september 2007
solo exhibition at taché-lévy gallery, brussels www.tache-levy.com

6 september - 5 october 2007
opening thursday 6 september, 6 - 9 pm
74 rue tenbosch b-1000 brussels
tuesday -friday, 11 - 6.30 pm
saturday noon - 6 pm

click here to download the press release >>
 
 
 
 
   

august 2007
yariv alter fin

22.07.1968- 27.08.2007
dearest friend, esteemed colleague and an endless source of inspiration
the world has lost a pure light, whose glow still lingers

yehi zikhro baruch (may his memory be a blessing)

http://www.alterfin.com

click here to read the memorium >>

 
 
 
 
   

june 2007
down under / the hague sculpture,
the netherlands

ten year anniversary of the international
sculpture exhibition

den haag sculptuur
01.06 - 13.09.2007

suitcase in a bottle won the hague sculpture public prize 2007

http://www.denhaagsculptuur.nl

 
 
 
 
   

april 2007
art brussels, belgium

(galerie tache levy stand 11b-07)
20 - 23 april 2007
daily from 11am to 7pm

preview and vernissage on thursday 19 april

(by invitation only)

www.artbrussels.be
http://www.tache-levy.com

 
 
 
 
   

march 2007
hide and seek, haifa, israel
permanent installation in two parts

a site specific installation in an edition of three. in october 2006 the first installation was placed at the integrated muslim/christian school zuidwal in the hague, the netherlands. in march 2007 the second installation* was placed at the entrance to haifa, which holds the largest community of arabs and jews living in peaceful coexistence. in 2008, the third and final installation is planned to be installed in an arab country.

*organized by the haifa museum of art.

official opening in april 07.

 
 
 
 
   

december 2006
new children's wing opening in the jewish historical museum

between 2000 and 2005, more than 50,000 children- as well as many adults- visited the temporary exhibition where mokum is home (winner of the prince bernhard culture museum prize, 2002).  the new and permanent children's museum has been created in the entirely renovated obbene shul, which now has three floors. studio ram katzir designed five permanent installations for the new children's museum. www.jhm.nl

opening: sunday 17 december from 12.00 to 17.00, nieuwe amstelstraat 1, amsterdam

 
 
 
 
   

october 2006
hannah arendt denkraum

group exhibition, berlin 14.10 - 19.11. 2006

exhibition opening on saturday 14 october at 18.00
former jewish girls' school, august strasse 11-13, berlin-mitte

opening ceremony on sunday 15 october at 12.00 akademie der künste, hanseatenweg, berlin tiergarten.

artists talk on sunday 15 october at 18.00

 
 
 
 
   

october 2006
petrification

site specific installation at the foyer of the library of the berlin-brandenburg

academy of science and humanities
(unter den linden 8, berlin-mitte)

14.10 - 19.11. 2006

http://www.hannaharendt-denkraum.com/

click here to read press release >>
 
 
 
 
   

october 2006
hide and seek
permanent installation in two parts

unveiling on friday 20 october at 11.00

zuidwal 47
2512 xt the hague

stroom (www.stroom.nl)
 
 
 
 
   

september 2006
mencia
permanent installation in four parts

mencia de mendoza mendelssohnlaan 1  
4837 cv breda

click here to visit the website of kunst en bedrijf >>
 
 
 
 
    june 2006
marathonman , a monument
for the unknown loser

opening june 27 at 17.00
marathonweg 65, amsterdam oud -zuid

skor (www.skor.nl) awv (www.awv.nl) >>

download the press release (in dutch) here

 
 
 
 
   

june 2006
volta show 02

14 -18 june, basel
(with taché-lévy gallery, brussels)

http://www.voltashow.com
http://www.tache-levy.com

 


 
 
 
 
    december 2005
ram katzir growing down
selected works 1992 - 2005
72 pages, 83 images, hard cover
episode publishers, rotterdam 2005
with text contributions by dalia levin, bianca stigter and rudi fuchs

isbn 90-5973302-59
www.episode-publishers.nl

read the volkskrant article, september 2005
(dutch)

 
 
 
 
 

  nijmegen 21decmber 2005:
noviomagus, a monument celebrating 2000 years of the city of nijmegen was unveiled by prime minister and minister of general affairs jan peter balkenende and by the mayor of nijmegen, dr. g. ter horst on 21 december 2005. designed by ram katzir and rutger fuchs, the monument consists of a 10 mtr tall granite and bronze sundial, which is placed at the historical kelfskenbos square in front of the valkhof museum.


press release (dutch)

read the nrc article (dutch)
 
    the hague, 22 december 2005
a 1:25 scale model of noviomagus was placed in madurodam as part of their permanent collection.






 
 
 
 
   

june 2005
solo exhibition at
herzliya museum of contemporary art, israel
04/06/2005 - 31/08/2005
opening june 4 2005
the exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue

 
 
 
 
    december 2004
solo exhibition at taché-lévy gallery, brussels
9 november 2004 - 15 january 2005
opening tuesday 9 november, 6 - 9 pm
74 rue tenbosch
b-1000 brussels
tue-fri, 11.00 - 18.30 hrs
sat, 12.00 - 18.00 hrs
 
 
 
 
   

june 2004
drawing of today version 1.0

to view the online gallery and color the news yourself, please surf to: http://www.alterfin.com/LOL/

news is always colored, be it by the ideology of the media, the perspective of the journalist, or the context of the article. a line drawing is literally an ‘uncolored’ field, in which you offer the reader a chance not only to consume information, but also to interpret it.
drawing of today is a publishing application that encourages visitors to draw online. over the course of one year, a new line drawing based on current news is uploaded weekly to the lines online website, inviting readers of all backgrounds to comment on these images. visitors’ contributions are saved in a virtual gallery, which grows on a daily basis.