Studio Ram Katzir

October-December 2016

Hannah Arendt memorial

Kaliningrad, Russia

Ram Katzir’s sculpture Petrification will be installed in the Friedland Museum in Kaliningrad. This date marks the 110th anniversary of the birth of Hanna Arendt, the Jewish political theorist who was born in 1906 in Köningsberg, modern day Kaliningrad. Official unveiling on Friday, October 14th at 16.00 .

During November to December Katzir will present a new work in the exhibition Migrations in the NCCA (National Center Contemporary Arts) in Kaliningrad.

Curated by Yulia Bardun

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Artist talk by Ram Katzir

The Hermitage, St Petersburg, Russia

Katzir will give an artist talk about art and public space in the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg
The talk and the Hanna Arendt Memorial installation are part of Migration – a group exhibition at the NCCA (National Center Contemporary Arts) in Kaliningrad, with new work by Ram Katzir.

SEPTEMBER 2016

KONG, a mental parkour

In the atrium of Medisch Spectrum Twente

Opening of five permanent installations.

Together with artists Karin van Dam, Hans van Benthem, Maria Roosen, Merijn Bolink and Geert Mul.

Curated by Gabi Prechtl, Kunst en Bedrijf,

Architecture by IAA

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JUNE 2016

Dongori – permanent installation

Tokyo, Japan

Ram Katzir’s bronze Dongori’s (Acorns) have safely landed in Japan. Permanent installation in Shinagawa, Ōsaki, Tokyo 

Curated by Toshio Shimizu Art Office

MARCH - APRIL 2016

Niemeyer’s Theatre of Curves

Brazil

Studio Ram Katzir went on a six cities excursion to study the works of Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer.
In collaboration with Rio Arts Club.

JANUARY 2016

Portal – Permanent art route from station to city center

Zwolle, the Netherlands

Zwolle Station is the second-biggest railway hub in the Netherlands, and an intersection of generations and eras thanks to Portal, a permanent art route by Ram Katzir and artist-duo Hertog Nadler. Portal invites you to discover how closely lives in different periods are linked.

Official opening on January, 23rd 2016 at 12.30

Landscape architecture in collaboration with Marseille Buiten and Yuka Yoshida. Film production by Family Affairs Films.

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Hertog Nadler website

JULY - OCTOBER 2015

BeLonging, solo exhibition

Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam

On the occasion of the recent addition of Ram Katzir’s Portable Wailing Wall to the Jewish Historical Museum collection, the museum is showing seven works of the artist in different halls.Curated by Hetty Berg, JHM

For more information click here

MAY 2015

Rozenoord, World War 2 memorial

Amsterdam, the Netherlands

During the last month’s of World war 2, hundred forty Dutch were executed by the nazi’s near teahouse Rozenoord on the Amsteldijk. Out of hundred forty casualties, hundred names remain unknown. Katzir’s memorial site consists of a landscape of empty chairs.

Official unveiling on 4 may, 2015.

Commissioned by the city of Amsterdam.Landscape design in collaboration with DS Landscape architects.

To visit the digital monument click here

JANUARY 2015

Portal

Zwolle Art route, the Netherlands

Studio Ram Katzir together with the artist duo Hertog Nadler won an international competition to design an art route in Zwolle from the new train station to the historic city center. Their project entitled Portal was selected out of 140 proposals. Portal consists of an interactive video installation, a series of underground sculptures and a meandering blue line connecting all segments. The realisation phase will start in March 2015.

Commissioned by the city of Zwolle with additional funding from Provincie Overijsel and the European Union.

Landscape architecture in collaboration with Marseille Buiten and Yuka Yoshida. Film production by Family Affairs Films.

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DECEMBER 2014

Rozenoord

World War 2 memorial, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

During the last month’s of World War 2, hundred forty Dutch men were executed by the Nazi’s near teahouse Roozenoord on the Amstel Dijk. Out of hundred forty casualties, hundred names are known. Katzir’s winning proposal for the new memorial site consists of a landscape of empty chairs.

Official unveiling on 4 May 2015

Commissioned by the city of Amsterdam.
Landscape design in collaboration with DS Landscape architects.

NOVEMBER 2014

KONG

Medisch Spectrum Twenthe, Enschede, the Netherlands

Permanent installation in a a new hospital together with artists Karin van Dam, Hans van Benthem, Maria Roosen, Merijn Bolink and Geert Mul. Katzir’s playful installation KONG is a mental parkour. The official opening will be held in 2015. More details will follow.

Architecture: IAA, Artistic director: Gabi Prechtl, Kunst & Bedrijf

SEPTEMBER 2014

Stay

Leiderdorp, the Netherlands

Stay, a new public sculpture by Ram Katzir will be placed in the new park complex BSW in Leiderdorp. The park consists of a school sport hall and library. The official opening will be held on 18 january 2015.

Commissioned by Gemeente Leiderdorp

Architecture by Frenken Scholl Architecten, Landscape design by Carin Janninck

APRIL-JUNE 2014

Drawing workshops

Bialik Rogozin, Tel Aviv, Israel

The Bialik Rogozin School in Tel Aviv is an educational campus that serves 750+ at-risk children. The school has children and teenagers from thirty-eight countries. They are new immigrants, children of foreign workers, refugees from Darfur and Israeli Arabs. Many are from single-parent families. Bialik Rogozin provides hot meals, music and art instruction in a safe and welcoming environment. During 2014 Ram Katzir volunteered in the school and gave a series of drawing workshops to children ages 8-12.

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MARCH 2014

Here

Rishon Lezion, Israel

Ram Katzir’s sculpture from 1999 entitled Here was purchased by the city of Rishon LeZion and placed in front of the new Ron Vardi Center for gifted students.

Architecture by Nofar Architects

DECEMBER 2013

Where thoughts are

Almere, the Netherlands

Permanent installation for La Defense offices Almere, the Netherlands.

Unveiling on 12 December 2013 at 14.00

Commissioned by the The Government Buildings Agency

Architecture by UN Studio / Ben van Berkel, Landscape design in collaboration with Lodewijk Baljon

SEPTEMBER-NOVEMBER 2012

Sculpture Biennale

Shanghai, China

Group exhibition with Subodh Gupta, Wim Delovye, Jaume Plensa etc. Ram Katzir’s granite sculpture is placed in the serene pool of Jing’an International Sculpture park.

Curated by Shanghai Purple Roof Art Gallery.

MAY-JUNE 2012

Sculpture Models Exhibition

Tokyo, Japan

An exhibition of Ram Katzir’s sculpture models will be held in Gakushuin Gallery, Tokyo during April 28 – June 1st, 2012. Katzir will talk about his new works in Gakushuin Woman College on Saturday 28. 

Exhibition and lecture organized by Toshio Shimizu Art Office, Tokyo.

APRIL 2012

Public Sculpture competition

Shanghai, China

Ram Katzir has been shortlisted for the final round of a public sculpture competition for LiuJiaZui financial district in Pudong Shanghai. Placed in the former shipyard of Shanghai, this land mark location will include the new Mandarin hotel and it will be highly visible from Puxi.

Architect: Arquitectonica, advisers to RK: UN Studio, Shanghai, Arup., Artistic directors: Art Front Gallery, Tokyo

MARCH 2012

Public Sculpture

Oota Hospital, Gunma, Japan

A permanent installation by Katzir will be installed in the garden and cafeteria of Shin Sogo OOTA Hospital in Gunma prefecture, Japan. The installation will play with the visitor’s perspective and invite patients to explore the garden. The new hospital will open in 2012.

Architect: Nikken Sekei, Artistic directors: TownArt, Tokyo

FEBRUARY 2012

Grow Yokohama

Japan