April-June 2017
Field of Flowers, group exhibition
National Historical Museum of the Republic of Belarus Minsk, Belarus
April 14 – June 4, 2017
Exhibition opening: 14 April, 17:00
Curated by Evgeny Umansky (Russia)
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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