Yossi Breger
Born 1960, Montreuil sous Bois, France
Lives and works in Tel Aviv
2000-2006 Head of the Photography Department, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
2001 Senior lecturer at the MFA program for Fine Art, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
1996 Senior lecturer at The Photography department, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design,Jerusalem
Education
1992 BFA, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
1985 BA, Economics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Awards
1997 The Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation Israeli Art Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
1994 Gerard Levy Prize for a Young Photographer, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1992 Rosa Mirkin Prize, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
Collections
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Private collections in Israel and abroad
One-Person Exhibitions:
2011 “And there was evening And there was morning, One day“, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art
2006 “Israel Germany”, Tel Aviv Artists’ Studios
2004 “20 Shekels Cup of Coffee”, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
2000 “Replace, no. 2”, Herzeliya Museum of Art
1999 Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
1998 “A Study for Five Historical Facts”, Carre d’Art, Nimes
1997 The Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation Israeli Art Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
1996 Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
1995 Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
1993 Camera Obscura Gallery, Tel Aviv
Projects:
2006 “The Gallerists, Thomas Kraft Guest of Yossi Breger”, Tel Aviv Artists’ Studios
“Holon Now”, A Project of the Bezalel Photography Department, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon
Group Exhibitions:
2007 “Videoland”, Artneuland, Berlin
“A journey around my room”, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
“This is not Israeli art”, Tmuna theater, Tel Aviv
“1. The refusal front 2. Ghosts”, a tribute to Rafi Lavi, The Midrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv
2006 “Story Tellers”, The University Gallery, Haifa University
Group Show, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
“Untitled”, The University Gallery, Haifa University
2005 “Dreaming art, dreaming reality”, 10 years Gotesdinner prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
“On the Banks of the Yarkon”, the Yarkon River in Israeli Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
4.11.1995, Assassination in retrospect, Bezalel Art gallery, Tel Aviv
2004 “Current Visions: Inside Israel”, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York
“Etude pour un Premier Amour (no. 3)”, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
2003 “Something Local”, Weizman squere, Cholon
“Ha’aretz Art”, Riding power station, Tel Aviv
“Young Israeli Art”, The Jacques & Eugenie O’Hana Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2002 “Israeli Photography”, Um El Phahem Gallery, Israel
New Acquisition, Contemporary Israeli Photography, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2001 “Tribute to Lawrence Weiner”, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
“Works from the Museum Collection”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
“The Gallery Photographers”, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
2000 “Israeli Art”, Centro Arte Contemporanea, Palazzo delle Papese, Siena, Italy
“Wish List”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1999 “Not to Be Looked at”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
City Mirror, Janko-Dada Museum
1998 “Contemporary Israeli Photography”, The Israel Museum of Art
“Spring at the End of Summer”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
“Joseph Hackmey Collection”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
“Mutants”, Ecole des Beaux Arts de Nimes
1997 “Photography”, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
The Israeli Pavilion, The Venice Biennale
1996 Amnon Ben-Ami, Yossi Breger, Tamar Getter, Michael Gross, Sigalit Landau,
Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
“Selected Works of Art from the Museum’s Collection and Works Submitted for Acquisition”, Haifa Museum
“Ketav”, Auckland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Maps of Orientation”, Camera Obscura Gallery, Tel Aviv
1995 “Neither Here Nor There”, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
Yossi Breger, Michael Gross, Henry Shelesnyak, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
1994 “Working Room”, Artists House, Tel Aviv
“Local View”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
“Through the Lattice”, The Tower of David Museum, Jerusalem
“Space-Installation”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
“90-70-90”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
1993 “Third Person”, Bograshov Gallery, Camera Obscura Gallery, Tel Aviv
“The Suitcase”, Bograshov Gallery, Tel Aviv
Press & Publications:
2011 “And there was evening And there was morning, One day“, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Cat. 3/2011, 256 pages
2011 Smadar Sheffi, “The Daring Journey of Yossi Breger“, (Hebrew), Galeria, Ha’aretz
2005 Eitan Buganim, “Artist on Fire“, (Hebrew), nana 10
2004 Ran Kydar, “Yossi Breger“, (Hebrew), Walla, Tarbut