Elad Kopler USA Collection
About the Artist Born in 1974 in Ramat Gan, Israel, Elad Kopler received his B.Ed. from Hamidrasha School of Art, Biet Berl in 2004 and graduated with honors from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design MFA program, in Jerusalem, in 2006. Kopler’s paintings feature urban landscapes that appear to have been severely damaged or partially destroyed. The desolate, vertical and horizontal outlines of buildings assimilated into vestiges of nature, point to traces of a lost culture. Various architectural forms - such as a geodesic dome reminiscent of an ecological structure, or a series of concrete pools - inhabit the same rocky, empty landscape; the mountaintop on the horizon is marked by the memory of a structure - a temple or an observatory. These compositions, which cannot be encompassed at a single glance, allude to the history of landscape painting. Yet whereas in Romantic painting the sublime is associated with a sense of awe, in these images its presence provokes instead a sense of anxiety. The fictional expanse created by Kopler appears to include the figure of a gatherer, who has taken upon himself to preserve the vestiges of a lost culture. These paintings allude to the possibility that following its destruction, the remnants of our culture will become exotic archeological artifacts to be studied by future unknown cultures. Kopler was the recipient of many awards and recognitions, amongst them: The Young Artist Award, Ministry of Science Culture & Sport; Rappaport Prize for Young Israeli Painter; Award for Excellence, Bezalel Academy of Art Design; America-Israel Cultural Foundation Award. His work has been showcased in solo and group exhibitions including the Tel Aviv Museum, of Art (solo exhibition); Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa; Petach Tikva Museum of Art; Litvak Contemporary, Tel Aviv; Tavi Dresdner Gallery, Tel Aviv; Habres & Partner, Vienna; and Biet Berl Academic College Gallery, Tel Aviv. Kopler’s works are kept in collections worldwide including the Bank Ha’poalim Collection (Israel); Philip Hofer Collection, NY (USA); Sam & Yael Bacharach, NY (USA); and numerous private collections.
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Untitled, 2016 Acrylic on canvas 58x40.5 inches For inquiries please click here
Untitled, 2015 Acrylic on canvas 63x49.5 inches For inquiries please click here
Untitled, 2016 Acrylic on canvas 20.5x36 inches For inquiries please click here
Untitled, 2016 Acrylic on canvas 51x39 inches For inquiries please click here
Untitled, 2015 Acrylic on canvas 70x56 inches For inquiries please click here
Untitled, 2016 Acrylic on canvas 50x63 inches For inquiries please click here
Untitled, 2015 Acrylic on canvas 67x79 inches For inquiries please click here
Untitled, 2016 Acrylic on canvas 47x31.5 inches For inquiries please click here
Untitled, 2015 Acrylic on canvas 70x63 inches For inquiries please click here
Untitled, 2015 Acrylic on canvas 71x79 inches For inquiries please click here
Untitled, 2016 Acrylic on canvas 63x50 inches For inquiries please click here
Untitled, 2015 Oil, acrylic and spray paint on canvas 65x56.25 inches For inquiries please click here
Untitled, 2015 Oil, acrylic and spray paint on canvas 56.25x48.22 inches For inquiries please click here
Untitled, 2015 Oil, acrylic and spray paint on canvas 49.6x64.5 inches For inquiries please click here
Untitled, 2015 Oil, acrylic and spray paint on canvas 71x56 inches For inquiries please click here
Untitled II (Leftovers) II (Leftovers) 2014 Mixed media on canvas 52.4x74.75 inches For inquiries please click here
Untitled VII (Leftovers), 2014 Mixed media on canvas 51x67.2 inches For inquiries please click here
Untitled VI (Leftovers), 2014, Mixed media on canvas, 44.8x79.8 inches For inquiries please click here
Untitled I (Leftovers), 2014 Mixed media on canvas 55.1x69.25 inches For inquiries please click here
Elad Kopler Born in Ramat Gan, Israel, 1974. Lives in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Education
2007
2005-2006 M.A., Bezalel Academy for Art and Design, Tel Aviv 2000-2004 B.E.D., Hamidrasha School of Art, Biet Berl Academic College 1997-1998 Architecture and Design, Ort, Tel Aviv
Solo & Duo Exhibitions 2017
When Despair Becomes Plausible, Tavi Dresdner Gallery, Tel Aviv Passages, Hamidrasha Gallery, Biet Berl Academic College
Group Exhibitions 2017
Ingathering, 10th Anniversary of Rappaport Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
2016
A Terrible Beauty is Born, Tivon Art Gallery, Kiryat-Tivon; curator: Michal ShachnaiYacobi
VOLTA13 Basel, Art Fair 2017, Markthalle Basel, Switzerland. Imaginary Spaces: Works by Elad Kopler and Itamar Freed, Mana Contemporary, USA.
Re Seek, START COLLECTION Gallery, Jaffo, curator: Carmit Blumensohn
2016
VOLTA NY Art Fair 2016, Pier 90, New York, USA.
Modernism 2016, Rosenbach Contemporary, Jerusalem; curator: Nogah Davidson
2014
Eminent Domain, Feinberg Projects, Tel Aviv
2013
Elad Kopler: Temperatures, Rappaport Prize for a Young Israeli Painter, Tel Aviv Museum of Art; curator: Tal Lanir (catalogue)
2011
Druchim, Alma Center for the Arts, Zichron Yaakov, Israel; curator: Sarit Shapira Tishaa Ktarim, Soka Gallery, Tel Aviv; curator: Orly Dvir 2015
No Man’s Land, The Artists’ Studio, Tel Aviv; curator: Vered Gani
Akhshav: Contemporary Israeli Painting, Stein Rose Fine Arts, NY
“Artist Room” Project, Artplus Hotel, Tel Aviv; curator: Dana Golan 2009
2008
Twilight, Biet Berl Academic College Gallery, curatorial team guided by David Ginaton Ship of Fools, Kibbutz Be’eri Gallery, Kibbutz Be’eri; curator: Ziva Yelin
Dark Matter, Litvak Contemporary, Tel Aviv; curators: Howard Rutkowski, Mary Dinaburg
Black Clouds, Habres + Partner Gallery, Vienna After the Heat Wave, Tavi Dresdner Gallery, Tel Aviv
Mehilot, Beit Kaner Gallery, Rishon Le’Zion, Israel; curator: Galit Semel
2014
Select Art Fair, Miami Art Week
2012
Other Space, Feinberg Projects, Tel Aviv
2011
The Coming Community, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa; curators: Yeela Hazut, Lee Veinberg Placing Time, Theatrical Exhibition in the Public Space; curators: Yael Tsabari, Hila Cohen Schneiderman
2010
International Sculpture Triennial, Poznan, Poland
Award Winners, Ramat-Gan Museum (catalogue)
2009
Crisis of the Genre, International Sculpture triennial, Poznan, Poland
Summer Exhibition, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv
2008
Postpop, Israeli Cartoon Museum, Holon; curator: Yuval Caspi (catalogue)
2004
Graduates Exhibition, Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl, Israel
In Silence, Rothschild Gallery 69, Tel Aviv; curator: Noam Segal
2003
Wounded, Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv
2002
A Day Will Come: Artists for Arab– Israeli Coexistence, Umm El-Fahm GalleryRosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
Young Artist Award Winner Exhibition, Haifa Museum of Art; curators: Tami KatzFreiman, Tal Yahas Etchings, Scratches and Scars, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Petach Tikva, Israel; curator: Drorit Gur Arie White, Tavi Dresdner Gallery; Tel Aviv NOIR, Bienth Gallery, Tel Aviv; curator: Ben Zur 2007
Secret Art, Bank Hapoalim, Tel Aviv
Rappaport Prize for a Young Israeli Painter, Tel Aviv Museum
2007
Young Artist Award, Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport
2006
Award for Excellence, Bezalel Academy of Art Design
2005-2007 America-Israel Cultural Foundation
By the Way, The Heder Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2004
Above and Beyond, The Kibbutz Gallery, Tel Avivv Shoshelet, (Dynasty), Sapir College, Sderot, Israel 100 Years of Bezalel Art Academy, Ben Gurion Airport Graduate’s Program exhibition, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Tel Aviv Bezalel-Glasgow, Bezalel Gallery, Tel Aviv
Bezalel in Istanbul, Istanbul Biennial 2005
2012
Under the Sun, Gilit Fisher Gallery, Tel Aviv
7 Sculptures, Tavi Dresdner Gallery, Tel Aviv
2006
Scholarships and Awards
Artik 7, America-Israel Cultural Foundation
Excellence Award Scholarship, Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl Academic College
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USA Collection