Zaidel Lena
1962 Born in Leningrad
1976 Immigrated to Israel
Lives and works in Jerusalem
Artistic Education
1988 Continuing education, The Department of Fine Arts, Bezalel – Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
1987 Graduate of the Department of Graphic Design, Bezalel – Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
Courses and Programs
2000-2004 Arcane School of Universal Spirituality, Geneva
2000-2003 The MOFET Institute for Educators, Tel-Aviv
1997-2003 Meditation studies and Teacher Training in Psychic Reading,
Heichal Jerusalem Center for Universal Spirituality
1980-1981 Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism, The Institute of
Kabbalah Research, Tel Aviv
Solo Exhibitions
2007 All the Places Are Holy – II, Agripas 12- Cooperative Gallery, Jerusalem, Curator: Oded Zaidel (Catalogue)
2006 All the Places Are Holy, Cliff (Al Ha Tzuk) Gallery, Netanya, Curator : Monica Lavy (Catalogue)
2003 Wolves, The Jerusalem Artists’ House, Curator : Tami Bezalely – Shohat
2000 Demeter, Antea Gallery, Jerusalem, Curator : Rita Mendes-Flohr
1999 Painted Friends, Musrara School of Photography, Jerusalem, Curator : Oded Zaidel
Duo Exhibitions (with Oded Zaidel)
2012 Jerusalem Panoramas, Migdal David Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Curator: David Sharir
2012 The Monastery, The Surface, Agripas 12- Cooperative Gallery, Curator: Yonatan Amir
2009 Nina Gallery, Gilo, Jerusalem, Curator: Boris Lekar
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012 Footsteps in the Desert, Kibutz Be’eri Gallery, (with artists of Agripas 12- Cooperative Gallery and artists from Fhoenix, Arizona), Kibutz Be’eri, Curator: Ziva jelin
2012 Fresh Paint 5 Contemporary Art Fair, Agripas12- Cooperative Gallery, Tel Aviv
2012 Mother Tongue – National Language, Beit Yad-LeBanim Gallery, Rishon LeZion, Curator: Keren Wisshouse (Catalogue)
2012 The Dark Side, Agripas 12-Cooperative Gallery, Jerusalem, Curators: Sara-Nina Meridor, Oded Zaidel
2011 The lie of the land, The Diaghilev Hotel, Tel Aviv, Curator: Tamar Tadmor
2011 Fresh Paint 4 Contemporary Art Fair, Agripas 12- Cooperative Gallery, Tel Aviv
2010 Traces IV, The National Biennale of Drawing, The Jerusalem Artists’ House, Jerusalem, Chief Curator: Tamar Manor-Fridman (Catalogue)
2010 Four Walls, Agripas 12-Cooperative Gallery, Jerusalem, Curator: Lena Zaidel
2010 Fresh Paint 3 Contemporary Art Fair, Agripas 12-Cooperative Gallery, Jaffa Port, Tel Aviv
2010 “Wolf,Wolf!”, Beit Kener, Rishon LeZion, Curator : Efi Gan (Catalogue)
2009 Heshbon Nefesh, High Touch Gallery, Herzliya, Curator : Dafna Naor
2008 Jerusalem – Surface Fractures, The Jerusalem Artists ‘ House, Curators : Israel Hadany, Zvi Tolkovsky, Hedva Shemesh (Catalogue)
2008 Edges, Manofim Project, The New Gallery, Teddy Stadium, Jerusalem, Curator : Yosi Davara (Catalogue)
2008 Broken Phone, Manofim Project, The Artists Workshops, Jerusalem
2008 Antea Darom, Kaye College of Education, Be´er Sheva, Curators : Rita Mendes Flohr, Nomi Tannhauser
2007 The Alchemists, The New Gallery, Teddy Stadium, Jerusalem, Curator : Shosh Averbukh (Catalogue)
2007 Traces III, The National Biennale of Drawing, The Jerusalem Artists’ House, Chief Curator: Dalia Manor (Catalogue)
2007 The Desert Generation, The Jerusalem Artists´ House, The Kibbutz Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Organizers : Larry Abramson, David Tartakover , Saliman Mantzur, David Reeb
2006 Ebb and Flow, Agripas 12- Cooperative Gallery, Jerusalem
2005 Traces II , The National Biennale of Drawing, The Jerusalem Artists’ House, Curator : Dror Burstein (Catalogue)
2004 Place for Contemporary Art, High Touch Gallery, Herzyliya, Curator : Daphna Naor
2004 IV International Biennale of Drawing, Pilsen, Czech Republic (Catalogue)
2002 New Members 2002, The Jerusalem Artists’ House, Curators : Yemima Ergas, Nomi Tannhauser
1995 Poetic Images, The Jerusalem Artists’ House (Catalogue)
1982 From Symbol to Technology, Leviathan Group, The Jerusalem Theatre, Curator : Michael Grobman (Catalogue)
Special Projects
2012 Animation film for M. Gendelev’s poem
2011-2012 Publication of M.Gendelev’s and M.Grobman’s poems in a Literary Review “Ktovet 4″and “Ktovet 5″
2010-2012 Production and montage of documentary films
2010-2011 Translation of Michael Gendelev’s Poetry (from Russian to Hebrew)
2010-2011 Translation of Michail Grobman’s Poetry (from Russian to Hebrew)
2008-2013 Chief of Exhibition Board, The Jerusalem Artists’ House
Exhibition Curation
2012 For Whom the Music is Playing -Natasha Kuznetzova, HaBait HaAdom Gallery, Tel Aviv
2010 Four Walls, Agripas 12-Cooperative Gallery, Jerusalem
2010 A Different Reality-Natasha Kuznetsov, The Artist’s House, Jerusalem
2010 Bon Voyage-Michael Yakhilevich, The Artist’s House, Jerusalem
2008 Romema-Talpiot-Oded Zaidel, Agripas 12-Cooperative Gallery, Jerusalem
2007 New Members 2007, with Oded Zaidel, The Artist’s House, Jerusalem
2005 Ziurnoff (Landscape Painting)-Oded Zaidel, Agripas 12-Cooperative Gallery, Jerusalem
Work
1989 – 2001 Foundation and managing of a studio for visual communication
Teaching Experience (Drawing, Illustration, Basic Design)
1999 Musrara School of Photography, Jerusalem
1997- Private lessons in drawing
1994 Bezalel – Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
1993-1995 Ort College, Jerusalem
1993-1994 Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem
1991-2007 Emunah College, Jerusalem
1989-1990 Meimad School, Tel Aviv
Instruction (Meditation, Psychic Reading)
2007-2008 Feng Shui Academy, “East-West” School, Tel Aviv
2001-2009 Feng Shui Academy, Schuster Center, Ramat Aviv
Collections
The Acquisition Board of Israel Museum, Drawing and Prints Department, Jerusalem
Umm el-Fahem Art Gallery, Umm el-Fahem
Mikhail Gendelev, Moscow
Vered and Amir Bitan, Jerusalem
Mikhal and Tristan Troudart, Jerusalem
Dafna and Zeev Goldberg, Ramat-Aviv
Yosef David, Jerusalem
Lena and Alon Goldman, Jerusalem
Elena Gendelev-Kurilov, Jerusalem
Zeev Bar-Sela, Jerusalem
Farideh and Said Golbahar, Jerusalem
Ira and Michael Grobman, Tel Aviv
Yoram Halevy, Haifa
Nurit and Ofer Levy, Mesilat Zion
Yael and Zohar Moskovitch, Mevaseret Zion
Neta Peleg, Haifa
Mikhal and Tistan Troudart, Jerusalem
Rutty and Yuval Weitzman, Mesilat Zion
Elena Tolstoy and Michael Weisskopf, Jerusalem
Naama and Efraim Zaidel, Jerusalem
Awards
1987 Bezalel – Academy of Arts and Design Prize for designing the banner for Israel´s 39th Anniversary
1983 Young Artists Scholarship, America-Israel Cultural Foundation (Sharet Foundation)
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Street Wolves
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Traces III
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Bon Voyage
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NEW MEMBERS 2007
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Other Reality
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Street Wolves
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