Selected artist CV
Studies:
2014 Master in Arts from the Art Academy Berlin Weißensee (“Art in Public Context, Spatial Strategies”) 2001 Bachelor in Fine Arts from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
Selected exhibitions and performances:
2024
Tress_passing Lecture-Performances by Ben Spatz & Adi Liraz, Tanzquartier Wien, Vienna, Austria
WE SEE Performance in collaboration with Eliana Pliskin Jacobs and Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman, Berlin and Ioannina
80 Years After Group exhibition, Ioannina, Greece
Alle Erinnerungen fließen ins Meer (und wieder raus) artistic intervention, part of Mitstreiten, Literatur Forum at the Brechthaus in cooporation with Undercurrents – Forum für linke Literaturwissenschaft. Berlin
2023
Lilit commissioned by Schloss Friedenstein Foundation for the “ACHAVA Festival” 2023, installation and performance walk, Gotha
Manfiyeh منفيه מנפיה commissioned performance in two parts, part of “Tsomet Lev”, curated by Nasrin Abu Baker and Tammy Izhaki, at Feel Beit, Jerusalem
Mother Toungues performance as part of the conference “Postmigrant Re-Configurations, new approaches to contemporary German language- Jewish culture production”, King's College London
Der Staub und der Geist, an die Mauer entlang commissioned by “Platz sucht Identität”, performance-walk, Weißensee, Berlin
KEDESHA as part of the group exhibition An Imagination of Bodily Autonomy curated by Nina Marlene Kraus at Galerie im Saalbau, Neukölln, Berlin
2022
Dowry Dialogues, a collaboration with Persefoni Myrtsou, performances and interventions in public space, Thessaloniki and Ioannina
I asked for her, commissioned performance-walk part of “Die Dritte Generation Deutschland: Neue Heimat” curated by Benyamin Reich and Alexander Ochs, Mittweida
Megoreschet, commissioned performance-walk, part of the Jewish-Muslim cultural day in Heidelberg
Mother Tongues Performance, Hebbel am Ufer, as part of the assembly Antirassistische Kämpfe versammeln, archivieren und aktivieren
T´ME´A טמאה commissioned performance and installation as part of the group exhibition VERSTICKUNGEN curated by Andrea Isa and Eyal Dinar at Plan-D gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
2021
Dirty Laundry, solo exhibition at the gallery Alpha Nova & Galerie Futura, Berlin
alle Erinnerungen fließen ins Meer (und wieder raus), commissioned performance by East of Elswhere, as part of the festival “Wie baut man Brücken über unruhiges Wasser“ , Rostock
ממים לאש MeMayim LeEsch commissioned performance by Kulturamt Offenbach am Main as part of CHAI Festival, Offenbach am Main
Feminismen vor Ort, performance Stadtpark Steglitz
Asking for Nelly (in Berlin), performance – commemoration walk in public space Weißensee, Berlin
2020
Ikh Hob Dikh Derkant, performance, Berlin Biennale 11, Berlin, Germany
Viral Empath, an installation as part of a group exhibition, Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin, Germany
2019
Mother Tongues, performance, Skala, Ioannina, Greece
Mother Tongues, performance, The Word, Berlin, Germany
Textured (Hi)Stories chapter II: ReMembering, installations, video installation and a performance as part of the exhibition in collaboration with the University of Ioannina, and the Jewish community of Ioannina, Mekeio Foundation House, Ioannina, Greece
Asking for Nelly, performance – commemoration walk in public space, Mavili square, Ioannina, Greece
2018
My Fluid Body on an Uneven Political Ground, performance, Xart Splita, Berlin, Germany
Textured (Hi)Stories chapter I, installation and performance Kappatos gallery Athens, Greece
Performance and presentation in collaboration with Dr. Esther Solomon and the University of Ioannina, Platia Sefagia, Ioannina, Greece
Up.Side.Down, performance in collaboration with Hori Izhaki, Jewish Museum Berlin, Germany
Gestickte Geschichten, installation and performance, Attendorn city hall, Attendorn, Germany
My Fluid Body on an Uneven Political Ground, performance, Hilbert Raum, Berlin, Germany
2017
My Fluid Body on an Uneven Political Ground, performance, Bilgisaray, Berlin, Germany
My Fluid Body on an Uneven Political Ground, performance Savvy Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
My Fluid Body on an Uneven Political Ground, performance, Circle 1, Berlin, Germany
I will not forget, performance, Performance, Gr_nd, Berlin, Germany
Reflections on My Fluid Body, video artwork, Kunsthalle Hamburger Platz, Berlin, Germany
My Fluid Body, installation as part of a group exhibition Marzahn city hall, Berlin, Germany
2016
ExDress, performance in collaboration with Sanija Kulenovic, alpha nova & galerie futura, Berlin, Germany
Whispering Home, artworks at the art vending machine of the Jewish Museum Berlin, Germany
ExDress, performance in collaboration with Sanija Kulenovic, Plateau Gallery, Greenhouse, Berlin, Germany
Publications:
2024
2022
Rae Dalvan, the life of a Greek-Jewish American by Adam J. Goldwyn, as the editor of the Romanioti* series of Isnafi Publications
Marriages are made in Heaven, a play by Rae Dalven as the editor of the Romanioti* series of Isnafi Publications
2021
Intersectional Commemoration Club Risograph Reader #1: Dirty Laundry & Mother Tongues
Ayin 1: Dirty Laundry
Berlin Biennale, common languages of exchange: Ikh Hob Dikh Derkent
2019
Protocols 2: Textured (Hi)Stories
2018
Asylum Arts, artist of the month June 2018: Textured (Hi)stories
Artist Statement
Adi Liraz is an interdisciplinary and performance artist currently working between Berlin, Germany, and Ioannina, Greece.
In her work, she negotiates the presence and function of memory and proposes ways of decolonising marginalised voices. Adi aims to remanufacture the concepts of home & belonging beyond the national, the hegemonic, and the patriarchal. Her work is a quest towards new understandings of feminist emancipation; while moving beyond white feminism and its supremacy, she reclaims domestic labour as a feminist everyday and artistic practice, and tries to unroot it from patriarchal genealogies.
Her methodology is to re-write “text” in hi(her)story through de-academising and de-institutionalising oral history, and through symbol re-invention. By using the body, self-embraided fabrics, organic fluids and found tangible traces of herstory as art materials, Adi relocates intimacy and domesticity into the public space and thus attempts to radicalise and reclaim it. In so doing, she posits the body as a carrier of memory and as a powerful site for knowledge production and transition.
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