Rinat Izhak
[ BIO - STATEMENT - ARTIST CV ]
BIO.
Spanish creator, born in Israel. Self-taught artist with an honors degree in Architecture from UPC in Barcelona and the University of Budapest. Her architectural training provides her with a key tool for her artistic projects, allowing her to create integral visual and sensory experiences.
Over almost three decades, she has gained recognition in important cultural institutions and has received support and grants for the development of artistic projects focused on environmental and complex works, in which more than 3,000 people have participated and which have been visited by more than 50,000 spectators.
For over twenty years, she developed personal series in her studio in parallel, away from public view. Only recently, after a collector visited, acquired her works, and encouraged her to exhibit her series, this work has begun to come to light, revealing a painting that combines strength and delicacy.
She is currently represented by DDR Gallery.
Statement.
Since 1998, I have been investigating the profound relationship between nature, space, and human beings.
My work stems from a careful listening to what is not visible, to bodily memory, to inner silence, and to the subtle tensions that exist between things.
My travels through Africa, India, Europe, the United States, and Latin America have formed a living archive of sensations within me: light, color, texture, movement, and aroma. From this internal bank, I work in the studio, not from pre-existing images, but by translating physical and emotional experience into visual language.
Each series is born from a careful listening to what emerges from silence. Each one calls for its own materials and techniques until its language is revealed.
Since 2007, I have been continuously researching painting with Japanese ink, working in delicate layers that open a dialogue between the visible and the invisible. The rapid brushstrokes create works that appear abstract and sensory up close, and reveal themselves as figurative images from afar, an oscillation that evokes the experience of observing elements of nature like a leaf or a stone.
I conceive creation as a living space built between the work, the viewer, and the place that hosts it.
Art for me is not an object; it is a door.
A door through which each viewer can enter their own inner space, discover a new layer, a memory, a sensation.
In my works, I seek to paint the invisible and activate what already exists in the viewer's consciousness.
Artist CV.
Solo Exhibitions.
2024 "ISLANDS" - Environmental Sculpture for Cultural Encounters, in collaboration with Alon Shikar, with this work they won the 23rd Art and Design Biennial. Suzanne Dellal Center, Tel Aviv.
2023 Live painting for the play about the civil war "La Voz" by director Marta Gil Polo with actor Pep Planas, Barcelona, Spain.
2022 "The Song of the Birds" - Homage Exhibition 2004-2024, Retrospective in Seville, Spain.
2019 "Windows in Green", HaYarkon Park, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2018 "Invisible Beings", Chile Memory Center, Santiago, Chile.
2017 "Look Beyond What We See", Pedralbes Center, Barcelona, Spain. 2016 "Roots in the Air", Artists' House, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2015 "Invisible Beings", Baluarte de la Candelaria, Cadiz, Spain. "See Beyond What We See", Installation at TEDx Cadiz, Spain.
2014 "Natural Portraits", Contemporary Art Center Madariaga de Valentín, Seville, Spain.
2013 "The Sky is Not the Limit", Tres Culturas Foundation and La Casa de la provincia, Seville, Spain.
2012 "The Sky is Not the Limit", Exhibition Casino, Seville, Spain.
2010 "The Plaza de las Palomas", Museum of Popular Arts and Customs, Seville, Spain.
2009 "Forest - Sea - River", Maruevia Exhibition Space, Seville, Spain.
2007 "The Rivers", Luiz Verri Gallery, La Puebla del Río, Spain.
Group Exhibitions.
2023 "PINK ISLANDS" - Interactive Urban Sculpture, collaborating with architect Alon Shikar. Winners at the Art and Design Biennial, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv.
2022 "Asal" - Artistic Director, project uniting Palestinian and Jewish artists with multidisciplinary contemporary art. Jerusalem Biennial, Israel.
2021 "Vertigo" Live Painting, Site-Specific Event Capsule #7, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.
Art T Shok series, design store - Avny Tal, Tel Aviv, Israel.
"Root of One is One", Valdelarte, Sierra de Huelva, Spain.
2017 Create for Cabin Residency, Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain.
2016 Ten large life-size installations presented in 6 dunams of hidden land, FiraTàrrega Festival, Lleida, Spain.
2015 "Arbolé", co-painting.
2012 "The Sky is NOT the limit", Exhibition Casino, Seville, Spain. n. flamenco, Vancouver, Kelowna and Calgary, Canada.
2013 Natural Installations Residency, "Root of One is One", Valdelarte, Sierra de Huelva, Spain.
2009 Palmillas Artists Exhibition, CajaSol, Seville, Spain.
2006 "The Thirteen Roses", work on the Spanish Civil War, created large-scale paintings for the set design, Teatre Tantarantana, Barcelona, Spain.
Trans Art, Contemporary Art Exhibition, Sant Feliu de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain.
Collections.
❖ Yeruham Park and Gardens, Israel.
❖ Contemporary Art and Environment Center "Valdelarte", Valdelarco, Sierra de Huelva. Intervention in Nature "The Root of One" (la√1).
❖ Valentín de Madariaga Foundation, Seville.
❖ Tres Culturas Foundation, Seville.
❖ Grúas Lozano Foundation, Carmona.
❖ Private Collections in Italy, UK, Spain, Portugal, Israel, Japan, among others.
Awards, scholarships & artistic residencies.
Awards and Recognitions.
❖ Winner of the Tel Aviv Art and Design Biennial with Architect Alon Shikar for the interactive Urban sculpture “PINK ISLANDS”. ❖ Selected to exhibit in Tel Aviv Park and Gardens in HaYarkon Park. An exhibition of high-quality printed paintings spanning one kilometer in the Park. ❖ Letter of honor from Queen Sofia for the project "La Plaza de las Palomas", Spain. ❖ Selected - Honored Artist for the XXXIII Las Palmillas Artists Exhibition. Exhibition with a catalog of retrospective works and projects carried out in Spain between 2004-2024. ❖ Cadiz de Cortés - Won the Honorable Mention for the installation "Eres Bosque". ❖ Selected to exhibit at TED x Cadiz University, Cadiz with A Look Beyond ❖ Selected for the artistic residency project "Artierra" by the Art and Nature Center "Valdelarte", Creation of an intervention in Nature, Sierra de Huelva. ❖ Finalist work in the VII Paul Ricard Competition. ❖ Selected LXII National Painting Award "José Arpa" ❖ Third prize in the Grua Lozano competition, Carmona ❖ 2nd Puebla del Río Competition. Selected work. Casa de la Provincia. Seville ❖ Artist residency at the Tres Culturas Foundation - Work "Mediterranean" ❖ Selected - Honored Artist XXII Las Palmillas Artists Exhibition. ❖ CajaSol Cultural Center, Seville. Selected work ❖ Work selected: Seawater X. AutoCugat Competition. Sant Cugat Museum. ❖Selected to exhibit "Tránsito" Trans Art Contemporary Art Exhibition. Sant Feliu de Llobregat, Barcelona.
Awards and Grants.
In Spain: Ministry of Culture of Andalusia, Seville City Council, Cadiz City Council, University of Seville, Tres Culturas Foundation, Spain. Won the Cadiz de Cortes recognition award for the installation "El Bosque".
Received a letter of appreciation from Queen Sofia for the project "La Plaza de las Palomas", Spain.
In Israel: Yehoshua Gardens, Capsule, Ashdod City Council, Jerusalem Biennial, Arts and Design Biennial and Eretz Israel Museum.
In 2022, she was invited to a tribute exhibition where she presented a retrospective of her 20-year career in Spain, with the support of the City Council of La Puebla del Río, Seville, and the Embassy of Israel in Spain.
Press & Television.
TV - Canal Sur / Andalucía Directo - 7.2.2010, Spain. El Mundo - 13.5.2010, Spain. TVE Report - 3.6.2010, Spain. Group Joly Report - 30.7.2010, Spain. Rinat / Juan José Serrano - Article, Spain. ❖ Yedioth Ahronoth Central - "The Islands", Suzanne Dellal Complex, 2023. ❖ ICE, Time Out, Batyamnet - "The Forest is Hope for Life", 2023. ❖ Yedioth Ahronoth -Exhibition "Windows in Green", HaYarkon Park, 2019. ❖ Look Beyond What We See - Installation, 2015: ❖ CORREO DE ANDALUCÍA - "Rinat Izhak invites to enter the forest". ❖ ABC - "The Changing Forest". ❖ VIVA SEVILLA - "The Disappeared Forest". ❖ 20minutos - "Rinat Izhak creates natural peace". ❖ "Natural Portraits" - Exhibition, 2014: ❖ Correo de Andalucía - "Close your eyes and look". ❖ Diario de Sevilla - "Maria Luisa Park crosses the street". ❖ SevillaCiudad.es - José Luis García, District Delegate. ❖ "The Sky is Not the Limit" - 2012-2013: ❖ VIVA SEVILLA - "Peace Towards the Sky", Nico Salas, 19.9.2012. ❖ Utrense - 3.1.2013. ❖ 20minutos - 30.1.2013. ❖ "La Plaza de las Palomas" - 2009-2010: ❖ Diario de Sevilla - "Ancient children in Plaza América", Antonio Burgos. ❖ ABC de Sevilla - "Portraits of Memory". ❖ Correo de Andalucía - "The Plaza of Memories". ❖ Diario de Sevilla - "La Plaza de las Palomas", Nicolás Salas. ❖ El Mundo - 13.5.2010. ❖ 20Minutos - Innovative Project in the Museum "La Plaza de las Palomas". ❖ The history of Seville told by the pigeons / Correos de Andalucia ❖ The historical memory of the pigeons / Javier Rubio | El Mundo.
Works by Rinat Izhak can be seen at:
DDR ART GALLERY, Calle de la Encomienda 21, 28012, Madrid.
Tel. +34 659819791
