Gidi Gilam lives and works in Berlin. He holds a bachelor’s degree in History and Philosophy from Tel Aviv University and a bachelor’s degree from the Visual Communications Department at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. He was awarded a D.A.A.D. scholarship, Rabinovitch grant and Mifaal HaPais. His works have been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world and are in several private collections in USA, Israel, Germany and France.
Gidi Gilam’s paintings condense and compress an everyday narrative. It might be something small and mundane in the context of human progress but it is under a spot light in the daily minute to minute perception of life. He paints a scene that encompasses an emotion or a big idea but in a fraction of life, in a moment.
Gilam’s paintings are figurative and favor a carefully selected pop color palette and contrary to that are skeptical and at times bad-tempered. This form of visual tension invites the viewer to discover their subjective narratives within the paintings and thus offer another layer of interpretation.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
MeetFrida, AAF Hamburg art fair, Hamburg, Germany
Long Night of Painters Art Fair, studios ID, Berlin, Germany
Everywhere, Assemblage Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Beyond Gallery, Gallery Weekend Berlin & MeetFrida, Berlin, Germany
Outrage Porn, Kimo Art Space, Berlin, Germany
2021
100 Unter 1000, Gallery Schindler LAB, Potsdam, Germany
Domino 3, Salve gallery, Berlin, Germ
Unblock Art Fair, studios ID, Berlin, Germany
Long Night of Painters Art Fair, studios ID, Berlin, Germany
2020
Long Night of Painters Art Fair, studios ID, Berlin, Germany
2019
Unmasked, Lettretage gallery, Berlin, Germany
Long Night of Painters Art Fair, studios ID, Berlin, Germany
Pyrotechnics, Sadnaot Ha Amanim, Jerusalem
2018
Gamma, Soma Gallery, Curitiba, Brazil
Soma Gallery Booth, P/Arte Contemporary Art Fair, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Independent Artists Booth, Fresh Paint Art Fair, Tel Aviv
I Was Looking At You As You Were Looking At Me, Alfred Gallery, Tel Aviv
2017
Prettimess, Old Municipality Museum, Tel Aviv
2015
Head, Gabirol Artist House, Tel Aviv
Encounter+, Ilana Gur Museum, Tel Aviv
Grants, Awards & Publications
2018
Mifal HaPais Artist Grant
Soma Gallery Residency, Brazil
2017
Tel Aviv Municipality Art Fund
2016
D.A.A.D. scholarship
2015
Rabinovitch Grant
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2018
The Past Is A Different Country, Memorial Museum, Curitiba, Brazil
2017
Irregular Act, Galil Gallery, Akko
Death of Spring, Binyamini House Gallery, Tel Aviv
2016
Quiver, Ramat Gan Museum of Art, Ramat Gan
Free, Lames Culture House, St. Poelten, Austria
Cut by Demand, Grille/Forelle Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2015
Note to Self, OTCA Gallery, Tel Aviv
Garden of Heavenly Delights, Jaffa Art Salon, Tel Aviv