STUDIO AMIT GOFFER
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Amit Goffer
Born 1979 in Tel Aviv, Israel
Lives and works in Düsseldorf, Neuss, Germany


Education:
2011 - 2012  
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany (Prof.Rita McBride / Prof.Richard Deacon)
2004 - 2008  B.F.A, Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl College, Interdisciplinary Fine Arts, Israel 
2005 - 2006  Assistant of Gideon Gechtman, Sculpture department, Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl College, Israel 


 

Selected Solo exhibitions 

2022

Sleeping for Tomorrow project #0.1, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Germany
2019
GOD'S BIOMETIC DATA, 
Amit Goffer,  DISKURS Berlin, Germany (with Erik Andersen)
2016              
Change of Guards 1
, Amit Goffer, MMIII Kunstverein Mönchengladbach, Germany (with Vera Lossau)
Change of Guards 2, Amit Goffer, Villa V., Viersen, Germany (with Vera Lossau)
Falling into Paradise, Amit Goffer, Kunstverein Duisburg, Germany (with Zhenia Couso Martell) (cat.) 
2014              
INTEGRATION, Atelierhaus - Hansa 9, Neuss, Germany (cat.)
2012               
FACING IN TO OUT THE VOID, RAUM, Oberkassel, Düsseldorf, Germany

2010              
Making Art, Artist studio’s, Tel Aviv, Israel
2008             
Hamidrasha 2008, B.F.A, Graduation, Israel (cat.)
 

Selected Group exhibitions
​

2022

What the Flag?! 2022, SPACE Collection, Liège, Belgium 
DIE GROSSE, Museum KUNSTFORUM, Düsseldorf, Germany (cat.)
2021
Kunst aus Neuss, 73-74.Jahresausstellung, Kulturforum Alte Post / Städtische Galerie, Neuss, Germany
From the play of bodies in light/ vom spiel der körper im licht, Kunsthaus NRW Kornelimünster, Aachen, Germany 
2020
GÖTZENDÄMMERUN, Part 1-2, Art and AI as Aesthetic Discourse in the Age of Trans- and Posthumanism, Haus der Kunst Munich, Germany  
YOU ARE HERE, Kunsthaus NRW Kornelimünster, Aachen, Germany (cat.) 
2019
MUNICH BIENNALE, Haus der Kunst Munich, Germany (cat.) 
​Raum+ Object Part XV, Kunstverein Gelsenkirchen e.V., Germany 
​DÜSSELDORFER NACHT DER MUSEEN ,Landtag NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany 
Livin bridges, BBK Kunnstforum Düsseldorf, Germany
2018​
O, Pisaot artists-in-residence, Sa Sa Art Projects, Pnom Penh, Cambodia  (cat.) 
2017
Kunst aus Neuss, 70.Jahresausstellung, Kulturforum Alte Post / Städtische Galerie, Neuss, Germany 
PostPost final, Postpost - Grand Central, Düsseldorf, Germany 
DAS GROSSE FRESSEN _ HEIMAT _ AUF WIEDERSEHEN RAUM_ + III,RAUM, Oberkassel, Düsseldorf, Germany
Domus, Hotel friends, Düsseldorf ​
ArToll Sommerlabor, Bedburg-Hau, Germany (cat.) 
2016            
Schichtwechsel
1, Maison de la Culture, Diekrich, Luxembourg
Schichtwechsel 2, Espace Apart, Diekirch, Luxembourg
HANSEartWORKS, S12 Gallery, Bergen, Norway                                                                                                                      
Contemporary Crises, Bunkerkirche, Düsseldorf, Germany (cat.)
Clearing, Artist's initiatives in cross-border dialogue between Israeli and German, Alfred Alfred Cooperative Institute for Art & Culture in Tel Aviv, Israel
2015             
Kunst aus Neuss
, 68.Jahresausstellung, Kulturforum Alte Post / Städtische Galerie, Neuss, Germany 
Lichtung, Artist's initiatives in cross-border dialogue between Israeli and German, BETONBOX, Düsseldorf, Germany               
Meeting Point, Kunstverein Konstanz/Kreuzlingen, Germany/ Schweiz (cat.)
FREILAND, Clemens Sels Museum, Neuss, Germany      
2013             
Kunst aus Neuss
, 66.Jahresausstellung, Kulturforum Alte Post / Städtische Galerie, Neuss, Germany                    
OpenART Biennale, Örebro, Sweden (cat.)
OpenART Academy, Läns Museum, Örebro, Sweden
BO- WKB 2013, 33. Gesamtausstellung, Guest in the Westdeutschen Künstlerbund, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum, Germany (cat.)
2012              
Repository for knowlegde and art, Syntopischer Salon, ArteFakte. Wissen ist Kunst Kunst ist Wissen, Berlin, Germany
Performance of Marina, in "Arena" of Rita McBride, MACBA Museum, Barcelona, Spain      
Biennale for one, München, Germany (cat.)
Marina or, Kunstverein Duisburg, Germany
Follow Up 2012, Aktuelle Positionen aus dem Rundgang der Düsseldorfer Akademie, PricewaterhouseCoopers AG, Düsseldorf, Germany (cat.)
Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Klasse Richard Deacon hosted in the Grosse Kunstausstellung NRW 2012, Germany
2011              
65. Bergische Kunstausstellung, Museum Baden, Solingen, Germany (cat.)
2010
Private Property, goffer & co. project in collaboration with the residents, Shapira community, Israel  
First decade, work of Hamidrasha School of Art Graduate In the 21st century, Mofet Institute, Israel (cat.)                                         
Bread and Roses, Minshar gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (cat.)
Alfred & co., Alfred gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Leaves, goffer & co. project in collaboration with the residents, Shapira community, Israel                        
2009
Love Art Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Next Generation, Joseph & Rebecca Meyerhoff Art Education Center, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel (cat.)
2008              
Post Pop
, Museum of Caricature and Comics, Holon, Israel (cat.)
A Luna Park like no Other and Sha’ar Festival, Suzanne Dellal Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
2007              
Secret Art
, Leumi Building, Tel Aviv, Israel (cat.)
Signed in Color, The Port of Tel Aviv, Israel (cat.)     

Awards and Residencies

2021 
Stiftung Kultrweek der VG Bild-Kunst for NEUSTART KULTUR 2021
2021 Jubiläumss​tiftung der Sparkasse Neuss, Germany

​2020 STIFTUNG KUNSTFONDS for NEUSTART KULTUR 2020/21 
2018 
​Sa Sa Art Projects, Pisaot artists-in-residence, Pnom Penh, Cambodia  
2018 Förderung durch das Land NRW
2016 Ministerium für Familie, Kinder, Kultur und Sport des Landes NRW
2014 Jubiläumss​tiftung der Sparkasse Neuss, Germany
2013 OpenART Academy, Örebro, Sweden 
2012 DAAD - Scholarship in Düsseldorf, Germany


Artist talks/ conversations / symposiums
 
2022

Amit Goffer in Conversation- Talk No.7– Rita McBride- Artist, sculptor based in LA, USA/ Düsseldorf, Germany
Amit Goffer in Conversation- Talk No.6- Colin Crotty – Artist, painter, based in Dublin, Ireland
Amit Goffer in Conversation- Talk No.5- JAE-HYUN YOO - Artist, curator & First Chairman of “Art5 e.V.” Munich, Berlin/ Germany & Seoul/ South Korea 
Amit Goffer in Conversation- Talk No.4-  Victor Mutelekesha - Artist & founder of the Lusaka Contemporary Art Centre, Zambia, Africa
Amit Goffer, Artist Talk- Talk No.3- Dr. Gregor Jansen and Prof. Dr. Robert Fleck in conversation with Amit Goffer, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Germany 
Amit Goffer 
in Conversation- Talk No.2- with NICO MESTERHARM - Founder of the Meta House Goethe-Center, Pnom Penh Cambodian 
2021
Amit Goffer in Conversation- Talk No.1-  Dr. Marcel Schumacher -Director of the art collection NRW in Kornelimünster Aachen
Amit Goffer in Conversation with Dr. Marcel Scumacher- MONUMENTS FOR TOMORROW, on the occasion of the open Monument Day 2021, ​Live on Zoom and in Kunsthaus NRW Kornelimünste, Germany
2019
Amit Goffer, Erik Andersen, Jung Me Chai, in Conversation, DISKURS Berlin, Germany  
2018
Amit Goffer & Vera Lossau Open studio - Sa Sa Art Projects, Pnom Penh, Cambodia 
Amit Goffer- Sa Sa Art Projects, Pnom Penh, Cambodia 
Amit Goffer Workshop- Sa Sa Art Projects, Pnom Penh, Cambodia 
​2017
Violent Memories - depicting trauma and transformation in the visual arts,  SYLTFOUNDATION, Germany
 2016             
Amit Goffer: Artist talk, S12 Gallery, Bergen, Norway 
Non-Profit Cultural Initiatives, Panel Discussion, moderated by Prof. Robert Fleck, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany
2015              
The Expanded field of art - domestic and 
international, Panel Discussion, Multidisciplinary Art Department, Shankar Academy of Art and Design, Israel
2013              
OpenART Academy
, International art symposium, Läns Museum, Örebro, Sweden                   

Miscellanous
 
2017
Nominated for the BLOOOM Award 2017
2016             
Shortlisted for EVA International 2016, Ireland's Biennial
ArtportArt Book FAIR, Tel Aviv, Israel
             

Special projects

2021- 23

Sleeping for tomorrow project #0.3 (upcoming)
Sleeping for tomorrow project #0.2 (upcoming)

Sleeping for tomorrow project #0.1
Sleeping for tomorrow

Social art project- Connecting the physical and digital worlds together 
2018
O Fanzine Project,
The publication accompanies the exhibition O Published by Vera Lossau & Amit Goffer,
Phnom Penh 2018, during their residency at Pisaot Sa Sa Art Projects, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2017
Violent Memories,
depicting trauma and transformation in the visual arts
, Workshop  SYLTFOUNDATION, Germany
2016
Back to Neverland, ​
10th edition of HANSEartWORKS, Bergen. Norway
Clearing, Alfred Alfred Cooperative Institute for Art & Culture , Tel- Aviv, Israel
2015
The Expanded field of art - domestic and internationa,  
Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art, Israel
Non-Profit Cultural Initiatives - Panel Discussion on concepts & practices
Kunstakademie Duesseldorf. moderated by Prof. Robert Fleck.
Lichtung, Artists' initiatives in cross-border dialogue,  A new artist exchange between Israeli and Germany, Germany
Pan, Meeting Point, Kunstverein Konstanz/Kreuzlingen, Germany /Schweiz
MSAS- FREILAND, Clemens Sels Museum Neuss, Germany
2013
INTROSPECTION, OpenART, OpenART Biennale, Örebro, Sweden
2012
Amit Goffer during his very first solo exhibition in Germany, Eiskellerberg.tv* (14:45 min)
Short version 3:27 min         
​The chain reaction element (CRE) project, Germany


Collections

Landtag NRW (State parliament of the German federal state of NRW)
Kunsthaus NRW Kornelimünster
Neuss Municipal Art Collection, Germany
Leumi Collection, Israel 
Private Collections






















































































































































































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Amit Goffer © 2023
  • work
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    • 2020-2018
    • 2017-2015
    • 2014-2012
    • 2011-2010
    • 2009
    • 2008-2005
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