Ashery (born 1966 in Israel) mines counter-cultures and trash aesthetics in performances, situations, public platforms, photographs, videos, mass-produced and unique artefacts, text and commissioned music. Her expansive and eclectic body of work is made of multilayered projects that reveal ideological, social and gendered paradigms, often through intimate moments of recognition and tend to evolve around minority discourse. Ashery has exhibited and performed extensively at international contexts such as ZKM Karlsruhe, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, Brooklyn Museum, Overgaden Copenhagen, DEPO Istanbul, Whitstable Biennale, Centre Pompidou, and Freud Museum. She is currently a visiting Professor at the Royal College of Art.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION
2015
Campagne Première, Berlin, Animal with a Language
2014
waterside contemporary, London, Animal with a Language
2013
Hippolyte, Helsinki, Party for Freedom
Overgaden, Copenhagen, Party for
Freedom
2012
Pristine Gallery, Mexico, Monkey Bum Prints Factory
C. Wichtendahl Galerie, Berlin, Oreet Ashery (with Nicole Ahland)
2011
DEPO, Istanbul, Falafel Road (with Larissa Sansour)
2010
Other Gallery, Shanghai, The Beautiful Jew
Other Gallery, Beijing, Raging Balls
2009
The Arches, Glasgow, Back in 5 Minutes and Scratch
Performance: Golani Varanasi
2008
Sherwell Centre, Plymouth University, Plymouth, Dancing with Men
2007
Letchworth Art Centre Gallery, Letchworth, What You See
2003
Foxy Production Gallery, New York, Performance 2003
Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool, Say Cheese
2002
Foxy Production Gallery, New York, Oreet Ashery
Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana, 7 Acts of Love
Stil und Bruch, Berlin, 7 Acts of Love
1998
Jerusalem Artists' House Gallery, Jerusalem, Magnum Opus III, (with Daniel Rubinstein)
1996
68elf Gallery, Cologne, Magnum Opus
II (with Daniel Rubinstein)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014
Auto Italia South East, London, Golden Age Problems (curated by Nathaniel Budzinski)
2013
National Museum of Contemporary Art - Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, Hetero q.b
John Hansard Gallery, Southhampton, Performance/ Audience /Film, with Franko B, Blast Theory,
Ian Breakwell & Ron Geesin Jean Dupuy, Rachel Gomme, Dan Graham, Joshua
Sofaer)
2012
Lentos Museum, Linz, Whole Milk (curated by Thomas Edlinger)
Whitebox Art Centre, New York, Body Snatchers (curated by Raul Zamudio)
Körnerpark Galerie, Berlin, Life is Eleswhere
Instytut Sztuki Wyspa, Gdansk, re.act.feminism#2
2011
A foundation, Counterpoint
Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul, Show me your Hair
Shanghai Art Fair/ ART SAN DIEGO Contemporary Art Fair, San Diego
Whitebox Art Centre, New York, How to Philosophize With A Hammer(curated by
Raul Zamudio)
EDS Gallery, Mexico City, Obra en video
Moderna Galerija,Ljubljana, 29th Biennial of Graphic Art, Museum of Modern Art (curated by Beti Žerovc)
2010
Shanghai Art Fair, Shanghai
Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, Identity II
White Space, Zurich, A Thousand Endless Tales – Dancing the Line of Flight (curated by Dimitrina Sevova)
Jewish Museum, New York | San Francisco, Reinventing Ritual
Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Arts of Memory, Material, Media,
Mythologies
Other Gallery, Shanghai, The Metamorphosis (curated by Raúl Zamudio)
Invia, London, Progress
Report
GI Holtegård, Gammel Holtegård, Fall Out (curated by Merete Jankowski)
NGBK, Berlin, Theatre of Peace
HKW Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, On Rage
Pristine Galerie, Monterey,That Obscure Object of Desire (curated by Raul Zamudio Taylor)
2009
Heidelberger Kunstverein (project in city space), Heidelberg, Becoming Intense, Becoming Animal, Becoming…
Centro d'Arte Contempranea, Chiasso, Queer/SCHäG
Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Re.Act.Feminism (curated by Bettina Knaup and Beatrice E. Stammer)
Kunsthaus Erfurt, Erfurt, Re.Act.Feminism
Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo, Medium Religion
Goldsmiths Gallery, London, Redrawn Boundaries
Kortil Gallery Strossmayerova, Rijeka, Crime and Punishment
Umjetnicki Paviljon, Zagreb, Looking at Others
2008
ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Medium
Religion (curated by Boris Groys and Peter Weibel)
198 Gallery, London, Crime and Punishment (curated by Predrag Pajdic)
Bodhi Gallery, New York City, Performance and Mimicry
EDS Gallery - FEMACO Art Fair, Mexico City
Living Gallery, Lecco, Biography of a Traveller
April Meetings Festival, VIP Art Gallery
of Students Cultural Center, Belgrade, April Meetings Festival
2007
Contemporary Art Platform, London, Unbound (curated by Predrag Pajdic)
11 Wolstenholme Square, Liverpool, The Oubliettes of Wolstenholme
Whitebox Gallery, New York,Theatre of Cruelty
Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Petach Tikva, The Space Between
Tate Liverpool | FACT, Liverppol, Bound, Open Eye Gallery
Contemporary Art Platform | Dazed Gallery, London, In Focus
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Normal love
Holden Gallery, Manchester, Make it a better place (curated by Dinu Li)
Brooklyn Museum, New York, Global Feminisms (curated by Maura Reilly, Linda
Nochlin and Lila Acheson Wallace)
Freud Museum, London, Paranoia
Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, Paranoia
2006
Focal Point Gallery, Southend, Paranoia
Elzbieta Koscielak Gallery | Zamek Lesnica Castle, Wrokaw, Body Double (curated by Raul Zamudio)
The London Jewish Museum of Art, London, Recent Acquisitions
Ben Uri Gallery, London, Summer Show
APT Gallery, London, Monstrous Tales
Foxy Production Gallery, New York, Now, more than ever (with Jimmy Baker, Alex Hubbard and Johannes Vanderbeek)
Spittastrasse 25, Berlin, Concrete, Sausage and Other Team Ghosts
Cuchfritos Gallery, New York, Animal Magnetism (curated by Raul Zamudio)
2005
Herzliya Museum, Herzliya, Biography /Autobiography
Centre of Attention, London, On-Demand
Galeria de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City, Los Retratos de Dorian Gray
Network Gallery, New York, Anthro/Socio
2004
Project Arts Space, Dublin, No Respect
2003
Century Gallery, London, X-travagant
John Hansard Gallery, Southhampton, Intervention
NGBK, Berlin, Wonder Years
OK Centre for Contemporary Art, Linz, The Promise, the Land
2002
London Print Studios Gallery, London, Private Views
Monica Bobinska, London, Over Dressed
Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, Like Gold Dust
2001
Dalston Underground Studios, London, Dalston Underground
Centre of Attention at Notting Hill Arts Club, London, Jews, Blacks, Gypsies and Other Free
Radicals
Centre of Attention, London, A Man, A Woman, A Machine
2000
Margaret Harvey Gallery | St. Albans Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, John, I’m Only Dancing
Nunnery Gallery, London, Sexmutant
Architectural Association, London, London Post-Colonial City
1998
W139 Gallery, Amsterdam, The Kindness of Strangers
International Photoszene, Cologne, Outfit / International Photoszene
Montehermoso Art Centre, Vitoria, Re.Act.Feminism#2
PERFORMANCES
2014
Tate Modern, London, The World is Flooding(curated by Nora Razmian)
Swedenborg House, London, 21st Century Carpet Sale! A Legendary Collection
2013
Artangle, London, Party for Freedom, People vs Freedom
2012
Metal, Liverpool, Party for Freedom, #1, #2, #6/10
New Performance Festival, Turku, Party for Freedom work in progress
Den Frie, Copenhagen, Security First
Teatru-spalatorie, Chișinău,Semitic Score
2011
Le Transpalette Centre d'Art Contemporain, Bourges, Monkey Bum Factory
Trouble Festival, Brussels, Hairoism
La Porta, Barcelona, Semitic Score
Venice Biennail/ Slovenian Pavilion, Venice, Semitic Score
Trouble Festival, Brussels, Semitic Score
2010
Other Gallery, Beijing, Raging Balls
ICA, London, Raging Balls
HKW Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Raging Balls (with Larissa Sansour)
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, Raging Balls
Brooklyn Museum, New York, Raging Balls
The Arches (30 years of the National Review of Live Art), Glasgow, Hairoism
Škuc Gallery/City of Women Festival, Ljubljana, Hairoism
Modern Art Oxford/ Night and Day, Oxford, Semitic Score
Studio 303, Montreal, Semitic Score(curated and commissioned by Kris Nelson)
Live@8, Galway, Semitic Score (curated by Andrew Mitchelson)
Hollybush Gardens Gallery (with Edd Hobbs, as part of Eline McGeorge exhibition), London, Children of the Future
Brooklyn Museum, New York, Scratch Performance: Golani Varanasi
198 Gallery, London, Scratch Performance: Golani Varanasi
Gerrit Rieveld Academie, Amsterdam, Scratch Performance: Golani Varanasi
HKW Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Scratch Performance: Golani Varanasi
2009
Tate Modern, London, Raging Balls
The Arches, Glasgow, Raging Balls
Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Raging Balls
Tate Modern, London, Hairoism
Hollybush Gardens Gallery, London, Children of the Future
Tate Modern, London, Scratch Performance: Golani Varanasi
The Arches, Glasgow, Scratch Performance: Golani Varanasi
2008
Radar | Loughborough University, Loughborough, Raging Balls
Betesey's Salon, London, Scratch Performance: Golani Varanasi
Whitstable Biennial | The University of Kent, Canterbury,The Saint/s
of Whitstable
Duckie, London, The Great Recession (with Owen Parry)
Plastique Fantastique and Bughouse event | FA Projects Gallery/Church of Scientology | Blackfriars Bridge Road, London, Here He Comes
2007
De Balie, Amsterdam, Welcome Home
Freud Museum, London, Right, Left
Lincoln Inn Fields (Neturai Karta Free Palestine demonstration), LondonWill You Let Me Join You Just This Once?
2006
Thou Art Centre, Stavanger, Territories of Belonging
Schwules Museum, Berlin, Back in 5 Minutes
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Women’s Love
Great Hall | Queen Mary University | PSi#12, London, Welcome Home
Khoj, New Delhi, Sarmad the
Saint
Dilli Haat, New Delhi, Portrait Sketch
2005
Herzliya Museum, Herzliya, Some Things Change Some Remain the Same
Kunstbanken, Hamar, What is Your Current Address?
Centro Cultural Telemar (ME Electronic Art Show), Rio De Janeiro, 7 Acts of Love
University of Reading | BERKS (Transevasilities Conference), UK, 7 Acts of Love
A Constructed World, Turin, Bentornato –
Welcome Home, More Fools in Town
2004
Great Eastern Hotel, London, 7 Acts of Love
Home, London, Will You Cook For Me?(with Daniel Ashery)
Apex travel agent - part of Project Art Space/ No Respect, Dublin, It’s Been a Long Time
Royal Opera House, London, Property from the 3rd Floor Royal Opera
House
Telecom Tower, Venice, No Vitrines, No Museums, No Artists,
Just a Lot of People (with Rirkrit
Tiravanija)
Centre of Attention, London, Score by Ken Friedman (Fluxes)
291 Gallery, London, Central Location/Treatment
2003
Galerija Matice Hrvatske, Zagreb, Occupation I,
II, The Case of the Rabbit
Hull Time Based Arts, Hull, Occupation I, II, The Case of the Rabbit
291 Gallery, London, Occupation I, II, The Case of the Rabbit
NGBK, Berlin, Central Location, Wonderyears
OK Centre for Contemporary Art, Linz, Say Cheese
Arnolfini/In Between Time Festival, Bristol, Say Cheese
Bluecoat Arts Centre/Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, Say Cheese
Meron Mountain, North of Israel, Marcus Fisher, interventions and performances: dancing with orthodox men
2002
Foxy Production Gallery, New York, Say Cheese
Kapelica Gallery, LjubljanaSay Cheese
NGBK, Berlin, Say Cheese
National Review of Live Art, Glasgow,Colored Folks (with Shaheen Merali)
2001
Hoxton Distillery, London, Back in 5 Minutes
Home, London, Say Cheese
Toynbee Hall, London,Colored Folks (with Shaheen Merali)
Centre of Attention at Notting Hill Arts Club, London,Marcus Fisher
OMSK, London,Marcus Fisher
National Review of Live Art, Glasgow, Marcus Fisher
Fado, Toronto,Open Surgery (with Svar Simpson)
2000
Windows Gallery/Central St Martins College of Art & Design, London,Central Location,UK
The Fridge, London,Marcus Fisher
Akademia, Brighton, Marcus Fisher
Duckie, London, Marcus Fisher
Turkish Men’s Cafe, Berlin, Marcus Fisher
Soho, London,Marcus Fisher
Beach, Tel Aviv,Marcus Fisher
East End Collaborations Festival, London, Marcus Fisher
eXpo Live Art Festival, Nottingham,Marcus Fisher
Void Gallery, London, Mixed Up
Brixton Arcade, London,RKD
1999
Lux/3rd International Transgender Film Festival, London,Marcus Fisher
Domestic Residency Programme, Berlin, Trans-Kulturwohnung (invited by Leif Erich Christensen
and Janine Rostron)
Bobo Gallery, London, Moot Point
1995
Leather Lane Market, London, 50 Years to Hiroshima
1994
Showroom Gallery, London,Magnum Opus I
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2012
Kone Foundation, Helsinki
2011
Honorary Research Fellow, School of English and Drama, Queen Mary
University, London
2010
Arts and Humanities Research Council
Creative Research Fellow, Drama
Department, Queen Mary University, London
The im/possibilities of
Israeli/Palestinian artistic collaborations investigated through different
modes of public engagement, AHRC Research
Grants, Practice Led and Applied
Alter egos and fictional characters in
performative art practices: configuring enigmatic oriental Jewish narratives, AHRC Fellowships in the Creative and Performing
Arts
Production Award for the exhibition
Progress Report, Iniva, London
For the exhibition Fall Out (with Larissa Sansour) Gl Holtegaard,
Holteegard
2009
Grants for the Arts, Nonel and Vovel, with Larissa Sansour, R&D + production, Arts
Council England
Residency at PiST, British Council, Istanbul
2008
Grants for the Arts, Nonel and Vovel, with Larissa Sansour, Arts Council Denmark
2007
Alter egos and fictional characters in
performative art practices: configuring enigmatic oriental Jewish narratives, AHRC Fellowships in the Creative and Performing
Arts
Grants for the Arts, Nonel and Vovel, with Larissa Sansour, R&D + production, Arts
Council England
2006
Travel Award, British Council
Grants for the Arts, touring exhibitions, Arts Council England
Gasworks/Triangle Arts Trust, Khoj, New Delhi
International Fellowship, Arts Council England, Khoj, New Delhi
2005
Grants for Artists, British Council
Necessary Journeys, Arts Council England
Research & Development, Arts Council England
2004
Kathy Acker Bursary, University of Greenwich, London
2002
Production Award with e-2.org, London Arts Board, London
One to One Bursary, Live Art Development Agency, London
2001
Research & Development, London Arts Board, London
Professional Development Award, Artsadmin
Visual Art Bursary, London Arts Board, London
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