Born in Jerusalem, Israel, 1987. Lives and works in Berlin.
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Zohar Fraiman (Born in Jerusalem, Israel/lives and works in Berlin, Germany) examines the influence of digitalization on common gender stereotypes through her paintings. She explores how identities are formed and through which mechanisms they are reconstructed online via platforms such as Instagram, Tinder and TikTok. Using humor, Fraiman questions the practice of self-staging on the Internet and confronts the unnatural ways of expressing oneself in image-based networks. In her collage-like paintings – whether we are facing an illusion or reality – is not certain. The cosmos she creates in her paintings are not there to mirror our world, but to show parallel realities that exist due to the disclosure of ourselves in the age of social media.
Education
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2013–15
Meisterschülerin Bildende Kunst, Universität der Künste Berlin, Deutschland, Professor Burkhard Held – Master in Fine Arts, University of Arts Berlin, Germany, studies by professor Burkhard Held
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2011-2013
Bildende Kunst, Universität der Künste Berlin, Deutschland, Professor Burkhard Held – Studies in Fine Arts, University of Arts Berlin, Germany, studies by professor Burkhard Held
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2005–09
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2003
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Solo Exhibitions
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2025
(forthcoming) ›You-phoria‹ curated by Malte Lin Kröger, Kunstpalais Erlangen, Germany
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(forthcoming) Solo Booth - Art Düsseldorf, Represented by Galerie Russi Klenner - Berlin, Germany
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2024
›Viral Rival‹ curated by Thibaut de Ruyter, Städtische Galerie im Park Viersen, Germany
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›Meme Me‹ curated by Katharina Schilling, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany
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Solo Booth - Art Brussels, Represented by Galerie Russi Klenner - Berlin, Belgium
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2023
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2022
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›Finding Fomo, Nina Mielcarczyk - Public Space‹ Leipzig, Germany
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2021
›Show Me Your Sheroes‹ Gallery Priska Pasquer, Cologne, Germany
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2017
›Die Bösen Dürfen Nicht Weinen‹ Galerie Russi Klenner, Berlin, Germany
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2014–15
›INFOLD ENFOLD UNFOLD‹ Dorothea Konwiartz Stiftung, Curated by Michal B. Ron, Berlin, Germany
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2014
›Devils and Brides‹, Galerie im Tempelhof Museum, Curated by Thibaut de Ruyter, Berlin, Germany
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
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2025
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2024
›Timeless Innovation – Innovation Intemporelle‹ works by Pablo Picasso in dialogue with four contemporary artists, Priska Pasquer Gallery, Paris, France
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›Humor, My Love, Humor‹ organised by Frontviews at Roam Projects, Berlin
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›Dissonance‹ curated by Christoph Tannert + Mark Gisbourne, National Gallery Bucharest, Romania
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›60 x 50‹ invited by Philip Grözinger & Jonas Burgert, Smac Berlin, Germany
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›Dissonance - Platform Germany‹ curated by Christoph Tannert + Mark Gisbourne, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Germany
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2023
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›Full Stop‹ Werkstatt, curated by Inga Krumme, Berlin, Germany
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›Zustands Bericht - Works from the Herrmann Collection‹ Kunstraum Potsdam, Germany
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2022
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›Image Fetiches‹ Curated by Laetitia Gorsy, Galerie Stephanie Kelly, Dresden, Germany
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›Art Düsseldorf‹ Priska Pasquer Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
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›Shattered‹ curated by Philipp Bollmann, Sexauer Galerie, Berlin, Germany
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2021
›Israelische Kunstler*innen in Deutschland‹ Kunsthalle Trier, Germany
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›Soft Agitators‹ curated by Gilles Neiens, Saarländische Galerie Berlin, Germany
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›Kayfuyem‹ curated by Philipp Schreiner, Galerie Waidspeicher, Erfurt, Germany
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›Direkte Auktion‹ curated by Annika von Taube and Charlie Stein, Xberg Tower Postbank, Berlin, Germany
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›The Fine Hands Show‹ curated by Thibaut de Ruyter, Museum Ploshchad Mira, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
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›Omanut - Kunst heute‹ Städtische Galerie im Park Viersen, Germany
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›WINDS OF CHANGE‹ curated by Priska Pasquer and Christiane Maria Schneider, Priska Pasquer Virtual Gallery
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›Welche Stimmung fandest du dort vor?‹ curated by Larissa Kikol, Galerie Russi Klenner, Berlin, Germany
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›ARCO E-XHIBITIONS‹ virtual exhibition of Galerie Russi Klenner artists, participating galleries at ARCOmadrid and ARCOlisboa
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›Lusus Naturae‹ curated by Vanessa Souli, BCMA Gallery, Berlin, Germany
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2020
›Séance Fiction‹ Kunstverein Familie Montez, Frankfurt, Germany
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›D'angelo, Fraiman, Kennedy‹ Galerie Russi Klenner, Berlin, Germany
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2019
›Connected‹ Honold Fine Art at BIASA CUBE, Kerobokan, Kuta - Bali, Indonesia
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›Magna Rota II‹ Duo exhibition with Julius Bobke, Kunstverein Schweinfurt, Germany
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›Magna Rota I‹ Duo exhibition with Julius Bobke, Maya Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
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›Voix‹ Museum der bildenden Künste / Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig, Germany
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›Paint - the seen, the unseen & the imagined‹ Messums Wiltshire, UK
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2018
›Die Jahrhundert-Bar‹ Projektraum Ventilator, Berlin, Germany
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›Breathing the Ultimate Wave‹Sprechsaal Galerie, Berlin, Germany
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›Painting XXL, part 1‹ AusstellungsHalle 1a, Frankfurt, Germany
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›Painting XXL, part 2‹ Galerie Leuenroth, Frankfurt, Germany
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2017
›Entfesselt! Malerinnen der Gegenwart‹ Schloss Achberg, Curated by Martin Oswald, Ravensburg, Germany
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›Vanitas Fair‹ Zohar Fraiman + Nika Fontaine, Lachenmann Art Galerie, Konstanz, Germany
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›Farbauftrag‹ Haus am Lützowplatz, Curated by Jaqueline Krickl, Berlin, Germany
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›Painting XX‹ Kunsthalle der Sparkassenstiftung Lüneburg , Curated by Enno Wallis, Lüneburg, Germany
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›BRLNKNSTNZ.GALLERY‹ Lachenmann Art Galerie @ Studio Lars Teichmann, Berlin, Germany
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›Under Influence‹ Galerie Dukan, Curated by Michaela K. Kühn, Leipzig, Germany
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2016
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›The Names Have Been Changed‹ Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin, Germany
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›Berlin School of Painting‹ Villa Renata, Basel, Switzerland
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›Freundeskreises der UdK | der Karl Hofer Gesellschaft e.V. KunstKaufen‹ Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany
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›Berlin School of Painting‹ Villa Renata, Basel, Switzerland
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›Open The Void‹ Zohar Fraiman + Elena Kozlova, Galerie The Grass is Greener, Leipzig, Germany
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›Warten Gucken Nicht Verstehen Weiter Gehen‹ Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
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›Schwarzkäppchen is Not the Murderous Type‹ Museion Atelier House, Bozen — Bolzano, Italy
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2015
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›Alles Muss Raus‹ Club der Polnische Versager, Berlin, Germany
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›CAA Inter-Youth Art‹ Chinese Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
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›Some of my Favorite Things‹ Curated by Michal B. Ron, Berlin, Germany
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2014
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2013
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2012
›Reise Nach Jerusalem—Tradition and Taboo‹, Artists House Jerusalem, Israel (Catalog)
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›Reise Nach Jerusalem‹, Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (Catalog)
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2011
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›Zu Besuch bei Connex projekt‹, Queen Anne Galerie, Leipzig, Germany
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2010
Scholarships/Grants
Publications / Selected Bibliography
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2024
›100,000 Years of Beauty‹ by Élisabeth Azoulay, published by Paris Gallimard, Future Book, pages 234-235
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›Me, Myself and Many - Zohar Fraiman im Haus am Lützowplatz‹ Kunst:Art, Dr. Julia Behrens, May 2024
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›Art Brussels : 7 artistes qui se réapproprient la peinture‹ The Steidtz, 6.May 2024
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2023
›Mit den Smartphones kamen die selfies‹ Ullrichs Bildseminar / folge 133, pp 61-62, Article by Wolfgang Ullrich, ART - das Kunstmagazin, November 2023
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›Art in the Age of Generative AI‹ Public Art Magazine, Issue 204, September 2023
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2022
›Self-ish‹ Artist Book, published by Zohar Fraiman, 300 copies, signed and numbered
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›Artissima 2022: what’s new about painting?‹ Juliet Contemporary Art Magazine, 6.Nov 2022
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›Zohar Fraiman: 'Nosotros comisariamos nuestra imagen en línea'‹ Elemmental Online, 25.Feb 2022
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2021
›Zohar Fraiman - Show Me Your Sheroes‹ Kunstforum International Ba.275, Juni-Juli 2021, ‘Utopia’, pp 276-278, written by Renate Puvogel
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›5 Artists to Watch‹ Artnet online, May 4. 2021
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›Zohar Fraiman - Show Me Your Sheroes‹, Monopol online, April 2021
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2020
›Berlin‹, Art Press, n° 479, July-August 2020, pp. 80-81, written by Thibaut de Ruyter
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›Art Starter‹, Art das Kunstmagazin, September 2020, pp 76, written by Larissa Kikol
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2019
›VOIX‹, Catalog MNW Berlin-Leipzig at Museum der Bildende Künste Leipzig
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›Magna Rota‹, Schweinfurter Tagblatt, written by Karl-Heinz Körblein
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›Magna Rota‹, duo exhibition catalog with artist Julius Bobke, text by Larissa Kikol
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2017
›Entfesselt! Malerinnen der Gegenwart‹, catalog, text by Martin Oswald
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2016
›PULSE‹, Prize Winners and Outstanding Young Artists Exhibition of the University of Fine Arts, Berlin
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›From Images To Pictures‹, Grass is Greener, Interview with Esther Niebel
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2015
›Painting is Like a Dance‹, Age of Artists, Interview with Dirk Dobiey
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2013
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2010