About
Maayan Mozes Platnic (1983, Tel Aviv) is a performance and video art artist engaged in the field of public art, her work explores the connection between the physical body and historical, political and cognitive public spaces. Mozes holds the master's degree in art: Public art and New strategies, from the Bauhaus University in Germany. Her works have been exhibited in numerous venues such as Schiele Museum, Weimar, Tel-Aviv Museum, Gorki Theater, Berlin, Liebling Haus, Tel aviv, Musrara Gallery, Jerusalem. Mozes was awarded for the DAAD Scholarship for outstanding artists on behalf of the State of Germany, Scholarship for Art and Social Involvement form is the Jerusalem Foundation, , and the winner of the Essential Bauhaus award from the Bauhaus University. In parallel with her artistic work, Moses is engaged in curatorship and pedagogy team in The Olympus program in Libeling house, Tel Aviv.
Artist Statement
I deal with the body, its forces and its relation with the legal authorities.
By placing my body or bodies in public situations, I try to confront the power which institutions have on us, rules and obedience to those rules.
I aim at taking back control over my body,
creating images of an empowered body and by that stretching the borders of what is permitted and what is not.
Since I was a child, I have dealt with training the body;
Strict ballet lessons, dancing, performing, being a soldier.
In my projects, I deal with a basic question that has always accompanied me; Is the way
I train my body a product of my own desires, or is it dictated by some other will power?
My art is about power. Who has the power to decide what we can or cannot do? And do
I have the power to resist?
I use performance as an act of protest, by using physical strength,
but also my acts could come from world of meditation,
stillness, quietness, inner strength through focus and peace of mind and can refer to quiet protests and resistance from the past.
Foucault claims that power is a relationship, it is everywhere and everyone has it. We cannot be released from it but we can react to it by offering a change or acting. Because power is always present, resistance is a repetitive action. This routine of resistance is for me the notion of freedom that is expressed in my art.
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Education
2017 MFA Public Art and New Artistic Strategies, Bauhaus university, Weimar, Germany
2006 -2010 The School of Visual Theater in Jerusalem
2006 Intensive course SNDO Choreography and Movement, Amsterdam
Scholarship and Funds
2024 Mifal Hapais Council for the Culture and Arts for the production of a new video artwork
2023 Mifal Hapais Council for the Culture and Arts for the development of new residency
Artists program
2022 The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Artists’ Greenhouse for Excellence
2017 Artist - Teacher, The Culture Ministry of Israel
2014 - 2017 Education scholarship for excellence artists, DAAD Awards
2014 Bauhaus Essentials Award for excellent art students of the Bauhaus university
2009 Jerusalem Mayor's Award for Artistic Achievement
2008 Award from the Jerusalem Foundation for Social engagement
Artist residency and conferences
2023 Mandel Artists’ Greenhouse, Musrara - school of art and society, Jerusalem
2021 Performance conference 09, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv
2019 Bauhaus agents conference, Weimar, Germany 2019 Hagra, Neve Shaman, Tel Aviv
2014 Bauhaus Eins, Weimar, Germany
Exhibitions
2024 The collection of city stories, a digital Exhibition, The City Museum, Tel aviv
2023 Resistances, Liebling House, Tel Aviv, curator: Sabrina Cegla
2023 ZUMU, Acco, curators: Maayan Shelf, Shahar Ben Nun
2022 Four Beats, The social gallery, Musrara, Jerusalem, Israel
2021 HEADSTAND, Amphi, Libeling house, Tel Aviv, curator: Eran Eizenhamer
2020 Raise the counter, Tel Aviv Municipality, curator: Mital Manor
2019 Schiller-Museum, Weimar, Germany
I’m Home, The permanent exhibition, Libeling house, Tel Aviv, Israel
15 min’ in the death square, Hagra, Neve Shaanan, Tel Aviv, Israel
Imaginary Bauhaus Museum , Gorki Theater, Berlin, Germany
2018 Imaginary Bauhaus Museum, Schiller-Museum, Weimar
2017 Berliner Herbstalon, Gorki Theater, Berlin, Germany
2016 I Say Art you Say What , PZB-Project Centrum Berlin, Germany
2015 Kunst Fest, Weimar , Germany
Bauhaus Essential, Weimar, Germany
Berliner Herbstalon, GORKI Theater, Berlin
2014 Open, O.M.A Art center, Weimar
2013 Epos, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
Performance Art
2014 30 Seconds in the microwave A-janer, Tel Aviv
2013 Three different voices, Performance 0:2, Jerusalem
Sciences of happiness, Art-factory, Bat Yam
2012 Sciences of happiness, Experiment tools, Tel Aviv
Sentiments, Depends on the place, Tel Aviv
2011 Range Zero, Intimadance, Tel-Aviv
2010 The Cohen Family , Akko Festival, Akko
Sentiments, The Women Festival, Holon
2009 Polyamory, Israel Festival, Jerusalem
2013 Street No 1, Depends on the place, Tel Aviv
2011 Amechaye, Jerusalem Season of Culture, Jerusalem
2009 Disqualified broadcast, The Visual Theater, Jerusalem
2008 Vacuum, Gerar Bahar Center, Jerusalem
Independent Initiatives
2024 Jaffa Program for art in the city 2 - Full year Fellowship program and residency Jaffa
2023 Jaffa Program for art in the city - Residency in community Centers, Jaffa, Israel
2022 The Edge of the Mountain - Performance Art Exhibition, Liebling House, Tel Aviv, Israel
2021 Action function - Performance Art Exhibition, Liebling House, Tel Aviv, Israel
2000 The Way - A social game for understanding professional processes.
2018 Diploma - Exhibition for youth, Mobi Museum, Bat -Yam, Israel
2017 Brothers, brothers, brothers - Art project with young prisoners, Weimar, Germany
Artistic management and Curation
2023 City Stories project, The city hall Museum, Curator, Tel Aviv
2021 residency program, Liebling House, Curator, Tel Aviv
2020 Art and Education Conference, Liebling House, Curator, Tel Aviv.
2014 Metropolis project, Curator, Tel Aviv
Art Factory- The Artists' Lab for New Urbanism, Artistic producer, Bat Yam
2012 World Press Photo, Producer, Israel
A Different Stage, The National Lottery, Producer, Tel Aviv
2011 Vertigo Dance Company, Producer, Jerusalem
Festival ZAZ, Producer, Tel Aviv
2009 New Spirit Organization, Curator, Jerusalem
Pedagogy and Education
2022-2024 Underneath the nose, Invention, development, and guidance a creative thinking workshops in urban spaces, for kids
2020-2024 Olympus program, Initiating and pedagogical developing, Educational Program for professional artists and creators. Liebling House, Tel Aviv, Israel
2020-2024 Zikuk, developing and mentoring - a correspondence course for the development and expansion of the creative toolbox, for professional artists.
2023 Hila Program developing and mentoring course in creative thinking for teenagers for Hila students- an alternative education framework of the Ministry of Education, Israel
2023 Hila Program, developing and mentoring course in video-performance art for teenagers’ part of Hila program - an alternative education framework of the Ministry of Education
2021 Body and Space, a workshop about the connection between architecture and body, MUZA, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
2021 Performance in Public spaces, a course for adults, libeling House, Tel Aviv
2017-2020 Living in the city, development, writing an annual curriculum for the 4th grade, the connection between body and city, Department of Education of the Elementary Schools Tel Aviv Municipality
2017-2020 Living in the city, teaching the program in 6 different elementary schools in Tel Aviv
2019 A course Performance in Public spaces, Musrara School of Art and Society, Jerusalem
2019 Living in the world, pedagogical development and writing an annual curriculum for 1th grad,Introduction to concepts in the world through Art, Actions and Performance Art
2018 Education coordinator, Liebling House’s educational program, Tel Aviv, Israel
2017 Public art, developing and mentoring an annual curriculum in public art for youth, Ramot’ High School, Bat Yam, Israel
2016 10 ways how to break down a wall, A lecture on the power of performance art, for art students, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany
2015 Performance classes in elementary schools, the Ministry for the Development and Promotion of Live Art, Israel
Press
https://www.prtfl.co.il/archives/183756\ Mirav Rahat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=2vdbEISntk8&feature=youtu.be
Kan News / Yonatan Nave
https://www.prtfl.co.il/archives/188383 / Maya or
https://www.prtfl.co.il/archives/149382 \ Maya Or
https://marthayodaat.com/2013/02/23/תיאטרון-מחוץ-למסגרת/ Maya Ofir Magnet
https://www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/2011-04-27/ty-article/0000017f-db11-db22-a17f-ffb13ce50000 \ Daniel Rawcherberg
https://www.habama.co.il/Pages/Description.aspx?Subj=8&Area=1&ArticleId=15196 \ Gabi Eldor
https://www.secrettelaviv.com/tickets/hospitality-a-variety-of-displays-and-events Secret Tel Aviv