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Naama Tsabar

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  • Biography
    View works. Naama Tsabar, Melody of Certain Damage #15, 2022
    Melody of Certain Damage #15, 2022
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    Born in Israel, 1982
    Lives & Works in New York, New York
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  • "The space behind the wall becomes performative; you are really sculpting sonic landscapes through your movement behind these walls." —Naama Tsabar
  • Naama Tsabar’s practice fuses elements from sculpture, music, performance and architecture. Her interactive works expose hidden spaces and systems, reconceive...
    Portrait of Naama Tsabar. Photo: Ebru Yildiz
    Naama Tsabar’s practice fuses elements from sculpture, music, performance and architecture. Her interactive works expose hidden spaces and systems, reconceive gendered narratives, and shift the viewing experience to one of active participation. Tsabar draws attention to the muted and unseen by propagating sound through space and sculptural form. Between sculpture and instrument, form, and sound, Tsabar’s work lingers on the intimate, sensual, and corporeal potentials within this transitional state. Collaborating with local communities of female-identifying and gender non-conforming performers, Tsabar writes a new feminist and queer history of fluency.

    Tsabar’s first institutional exhibition in Germany opened at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, in 2024. She has recently been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT (as a MATRIX artist in 2022) and the Bass Museum, Miami, FL (2021-22). Additional solo exhibitions and performances have been presented at KinoSaito, Westchester County, NY (2022); the Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC (2019); Kunsthaus Baselland, Switzerland (2018); CCA Tel Aviv (2018); the Faena Art Center, Buenos Aires (2018); the Museum of Modern Art and Design, New York (2017-18); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2017); Prospect New Orleans (2017); High Line Art, New York (2016); MARTE-C, El Salvador (2015); the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2014); the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2013); and the Herziliya Museum for Contemporary Art, Israel (2006).
  • Selected group exhibitions featuring Tsabar’s work include the SMART Museum, Chicago (2022); the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA (2021); the... Selected group exhibitions featuring Tsabar’s work include the SMART Museum, Chicago (2022); the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA (2021); the... Selected group exhibitions featuring Tsabar’s work include the SMART Museum, Chicago (2022); the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA (2021); the...
    Selected group exhibitions featuring Tsabar’s work include the SMART Museum, Chicago (2022); the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA (2021); the Jewish Museum of Belgium, Brussels (2021); Ballroom Marfa, Texas (2020); Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (2019); Elevation 1049, Gstaad, Switzerland (2019); the Hessel Museum of Art at CCS Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (2018 and 2015); Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Belgium (2017); TM Triennale, Hasselt Genk, Belgium (2016); ExtraCity, Antwerp, Belgium (2011); MoMA PS1, New York (2010); the Bucharest Biennale for Young Artists (2008); and Casino Luxembourg (2008).

    Tsabar received her MFA from Columbia University in 2010. Her work is held in private and public collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Bass Museum, Miami; the Seattle Art Museum; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Perez Art Museum Miami; and the Tel Aviv Museum.
  • Works
    Naama Tsabar, Untitled (Without), 2020

    Naama Tsabar

    Untitled (Without), 2020
    polyester Ripstop fabric with color stitching
    264 x 115 1/2 inches
    670.6 x 293.4 cm
    Edition of 3 + 1 AP
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  • Exhibitions
    • Shades of Daphne

      Shades of Daphne

      January 12 – February 22, 2023 509 West 27th Street, New York
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    • Naama Tsabar: Dedicated

      Naama Tsabar: Dedicated

      March 13 – May 4, 2019
      Naama Tsabar employs performance, sculpture, and photography to subvert the gender roles historically associated with musicianship. In her second exhibition at Kasmin, Dedicated, Tsabar further explores these themes by expanding the borders of movement of the female body. For the duration of the exhibition, Tsabar and a group of female musicians will explore a new vocabulary of movement and sound, culminating in a performance with Tsabar and her collaborators on the exhibition’s closing night, May 4, between 4-6pm. This will be her first performance in New York City since 2017.
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    • Naama Tsabar: Transboundry

      Naama Tsabar: Transboundry

      July 12 – August 18, 2017 297 Tenth Avenue, New York
      This summer, Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to present Transboundary, the gallery’s first exhibition with the New York-based Naama Tsabar. Known for performances, installations and sculpture informed by aspects of music and nightlife, Tsabar focuses on the often hidden elements and materials that are at play in constructing physically immersive environments. Her practice oscillates between visual arts and music with reconfigurations of guitars, strings, amplifiers, microphones, cables, gaffer tape and speakers. When interacted with, these objects offer compositions that are both visual and sonic.
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  • Museum & Offsite

    • Naama Tsabar: Estuaries, at Hamburger Bahnhof—Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart
      Exhibitions

      Naama Tsabar: Estuaries

      at Hamburger Bahnhof—Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart April 12 – September 22, 2024
      Naama Tsabar's first institutional solo exhibition in Germany, Estuaries focuses on three bodies of work with wall and floor works that also function as musical instruments and can be activated by the audience. The performance, created especially in the exhibition, is developed in close collaboration with a group of female identifying or gender non-confirming musicians and performers from Berlin and New York. With the use of felt in connection with sound, Naama Tsabar corresponds with works by Joseph Beuys, which are also shown in parallel in the Kleihueshalle. The exhibition is the first in a series of contemporary presentations in dialogue with the presentation of Beuys’ works in the collection.
  • News
    • Naama Tsabar featured in ArtReview

      Naama Tsabar featured in ArtReview

      by Cassie Packard April 9, 2024 View More
    • Naama Tsabar: Perimeters Record Release

      Naama Tsabar: Perimeters Record Release

      Public Records July 28, 2023 View More
    • Artist Talk—Naama Tsabar at the University of Oregon College of Design

      Artist Talk—Naama Tsabar at the University of Oregon College of Design

      April 13, 2023 View More
    • Naama Tsabar reviewed in Artforum

      Naama Tsabar reviewed in Artforum

      by Wendy Vogel August 4, 2017
      For all the comparisons between musical instruments and human bodies—especially the guitar as a stand-in for a wasp-waisted woman—relatively few sound artists confront the gendered...
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    • Naama Tsabar featured in Artsy

      Naama Tsabar featured in Artsy

      by Artsy Editorial February 23, 2017
      Minimalism emerged in New York in the 1960s as a reaction to the more expressive styles of its day. Artists involved, like Ellsworth Kelly ,...
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    • Naama Tsabar featured in Wallpaper

      Naama Tsabar featured in Wallpaper

      by Michael Slenske February 21, 2017
      When curator and scholar Kathy Battista was researching her most recent book, New York, New Wave: The Legacy of Feminist Artists in Emerging Practices ,...
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  • Publications
    • Naama Tsabar: Perimeters

      Naama Tsabar: Perimeters

      2023
      Vinyl
      Publisher: The Bass Museum of Art
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