+ Michal Luft (b.1989) 
+ Based in Brussels, Belgium
+ CONTACT:
   studio.michaluft@gmail.com



Education

2024-2025
Researcher, Royal Academy of Fine Arts

2021-2022
‬MFA‭, ‬Royal Academy of Fine Arts‭, ‬Antwerpen‭ (‬BE‭)‬

2015-2018
BFA‭, ‬Shenkar Multidisciplinary Art School‭, ‬Ramat Gan‭ 

2017
‬Exchange program‭, ‬HAW‭, ‬Hamburg‭ (‬DE‭)‬

Exhibitions

2026
Upcoming‭ - ‬The Bunker‭, ‬Second room‭, ‬Antwerpen‭, BE‭

2026
Antwerp Art Weekend‭, ‬off Program‭, BE‭

2025
Whispers in Plain Sight - Governors Island, New York

2025
From a Distance - Video installation, New Hi-Tech, New-York

2025
From a Distance - Solo exhibition, Forbidden City, Antwerpen, BE

2024
Call It A Day - Trio Show w. Árni Jónsson & Sigurrós Björnsdóttir, Antwerpen, BE

2023
25XNICC - S.M.A.K, Ghent, BE

2022 
Currents #10 - Marres, Maastricht, NL. Curators: Déborah Claire, Erell Hemmer & Zeynep Kubat (Catalogue)

2022
Over The Top - Solo exhibition, Universal Exports, Antwerpen, BE

2022
To be Antwerp - De Slegte, BE

2022
MFA exhibition - The Royal Academy of Fine Art, Antwerpen, BE

2021
Black rain - Edmond de Rothschild Foundation - Tel Aviv

2021
A-okay - duo exhibition with Anael Berkovitz - Artspace, Tel Aviv

2020
Lines of light ranged in the non-space of the mind - Haifa Museum of Art

2019
Still Life Aided -Solo exhibition- Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv

2019
Margaret & Sylvan Adams Award, Shenkar School of Art

2019
Surfacing - Sklar Levy gallery - Modiin

2019
Zoom 2019 - Natural History Museum, Tel Aviv

2019
The artist’s greenhouse - Fresh paint contemporary art fair, Tel Aviv


Artist in residence

2026
‬Upcoming‭ - ‬Bauhaus fellowship‭, ‬Weimar‭, ‬Germany

2025
Residency Unlimited‭ (‬RU‭), ‬Brooklyn‭, ‬New York

2025

KAOS-Yellow Art‭, ‬Geel‭ (‬BE‭) ‬

Publications

2023

2022
NICCX25, Publisher: Stockman Art Books

Until We Meet Again, Eds. Laura Herman & Lineke Hulshof, p. 152-165


2019
״Drop the words”, Pitchon, Avi, Ha’aretz, 10 2019, p. 38  (HEB)


Awards & Grants

2025
Artis Residency Grant

2022
In Situ³ prize, The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerpen (BE)

2022

Hugo Roelandt (Shortlist)

2021
Ministry of  Culture Young Artist Award 

2021
Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts 

2019
Margaret and Sylvan Adams Prize for Emerging Artists 

2018
AICF Cultural Foundation Award for Emerging Visual Artist