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



Education

2024-2025           Researcher, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerpen‭ (‬BE‭)‬
2021-2022           MFA‭, ‬Royal Academy of Fine Arts‭, ‬Antwerpen‭ (‬BE‭)‬
2015-2018           BFA‭, ‬Shenkar Multidisciplinary Art School‭, ‬Ramat Gan‭ (ILPS)
2017                       ‬Exchange program‭, ‬HAW‭, ‬Hamburg‭ (‬DE‭)‬

Exhibitions

2026         ‬The Bunker‭, ‬Second room‭, ‬Antwerp‭, 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, Antwerp, BE
2025          The Living Room Archives - Curator, Residence Gounod, Antwerp
2024          Call It A Day - w. Árni Jónsson & Sigurrós Björnsdóttir, Antwerp
2023          25XNICC - S.M.A.K, Ghent, BE
2022          Currents #10 - Marres, Curators: Déborah Claire,
                    Erell Hemmer & Zeynep Kubat, Maastricht, NL
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
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, Tel Aviv


Artist in residence

2026          ‬Upcoming‭ - ‬Bauhaus fellowship‭, ‬Weimar‭, ‬Germany
2025          Residency Unlimited‭ (‬RU‭), ‬Brooklyn‭, ‬New York
2025          KAOS-Yellow Art‭, ‬Geel‭, Belgium

Publications

2023          NICCX25, Publisher: Stockman Art Books, 2023 ISBN-9789464363548
2022           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