About
Michal Luft (b.1989, Israel) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Belgium. her practice involves transforming images of vacant and mundane spaces into site-specific installations. In her work, she examines decorum, decency, and etiquette standards, questioning the outdated social codes that linger in daily used objects and shedding light on conformity and conventionally accepted norms and behaviors. By observing the specific attributes and ambiance of various surroundings, she simulates environments that are charged with an undercurrent of uncanny potential. The objects she creates are meticulously reproduced into unsettling and strangely familiar elements in the exhibition space, silently anticipating something that is yet to come: round tables set to perfection in a storage room, a detached lobby corner, a vacuum-packaged flower bouquet, and a self-rotating chair. By severing the ties between familiar objects and their hegemonic settings, she wishes to emphasize the ways in which our surroundings are arranged and monitored by culturally constructed symbols and conventions.
Michal Luft (b.1989, Israel) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Belgium. her practice involves transforming images of vacant and mundane spaces into site-specific installations. In her work, she examines decorum, decency, and etiquette standards, questioning the outdated social codes that linger in daily used objects and shedding light on conformity and conventionally accepted norms and behaviors. By observing the specific attributes and ambiance of various surroundings, she simulates environments that are charged with an undercurrent of uncanny potential. The objects she creates are meticulously reproduced into unsettling and strangely familiar elements in the exhibition space, silently anticipating something that is yet to come: round tables set to perfection in a storage room, a detached lobby corner, a vacuum-packaged flower bouquet, and a self-rotating chair. By severing the ties between familiar objects and their hegemonic settings, she wishes to emphasize the ways in which our surroundings are arranged and monitored by culturally constructed symbols and conventions.
CV
Exhibitions
2022
Currents #10 - Marres, Maastricht, NL. Curators: Déborah Claire, Erell Hemmer & Zeynep Kubat
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 - TLV
2021
A-okay - duo exhibition with Anael Berkovitz - Artspace, TLV.
2020
Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind - Haifa Museum of art
2019
Still life Aided - Solo exhibition- Rosenfeld Gallery, TLV
2019
Margaret & Sylvan Adams Award Exhibition, Shenkar School of Art, IL
2019
Surfacing - sklar Levy gallery - Modiin, IL
2019
Zoom 2019 - Young Israeli artist -Natural History Museum, TLV
2019
The artist’s greenhouse - Fresh paint contemporary art fair, TLV
2018
BFA exhibition - Multidisciplinary Art School Shenkar, IL
Publication
2022
Until We Meet Again, Eds. Laura Herman & Lineke Hulshof, p. 152-165
2019
״Drop the words”, Ha’aretz, October 2019, p. 38 (HEB)
Award & Grants
2022
In Situ³ prize, The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerpen
2021
Young Artist Award, Israeli Ministry of Education and Culture
2021
Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts
2019
Margaret and Sylvan Adams prize for Emerging Artists
2018
America-Israel Cultural Foundation Award for emerging visual artist (AICF)