​PROJECTS

African refugees in Tel Aviv

Wildlife photography using trail cameras

women of Rwanda

Ebisu Sign Language Theatre

Ukrainian War 2022

Hebrew Israelites

EsterDenis

Drawing Stone

Gypsies color

Transition

The Santaria Ceremony

The Palmach, the historical time line

Other 2

Gypsies B&W

Till their Voices Stop

Ariel

Female Empowerment

Ethiopia Here

Other 1

Ladies in waiting

Female Boxer

Homeless

Bubbles

Traces of Dance

Ocean of Garbage

changeable within the topography, Sodom

Loom| Father| Requiem

Faces

Laugh Away

"Bateva Shelanu" is an enterprise that employs people with disabilities while integrating them into the community

Travel BW

Travel Color

​EXHIBITIONS

Spring out of Tiredness - Mémoire de l'Avenir gallery paris

Ukrainian war 2022 maariv magazine article

Has magazine

“BEING LA TERRE COMME ÉVÉNEMENT” , France-Portugal 2021

Other group exhibitions

Solo exhibition, Textile Museum, the 15th international Triennial of Textiles Lodz, Poland

Gypsies Standing exhibition

is.real photo festival “Laugh Away” solo exhibition photos

Solo exhibition “Ladies in waiting” in MLB space, Rencontres d’Arles 2019, France

Loom_ Father_ Requiem 2012 prague

"space place" international art fair 2021, London

"MY I" International Art Fair itsliquid, Venice 2021

Venice Biennale 2009

“In search of the “Tiganca” Ramat-Gan museum 2015

2011 drap art

Transmission body, DOCUMENTA 2012

TLV

The international artist museum 20 years galleryY92 2013 new york

Ma’agalot, Office in Tel Aviv Gallery 2010

Between The Lines, Munich, Germany 2014

LODZ “PARDES FESTIVAL” Anna Dąbrowicz on Roni Bn Ari / Centralne Muzeum

The winner love The Kibbutz Art Gallery 2011

Wabi Sabi, loving Art – making Art, Tel-Aviv 2011

Tel Aviv Biennial 2009

Not Book – Pushtit, Beit Ha’ir, Tel Aviv, 2013

“Home is where the Hurt is”, Memory of Future gallery, Paris

“Earth”, Ahmdbad, Brauda, Mombai, (National Gallery), India

Quest

“Drawing in Stone” in Künstlerhaus Munich Germany

50th anniversary of German-Israeli relations, Pasinger Fabrik, Munich, Germany

44 DEGREES online magazine

Montzi – GYPSIES IN CLUJ-NAPOKA, ROMANIA 2013

Loving Art – Making Art, Tel-Aviv 2015

Video, solo screening on LEUMI Mani Building 2012

“The World Through My Eyes”, Valid photo Gallery, the 5th biennale of photography, Barcelona, Spain

Photobook Show of the Athens Photo Festival 2018, Benaki Museum.

The Beta Israel Garden for Ethiopian Community Heritage in Petah Tikva is an ongoing installation

Ladies in waiting, Seoul, Korea

Catalogs

Photography Museum, DIPF, 2017 the 16th DongGang International Photo Festival, Korea

B&W magazine: 2018 single image contest award

The International Romanian Festival of The Roman Poeisa And Dance 2019. Sibiu, Romania

“I’ve Been There,” Water Tower Art Festival,” Sofia, Bulgaria

article in israeli newspaper-“Yedioth Ahcharonot”

The 10th Head-On photo festival 2019, Sydney, Australia

​ABOUT

 FUTURE EXHIBITIONS

2025

Solo exhibition, “From the Inner Margin” In the city hall of Sibiu, Romanian

Solo exhibition, The “Mohicans”, the Palmach Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel (February 2023)

Solo exhibition, Outdoor exhibition – Extinct culture, the community-Domari (September 2023)

CV

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES /

1947
Born in Ramat Gan, Israel
1967
Enamelwork and silver jewelry, cloisonné and champlevé
1968
Radio and TV research and production
1984
TV director and reporter
1996
Photographer and multimedia artist

STUDIES /

2000-2009
Master classes with the top photographers in Israel
1993-1996
Geographic Photography College, Tel Aviv
1976-1978
TV Journalism College, Tel Aviv
1971-1974
College of Art, Herzliya
1966-68
College of Arts and Crafts, Givatayim

AWARDS /

2019

Finalist portrait slideshow, the 10th Head-On international photo festival.

Finalist to Kipa award about “Justice”, Tel-Aviv /New-York

2017

B&W magazine: 2018 single image contest

Magnum Photography Awards 2017

HARIBAN AWARD 2017, Kyoto, Japan

UNESCO Art & Society award, Honorable Mention

The 5th Edition of the Jacob Riis for documentary Award

2013
The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards: First Prize, Culture and People category
2011
CIDPAE Museum Award, Lishui, China
2011
The 2nd Edition of the Julia Margaret Cameron Award, Portrait and Figures category
2009
“Humanity Photo Awards (HPA) Exhibition” (organized by UNESCO and CFPA), Guangzhou, China
1988
Ziv Award for TV Journalism

ASSOCIATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS /

Association for women’s art and gender

Professional Visual Artists Association

The Union of Journalists in Israel

Professional Women Photographers

CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE/

2015 – “Quest” –  Benyamini Center, Tel-Aviv

2016 – “Quest” –   Open Museum of Photography at Tel-Hai

2020 – “Malkuta” – Museum garden outdoor exhibition, Holon

LECTURES AND JURY EXPERIENCE/

Mofet institute, Tel Aviv, Israel (2019)

IS: RAEL the 7th international photography festival, Israel (2019)

The festival of documentary film, Lodz, Poland (2019)

Head On the 10th international photography festival, Sydney, Australia (2019)

“Oh-Man Oh-Machine,” Art & Science” TLV University and New Academy Center of Art &Culture (2014)

Memory of Future gallery, Paris (2014)

Haifa University, Department of Sociology (2012)

Photography workshops, Rehovot (2010)

COLLECTIONS /

The National Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

The Gutman Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel

The Ramat-Gan Museum of Israeli Art

The Central Museum of Textiles in Lodz, Poland

The Artists House, Munich, Germany

Private collections, among others are: Yehudit Yovel Recanati, Ami Federmann

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS /

2024 “Spring Out Tiredness”, Memoire de l’Avenir Gallery,Paris, curator: Li Wei

2022 “Bring La Terre Comme Omme Évenement”, Portugal,

Au Centre cultural de Maçao

2021 “MY I” International Art Fair, Venice

“Space place” international art fair 2021, London

“Ester” Soul noir festival, Dublin

2019 Solo exhibition “Ladies in waiting” in MLB space, Rencontres d’Arles 2019, France,curator: Marie Burgia          

Solo exhibition, Head-On Photo Festival. Sydney, Australia, curator: Moshe Rosenzveig

Solo exhibition, A 360-degree panorama, permanent virtual interactive at the Polish

Textile Museum, curator: Dr. Halina Goldberg

2018 Solo exhibition, The International Photography Festival of PHOTO IS: RAEL,

curator: Daria Kaufman

The 5th edition of the of Fine Art & documentary, Biennale- photography, Barcelona,

PhotoBook Show, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece

Cuckoo’s Nest gallery, “Beyond the mind”, Jaffa, Israel

2017 Solo exhibition, Gallery Ryugaheon, Seoul, Korea, curator: Mi Kyung Park 

UNESCO –Art & Society, Solo exhibition at the World Humanities Conference, Bruges,  

Belgium, curator: Margalit Berriet

 Bosom Bodies, SIA Gallery, NYC

Photography Museum, DIPF, 2017 DongGang International Photo Festival, Korea,

curator: HeeJung Kim

2016 Solo exhibition, Art House, Munich, Germany, curator: Dr. Anna Zanco-Prestel

 “My I”, The gallery of cultural and Community Center, NY

 Solo exhibition, Textile Museum, the 15th international Triennial of Textiles Lodz,

Poland, curator: Anka Dąbrowicz

2015 Solo exhibition- “Tiganca”, Museum Ramat-Gan, curator: Meir Aharonson

 “Earth”, Ahmdbad, Brauda, Mombai, (National Gallery), India

  50th anniversary of German-Israeli relations, Pasinger Fabrik, Munich, Germany

2014 Solo exhibition – “Home is where the Hurt is”, Memory of Future gallery, Paris

 “Oh-Man Oh-Machine,” Tel Aviv University and new Academy Center of Art and Culture

curator: Daniel Landau

“Between the Lines,” Kunstpavillon im Alten Botanischen Garten, Munich, Germany

“Woven Consciousness,” Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel. curator: Irena Gordon

2013 “The Roof – Art Space,” in conjunction with Duisburg Museum, Duisburg, Germany

solo exhibition, “Montzi,” National Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, curator:  

Calin Stegerean

“the Ocean Garbage,” Gask Museum, Czech Republic, curator: Sorfova Jana

“Sky and Earth,” Urban Culture Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel

2012 Solo exhibition, “Loom | Father | Requiem,” Vernon Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic,  

curator: Monica Burian

solo video-screening“Ocean of Garbage,” Leumi Mani, out-wall-Building, Tel Aviv, Israel, curator: Esti Drori

“I’ve been There,” Water Tower Art Festival,” Sofia, Bulgaria, curator: Nia Pushkarova

“Transmission body,” DOCUMENTA 2012, Kassel, Germany

2011 “EcoPhobiaArt,” Drap-Art Festival MACBA – CCCB Museum, Barcelona, Spain

“Mapping,” part of “Markers 8,” collateral event of the 54th Venice Biennale, Art Life

for the World Gallery, Venice

“Black,” Fusion Arts Museum, New York, NY, USA

2010 Solo exhibition “Ma’agalot,” Office in Tel Aviv Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

curator: Hana Kaplan

2009 “Culture Kiosk / Souvenir Art,” part of “Markers 7,” collateral event of the 53rd Venice

Biennale, ScalaMata Exhibition Space, Venice, Italy

“Inside Israel,” traveling exhibition celebrating Israel’s 60th anniversary, Three Gorges

Museum, Chongqing, China

“City of Refuge,”, Tel Aviv Biennale, Jaffa Port, Jaffa, Israel

2008 ‘Ethiopia Here’ the Ethiopian community – permanent outdoor display, Petach-Tikva

“Traces of borders”, In between Two Cities”, The Museum of Arachnology, Jaffa, Israel

curators: Eldad Rafaeli & Eyal Landsman

2006 Solo exhibition“Till Their Voices Stop,” The Gallery of the Geographic Photography

College, Tel Aviv, Israel, curator: Miki Kratsman

2002 “The Winner Love,” The Kibbutz Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2001 “City Project,” The Kibbutz Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

1998 “Mount Meron,” Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel curator: Giora Salmi

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“The eye should learn to listen before it looks.”
Robert Frank

Roni Ben-Ari photographer, who focuses on presenting social themes. Her photographs effectively penetrate the
viewers mind and remain in their memory, just as she successfully did in reporting journalistic social issues, for which
she was awarded Ziv Journalism Award
The photographs presented here are classic examples of her dealing with social issues documenting those who are at
the society’s margin, those who we do not see, those who are faded, transparent or muted and occasionally looked at
as social mirage
Her documentary work obtains an artistic dimension due to her ability to pronounce details and neutralize others to
abstraction, thus changes the objects’ identity
Roni’s work is challenging the collaboration between the photographer and the photographed. Her camera caresses
the photographed and cares for them softly. The picture talking is at arm’s reach so much so that the term “object”
becomes offending in relating to her work
… “In viewing her photographs, it is unclear who the object is and what is the background. Is the photographed the one
who asked to be photographed or is it the photographer who asked them to be photographed? Who exposes himself to
whom, and who serve who
Authority relationship is fundamental and the ABC of photography, especially, when dealing with what is permitted and
not permitted. From which distance is it acceptable to take a picture. What does the distance suggest in regard to the
action itself? Photograph narrates “taking” as the verb suggest “taking a picture”. In Roni Ben-Ari’s photography, there
is no “taking” it is an act of giving
It dominate to the point that she hears the voices of her objects, feels their needs and touches their textures and so
brings them closer to the viewer”. Miki Kratsman, Curator

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