Michal Fuchs is an Israeli visual artist who has lived in Germany since 2010. In 2020, she completed her diploma in metal sculpture at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle (Saale).
A large part of Michal Fuchs’ artistic path deals with the vegetation of Palestine. This has been adapted by the Zionist movement since the late 19th century in order to promote Zionist ideology. The aim was for Jews to take root (again) in the land of the Bible, to take over the earth through vegetation and to bring the “empty”, “uncultivated” land to life. While these plants are strongly associated with certain meanings in Israel and Palestine, they take on a completely different meaning in the German context. Fuchs explores the tension at the interface between these two perspectives.
2018-2020 Metal Sculpture/Plastic Arts Diploma by Prof. Andrea Zaumseil, Burg Giebichenstein University, Halle (Saale)
2014-2018 Book Art by Prof. Sabine Golde Burg Giebichenstein University, Halle (Salle)
2013 Graphic Softwares and Typography course at “Mediendesign Hochschule”, Berlin
2006-2009 Art studies at the Naggar Multidisciplinary School of Art, Musrara, Jerusalem
2004-2005 Painting classes at Amir Rubin, After The Jerusalem Studio School, Jerusalem
2024
(Upcoming) :
Quadratur des Kreises, Solo exhibition, kunststation-kleinsassen, 25. August bis 17. November 2024
Group exhibition with Andrea Zaumseil and Ginan Seidl, Insel Gallery, Berlin, 10. October bis 29 November 2024
2023
Reclaim Kunstfreiheit, Antisemitismuskritik, Kunst & Kultur, Neue soziale Plastik, Palais Podewil, Berlin
BBKarium Mietgliedprojekt, Solo exhibition in the BBKarium, Halle (Saale)
Natural Science, ZUZU Gallery, Emek Hefer Industrial Park, Israel
Make friends AND art, Kunststation Kleinsassen, Hofbieber- Kleinsassen
Grünbergs sind verrückt, Solo exhibition, Kulturraum Synagoge Lippstadt e.V.
GENERELL FRISCH, Kulturwerk des BBK Sachsen-Anhalt e.V., Forum Gestaltung, Magdeburg
2022
Circles / Kreise, Solo Exhibition, Offspace Kaisitz, Kaisitz
Unstable Equilibrium, a&o Kunsthalle, Leipzig
Junge Jüdische Kunst aus Sachsen Anhalt, F2 Galerie, Halle (Saale)
Israelische Künstler:innen in Deutschland, Kunsthalle Trier
Deep Water, Haturim Kunstraum, Jerusalem
2021
Zeit.Raum.Land, in 4D Projektort Galerie, Leipzig
Hiersein, Being Here, זיי דא, Kommunale Galerie, Berlin
Kaleidoskopia, in Untergeschoss der Halle14, Spinnerei Leipzig
Zeit. Raum. Land, in the Kunstverein Meißen E.V., Meißen
Die Suche nach der inneren Heimat, Lichthaus, Halle
Tu BiShvat – Fest der Bäume, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz
Der Wanderer, St. Michael Church, Jena (solo Exhibition)
2020
The realisation of The Wanderer art-project, Evangelische Akademie Sachsen-Anhalt e.V. Wittenberg (Solo Exhibition)
Close to the Bone, Gallery: Kunststiftung des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle
Zwischen Sonne und Erde – Die Existenz der Pflanzen, Museum Deutschen Hygiene-Museum, Dresden
Schrift, Choreografie der Zeichen, Gallery: Kunsthalle der Sparkasse Leipzig
2019
The realisation of The Wanderer art-project in the Nikolai church. Eisenach (Solo Exhibition)
TÄGLICH GEÖFFNET in the Burg Galery in Volkspark, Halle (Saale)
2018
Group Exhibition: Text³ – TEXT–KÖRPER–RAUM in Gallery: boesner – Projektraum, Spinnerei Leipzig
2016
Group Exhibition: BEST OF – Sabine Golde, Gallery: Druck & Buch von Susanne Padberg, Vienna
2014-2017
Book Fairs: Leipziger Buchmesse, Frankfurter Buchmesse, Berlin BookArt, BuchDruckKunst
Hamburg, Frauenfelder Buch- und Druckkunstmesse, Switzerland
2024
Graduiertenstipendium der Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule, DE
2023
Schloss Hundisburg Residency program, Haldensleben, DE
2022 Three Weeks Residency in OFFSPACE KAISITZ, Kaisitz, DE
Stiftung Kunstfonds: Kickstarter-Zuschuss für Absolvent:innen staatlicher Kunsthochschulen
2021-22
six months scholarship from the Kunststiftung Sachsen-Anhalt
Symposium in OFFSPACE KAISITZ –Kunstverein Meissen e.V. and theBBK LEIPZIG e.V.
Residency in Künstlergut Prösitz e.V. Sachsen, DE
2020
recognition award for a special artistic quality in the art project Von dem Land hinab zu gehen, from the Saalesparkasse Foundation
Scholarship as part of a project funding, from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), for the project Von dem Land hinab zu gehen
2019
First price in the art contest Mit Judenhass vergiftet. Versuch einer Entgiftung von Pfarrbibliotheken, Liedern und Köpfen from the EKM
(Evangelical Church in Central Germany), for the realisation of “Der Wanderer” Art project.
A grant from the Freundes-und-Förderkreis der Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle e.V.
2017
Residency at Beit Hagat, Ein Karem, Jerusalem
2016
First price, Competition montage_16/100 Jahre später, Münzenberg Forum, Berlin
2022 “Ich nehme mit… Stipendiatinnen 2021 ” a Catalogue from a residency in Künstlergut Prösitz, DE
2022 Kuba Paris, Feature the exhibition Unstable Equilibrium in the Online Magazin Kuba Paris.
2021 A Publikation from the exhibition: Tu biShvat – Fest der Bäume, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz
2020 Publikation from the recognition award from the Saalesparkasse foundation.
2019 A Publikation from the exhibition: „Schrift, Choreografie der Zeichen“ in the Kunsthalle der Sparkasse Leipzig, Leipzig
2019 A Publikation to Solo exhibition: „Der Wanderer“ with Texts from Shelley Harten
From 2021 lecturer in the Bildungswerk BBK, Berlin
2017/18/19 leading private bookbinding workshops in Bezalel academy, Jerusalem, Musrara College, Jerusalem
and in the print workshop in the Kulturwerk des bbk berlin GmbH, Bethanien, Berlin
2017+2019 member of the jury team in the Collagewettbewerb “montage_16/100 Jahre später”, Berlin
2011-2014 Autobiographic illustrated blog fuchsalach.blogspot.de
2012 Writing girls project, online magazine: “Aviva Berlin”
2009-2010 Artist assistance: Irit Chemo, Tel Aviv, Israel.