Dana Yoeli
Dana Yoeli (b.1979, Tel Aviv) lives and works in Tel Aviv. She is a multidisciplinary artist and holds a BFA and an MFA from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. She participated in an exchange student program at HAW, Hamburg.
Yoeli’s work has featured in solo exhibitions, including at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary art; Petah Tikva Museum of Art; Circle-1 Gallery, Berlin; Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv; Benyamini Center, Tel Aviv; and Magazine III vitrine, Jaffa. She has also taken part in group exhibitions, including at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Ashdod Museum of Art; Haifa Museum of Art; Gutman Museum of Art, Tel Aviv; Bat Yam Museum of Art - Moby; Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin; Forum for Living History, Stockholm; KUBUS, Hanover; and GSA, Glasgow.
Yoeli is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including the Israeli lottery Grant; Asylum Arts in the Neighborhood Grant; the Independent Creatives Support by the Ministry of Culture; Behörde für Kultur und Medien Hamburg Research grant; the Ostrovsky Family Foundation Support; the Tel Aviv Municipality Grant; the Joshua Rabinovich Foundation Grant; the Ministry of Culture’s Young Artist Award; Noam Shodovsky Award for Young Artist; and DAAD grant.
Yoeli’s work focuses primarily on the tension between a personal story and a collective ethos, and the roles that nostalgia, memory and ceremonies play in these relations. When her grandmother, ceramicist Agi Yoeli passed away, she started working with ceramics as well, and took over her Tel Aviv studio. The thread that is weaved between the two women and generations charges the pieces in a poetic sense, which seem both contemporary and timeless. The pieces are a fused visual, a hybrid between macabre ruins adorned with conches, shells and botanic elements sculpted free handedly and molded into shapes that are sensual and convey the feeling of ephemerality of life. Portrait photo by Roni Cna’ani; artworks photos courtesy of Dana Yoeli Studio.
