Efrat Zehavi

diversity - installation - community - sculpture - figurative

Rotterdam-based visual artist and writer Efrat Zehavi (1974, Haifa) is an avid collector of portraits, mythological imagery and personal stories. She is known for the plasticine portraits that she models on the spot at public locations. Her art projects focus on audience participation. Encounters and conversations with strangers serve as inspiration for her sculptures, staged photos, collages and short stories. The main themes Zehavi addresses in her work are origin, family and migration. She combines image and text in installations, animations and books. Zehavi's latest interactive performance and installation mOTHER was shown at Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, but she considers cafés, libraries and festivals as equally important exhibition spaces.

  • Portfolio
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  • Contact

    • Passporttraits Rotterdam

    Project

    • In collaboration with: FENIX https://fenix.nl/nl/fenix/
    • Location: Rotterdam, Rotterdam
    • Visual artist Efrat Zehavi is working on an assignment for FENIX. She makes a series of modeled portraits of Rotterdammers from all quarters and corners of the world. The series will be included in the collection of the museum. Efrat makes small portraits of colorful plasticine clay. The faces take shape during the conversations Efrat has with her models. She works from her studio, or 'on the spot' in the park, or in the library.
    • https://mailchi.mp/fenixrotterdam/nieuwsbrief-november-2020

    Acknowledgments

      Scholarship

    • Research and Development subsidy CBK Rotterdam

    • 2016
      Scholarship

    • Research and Development subsidy CBK Rotterdam

    • 2011
      Collection

    • Municipal Museum Schiedam

    • 2019, Schiedam
      Publication

    • Anonymous Glossy

    • 2017
    • artist's book
    • - Efrat Zehavic
      Publication

    • Poetry newspaper

    • 2016
    • free newspaper for art & poetry
    • Efrat Zehavi - Efrat Zehavi & Florimond Wassenaar