About ilona balaga

Ilona Balaga (born Israel, 1990), is a multidisciplinary artist based in Tel Aviv and London.

Founder and manager of Balcont, an independent art space and studio at 53 Yehuda Halevi St, Tel-Aviv. Balaga graduated from Chelsea College of Art and Design (2016, BAFA) and is a current MFA candidate at the Slade School of Art.

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Solo Exhibitions

2021 Conventional Signs, Bar-David Museum, Kibbutz Baram. Curator: Avi Ifergan

2019 Eye Of The Storm, Balcont, Tel Aviv. Curator: Yair Barak

2015 Titulus, Linea De Costa, Cadiz

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​Selected Group Exhibitions

2021 Colour/Collage/Poetry, Slade School of Fine Art, London (online exhibition)

2020 The Israeli Uncanny, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa

Liquid Logic, Binyamin Gallery, Tel Aviv

2019 The Refrigerator #3, The Refrigerator, Tel Aviv

2018 Shop it!, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa

2017 Life Live, Cuckoo’s Nest, Tel Aviv

Prime Time, Central Gallery, Tel Aviv

2016 Whatever Comes in Hand, Alliance House, Jerusalem

Liminal States, Gallery On the Corner, London

Breaking Borders, New River Studios, London

2015 Cells, The Old Police Station, London

INFINITY , Brixton Railway Arches, London

2014 In Between, A side B side Gallery, London

Slippers, Hoxton Basement , London

In Between, TIL The invisible line Gallery, London

Random Rules, La Culture, Tel Aviv

Awards & Residencies

2020 The Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts

2017-2018 Gabirol Project – subsidised studio from the Tel-Aviv Municipality

2015 Linea De Costa, Cadiz

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