Suly Bornstein-Wolff
Suly Bornstein-Wolff
Born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Suly Bornstein-Wolff Lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel
Her creative work is marked and affected by being an immigrant who has been uprooted from one country (Brazil) to another (Israel). As a multi-disciplinary artist, she mainly paints and creates object and installations. Her objects are built from readymade material and mainly she prefers to use materials that are meant to be recycled, just before they become unwanted, or thrown in the garbage.
While trying to accommodate herself to a new place, a new language, and a new culture, she founds herself attracted by certain species of trees which seemed to her alien to this new landscape, mainly tropical palm trees and Eucalyptuses. These trees were imported from other places for different reasons: the palm trees were meant to decorate and enrich Israeli gardens, and the Bauhaus buildings that populate beautifully wildly the city of Tel Aviv.
Alongside this cultivated nature, she focuses also on urbanism. Her works have a dual existence: from one hand they manifest reductive formal structures and colors and on the other hand, the works have a conceptual statement that has to do with contemporary urban culture metaphors.
Special Projects
2017 “Personal Structures Time Space Existence“, Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2017 “Tama Tama”, The Artists House, Tel Aviv
2016 N&N Gallery, Tel Aviv – Solo exhibition
2013 Montefiore Gallery, Tel Aviv Curator: Ilan Wizgan
2010 Beit Gabriel (on the Kinneret), Jordan Valley, Israel Curator: Doron Pollack
2010 A comment on Landscape (Painting), The Artists’ House, Tel Aviv, Israel
2010 The Jerusalem Theatre, Israel
2009 Karandaji Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2008 The Migdalor Gallery, Jaffa, Israel
2008 The Collection Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2006 Efrat gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2006 Shorashim Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2005 Artura Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2004 Jerusalem Theatre, Israel
2004 Yahalom Theatre, Ramat Gan, Israel
2000 Amalia Arbel Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1999 Beit Amcha, Tel Aviv, Israel
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017 Back to Nature, Group show with Florentin 45 at Fresh Paint Art Fair, Tel Aviv
2017 “Women In Israeli Art”, Herzel-Lilinblum Museum, Tel Aviv
2016 “White on White: From Malevich to Contemporary Art”, Mané-Katz Museum, Haifa
2016 ” The Kick Inside”, Florentin 45 Contemporary Art Space, Tel Aviv
2015 Efrat Gallery, Tel Aviv – installation – Group Exhibition
2015 Machon Hamaim Gallery, Givataim – installation – Group Exhibition
2015 National Gallery of Mumbai, India- Group Exhibition
2010 The Artists House, Singapore
2009 The Arts center, Kfar Saba, Israel
2008 ZE Architecture Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2007 Florence Biennale, Italy
2007 Villa Pignano, Volterra, Italy
2006 Artexpo, Jacov Javits Center, New York, USA
2005 Habitat Center, New Delhi, India
2005 LINEART International Art Fair, Flanders Expo, Gent, Belgium
2004 Artexpo, Jacov Javits Center, New York, USA
2004 Mayerov Art Center, Holon, Israel
2004 Globes House, Rishon Le Zion, Israel
2003 Euro Art, Geneva, Switzerland
2003 Artexpo, Jacov Javits Center, New York, USA
2002 Windsor gallery, San Francisco, USA
2001 Beit Glickman, Ramat Hasharon, Israel
