Chen Cohen

Chen Cohen (b. 1983, Tel Aviv, Israel), is an interdisciplinary artist working in photography, video, installation and performance living and working in Tel Aviv.

Cohen’s practice hovers around the rights of healing. She invents rituals, creates situations, hijacks existing frameworks to her own needs and establishes collaborations with fellow artists and patients, in an all-encompassing attempt to capture the elusive state of health and wellness, of taking charge of her own body. In her work process, she submerges in the ideas she researches, and they enter every possible aspect of her personal life, while the camera acts as a witness to this process.

From actions and performances, Cohen accumulates moments and materials used to create the exhibition space. There, they take their final form: videos of long-duration performances, Xerox prints, and manipulated photographs. While some are chosen out of a video drawing documenting a more prolonged action, others are manipulated still photos taken after a long, meticulous preparation for their taking.

EDUCATION 

2017    The Bezalel Academy of Art and Design MFA (ISR)

2013    The Musrara Multidisciplinary School of Art’s Photography (ISR)

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2023    Instrument and Gestures, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa (ISR)

2022    The Simple Body, Westwerk Gallery, Hamburg (DE)

2021    How to Die Beautiful at the CCA, Tel Aviv (ISR)

2019    The Believers, Moby, Museum of  Bat Yam (ISR)

2019    Heal at the Cité Internationale of Arts (FR)

2018    Tzamah at the Kav 16 Gallery, Tel Aviv (ISR)

Her works can be found in the Israel Museum Collection, The Tel Aviv Museum Collection, The Haifa Museum Collection, The Haaretz Collection, the Center Pompidou Collection, as well as private collections around the world. 

Date of residency: 01.08. – 31.10.2024