Roni Hajaj

Roni Hajaj (b. 1976, Beer Sheva) is a Tel Aviv–Yafo–based artist working across sculpture, painting, collage, sound, and installation. His sculptures and installations transform spaces by reworking, rearranging, or intervening in them through the temporary placement of found materials. While minimalist and abstract in form, his works draw on symbolic archetypes and operate within their own internal systems of logic. 

Using raw materials such as felt, foam, iron, wax, and rubber, alongside ready-made objects, he composes spatial arrangements that often employ mirroring, fragmentation, and repetition to destabilize existing forms. His immersive environments redefine the interaction between objects, sound, and audience, with the interplay of physical and auditory elements serving as a lens to explore themes of identity, gender, and displacement. Intimate and bodily in scale and in reference, the works reflect on transformation while challenging notions of stability and permanence. 

Residency dates:  1. 9 – 30. 11. 2025

RESIDENCY PROJECT 

During the residency, Roni Hajaj intends to develop a new body of work that combines locally sourced found objects and ready-made materials to further explore the relationship between sound, sculpture, and space. Sound—shaped by both analog and electronic instruments—will serve as the primary guide for spatial composition and movement within a site-specific, action-responsive, and process-oriented installation. The work will also incorporate recordings of Prague’s urban acoustic environment, weaving them into the physical structure of the piece.

EDUCATION 

2025    IAC, Animation and Design College, Tel Aviv 

2011    Fellowship for New Jewish Culture, Alma College, Tel Aviv 

2006    HaMidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl 

SOLO SHOWS 

2024    Bound Together, The School of Visual Theater Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel 

2020    Order of Magnitude, Gallery 4, Tel Aviv, Israel 

2020    Order of Magnitude, Lobby Art Space, Tel Aviv, Israel 

2019    Sound Mind, Raw Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL, Israel 

2017    A Foot, Tops, RawArt Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel 

2014    Domino Dancing, The Artists Studios Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel 

2014    No Preservation No Nothing, RawArt Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

2024    Rephaim, Bezalel Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel 

2024    Green Through and Through, Eyal Ofer Pavilion Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel 2023 Don't Say Water Water, MOBY-Bat Yam Museum of Art, Israel 

2019    Current, Back to Basic. Atelier Shemi, Kibbutz Cabri, Israel 

2019    Pentagon, Musrara Mix, Musrara The Nagger Multidisciplinary School of Art, Jerusalem, Israel 

2018    Mess, The Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel

2017    Women Workers’ Movement, Beit Uri and Rami Nehostan Museum, Kibbutz Ashdot Yaakov, Israel 

All information is valid as of 27 August, 2025