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Assaf Hinden (b. 1988) is a visual artist, photographer and curator, currently based in Tel Aviv and Antwerp.
Hinden places photography, installation, and image-based media at the core of his practice. His works confront the construction of images, and consequently of narratives, testimonies, and interpretations. By revisiting public and private archives, he creates visual dialogues between different times and places, often weaving backstories and historical events into his works. He examines themes related to the origins and evolution of art, cultural belonging and identity, while challenging linear structures of time and narratives.
He obtained his Master’s degree from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp in 2021 and his Bachelor’s degree from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem in 2016 (both magna cum laude). His works are held in public collections, such as the Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz Art Collection (Austria) and ICL Intelligence (Israel), as well as in private collections, including the Mareva and Arthur Essebag Collection (Paris) and the Lauren and Mitchell Presser Collection (USA).
Recent grants and fellowships include the Ministry of Culture Young Artist Award (ISR, 2023), Asylum Arts Grant (NYC, 2022), ARCAthens 2022 Visual Art Fellowship (NYC-GR), and the Roger De Conynck Photographer Prize (King Baudouin Foundation, Belgium, 2021).
His works have been featured in institutions such as Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz (AT, 2024), Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2024), Fotomuseum Winterthur (CH, 2022), the Benaki Museum (Athens Photo Festival, 2022), Photoforum Pasquart (CH, 2022), the Ramat Gan Museum of Art (ISR, 2022), the Photo Museum of Antwerp (FOMU, BE, 2021), Hybrid Art Fair (Madrid, 2019), Rathaus-Galerie Reinickendorf (Berlin, 2019), and Fresh Paint Art Fair, among others.
Solo exhibitions include: “Figure of Work” (Braverman Gallery, 2024), “Preface” (The Lobby Art Space, 2024), “Salon and Darkroom” (CACR, Israel, 2023), “Relative Humidity” (Artspace TLV, 2018), and “Remodeling” (WTA Gallery, Barcelona, 2017).
Hinden has participated in various artist residencies, including MeetFactory, Prague, CZ (2023), ARCAthens (Athens, GR, 2022), Lucy Art Residency (Kavala, GR, 2021), and Werner Thoni Art Space in Barcelona, Spain (2017). He has delivered lectures and seminars at institutions such as the Bezalel Academy’s Photography Department (Jerusalem), the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA, Greece), the National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (EMST, Greece), Soho House Tel Aviv (Artist Talk with David Adika), FOTODOK (Netherlands), the ‘Dialogues’ series at MISC Gallery (Athens), and Tel Aviv University’s Faculty of Law (Looted Art course, Prof. Liora Bilsky).
Also a freelance curator, he has curated a range of projects and exhibitions, including “Foreshadowing” (Edmond de Rothschild Center, Tel Aviv, 2024), “Text(ile)” (co-curated with Camea Smith, Meron Capital, 2023), “Last Call” (Indie Gallery, 2020), “No Rainbows Without Rain” (fundraising exhibition for LGBTQ youth at risk, 2019), and co-curated “Talking Bones” (Artspace TLV, 2017).
Education
2020-2021 MA (magna cum laude) The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp (BE)
2012-2016 B.F.A (magna cum laude) The Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem (ISR)
2014-2015 Hochschule für bildende Künste (HFBK), University of Fine Arts of Hamburg, Germany (winter semester)
2010 Digital photography diploma graduate, Minshar of arts, Tel Aviv
Exhibitions
Solo and duo exhibitions
5/2024 Figure of Work, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL
2/2024 Preface at The Lobby Art Space, Tel Aviv, IL
3/2023 Salon and Darkroom at Contemporary Art Center Ramla CACR, IL
9-10/2018 Relative Humidity at Artspace TLV, Tel Aviv (Catalogue)
7-10/2018 Blue line duo exhibition with Sarai Himelfarb at Art Cube Artist’s Studio, Jerusalem (Catalogue)
12/2016 - 01/2017 Remodeling at WTA Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (Catalogue)
Group exhibitions
1/2025 BFAMI Auction Gala 2025, Christie’s London
9-12/2024 I Don't Want to Forget (from the Mareva and Arthur Essebag collection), Tel Aviv Museum of Art
7-9/2024 The Life of Things, Lentos Art Museum Linz, Austria (Market Reeve’s House, Lauffen, AT)
12/2023-1/2024 Spectrum of Lights, Nassima Landau Art Foundation, Tel Aviv, ISR
12/2023 We Support, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, ISR
10/2023 Various Forms of Sensibility, Hyb4 Galerie, Prague, CZ
6-7/2022 Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum / Pireso 138 , Athens GR
6-7/2022 Start Point Prize, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam NL
4/2022 The Villa (NFT art exhibition), Mona Art Club, Tel Aviv
12/2021-1/2022 The Institution, Ramat Gan Museum of Art, Israel
12/2021-1/2022 Prix Photoforum Pasquart 2021, Biel Switzerland
12/2021-1/2022 Start Point Prize Shortlist artists exhibition, Prague, Czech-republic
11/2021 To Be Antwerp (Art Festival), Antwerp Belgium
9-10/2021 [moody piano music playing], Photo Museum of Antwerp FOMU
7-8/2021 Onboards Biennale, Antwerp Belgium
7/2021 E N C O R E !, The Glitzy Building, Antwerp Belgium
6/2021 Master Expo, The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
3/2021 pictu>re>image, Wintertuin (Curator: Spank Moons)
12/2020 Closed (Closer), The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
6/2020 Expansion, The Edmond de Rotschild Center, Tel Aviv
4/2020 NITE Hotel - Digital art festival (Netherlands)
12/2019 In Print Art Book Fair, Hanses House, Jerusalem
12/2019 Spectrum (Bush collective) at the lgbtq center, Tel Aviv
8/2019 Issues, at Beit Romano, Tel Aviv
5-6/2019 Walls Have Ears V.2, Idris collective at Oded Shatil Gallery, Tel Aviv
4/2019 Album, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv
4/2019 Salon Kandinof, Beit Kandinof, Jaffa
3-6/2019 Function.Anomy (Intermission collective) at the Rathaus Reinickendorf - Berlin, DE
3/2019 Walls Have Ears V.1, Idris collective (Hybrid Art, Madrid art week) - Madrid, Spain
11/2018 CHAI, at Bialik Rogozin (fundraising exhibition), Tel Aviv
5/2018 Teder Print Fair, Teder.fm, Tel Aviv
4/2018 Fresh paint art fair 10, Tel Aviv Convention Center, Tel Aviv (Catalogue)
2/2018 Barrow, at Hanina Gallery, Tel Aviv
9/2017 Fool’s Gold, ArtSpace TLV
8/2017 Cluster, Beit Kandinof, Jaffa
7/2017 Art-to-get (Art fair) Artspace TLV, Tel Aviv
7/2017 Barbur B&B (group exhibition & 24 hours residency), Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem
6/2017 The Sone and The Territory, at Beit Kandinof, Jaffa
3-5/17 HINENI, at Beit Kandinof, Jaffa
3-4/2017 Fresh paint art fair 9, Tel Aviv (Catalogue)
7/2016 Graduates exhibition, The Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
5/2014 - 6/2016 Omanut Gea, Under 1000 Gallery, Tel Aviv
06/2015 Imag(in)ing Identity at Victoria-Kaserne, Hamburg, Germany
06/2015 Projection Nights, Hangar 9 - Carouge, Switzerland
05/2015 Teimot, Ha’Teiva Theatre, Jaffa
02/2015 Jahresausstellung 2015 at HFBK- Hamburg, Germany
02/2015 On Friday the 13’th, ASA studios - Hamburg, Germany
01/2015 ÜBER ETWAS UND ETWAS ANDERES at greskewitz | kleinitz | galerie, Hamburg DE
01/2014 Animal Farm, Gerard Bachar Theatre, Jerusalem
Curatorial Projects
6/202 Foreshadowing, Edmond de Rothchild Center , Tel Aviv
4/2023 Text(ile), Nahalat Binyamin 5, Tel Aviv (co-curated with Camea Smith)
6/2020 LAST CALL, Indie Photography Gallery, Tel Aviv
4/2020 NITE Hotel, Netherlands | 'External practices' by artist Chen Cohen
1/2020 (Yes, I) Packed Alone Yaron Shin (Jewboy), Studio Irit Hayon, Tel Aviv
6/2019 No Rainbows Without Rain, Studio Irit Hayon, Tel Aviv
8-9/2017 Talking Bones, group exhibition (co-curated with Bar Yerushalmi) at Artspace Tel Aviv
Collections
Mareva and Arthur Essebag Collection, France
Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz Art Collection, Austria
Lauren and Mitchell Presser Collection, USA
Mobileye Global Inc
ICL Intelligent Logistics, Israel
Private collections
Awards, Grants, Scholarships
2024 The Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts, Tel Aviv, ISR
2023 Ministry of Culture Young Artist Award Recipient, 2023 (ISR) | פרס האמן הצעיר של משרד התרבות
2023 Scholarship for exhibition production by The Leon Recanatti Memorial Center Foundation (ISR)
2023 Asylum Arts (NYC) grants for project development
2022 ARCAthens Fall 2022 Visual Art Fellowships recipient
2022 'Plat(t)form 2022' Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
2022 Wallpaper Magazine ‘Next Generation 2022’ (UK)
2021-2 'Prix Photoforum Pasquart’ Bienne, Switzerland (Shortlist + exhibition)
2021 Recipient artist of The Roger De Conynck Emerging Photographer Prize (Kind Baudouin Foundation), Belgium
2021 Start Point Prize Prague, CZ (Shortlist + exhibition)
2021 Blurring The Lines, Italy (Shortlist)
2021 Horlait-Depsens foundation prize, Belgium (Shortlist)
20-21 Recipient artist of the Lucy Art Residency, Greece (Visual Artist Working with Photography)
2018 Scholarship for catalogue production by Magen Halutz, Relative Humidity (solo show)
2018 Exhibition’s production scholarship (Relative Humidity) by The Insall Millow Foundation for Contemporary Art
2016 Excellence scholarship by “SBY art matters” & “Media Company”
2015 Academic excellence Award, Excellence scholarship Department of Theory and History, Bezalel Academy.
Artist in residence
2023 MeetFactory, Prague, The Czech Republic
2022 ARCAthens Fall 2022 Visual Art Residency Fellowships recipient
2021 Lucy Art Residency, Kavala, Greece
2017 Barbur B&B- Barbur gallery, Jerusalem
2016-7 WTA (Werner Thoni Art Space), Barcelona (Spain)
Selected articles and critiques
6/2024 Galleria, Haaretz | "Assaf Hinden positions the viewer at the core, providing an optimistic, empowering, and humanistic Perspective" by Avi Pitchon ("Figure of Work", Solo exhibition) (Hebrew)| LINK
6/2024 *Wallpaper Magazine (UK) | Looking at people looking at art: inside the mind of a gallery attendant (Feature, "Figure of Work"), by Kyle MacNeill | LINK
5/2024 Portfolio Magazine | To Observe the Observed: Assaf Hinden at Braverman Gallery, by Reut Barnea (Hebrew) | LINK
3/2024 Galleria, Haaretz | The Space dreams itself by Ouzi Tzur (Preface, solo exhibition) (Hebrew)| LINK
6/2023 Galleria, Haaretz | Sketched Memories by Naama Riba ('Salon and Darkroom') | LINK
1/2022 *Wallpaper Magazine (Next Generation 2022) | Photographer Assaf Hinden: ownership, preservation and the manipulation of images by Sophie Galdstone | LINK
8/2021 Metropolis M (NL) | Meeting point between the past and the present by curator and writer Ive Stevenheydens
2020 Les nouveaux riches | Media practice: Assaf Hinden | LINK
2020 Portfolio Magazine | Last Call: When artists photograph overseas by Yuval Saar (Hebrew)
2020 Galleria, Ha’aretz | Last Chance to by Naama Riba (Hebrew) | LINK
2020 Galleria, Haaretz | Photographer Assaf Hinden reassembles the image by Chen-li Gal (Hebrew) | LINK
2020 Galleria, Haaretz | If it’s beautiful, it might be right by Avi Pitchon
2019 Haaretz | Walls Have Ears by Uzi Tzur
2018 Ha’musach: Literary supplement | Yair Dovrat on Assaf Hinden’s exhibition ‘Relative Humidity’ By Yair Dovrat (Hebrew) | LINK
2018 Timeout Tel Aviv | 9 Artists to watch by Nadav Newman (Hebrew) | LINK
2018 Portfolio Magazine | Ma Kore Assaf Hinden interview by Yuval Saar (Hebrew) | LINK
2017 Erev Rav | Look! You can begin to see something! by Keren Goldberg (Hebrew) | LINK
2017 Galleria, Haaretz | Fantasy of preservation by Dr. Shaul Setter (Hebrew) | LINK
2017 Portfolio Magazine | During movement by Hagit Peleg Rotem | Link (Hebrew) | LINK
2016 Galleria, Haaretz | The few stars of Bezalel by Uzi Zur | Link (Hebrew) | LINK
Selected lectures and seminars
2023 Portfolio Website Seminar, The Bezalel Academy’s Photography department, Jerusalem, Israel
11/2022 Artist lecture and seminar at the Academy of Fine Arts of Athens, Greece (ASFA)
10/2022 Artist lecture at EMST (The National Museum of Contemporary Art), Athens, Greece
6/2022 Art is in The House | Artist talk and lecture with David Adika, Soho House Tel Aviv-Jaffa
Publications
2021 Blurring The Lines (Italy) | Link
9-10/2018 Relative Humidity | articles by Yael Klein & Dr. Noa Hazan (produced by Magen Halutz)
Relevant freelance work & experience
Since 2024 Founder, curator, and artistic director of Givon on Paper: www.givononpaper.com
2021-2022 Assistant Curator and gallery manager, Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv (35 Gordon St.)
2019-2022 Art consultant and curator of Israeli Art Collection, ICL Logistics Ltd
2021 Fashion Campaign for designer Noga Karpel, Belgium
2021 Furnitures Campaign for Thomas Van Noten, Belgium
2020 Fashion Campaign for designer Ligal Melamed, Tel Aviv
2016-2017 Product photographer, image retoucher, and video editor, MID DIAMONDS, Ramat Gan IL
2010-2012 Time Out Tel Aviv Magazine photographer
2010-2011 Founder of TULIQ, Tel Aviv