Roee Rosen
° 1963
Lives in Tel Aviv (Israel).
Roee Rosen is an Israeli-American artist, filmmaker and writer. He is a professor at Ha'Midrasha Art College, and at the Bezalel Art Academy, Israel. Rosen’s installation, Live and Die as Eva Braun (1995-1997), stirred a political scandal when first exhibited at the Israel Museum, His book Sweet Sweat was listed as one of the best books of 2009 by Artforum. In 2010 Rosen created two films. Hilarious, and Out, which won the Orizzonti award for best medium-length film at the Venice Film Festival. In 2012, A Major solo Exhibition, Roee Rosen, Vile, Evil Veil was held at INIVA art center in London, and his cinematic work was profiled at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival. Rosen's latest film, The Buried Alive Videos, premiered at the Rome Film Festival, 2013, and was awarded a special mention. His retrospective is forthcoming at the Tel Aviv Museum in 2015.
Works
>Justine Frank, Roee Rosen, Sweet Sweat, 2009.Book, ink, paper, 14.9 x 20 cm, 236 p, language: English, translation from Hebrew, publisher: Berlin/Antwerpen : Sternberg Press/Extra City - Center for Contemporary Art (originally published by Babel Publishers, Tel Aviv, 2001), ISBN: 978-1-933128-66-5.
>Maxim Komar-Myshkin, Roee Rosen, Vladimir's Night, 2014.Book, ink, paper, 20 x 30 cm, 174 p, language: English, publisher: Sternberg Press, ISBN: 978-3-95679-059-1.
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: Book Lovers 4.0 (Pop-up Bookstore). 28 January 2014 - 02 February 2014.
> Exhibition: THE BOOK LOVERS - A Project about Artist Novels. 25 January 2013 - 09 March 2013.
> Exhibition: The Preparation of the Novel (Book Lovers 5.0). 18 July 2014 - 05 September 2014.
> Exhibition: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE ARTWORK BECOMES A NOVEL?. 07 December 2012 - 21 April 2013.
> Ensemble: The Artist's Novel.