Artwork: First Impressionsby Gidi Gilam

About the Artist

Gidi Gilam’s paintings condense and compress an everyday narrative. It might be something small and mundane in the context of human progress but it is under a spot light in the daily minute to minute perception of life. He paints a scene that encompasses an emotion or a big idea but in a fraction of life, in a moment. Gilam’s paintings are figurative and favor a carefully selected pop color palette and contrary to that are skeptical and at times bad-tempered. This form of visual tension invites the viewer to discover their subjective narratives within the paintings and thus offer another layer of interpretation. Gidi Gilam lives and works in Berlin. He holds a bachelor’s degree in History and Philosophy from Tel Aviv University and a bachelor’s degree from the Visual Communications Department at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. He was awarded a D.A.A.D. scholarship, Rabinovitch grant and Mifaal HaPais. His works have been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world and are in several private collections in USA, Israel and France. Selected Group Exhibitions: 2023 I Keep My Eyes Open When I Sleep, Binyamin Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (upcoming) 2022 Long Night of Painters Art Fair, studios ID, Berlin, Germany Everywhere, Assemblage Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel Beyond Gallery, MeetFrida, Berlin, Germany Outrage Porn, Kimo Art Space, Berlin, Germany 2021 100 Unter 1000, Gallery Schindler LAB, Potsdam, Germany Domino 3, Salve gallery, Berlin, Germany Unblock Art Fair, studios ID, Berlin, Germany Long Night of Painters Art Fair, studios ID, Berlin, Germany 2020 Long Night of Painters Art Fair, studios ID, Berlin, Germany 2019 Unmasked, Lettretage gallery, Berlin, Germany Long Night of Painters Art Fair, studios ID, Berlin, Germany Pyrotechnics, Sadnaot Ha Amanim, Jerusalem 2018 Gamma, Soma Gallery, Curitiba, Brazil Soma Gallery Booth, P/Arte Contemporary Art Fair, Sao Paulo, Brazil Independent Artists Booth, Fresh Paint Art Fair, Tel Aviv I Was Looking At You As You Were Looking At Me, Alfred Gallery, Tel Aviv Selected Solo Exhibitions: 2018 The Past Is A Different Country, Memorial Museum, Curitiba, Brazil 2017 Irregular Act, Galil Gallery, Akko Death of Spring, Binyamini House Gallery, Tel Aviv