Yanir Shani
(He/him)
Address: Sinsenveien 11, Sinsenveien 11, 0572 Oslo
Floor: 4
The studio is open Saturday 26 April from 12-17
My artistic process is dedicated to exploring the possibilities of conceptual abstraction in which the textual and cultural aspects of photography provide the conditions for experiments in photographic deconstruction. While using historical, personal, psychological, and spiritual optics my visual research highlights the relationship between photography and concepts of memory, control, ideology, and perception.
My photography works are based on pictorial traditions. The photos represent memories of events in a specific time and space. The works express the belief and conviction that what you see is only a suggestion of reality.
Western Art history associates photography as the representational successor of painting. Growing pains of technological barriers and a fundamental need for a subject made photography the quieter and more restrained son of the Art canon. This Oedipus complex must be addressed.
Lens based artist
Outside #16
Yanir Shani
C type print on Analog Glossy fine art paper in a wooden frame
74 x 96 cm
2016
Untitled ( Landscape #41 )
Yanir Shani
C-type print on analog glossy fine art paper
77 x 99 cm x2 (diptych)
2018
Ashmedai / installation
Yanir shani
Group exhibition
“Hanna Ryggen Triennalen, Julie Ebbing & Hannah Ryggen Army”
Kjøpmannsgata Ung Kunst, Curator Cathrine Hovdahl Vik
Trondheim, Norway
2022
In my studio
I am currently working on two artist books summarising a long-duration photographic process. Alongside my photographic work, I developed a unique printing methodology for my practice that imposes conditions of chance and singularity.
This experimental technique allows singularity over the remaking of a specific image over and over again. Each work is a unique and singular creation – like a memory in a state of constant transformation.
Planned projects and exhibitions
Yanir Shani is a visual artist from Tel Aviv who works in Oslo.
He received his BFA from Bezalel Academy for Fine Art and Design in Jerusalem and his MFA from Trondheim Academy of Fine Art.
His works have been exhibited in Norway and abroad among others at "The Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.), “Photofairs Shanghai| 9th , Statens Høstutstillingen, Vårutstillingen (Oslo,Norway), Kjøpmannsgata Ung Kunst (K-U-K-), Trøndelagsutstillingen (Trondheim, Norway) and BABEL visningsrom for kunst (Trondheim, Norway).
CV
YANIR SHANI
works in Oslo, Norway
www.yanirshani.com
yanirshani@gmail.com 40649592 47+
Education
2015-2017 Master in Fine Art, Department of Fine Art, Trondheim Academy of Fine Art (NTNU), Norway.
2007-2011 Bachelor in Fine Art, Photography and Art Studies, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel.
2004-2007 Communication and Management Bachelors, Collage of Management, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022 “Safari”, Babel Visningsrom For Kunst, Trondheim, Norway.
2020 “X+1”, Galleri Blunk, Trondheim, Norway.
2019 “Like Lambs to the slaughter”, Woldkunstformidling, Curator Ragnar B Wold, Trondheim, Norway.
2018 “Ashmedai”, Babel Visningsrom For Kunst, Trondheim, Norway.
Selected group Exhibitions
2024 Salongutstilling FFF 50 år, Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway.
2024 “FOR REUNION” , Qiumo Art Gallery, Taoxichuan Spring & Autumn Art Fair, JingDezhen, China. 2024 ”IMPRESSIONS”, Culture Spaces, Swatch Art Peace Hotel, “PHOTOFAIRS SHANGHAI, China.
2023 “INTER״ Traveling Exhibition : Ørland Kunstforening, Skaun Kunstforening , Neadalen Kunst gggggforening, Namsos Kunstforening, Norway.
2023 “Response-ability”, SomoS Kunstraum Berlin, Curator Yeni Ma ,Berlin, Germany.
2022 “MOTION”: Movement and Dance in Contemporary Israeli Art”,The Negev Museum of Art, Curator ffffffffNirit Dahan, Beer Sheva, Israel.
2022 “Hanna Ryggen Triennalen, Julie Ebbing & Hannah Ryggen Army”, Kjøpmannsgata Ung Kunst, Curator fffffff Cathrine Hovdahl hey Vik, Trondheim, Norway.
2021 “OFF THE WALL”, KÖSK, Oslo, Norway.
2021 “Vårutstillingen “, Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway.
2020 “Trøndelag Bildende Kunstnere (TBK)”, Trondhjems Kunstforening, Norway.
2019 “Statens 132, kunstutstilling, Høstutstillingen” Oslo, Norway.
2018 “TRØNDELAGSUTSTILLINGEN 42”, Trøndelag center for contemporary art, Trondheim, Norway. 2018 “Martnasutstilling”, Steinkjer kunstforenings, Steinkjer, Norway.
2016 “Fata Morgana”, Two Person Exhibition, Curator Paal Henrik Ekern, CYAN gallery, Oslo, Norway. 2015 DongGang International Photo Festival,Curator HeeJung KIM, Seoul, Korea.
2015 Fifth Annual Exposure Award, Musee du Louvre, Paris, France.
2014 Fresh Paint 7, Tel aviv, Israel.
2013 “Bezalel On Tour”, Traveling Exhibition: The Corcoran Gallery, Washington DC, G91 Loft, New York, RISD, Rhode Island School Of Design, New England, USA, (curator Mooly Ben Shooshan)
2012 “Bezalel On Tour” Malts Museum For The Jewish Heritage Cleveland, Ohio, Chicago Sotheby’s, Illinois, USA.

Residency
2023/4 Swatch Art Peace Hotel Artist in residency, Shangai, China.
2021/2 Atelier Babel project, Babel Visningsrom For Kunst, Trondheim, Norway.
2017/8 Studio for graduating student at Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder LKV, Trondheim, Norway.
Public and Private Collections
Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shangai, China
Trondheim kommune, Norway.
Grants and awards
2024 Diversestipend, Stipendkomiteen for fotografer, Kulturrådet Art Council Norway.
2023 Strakstiltak kunst og kultur, profesjonelle, Trondheim kommune.
2022 Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond (BKV), Treårig Stipend. Three years Working grant from The Norwegian Visual Artists ssociation (NBK).
2021 Trondheim kommune’s kulturstipend.
2021 Strakstiltak kunst og kultur, profesjonelle, Trondheim kommune.
2021 NKF Prosjektstøtte (Project grant) for kunstnere i etablering Kulturrådet Art Council, Norway. 2020 Diversestipend (Miscellaneous scholarship) Norsk Fotografisk Fond (NOFOFO), Høst 2020 . 2019 / 2021 Regionale prosjektmidler (project grant) for visuell kunst.
2019 / 2021 Landsforeningen Kunstsentrene i Norge, Norway.
2019 Arbeidsstipend for yngre / nyetablerte kunstnarar (Working grant, newly established artists) dddddKulturrådet Art Council, Norway.
2018/9 NTNU Kunstpris “TRØNDELAGSUTSTILLINGEN 42”, Trondheim, Norway.
2018 Strakstilskudd for Solo exhibition, Trondheim Kommune.
2017 Miscellaneous grant for recently graduated artist, Kulturrådet Art Council Norway.
Artistic positions and committees
2024 Jury commity, Vårutstillingen ved Forbundet Frie Fotografer, Fotogalleriet, Oslo.
2022-2023 Jury leader, Vårutstillingen ved Forbundet Frie Fotografer, Fotogalleriet, Oslo.
2021-2023 Vare i komiteen for region MIDT – regionale prosjektmidler, Norway. 2021-2023 Vare for Trøndelag Visual Artists Arts Council.
2021-2023 Darkroom and art teacher as freelance, Sund folkehøgskole, Norway. 2019 Guest lecture at Trondheim academy for Fine art (NTNU).