E&A CV

General
effi & amir are: Amir Borenstein, born 1969, Haifa, Effi Weiss, born 1971, Ramat-Gan
started working and living together in 1998
living in Brussels
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a non exhaustive list of activities/ exhibitions/ screenings/ etc:

2009
january: transhumances (concert installation), la bellone in the frame of Composite#6, Brussels
march: city portraits -workshop at the artuniversity of bucharest, photo vidoe department
april: city portraits - workshop at MURABI school of cinema, Tirana
april-may: production of "epiphany on vacation"
june: city portraits - workshop in Beijing

2008
december: Christmas exhibition, PROGR, bern.
november: transhumances with stephan dunkelman, Netwerk, Aalst.
november: OMG solo exhibition at Netwerk, aalst
november: video for Zohara concert, de centrale, Gent
august: love you kill you, laboratoire village nomade, lac Neuchatel, CH
august: OneMinutesJunior Workshop, Bujumbura, Burundi (organization: Unicef)
june: OneMinutesJunior workshop, Baia Mare, Romania (effi)
april: 1st festival for visual arts and new media, morocco, casablanca
april-august ; production of a creative documentary about the Kunstvlaai -API
jan-june: video production workshop, a collaboration of CVB, CPAS (centre publique d'action sociale) de Schaerbeek, Les Halles, Bxl (effi)
jan-feb: 'in residency' - development residency at Netwerk, aalst, belgium
january - unlimited: effi and amir's side dish

2007
november: "whales" street projection, Tel Aviv. curator: Ilan Wizgan
november: contribution to "the residents" book publication by Argos, centre for art and media, brussels.
october: 1minutesJr workshop, digitalartlab, Holon, israel
august: 1minutesJr workshop, Oradea, Romania
june: home made #3,Lodz Culture House cinema(LDK)
may: 1minutes workshop, Timisoara University, Romania
may: 1minutes workshop, Sibiu-Astra Films, Romania
may: 1minutes workshop, Bucharest Art University, Romania
april: 1minutes workshop, Cluj University, Romania
march: stARTrek- the next generation, Orsini Palace Bomarzo , Italy. curator: Antonella Pisilli
january: e-flux video rental in PiST/// (topsoil)

2006
Jerusalem Film Festival, prize in the experimental category for the video "color", ("tzeva")
december: The Desert Show, Gallery 400, Chicago
december: Video Zone3, Tel Aviv, "The Way of Negation" videos from belgium, selected by effi & amir
october: 1minutesJr workshop, Tirana, Albania
august: Ma'arbolet, Tel Aviv Dolfinarium Beach
may: event#3 Netwerk, Aalst, Belgium

2005
December: "Not Alone" Haifa University Gallery, Haifa (curator: ruti director)
November: "blanks", the Israeli CCA tel-aviv (curator: sergio edelzstein)
November: "hagal Hakal" beit reuben, Tel Aviv (curator: shira naftali)
November: CART, the offspace rendez-vous at KunstZurich (marks blond, Bern)
September: "home at TENT." - invited and co-curated by Gil & Moti Homegallery and TENT, Rotterdam
August: prize winners exhibition, Tel Aviv Museum
June: 1 minutes video workshop, Tirana, Albania
may: 16th republic, east area, amsterdam, curated by Irina Birger
march:loosing.ctrl, FORUM STADPARK, GARZ. a Nomad project, curated by Basak Senova
March: "black is beautiful" marks blond at white space, Zurich
March: i for an i, PROGR, bern (long term project december 04-march 05)
February:"homesick home" israeli video art (selection and introduction)
January: "the Revisionists", Marks Blond Project Space, Bern

2004
production grant "the video art and experimental film production fund", israel
the one minutes award (category miracles and science)
young artist prize 2004- the israeli ministry of culture
residency grant at "PROGR" -zentrum fur kulturproduktion, Bern, Switzerland
december: Café video, curated by Jean-Marc Huitorel, Saint Brieuc
november: VideoZone- the 2nd video art biennale in Tel Aviv
november: "under a raging sun" PROGR, bern
october: Fremder Sender - one week production residency, Invited by Haus am Gern
october: "GO", "PROGR" -zentrum fur kulturproduktion, Bern, Switzerland
september: 6E manifestation internationale, video et art electronique, Champs Libre, MONTREAL
july: "The Marathon" (performance), "sportivement votre", Domaine de Chamarande, France
may: "when we were kings" kunstvlaai 5, westergasfabriek, amsterdam
april: "VinylVideo now playing: Near East " a collaboration with VinylVideo™, commissoned by the Israeli center for digital art, Holon
march: "point of view", Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv
february: "1+1=1"a week long workshop, Den Bosch art academy

2003
December: Artfocus, Jerusalem (the video program, curated by Sergio Edelzstein)
September:"ferry tale", "the reality principal" 2nd Tirana Biennial, Albania, Curated by Stephanie Ben Zaquen
September: Xpatria, Sint Nicolaas Kapel, Amsterdam, curated by Guy Bahir
September: "xpatria" screening program, SNK ,Amsterdam (selected by effi & amir)
May:"Hereafter-Tel Aviv Video", contemporary art center, Vilnius, Lithuania, Curated by Stephanie Ben Zaquen
April:"Back From", Solo Video Screening, Kunstverein, Freiburg. invited by Christina Ohlmer
September: theatre of war - Antwerp
March: Video festival, Dallas , USA
February: screenings at Arlequin cinema, Paris ("Art-Action, Paris-Berlin rencontres ")

2002
Dreamcatcher 5 video-art festival award, CCA Kiev
Israeli ministry of culture grant "Cite International des Arts" residency, paris
November:"land of Shadow", Tel Aviv Museum, Israel
November: Video Zone- 1 st Biannual for Video Art, Tel Aviv
September:"Art for the People", Riding, Tel Aviv, Israel
September: Dreamcatcher Festival, Kiev
July: New York Video Festival, Lincoln Center , NY
June: "promised land/ territoire occupee" video program, Centre pour l'image contemporaine , Genève
April: Zoom in Zoom Out- Argos, Brussels
March: Zoom in-Zoom out, Art in General, New York curator: Sergio Edelsztein
March: Gwangju Biennial, Korea
January: "Screen Work" Ort Braude College Gallery, Karmiel, Israel
January: "Independence Day Eve."-Solo Video Screening, Hertzliya Museum

2001
International Media Art Award -Audience Award, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Ddecember: "all my sons" the israeli centre for digital art, Holon, curator: galit eilat
December: "Florescent 2", Florescent, Tel-Aviv
December: 01-"Local Time 4", Video Art screening, cinematheque Tel-Aviv+ Jerusalem
October: Impakt festival, Utrecht , The Netherlands
November:- Group Exhibition , Bezalel, Tel-Aviv
June: Dreamcatcher film and video festival, Kiev .
May: "Ctrl Space" International media\art award, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
February: “eye confess” side street project, Los Angeles , USA
Feb+March: “voyeurism”, “hazira”,Jerusalem
January: CHECK IT, solo exhibition Peer Gallery, Tel Aviv. curator: Guy Ben Ner

2000-2002
Initiators, with Irit Garty and Issac Layish, of ARTATTACK. a monthly independent TV program, broadcast nation-wide in Israeli TV. Artattack activity also involved production of public screenings, exhibitions, lectures and presentations to various audiences.

Selected Artattack presentations:
November 02- "Artattack", an exhibition in CCA Silauliai , Lithuania (Virus Festival)
March 02- Gwangju Biennial , Korea
July 01- Jerusalem International Film Festival /symposium
June 01 – 1 st Artattack's Birthday- video presentation, “hazira” Jerusalem
February 01- Video Exhibition, Haifa Museum of Art , Haifa

High education
02-04 Sandberg Instituut (MFA), Amsterdam
95-99 Bezalel Academy of Fine Arts, Jerusalem, BFA Cum Laude
Jan-June 98 Students Exchange: Glasgow School of Art (amir) University of Ulster, Belfast (effi)

Prizes and Grants
08- the israeli foundation for video art and experimental cinema, production grant
08- communate francaise de belgique, aide a la conception
06- Jerusalem Film Festival, Experimental category for the video "color", ("tzeva")
04- production grant "Hakeren Le' Video Art"
04- the one minutes award
04- young artist prize 2004- the israeli ministry of culture
04- residency grant at "PROGR" -zentrum fur kulturproduktion, Bern, Switzerland
02- Dreamcatcher 5 video-art festival, Kiev CCA
02- Israeli ministry of culture grant "Cite International des Arts" residency, paris
01- International Media Art Award -Audience Award, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
99- Excellence prize of the “Bezalel” Fine Art Department
97- Booki Tzooker excellence Prize for an art student (effi)

Acquisition:
2003 "dancing with wolves" (video) Tel Aviv museum, Israel