Nuclear Imaginaries
 
 
 
Artists Pil and Galia Kollectiv Origin: UK
 
 
Solo Exhibitions  
 
2002 Living in Magazines, Camera Obscura Gallery, Tel Aviv
 
  Selected Group Exhibitions and Screenings  
 
2005 S1/Salon, S1 Gallery, Sheffield
2004 Phantasmagoria, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester.
  Grey Goo, Flaca Gallery, London.
  Zoo Art Fair, London
  Fleamarket, temporarycontemporary, London.
  Surrealestate, YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Toronto.
  Centrefold Scrapbook, Redux Gallery, London.
  Motorcity, 27 Spital Square, London.
2003 Nth Art at Ols and Co. Gallery, London.
  Becks Futures Student Film and Video Award Show at the ICA, London
  Wonderyears, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien and NGBK galleries, Berlin
  Whitechapel Gallery film program, accompanying the Mies Van Der Rohe exhibition.
2002 Critical Home Video, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery and Art Museum, New Plymouth, New Zealand
  1st Videozone Biennial, Tel-Aviv, Israel
  Critical Home Video, Artspace, Ontario
  Kontakte: Keep on Livin', Neon Gallery, London
  Stardust Deluxe, Lisa Lounge, Berlin
2001 9th Biennale de l’image en Mouvement, Geneva
  Critical Video Lounge at City Art Gallery, York
 
 
  Curatorial Projects  
 
2004 DaDaDa: Strategies against Marketecture at temporarycontemporary gallery, London
2002 Carbona at Plonit Gallery, Tel-Aviv
  Atari Teenage Riot at Hazira Performance.Art, Jerusalem
2000 Indiscotica at the Heinrich Böll foundation Gallery, Tel Aviv
  Trash at Hazira Performance.Art, Jerusalem
 
  Selected Lectures  
 
2004 Round Table Discussion at Pilot International Art Forum, London
2003 “Post Zionism and the Holocaust” at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
  “Tel-Aviv – Global City” at NGBK, Berlin
2002 “The Space Between Consumerist Desire and Freedom” at Camera Obscura Gallery, Tel Aviv
2000 “Punk Subcultures and Local Identity” at Betzal’el School of Art, Jerusalem
1999 “From the Situationists to Baader-Meinhof: Smashing the Spectacle”, Habamah Theatre, Jerusalem
 
  Catalogues and Publications  
 
“Final Countdown: Truimph of the List”, in Strategies Against Marketecture, London, 2004 (also editors)
“Should Artists Struggle?”, Pilot:1, London: Doubleplusgood, 2004
“Bloodnation /Fleshland”, Grey Goo, London: Flaca, 2004
“Plastic Surgery”, Miser & Now, issue 3, London: 2004
“The Future is Here”, Miser & Now, issue 2, London: 2004
“Israel“, Chicks on Speed: It’s a Project!, London: Booth-Clibborn Editions, 2004
“Fear of a Black and White Planet”, Wonderyears, Berlin: NGBK, 2002
“The Death of the Teenager”, in: Carbona, Tel Aviv, 2002 (also Editors)
Critical Home Video, Quebec: Chambre Blanche, 2003
1st Videozone Biennial, Tel Aviv: 2003
9th Biennale de l’image en Mouvement, Geneva: Centre Pour L’Image Contemporaine, 2001.
 
  Awards  
 
Together - 2003: Runners up at the Becks Student Film and Video Award
Pil 1998 Perach scholarship (awarded for volunteer community service)
  Arieli prize for outstanding seminar paper in History, the Hebrew University
Galia 1998 Arieli prize for outstanding seminar paper in History, the Hebrew University
  1997 Rector’s scholarship for outstanding students, the Hebrew University
  1996 - 97 Dean’s honours list, Faculty of Humanities, the Hebrew University
 
  Education  
 
Pil is currently an Associate Researcher in Fine Art at Chelsea College, London
2002 - 03 Central Saint Martins College, MA in Communication Design, London
2000 - 01 Goldsmiths College, MA Fine Art, London
1999 - 00 Camera Obscura Art School’s New Seminar for Theory, Criticism and Visual Culture, Jerusalem
1995 - 98 BA studies in English Literature and History, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Graduated cum laude
 
  Statement  
 
Inspired by the two war paintings of the surrealist painter Max Ernst, Europe After the Rain I and II. Looking at imaginary landscapes of fossilised ruins that turn into organic matter fusing the textures of rotting vegetation and the angular shapes of forgotten archaeological sites, we decided to try to create a series of abstract landscapes. We collected WW2 images of American bombers over the Japanese mainland, of fighter jets explode in the dark sky over the ocean and of the blinding mushroom that hung above Hiroshima, and searched these materials - bombed Japanese factories, B52s and the scorched ground of Hiroshima - for evocative patterns. Our aims was to find a way to make these materials into something that might suggest regeneration and not just destruction, to find life in the ruins.