Deganit Berest

Deganit Berest is one of Israel’s most prominent multidisciplinary artists. She is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes, including the Minister of Education and Culture Prize for Visual Arts (2005) and the Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture (2007). In 2012, Berest received the Rappaport Prize for an Established Israeli Artist. Her work has been described as "a collection of series, some photographs, and . . . paintings and even of photographs and paintings combined. By using the processes of disassembly, assembly, projection, screening or enlargement and harnessing the random and the arbitrary, she turns the simple into wondrous, odd and eternal images, creating tension between sight and consciousness. Berest belongs to the first wave of conceptual artists that raised feminist consciousness in Israeli art.” She lives in Tel Aviv.