Boaz Kaizman

Boaz Kaizman is an Israeli artist. He has been living and working in Cologne since 1993.

Biography

Kaizman studied in Tel Aviv and later moved to Germany. He has been living and working in Cologne since 1993.
In 2018, the film Tigersprung by Kaizman, Peter Rosenthal and Marcus Seibert premiered. In the style of a graphic novel documentary film, it reenacts the visits of the Jewish cycling manager Ernst Berliner in Cologne. The actor Jörg Ratjen gave Berliner a voice. Berliner's great-grandson, Sam Alter, was involved in the preparations for the film and came to Cologne from the US for this purpose. In October 2018 the film was awarded the Golden Crank of the International Cycling Film Festival in Herne.
From 3 September 2021 to 16 January 2022, Kaizman's video installation Green Area was shown at the Cologne Museum Ludwig.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

2021–2022: Boaz Kaizman: Grünanlage / Green Area, Museum Ludwig, Cologne.
2009: Esperanto, artothek, Cologne.
2009: Buchbinder, premiere at Galerie Mirko Mayer, Cologne.
2004: Maalesh, premiere at the Off Broadway cinema, Cologne.

Group exhibitions

2023–2025: On the Value of Time. New presentation of the contemporary art collection, Museum Ludwig, Cologne.
2021: Living Together — Crossing Borders, Haifa / Sakhnin Valley.
2018–2019: büro komplex – the art of the artothek in political space, Kunsthaus NRW Kornelimünster, Aachen.
2010: Images in Motion: Artists & Video/Film, Museum Ludwig, Cologne.

Projects / Online exhibitions (selection)

since 2012: 71Gedichte.
since 1 December 2022: dringlicher Appell.
2019: Die Anzeige.
2024: Mapping The Studio 64bit. Future-Proof Video Art and Digital Presentation.

Literature (selection)

Boaz Kaizman: Hannah Arendt – the Journey to Jerusalem, Thoughts on the video work. In: Andreas Kilcher : Text and Image in Jewish Literature. The Emergence of the Image in Writing. Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2020, pp. 172–177.
Mirko Mayer : Boaz Kaizman: Access. Frankfurt am Main: Revolver – Archiv für aktuelle Kunst, 2005.
Hans Günter Golinski; Sepp Hiekisch-Picard : The Right of the Image. Jewish Perspectives in Modern Art. Exhibition catalogue, Museum Bochum. Heidelberg: Edition Braus, 2003, ISBN 978-3-89904-076-0.