Nelly Agassi born 1973, Tel Aviv. Lives and works in Chicago.
Agassi’s work process is full of obsessive, repetitive, sisyphean actions, which function as a gripping point, as a sole possibility, as a connection to reality, to safe ground. Her work represents an important and fascinating transition in the feminist thinking and practice of the nineties, a transition from a declared engagement with feminism to an existent engagement with femininity. This is, to a large extent, a post-feminist stage, which entails an engagement with the private and the intimate, not from the starting-point of social immobility or of weakness, but from a starting-point of privilege and of choice. Agassi’s works do echo the traditional, domestic, women’s crafts – embroidery, sewing, knitting – but her use of these materials is not conventional, certainly not functional, and accumulates a different resonance that stems from the sober awareness of the moment of choice.
Agassi had numerous solo exhibitions. Among others, she exhibited in the Nahum Gutman Museum (Tel Aviv), Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts (Chicago), Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Tel Aviv), Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (Herzliya). She was part of various group exhibitions, including in the Tate Modern (London), Israel Museum (Jerusalem), Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago), Zacheta National Gallery of Art (Warsaw), Design Museum (Milano). During her career, Agassi won numerous awards and prizes, e.g. she was awarded the Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation for Israeli Art Prize of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 2003. Her works are featured in the collections of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the Israel Museum (Jerusalem). Her works are featured in the collections of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the Israel Museum (Jerusalem).
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Eggshell on Palm
Nelly Agassi, Yossi Breger, Mircea Cantor, Latifa Echakhch, Sigalit Landau, Yudith Levin, Moshe Ninio, Ariel Schlesinger, Naama Tsabar, Bri Williams 9 Dec 2023 - 13 Jan 2024 Paris -
News from Home
Ariel Schlesinger, Dor Guez, Elham Rokni, Jonathan Monk, Karen Russo, Mircea Cantor, Moshe Ninio, Nedko Solakov, Nelly Agassi, Vered Nachmani, Yossi Breger 3 Dec 2020 - 14 Jan 2021 -
פרח לב זהב - Heart of Gold
Nelly Agassi, Elham Rokni 8 Feb - 16 May 2020 Tel Aviv -
Last Letter, Remembering Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Armando Andrade Tudela, Barak Ravitz, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Douglas Gordon, Henry Shelesnyak, Jenifer Bar Lev, Jonathan Monk, Latifa Echakhch, Miri Segal, Miroslaw Balka, Nelly Agassi, Shai-Lee Horodi, Simon Fujiwara 14 Dec 2019 - 1 Feb 2020 Tel Aviv -
Down where the little fishes grow
Nelly Agassi 28 Jun - 16 Aug 2014 Tel Aviv -
Les yeux seuls sont encore capable de pousser un cri
Adel Abdessemed, Ariel Schlesinger, Barak Ravitz, Claire Fontaine, David Reeb, Douglas Gordon, Eli Petel, Etti Abergel, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Jonathan Monk, Latifa Echakhch, Michael Gross, Mircea Cantor, Miri Segal, Miriam Cahn, Miroslaw Balka, Moshe Ninio 12 Apr - 21 Jun 2014 Tel Aviv -
Rings of Saturn
Barak Ravitz, Hillel Roman, Karen Russo, Nelly Agassi, Yanai Toister 10 Sep - 24 Oct 2009 Tel Aviv
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New work by Nelly Agassi is installed at Terminal 5, O'Hare Airport Chicago
O'Hare Airport Chicago November 8, 2023The $1 billion expansion of O'Hare Airport's Terminal 5 includes 19 new artworks by Chicago artists. Chicago's rich public art scene will be one...Read more -
NELLY AGASSI: NO LIMESTONE, NO MARBLE
CHICAGO CULTURAL CENTER September 24, 2022The exhibition, titled No Limestone, No Marble, opens on September 24, 2022 and runs until January 15, 2023. Israeli-born Chicago-based artist Agassi calls this project...Read more