Overview
Etti Abergel born 1960, Tivon, Israel. Lives and works in Jerusalem, Israel.
Abergel is an installation artist for whom each exhibition is a chapter in a lifelong autobiography. The stage provided her by an installation is a temporary home, a situation to which she can bring her recent contemplations, thoughts, ideas. “It’s a stage in the existential sense,” she clarifies, “and also the stage between past and future.” Abergel’s objects, like her thinking, are simultaneously concrete and metaphysical. She’s preoccupied with the abstraction of an idea or memory, but she’s equally engaged by the object that symbolizes this memory.
Abergel has created installations in an ongoing visual autobiography and exhibited “chapters” at numerous one-person and group exhibitions in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Geneva, Vienna, New York and elsewhere, as well as creating on-site installations at the Venice Biennale; the Biennale at l’Aquila, Italy; and Contemporanea Trieste. Among her awards are the Bezalel Fine Arts Department Excellence Award; the Isracard Prize from the Tel Aviv Museum of Art; the Israel Minister of Education and Culture Prize; and the Janet and George Jaffin Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation. 
Works
  • Etti Abergel, cosmic sketches, 2022
    cosmic sketches, 2022
  • Etti Abergel, cosmic sketches, 2022
    cosmic sketches, 2022
  • Etti Abergel, cosmic sketches, 2022
    cosmic sketches, 2022
  • Etti Abergel, cosmic sketches, 2022
    cosmic sketches, 2022
  • Etti Abergel, cosmic sketches, 2022
    cosmic sketches, 2022
  • Etti Abergel, Barefoot dancer - רקדנית יחפה, 2022
    Barefoot dancer - רקדנית יחפה, 2022
  • Etti Abergel, Bell Basket - סל פעמונים, 2019
    Bell Basket - סל פעמונים, 2019
  • Etti Abergel, Bell Shoes - נעלי פעמונים, 2020
    Bell Shoes - נעלי פעמונים, 2020
  • Etti Abergel, Cosmic Healing Gloves II - II כפפות ריפוי קוסמי, 2022
    Cosmic Healing Gloves II - II כפפות ריפוי קוסמי, 2022
  • Etti Abergel, Healing Bracelets - צמידי ריפוי, 2022
    Healing Bracelets - צמידי ריפוי, 2022
  • Etti Abergel, Healing Shoes - נעלי ריפוי, 2022
    Healing Shoes - נעלי ריפוי, 2022
  • Etti Abergel, Landscape - נוף, 2019
    Landscape - נוף, 2019
  • Etti Abergel, Mountain - הר, 2019
    Mountain - הר, 2019
  • Etti Abergel, Seashell football - כדורגל צדפים, 2022
    Seashell football - כדורגל צדפים, 2022
  • Etti Abergel, The Gold String - חוט הזהב, 2019
    The Gold String - חוט הזהב, 2019
  • Etti Abergel, Transparent I - I שקוף, 2019
    Transparent I - I שקוף, 2019
  • Etti Abergel, Transparent II - ii שקוף , 2019
    Transparent II - ii שקוף , 2019
  • Etti Abergel, fragile cosmic love, 2020
    fragile cosmic love, 2020
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