Relli De Vries

Artist and Landscape Architect
Tel Aviv, Israel

Education
2002–2007 B.L.A., Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

1977–1981 Art and Stage Design for Theatre, Tel Aviv University, Israel

1976–1980 Painting studies with artist Raffi Lavie, Tel Aviv, Israel

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024 The Concert in the Quarry and Plains of Unconformity, Ein Harod Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel

2021 Pollen, Tel Aviv University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2018 Anticline, Umm el-Fahem Art Gallery, Umm el-Fahem, Israel

2017 Simple Experiments in Physics, Ha-Lobby Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2013 The Bent Plain Project, Part 1, The Passage Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2011 Orientatzia 2, Ein Harod Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel

2010 Also Compasses Turn About, I Am Telling You, The Artists’ House, Tel Aviv, Israel

2010 Relocating the Coastal Road, The Architects’ House, Jaffa, Israel

2009 The Akkub and the Society of Bad Weeds, Zochrot Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

1998 Physical, Economic, Political, Ein Harod Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel

1997 Cross-Section, Hakibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

1994 Reconstruction in Three Parts – Architectural Installation, The Janco-Dada Museum, Ein Hod, Israel

1993 Conglomerates, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 To Believe, curated by Rinat Edelstein, Manofim Festival, Dormition Abbey, Jerusalem

2023 In This Land, In This Soil, Artport Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2023 Who by Fire, Haus am Lützowplatz (HaL), Berlin, Germany

2020 Thinking Plants, Tel Aviv University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2019 Man Rock, MoBY: Museums of Bat Yam, Israel

2019 Flowers of Our Land, The Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel

2018 Mountain Shadow, Beit HaGefen Gallery, Haifa, Israel

2016 An Anecdoted Archive of Exhibition Lives, Bergen Assembly, Bergen, Norway

2015 Agro-Art: Contemporary Agriculture in Israeli Art, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Israel

2015 Site, Hanina Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2014 Technical Unconscious, as part of the residency at the M.A. Program in Art and Design for the Public Space, University of Porto, Portugal

2014 War Rug, The Artists’ House, Tel Aviv, Israel

2011 Time Line r.l., Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl College, Israel

2011 Tools’ Testing #8, Multidisciplinary Art Festival, The Municipal Youth House, Tel Aviv, Israel

2010 White Cube, Black Cube, The Center for Contemporary Art (CCA), Tel Aviv, Israel

2010 Aloevera Upside Down – Monitoring Station, part of Loving Art Festival, Loveat Café, Tel Aviv, Israel

2009 ARTLV – The Tel Aviv Biennale of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

2007 Present Now: Art of the Country 5, The Reading A Electricity Plant, Tel Aviv, Israel

2006 Landscapes from the Margins, Graduate Exhibition, Department of Landscape Architecture, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, The Architects’ House, Jaffa, Israel

2006 Postcards from Gaza / Postcard to Gaza, Zochrot Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2005 Separation, The Architects’ House, Jaffa, Israel

1990 Outdoor Sculpture Competition, Mitzpe Ramon, Israel

1989 Outdoor Sculpture Competition, Tel-Hai, Israel

Publications
De Vries, R. (2011). “Water as an Existential State.” In Güven Incirlioğlu and Hakan Topal (Eds.), The Sea-Image: Visual Manifestations of Port Cities and Global Waters. New York: Newgray, pp. 165–177.

De Vries, R. (2007). “Separations and Departures in Jisr Az-Zarka.” In Haim Yakobi and Shelly Cohen (Eds.), Separation: The Politics of Space in Israel. Tel Aviv: Xargol, pp. 54–57. (Hebrew)

De Vries, R. (2005). “Movement in Potential Space: Travelogue, Photography, Text.” In Henriette Dahan-Kalev, Niza Yanay, and Niza Berkovitch (Eds.), Women of the South: Space, Periphery, Gender. Tel Aviv: Xargol, pp. 163–187. (Hebrew)

Catalogues
De Vries, R. (2010). Also Compasses Turn About, I Am Telling You. Exhibition Catalogue. Tel Aviv: The Artists’ House. (Hebrew)

De Vries, R. (2010). “Planting Design.” In White Cube, Black Cube. Tel Aviv: The Center for Contemporary Art. (Hebrew)

De Vries, R. (2008). “The Little Policewoman at the Border Square of Jaffa–Bat Yam.” In Sigal Barnir and Yael Moria-Klain (Eds.), Hosting 2008 – Bat Yam International Biennale of Urban Landscape Architecture. Bat Yam: Bat Yam Municipality, pp. 190–191. (Hebrew)

De Vries, R. & Yeger-Shalit, R. (2008). “Moving Spaces.” In Sigal Barnir and Yael Moria-Klain (Eds.), Hosting 2008 – Bat Yam International Biennale of Urban Landscape Architecture. Bat Yam: Bat Yam Municipality, pp. 192–197. (Hebrew)