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Michal Heiman (]: מיכל היימן‎, born in ]) is a Tel Aviv-Jaffa based artist, curator, theoretician and activist. She is the founder of the ''Photographer Unknown Archive'' (1984) and creator of the Michal Heiman Tests No. 1-4 (M.H.T).<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.haaretz.com/1.5084435|title=Archive of a 'Photographer Unknown'|date=2009-07-30|work=Haaretz|access-date=2019-11-07|language=en}}</ref> Her work bears on issues of history, human and women’s rights, trauma, and memory, as well as an examination of the photographic medium, using reenactment, installation, archival materials, photographs, film, and lecture-performances.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rawart-gallery.com/artists/michal-heiman/bio/|title=Michal Heiman {{!}} America-Israel Cultural Foundation|last=|first=|date=|website=|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref>
'''Michal Heiman''' (]: מיכל היימן, born in ]) is a Tel Aviv-Yafo based artist, curator, theoretician and activist. She is the founder of the ''Photographer Unknown Archive'' (1984) and creator of the Michal Heiman Tests No. 1-4 (M.H.T).<ref>{{Cite news |author=Ellie Armon-Azoulay |url=https://www.haaretz.com/1.5084435 |title=Archive of a 'Photographer Unknown' |date=2009-07-30 |work=Haaretz |access-date=2019-11-07 |language=en}}</ref> Her work bears on issues of history, human and women's rights, trauma, and memory, as well as an examination of the photographic medium, using reenactment, installation, archival materials, photographs, film, and lecture-performances.<ref name="RawArt bio">{{Cite web|url=http://www.rawart-gallery.com/artists/michal-heiman/bio/ |title=Michal Heiman |publisher=RawArt Gallery |access-date=2019-11-07}}</ref>


Heiman teaches at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and is a member of the Tel Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rawart-gallery.com/artists/michal-heiman/bio/|title=Michal Heiman {{!}} RawArt Gallery|website=www.rawart-gallery.com|language=en|access-date=2019-11-07}}</ref> Heiman teaches at the ] in Jerusalem and is a member of the Tel Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis.<ref name="RawArt bio" />


== Artistic career == == Artistic career ==
For over three decades, since graduating from Art Studies at ] in 1984, Heiman has been developing a discipline that inhabits a field between photography, psychoanalysis, human rights, theory, and praxis. Heiman’s work has been exhibited in leading venues around the world. ]For over three decades, since graduating from Art Studies at ] in 1984, Heiman has been developing a discipline that inhabits a field between ], ], ], ], and ]. Heiman's work has been exhibited in leading venues around the world.


In 1997, Heiman represented Israel at Documenta X in Kassel, Germany, debuting her first ''Michal Heiman Test'' box and procedure. In 2008, her solo exhibition ''Attacks on Linking'' debuted at the Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art. In 2017, Heiman exhibited her solo exhibition, ''AP – Artist Proof, Asylum (The Dress, 1855-2017)'', at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art - a large-scale installation and performance work that incorporated the participation and input of visitors, and which raised questions concerning the notion of the right to return. Among her notable works are a lecture/film on British psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion and video works based on case studies by psychoanalysts Sigmund Freud and D.W. Winnicott. In 1997, Heiman represented Israel at ] in ], Germany, debuting her first ''Michal Heiman Test'' box and procedure. In 2008, her solo exhibition ''Attacks on Linking'' debuted at the Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, ]. In 2017, Heiman exhibited her solo exhibition, ''AP – Artist Proof, Asylum (The Dress, 1855-2017)'', at the ] – a large-scale installation and performance work that incorporated the participation and input of visitors, and which raised questions concerning the notion of the right to return. Among her notable works are a lecture/film on British psychoanalyst ] and video works based on case studies by psychoanalysts ] and ].


Heiman has also exhibited in venues such as the University of Melbourne Museum of Art; Le Quartier Centre d'Art Contemporain, Quimper, France; the Jewish Museum, New York City; the Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan; the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, and the Changjiang Museum of Contemporary Art, China, and others. Heiman has also exhibited in venues such as the ]; Le Quartier Centre d'Art Contemporain, Quimper, France; the ], New York City; the Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan; the ], Eindhoven, the Netherlands, and the Changjiang Museum of Contemporary Art, China, and others.


Heiman brings her critical voice to bear on issues of history, while engaging with human rights and more specifically, women’s rights, exploring and questioning the ability of visual tools to penetrate traumatic experiences through different tactics and pre-enactments, as well as examine the photographic medium, its therapeutic potential, and its role in the struggle for social justice. Her enactment and installation works, archival materials, photography and film series, and her lectures/performances are deeply rooted in the political, familial, and social arenas. Heiman brings her critical voice to bear on issues of history, while engaging with human rights and more specifically, women's rights, exploring and questioning the ability of visual tools to penetrate traumatic experiences through different tactics and pre-enactments, as well as examine the photographic medium, its therapeutic potential, and its role in the struggle for social justice. Her enactment and installation works, archival materials, photography and film series, and her lectures/performances are deeply rooted in the political, familial, and social arenas.


From 2019-2020, Heiman will exhibit her work in the United States, focusing on her growing archive of narratives and histories of marginalized, pioneering, and revolutionary women, first with Radical Link: A New Community of Women, 1855-2020 in Washington, DC and then with Hearing in Los Angeles, California.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rawart-gallery.com/artists/michal-heiman/bio/|title=Michal Heiman {{!}} RawArt Gallery|website=www.rawart-gallery.com|language=en|access-date=2019-11-07}}</ref> From 2019 to 2020, Heiman exhibited work in the United States, focusing on her growing archive of narratives and histories of marginalized, pioneering, and revolutionary women, first with Radical Link: A New Community of Women, 1855–2020 in Washington, D.C., and then with Hearing in Los Angeles, California.<ref name="RawArt bio" />


== Activism == == Activism ==
Heiman has been active as a women’s right advocate for many years. In 2015, she founded the organization ''Women in Academia'' to protect and advance women's equality in Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, and in 2018, she founded the public-benefit corporation ''An Academy of Her Own'', which advocates for gender equality in various academic institutions.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rawart-gallery.com/artists/michal-heiman/bio/|title=Michal Heiman {{!}} RawArt Gallery|website=www.rawart-gallery.com|language=en|access-date=2019-11-07}}</ref> Heiman has been active as a women's right advocate for many years. In 2015, she founded the organization '' Women in Academia'' to protect and advance women's equality in Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, and in 2018, she founded the public-benefit corporation ''An Academy of Her Own'', which advocates for gender equality in various academic institutions.<ref name="RawArt bio" />


== Personal life == == Personal life ==
Heiman has two children, Leigh (26) and Emily (22). Heiman has two children, Leigh (26) and Emily (22).
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== Solo Exhibitions ==


2019 ''Radical Link: A New Community of Women'', 1855-2019, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington DC, USA, curated by Sarah Gordon

2017 ''Genetics of a Painting'', Basis Gallery, Herzliya, curated by Shlomit Breuer

2017 AP - Artist Proof 1885-2017, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, curated by Aya Lurie

2008 ''Attacks on Linking'', Helena Rubenstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, curated by Mordechai Omer

2005 ''I was There'', Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York

2003 ''Photo Rape'', The Artists’ House, Tel Aviv, curated by Galia Yahav

1995 ''Michal Heiman Test: First Diagnosis'', Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv

1994 ''Michal Heiman Test (M.H.T)'': Endopsychic Press, Ian Potter Gallery, The University of Melbourne Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia, curated by Merryn Gates

1991 ''Sorting: Undersigned'', Bograshov Gallery, Tel Aviv

1990 ''Paintings'', Bograshov Gallery, Tel Aviv

1990 ''Sorting'', Bograshov Gallery, Tel Aviv, curated by: Ariella Azoulay (Catalog)

1986 ''Paintings'', Meimad Gallery for Visual Art, Tel Aviv
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== Filmography ==


Profile of A Woman Artist - Rachel Shavit Bentwich, 2015, video, color, sound, 50 min

Looking for Sarah, 2012, video, color, sound, 15 min

Reality and Playing No. 2, 2009, video, color, sound, 31 min

Reality and Playing, 2009, video, color, sound, 35 min

Through the Visual: A Tale of Art that Attacks Linking, 1917-2008, lecture, video, color, sound, 100 min

Con-ver-sation, 2008, video, color, sound, 2:40 min

Sleeping, Test No. 1, 2008, video, color, 5:45 min

Father not Uncle (Freud / Katharina), 2008, video, color, sound, 26 min

Daughtertype No. 2: Holding, or Savior-Attacker, 2007-08, video, color, sound, 9 min

Me and Freud (1925), 2006, 2 min

Attacks on Linking No. 1: The Rope, Screen Memory, L Link, 2006, video, color, sound, 3:50 min

Daughtertype No. 1: Michal is Crying, 2006, video, color, sound, 9:40 min

Attacks on Linking No. 4: Yom Kippur at High Noon, K Link (PTSD), 2006, video, black & white, sound, 7:30 min / Camera: Michal Heiman; Editing: Eitan Buganim

Attacks on Living No. 2: The Double, Case Study, B+B Link, 2003-06, video, color, sound, 7:10 min / Camera: Michal Heiman; Editing: Eitan Buganim

Attacks on Living No. 3: Proof Only, A Link, 2001-06, video, color, sound, 4:40 mi

Thirdly: Animation No. 1 (Photographer Unknown / Eti and Tammuz), 2008, photo-activation, 1:20 min. Loop

Thirdly: Animation No. 2 (Photographer Unknown / Rachel and Michal), 2008, photo-activation, 2:04 min. Loop

Thirdly: Animation No. 4 (Photographer Unknown / Michal and Subjects Unknown), 2008, photo-activation, 1:30 min. Loop
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== Selected curatorial work ==


2015 Waiting - one year at Holot Detention Center, Israel, Noureldin Musa, Parasite Gallery, Tel Aviv

2006 Presence of Unknowing (or: What do you Know?), co-curated with EitanBuganim

2005 Why Don't You Say It?, experimental film project, The New Israeli Foundation for Cinema & TV, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya

1995 Neither Here nor There, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv

1994 Michael Shaphir, solo show, part of Nidbach series, The Artists' House, Jerusalem

1992 Uri Stettner, solo show, Bograshov Gallery, Tel Aviv

1991-1993 Curator of the Camera Obscura Gallery, Tel Aviv
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== Collections ==
Her photographs are in the permanent collections of several international institutes, such as the Jewish Museum, New York; Museum Ludwig, Köln; the Ian Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne, Melbourne; the Jewish Museum of Australia, Melbourne, and the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; As well as leading museums in Israel, such as the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv; Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod; also in the collections of the Israeli Ministry of Culture, ORS Collection, Bank Hapoalim collection, Brandes Family collection, Come il faut collection, FIBI Bank collection, Igal Ahouvi Art collection and private collections.

== Grants and Awards ==
In 2011, Heiman was the first winner of the Shpilman Prize for Excellence in Photography, an annual prize awarded by the ] in Jerusalem and ]. Heiman was awarded the Minister of Education and Culture for Artists in the Field of Visual Art several times between the years 1996-2015, and the Enrique Kavlin Photography Prize by the Israel Museum in 2004.
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==References== ==References==
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== External links == == External links ==
* {{Official website|https://www.heimanmichal.com/}}
* , RawArt Gallery

* Roi Boshi, , Fotograf 13, no. 24, Prague
* Dr. Michal Ben Naftali,

* Omri Herzog,
* Danielle Knafo, , ''Israel Journal of Psychoanalysis'', 1 (4), pp.&nbsp;533–555

* Dr. Ariella Azoulay, , Le Qartier, Center of Contemporary Art, Quimper
* Prof. Elisa Carandina, Archivio di studi ebraici, Napoli, 2021.




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Michal Heiman (Hebrew: מיכל היימן, born in Tel Aviv) is a Tel Aviv-Yafo based artist, curator, theoretician and activist. She is the founder of the Photographer Unknown Archive (1984) and creator of the Michal Heiman Tests No. 1-4 (M.H.T). Her work bears on issues of history, human and women's rights, trauma, and memory, as well as an examination of the photographic medium, using reenactment, installation, archival materials, photographs, film, and lecture-performances.

Heiman teaches at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and is a member of the Tel Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis.

Artistic career

Michal Heiman, Nouraldin Musa (b. Bendisea, W, Darfur, Sudan, 1976), asylum seeker, photographer and actor in Legislative Theatre Group Holot, lives in Canada. Asylum (The Dress) 1855-2017, 2015, digitally printed photograph, 80X60 cm

For over three decades, since graduating from Art Studies at Hamidrash School of Art in 1984, Heiman has been developing a discipline that inhabits a field between photography, psychoanalysis, human rights, theory, and praxis. Heiman's work has been exhibited in leading venues around the world.

In 1997, Heiman represented Israel at Documenta X in Kassel, Germany, debuting her first Michal Heiman Test box and procedure. In 2008, her solo exhibition Attacks on Linking debuted at the Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art. In 2017, Heiman exhibited her solo exhibition, AP – Artist Proof, Asylum (The Dress, 1855-2017), at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art – a large-scale installation and performance work that incorporated the participation and input of visitors, and which raised questions concerning the notion of the right to return. Among her notable works are a lecture/film on British psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion and video works based on case studies by psychoanalysts Sigmund Freud and D. W. Winnicott.

Heiman has also exhibited in venues such as the University of Melbourne Museum of Art; Le Quartier Centre d'Art Contemporain, Quimper, France; the Jewish Museum, New York City; the Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan; the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, and the Changjiang Museum of Contemporary Art, China, and others.

Heiman brings her critical voice to bear on issues of history, while engaging with human rights and more specifically, women's rights, exploring and questioning the ability of visual tools to penetrate traumatic experiences through different tactics and pre-enactments, as well as examine the photographic medium, its therapeutic potential, and its role in the struggle for social justice. Her enactment and installation works, archival materials, photography and film series, and her lectures/performances are deeply rooted in the political, familial, and social arenas.

From 2019 to 2020, Heiman exhibited work in the United States, focusing on her growing archive of narratives and histories of marginalized, pioneering, and revolutionary women, first with Radical Link: A New Community of Women, 1855–2020 in Washington, D.C., and then with Hearing in Los Angeles, California.

Activism

Heiman has been active as a women's right advocate for many years. In 2015, she founded the organization Women in Academia to protect and advance women's equality in Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, and in 2018, she founded the public-benefit corporation An Academy of Her Own, which advocates for gender equality in various academic institutions.

Personal life

Heiman has two children, Leigh (26) and Emily (22).

References

  1. Ellie Armon-Azoulay (2009-07-30). "Archive of a 'Photographer Unknown'". Haaretz. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
  2. ^ "Michal Heiman". RawArt Gallery. Retrieved 2019-11-07.

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