Artist
ABOUT
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I am Valeria Ganzman, an artist living and working in Haifa, a graduate of the Photography and Art Department at WIZO Haifa (2016). My work moves between figurative and botanical painting, focusing on floral imagery alongside an indirect and ongoing engagement with the female body.
My engagement with the female body began during my studies, through self-photography and the documentation of my grandmother, who was a central source of inspiration in my work. In 2017, I was diagnosed with breast cancer, and my relationship with my body changed completely. It became a space of vulnerability, illness, and mortality, and engaging with it directly became more complex. This period raised deep questions about femininity, especially in the face of hair loss and the fear of losing my breast. From this place, I turned to painting flowers, which became a more delicate language through which I explore themes of femininity, the body, life, and death.
For me, painting is a space of healing and inner dialogue - a place where I can approach what hurts without fear.
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EDUCATION
2013-2016 - B.ED.F.A, WIZO Academy of Design and Education, Department of photography and new media, Haifa, Israel.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 - ESCAPE, VR Exhibition, 4ARTechnologies Gallery with Snob TLV (curated by Ela Cohan and Maria Prokofieva).
2022 - ESCAPE, Escapism: a new reality, Creators Gallery, by Eclectic TLV, Old Jaffa, Jaffa, Israel (curated by Ela Cohan and Liza Kozharinova).
2021 - Collective Art Show, VAN GOGH Art Gallery, Madrid.
2021 - International Contemporary Art Fair Luxembourg, LUXEXPO - THE BOX, Luxembourg (represented by Van Gogh Art Gallery).
2021 - NOSTALGIA, The Holy Art, London based gallery (virtual exhibition).
2021 - GENESIS, The Holy Art, London based gallery (virtual exhibition).
2016 - Graduate exhibition, WIZO Academy of Design and Education, Haifa, Israel. (curated by Simcha Shirman, Ruven Kuperman and Amit Zoller).
2013 - Light, Space and Time, WIZO Academy of Design and Education, Haifa, Israel. (curated by Kobi Goffer).
PUBLICATIONS
2023 - The Maker’s Story, A great bunch: 6 creatives capturing florals in art, Written by Cassie Birrer.
2022 - NOT REAL ART, 'I'm Taking Its Power Away': Valeria Ganzman Copes With Cancer Through a Series of Self- Portraits, written by Jenna Eberhardt.
2022 - THE FLORISTRY Journal, collaboration, Valeria Ganzman x The Floristry, Hong Kong.
2021 - VAST Magazine, Interviews, Interview: Valeria Ganzman's Self Portrait, November 11.
2021 - VAST Magazine, Artist Profiles, Valeria Ganzman: Future Body, September 23.
2021 - VAST Magazine, Issue n°03, Artists to Watch, Featuring Work & Practices From Around the World, P. 138-139.
2021 - Arte Realizzata Magazine, “A Moving Conversation with Valeria Ganzman”, Written By Uzomah Ugwu.
2021 - Curated by GIRLS, Valeria Ganzman by Laetitia Duveau In Art.
2021 - The holy art gallery, The holy art tales, Artist in conversation: Valeria Ganzman (interview), Written By theholyart.
2020 - “Women and old age”, a book by Dr. Tal Dekel, The Open University of Israel Press.
2018 - “Portrait: Photography”, a book by Black Box Gallery.
2016 - Mako, Living Magazine, by Yael Hasid.
2016 - Haaretz Magazine.