Avi Albers Ben Chamo (1973) is a painter and composer. His work "Touch” is in the collection of the Villa Zeligman in Hanover and the Museum San Rocco in Italy. His last work "Kriah" was presented this December 2024 at the Wallraf Richartz Museum, Koln and he is presenting his work regulary at group exhibition in Atelier Kreuzberg in Berlin. "In his youth Avi use to help his father, a house painter, throughout his work.
Avi studied design at the WIZO Haifa Academy of Design in Israel, and music composition with composer and Bach researcher Professor Derek Remes in Berlin.
There is a door in my building I've passed every day, a beautiful old wooden door, but for years, I never stop for a moment to ask what lay behind this door. It was Art that grabbed my arm like a little child, to show me what I already know but don't see, the beauty in the most ordinary. as David Hockney said, "we just need to look".
Exhibitions
Presenting "Kriah" at Wallraf Richartz Museum Koln Torn canvas 105Cm x 75Cm (2024)
Solo Exhibition at San Rocco Museum for Contemporary Art Sicily, presenting Touch "8" Touch "8" will be part of San Rocco museum collection and is open for the public. Primed Canvas 90 Cm x 80 Cm x 30 Cm (2024)
Group exhibition Berlin, Der Große Herbstsalon - Form folgt Farbe work: "Golem touch" 30x100 Cm primer on canvas Cm and "I'm from everywhere and from nowhere" Acryl on canvas 40x30 Cm at kunst kreuzberg e.V Berlin (2024)
Solo Exhibition at Villa Seligmann presenting Touch "5". Touch "5" will be part of Villa Seligmann collection and is open for the public. Primed Canvas 90 Cm x 90 Cm 2024 Villa Seligmann, Hanover, Germany
Group exhibition Berlin, Kapitel 72: “Vereinfachung durch Selbstbetrug der eigenen Ansprüche” at Monday Art Saloon presenting "la beautiful Pallete " oil on glass 29x21Cm (2024)
Group exhibition Berlin, Kapitel 71: "Besessenheit trifft Poesie" at Monday Art Saloon presenting "Four lines of touch" bend canvas 30x30 Cm (2024)
Group exhibition Berlin, Kapitel 70: Kapitel 70: "Erkenntnis und Risiko” at Monday Art Saloon presenting "Touch 4" Albers on Albers 3 primed blank canvases 120X120 Cm (2024)
Group exhibition Berlin, Kapitel 69: “Wahrheit und Niederlage – die ewigen Laster des Lebens” at Monday Art Saloon presenting a commentary on a vandelized Touch" (Touch 3) and two chairs for a dialogue with the vandalism Black marker on canvas 120X120 Cm (2024)
Group exhibition Berlin, Kapitel 68: "Lass einfach deinen Charakter des Menschen Eigen sein!"at Monday Art Saloon presenting "Touch 3" primed blank canvas 120X120 Cm (2024)
Group exhibition Kapitel 67: "every artwork expresses your universe" presenting "Touch 2" at kunst kreuzberg e.V Berlin (2024)
"Touch 1" Sicily at San Rocco Museum of Contemporary art Trapani, with Sistanagila. Organized by MEMA - Mediterranean Music Association, the Istituto di Cultura Italo-Tedesco di Trapani (ICIT) and the Goethe-Institut Italia (2024);
Group exhibition "go with the flow - stop the flow" presenting "The door" at kunst kreuzberg e.V Berlin (2024);
ALZHEIMER Hanna group exhibition at kunst kreuzberg e.V Berlin; First prize at "Neuer Preis für zeitgenössische Malerei Teil 2" competition; (2024)
Group exhibition preasenting "Trust" at kunst kreuzberg e.V Berlin (2024);
WEAVING LISTENING HilbertRaum (Human Sound installation), Berlin (2023);
Kavanism - Solo exhibition (Architecture and symbolism) at Fundburo Design, Berlin (2023);
“Maroquinerie,” solo exhibition, (Hope and alienation in a foreign land) Gallery Stanton, Israel; (2022);
“The Kiosk People ,” Indie head Alexanderplatz, - Group exhibition, Berlin (2022);
Premarts gallery - Group exhibition, presenting "the Queen of Berlin" Berlin (2019);
"Holiday in the refineries of Haifa", towards zero pollution for air, water and soil, exhibition at Benenu, Haifa, Israel (2003);
This is not Naples, this is Haifa" (Bauhaus in decay) - exhibition sponsored by the Municipality of Haifa (2001);
Grants
Berliner Projektfond Kulturelle Bildung
Neustart Kultur
Culture Moves Europe
Draußenstadt
Writing
A mediterranean men in Berlin (blog) Stern Magazine 2014
Artist's residency
Palermo under the EU program and the Goethe-Instituts - Culture Moves Mai 2024
Sistanagila Iran - Israel culture bridge music project. (Contrabass and co composer)
Music
Though Sistanagila promotes itself as nonpolitical, it’s inevitable that merging Israeli and Iranian musicians performing together will carry political undertones. Sistanagila is comprised of three Iranians and two Israelis, to spread the message of peace, they travel across europe and preform in synagogues, churches and mosques.
The Jewish Choral Book Project German - Israeli culture project. (Co Composer)
Performance of original compositions
In 2013, Avi Albers Ben Chamo founded the Jazzy Berlin Community, an open platform to share ideas and to evoke discussion through Jazz. During different events and political shifts in the global world, Jazzy Berlin was and still up to today, a safe meeting point for cultural debate.