Avi Albers Ben Chamo
Touch the Moustache berlin

Comma 21x50 Cm 2025

Zwitschermaschine group exhibition 5.4.25








"Don’t touch” is what we often heard as children,

but as adults we take responsibility for it. Touch Is

To Enter Intimate, To Choose... or simply leave a

mark of your own passage!. 

Don Liborio Palemeri, San Rocco museum Director.










Touch

Touch "1"Primed Canvas 30x30 Cm 2024

San Rocco Museum of contemporary art Trapani, Sicily






"Avi Albers Ben Chamo is an artist who comes from Israel

and lives in Berlin with the vision that peaceful coexistence

between people is possible if you make an effort to see things

differently instead of following the mainstream".

Marion Weerning ICIT




Touch

Touch "2" Primed Canvas 70x70 Cm 2024 *available












Touch

Touch "3" Primed Canvas 120x120 Cm 2024 






Touch
Touch

Touch "4" Primed group of Canvases 120x120 Cm 2024  *available 





"Touch "1" was first introduced last year (24') in the San Rocco Museum

of contemporary art in Sicily. "Touch" is a representation of spirituality,

primal sensuality, and sensory experience that challenges traditional artistic

norms. By exhibiting touch as a blank canvas with no image, the observer

primal touch becomes the key element of the work, "Touch" creates a unique

sensory experience that resonates on a profound emotional level. "Touch is

not a painting nor a sculpture, It's a mirror to the inner soul".





Touch

Touch "5" Primed Canvas 90 Cm x 90 Cm 2024

Villa Seligmann collection, Hanover Germany 








Touch "8" white on Canvas 2024 

San Rocco Museum Collection 90 cm x 80 cm x 30 cm








Hands

2020-22





Kriah.





Kriah the #friendship

Hand torn canvas Primed 90x70 Cm 2024 *available

 Habt Ihr schon einmal von „Kriah“ gehört?







“Hanna Alzheimer”
first prize at Kunst Kreuzberg e.V



 


"Hamsa, Hamsa, Hamsa"


"Lately, even books scare me. Stefan Zweig's farewell memoirs The World of Yesterday stare at me again and again from the reading heap on the bedside table. "Hamsa, Hamsa, Hamsa," I raise my hand against all the evil that is in it, and yet I know that I am not supretious enough. But I don't dare to just put it away". 

"In April, a rediscovered novel from 1934 about the rise of the Nazis in Germany will be published. Sally Carson has "foreseen a dark and violent future for Europe" and created an "electrifying masterpiece", it is said. Lukas Rietzschel's novel Mit der Faust in die Welt schlagen about the right-wing radicalization of young people in East Germany in the early 2000s was published in 2018. Seven years later, the AfD is the second strongest party in Germany". Sophie Albers Ben Chamo 

"Every 70 years there will be a war" the father of my wife said, the world forgets, generation changes. "it’s never about faiths and always about vanity and self-righteousness" Jan Harlan, but some light can always shine between the cracks, as Sophie albers ben chamo write: "I take a look at Stefan Zweig firmly and think that art can at least extend the time between the disaster and the next disaster, So we need more of it!".

Alzheimer

Atelier Kreuzberg, Berlin (2024)

Broken glass on a recored player 



 

"TRUST"

 Kunst Kreuzberg gallery, Berlin



Broken Glass with a frame 2024

Broken Glass in a wooden frame 2024








 Kavanism

 

Fundbüro 2023, Berlin 

KVANISM THE SINGLE INTERRUPTED LINE/  2023 50x70 oil on canvas 

The single broken line a.1



"sooner or later the new ideas are going to get

a life of their own in the form of a counter line

with a life and desires of their own" 

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Maroquinerie 

Solo exhibition Gallery Stanton Israel (2022)

In the 1950s, my grandfather immigrated to Israel from Morocco with his wife and four children. He packed a limited number of items for the trip and did not forget to take his knife with him. This should be known, grandfather was a leather goods artisan in Morocco, Maroquinerie, a profession continuing the age-old culture of designing bags and leather goods. When they arrived in Israel, the knife he loved so much took on a completely different meaning.

In the 1960s, my grandmother, my grandfather, and their family moved to the lower city of Haifa. Grandpa worked in the port of Haifa as a painter, and one day, while painting a ship, Grandpa fell from the scaffolding and hurt his back. His two friends, who carried him home, begged him to inform the port authorities for support and compensation on their part, but Grandfather only asked that he be left with his family, so that they would take care of him.

I know this story from my childhood but in my imagination, grandfather never fell on his back, but grew wings just before the fall and landed on his two feet. This event, of course, had a profound effect on the family, who once again moved their residence, this time to Tel Aviv. Grandfather returned to his favorite knife and worked as a leather bag craftsman until his retirement, with the magnificent family he founded in Israel by his side.

At Maroquinerie I would like to investigate and ask universal questions about people who are cut off from their past and arrive in a foreign place - about the hope, the alienation, the fear, the cut off from the past, the ability to build a new life by killing your old shadows of identity.  

The exhibition took place in the Stanton neighborhood in Haifa Israel where my grandfather used to work and live. 

Maroquinerie - 


 

Maroquinerie Departure 50x40 Cm oil on canvas

Departure 2022 oil on canvas 50 x 40 cm



Maroquinerie Arrival 50x40 Cm Oil on Canvas

 Arrival 2022 oil on canvas 50 x 40 cm

Maroquinerie - The fall from Morocco 50x40 Oil on Canvas

 The fall from Morocco 2022 oil on canvas 50 x 40 cm



early works

 


Broken Glass with a frame 2024

 The Half Selfie (self portrait) 2022 oil on canvas 50 x 40 cm *Sold



Maroquinerie - The fall from Morocco 50x40 Oil on Canvas

 Good and Evil 2022 oil on canvas 100 x 70 cm *sold

Maroquinerie - The fall from Morocco 50x40 Oil on Canvas

 Happiness 2022 oil on canvas 100 x 70 cm *sold