Izabella Volovnik

Born in Jerusalem (IL),  1995

Lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel
Represented by Rosenfeld Gallery
 

Izabella Volovnik is a figurative artist focusing mainly on painting, drawing and sculpture. She holds a bachelor’s degree in art and education (B.Ed.F.A) from Hamidrasha School of Art at Beit Berl College. Among other prizes and awards, Izabella Volovnik is the recipient of the Ministry of Culture Award for Young Artist (2025) and she received the Lauren & Mitchell Presser Contemporary Art Grant, in support of her exhibition at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art “Three Scratch Marks and a Love Letter” (2024).  Volovnik’s work has been presented in many solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries in Israel and around the world. Her works are included in private collections and museum collections, including the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and Haifa Museum of Art.

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Volovnik’s oeuvre presents a labyrinthine world that extends between imaginary domestic spaces and local landscapes, in complex dialogue with images from art history and her own immediate environment. Her works engage with representations of femininity entwined with those of the animal kingdom in various cultures and languages; explore demonization and dehumanization as covert empowerment or alternative positions of power; and pose questions about hierarchy, power relations, sexuality, and violent desires—in society, culture, and the soul.

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Education

2014-2018  B.Ed.FA, Hamidrasha - Faculty of Fine Arts, Beit Berl College

2009-2013  Thelma-Yellin school of arts, Givatayim

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Solo Exhibitions

2024   Three Scratch Marks and a Love Letter, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya

2022   If I Had a Tail, Artists’ Cube Studios Gallery, Jerusalem

2020   Bitches, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv

2020   Bitchcraft, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa

2018   Lies and Washing Powder (with Zamir Shatz), Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv

2018   Long Fingers, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv

2016   Neo_Violent, Guest  Gallery in Hadassa Academic College, Jerusalem  

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Group Exhibitions
 

2025  - Miqsha, Gesso Gallery (4t.ress), Tel-Aviv

2025  - Things That Never Happened: The Return of Surrealism, Givon Art Forum, Tel Aviv
2025  - The Years of Our Lives, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel-Aviv 
2025  - “Desktop”, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa
2024  - “No Kidding”, Edmond de Rothschild Center, Tel Aviv
2024  - “Girls Just Wanna”, The New Teddy Gallery, Jerusalem
2024 - “Who’s Afraid of the Bad Wolf”, Artists’ House, Tel Aviv 
2024  - “On hold”, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
2023 - “Days beyond time”, D10 Art Space, Geneva, Switzerland
2023 - “Unpredictable Freedom”, Gallery 51, Modi’in
2023 - “Composed Humanity”, Beit Kandinof, Tel Aviv 
2022   To Be Continued - Seriality in Contemporary Art, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv

2022   Days Out of Time, Gymnasia Herzliya, Tel-Aviv
2021   Bread and Roses (13), Tel Aviv Artists’ Studios Gallery, Tel-Aviv

2021   Skein (New Acquisitions by the Rappaport Foundation), Tel Aviv Museum of Art 

2021   Project Roots, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
2021   Wild Pets, triple show with Noa Ironic and Elad Rosen, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv
2020   The Bathers, Library of Haifa's University, Haifa

2020   Ground Control, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv

2020   Here Are All the Flowers", Koresh14 Gallery, Jerusalem

2020   Epos - International Art Film Festival, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv 

2020   Memorandum of Understanding, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv

2019   Lighthouse x Hotel Utopia x Fresh Paint, Brown Hotel, Tel Aviv 

2019   Zoom 2019 -Young Israeli Artists, Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv

2018   Shop it!, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa
2018   Into the Light, Portfolio Magazine exhibition, Jaffa passages

2018   Hanky & Powder Puff, Nulobaz Cooperative Art Space, Tel Aviv

2017   Six Days Se7en Sins, Indie Gallery, Tel Aviv

2016   Tangents, Faculty of the Arts at the Pedagogical University of Krakow, Poland

2015   On the Verge, Youth Department, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem 
 

Private and Public Collections
 

Edmond de Rothschild Foundation, Tel Aviv, IL

Rappaport Collection of Israeli Art, Tel Aviv Museum, IL

Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, IL
Haifa Museum of Art, IL

Awards and Scholarships

2024  Ministry of Culture Prize for a Young Artist
2024  The Lauren and Mitchell Presser Award for Contemporary Art;
Grant for Solo show in in Herzliya Museum 
2021   Rappaport Acquisitions, Tel Aviv Museum of Art

2021   Corona Diaries, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art

2018   AICF- America-Israel Cultural Foundation

2018   Dean award of excellence, Hamidrasha School of Art

2017   Dean award of excellence, Hamidrasha School of Art

2015   Youth Department, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

2013   Thelma-Yellin School of Arts, Givatayim