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Daphna Westerman is an interdisciplinary artist and performer based in Berlin.

Education

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From 2022 

PhD candidate, Visual Cultures Department, Goldsmiths University of London

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2014-2016 

MFA, Public Art and New Artistic Strategies, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

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2006 

Photography studies, School of Visual Arts, New York

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2004-2008 

BFA, Bezalel Academy for Art and Design, Jerusalem

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2003 

Film Studies at HaMidrasha school of Art, Beit-Berl

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Selected Exhibitions, Performances, Talks and Workshops

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2023 

> Conference, "Postmigrant Reconfigurations: New Approaches to Contemporary German-language Jewish Cultural Production", Institute of Languages, Cultures, and Societies, School of Advanced Study, University of London

Paper Title: The Archive of The Self-Exilers | Jewish Women Artists in Resistance          

2022 
> Home, Group Exhibition, Blue Goat Gallery, Berlin

Artist Talk, Jewish Activism Summer School [JASS], Berlin

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2019-2022 

> Member of Reflektor-Neukölln Kunstkollektive

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2020 

> Die Geschichte einer Frau [aus dem Archiv], Sound Installation, Group            Exhibition, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz,Berlin

> Das Mahl der Verdrängten, Performance with Reflektor-Neukölln Kollektiv, Elfter Gängeviertel-Geburtstag, Hamburg

> Das Zimmer: Vier Wände, ein Fenster und Ich, Performance with Reflektor-Neukölln Kollektiv, Herrfurthplatz\Tempelhofer Feld, Berlin

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2019 

> Just a Simple Algorithm, Performance, "Verbindung", Group Exhibition, Reflektor-Neukölln Gallery, Berlin

> Das Mahl der Verdrängten, Performance with Reflektor-Neukölln Kollektiv, Rathaus Charlottenburg Berlin

 

2018 

> "Art Matters, Reclaim the Discourse", Workshop Series, Robert Bosch Cultural Managers Network, Berlin

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2017 

> "Art Matters, Contemporary Arts Practices in Post-Migrant Societies", Workshop Series, Robert Bosch Cultural Managers Network, Berlin

> "IMPACT17 – Don’t Follow the Wind", Transdisciplinary Symposium, PACT Zollverein, Essen

> Land|Sea, In collaboration with Vanessa Brazeau, Participatory Project, Giennale, Giessen    

> "Month of Research - Exploring Collaborative Investigation", Uferstudios, Berlin

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2016 

> From A to B: Learning the Art of Balancing, Performance, "Art Spin", Berlin

> Public Reading of the Daily Newspaper, Participatory project, Weimar

> Just a Simple Algorithm, Performance, "You say Art I Say What", Group Exhibition, ProjektZentrum Berlin der Stiftung Mercator, Berlin

> Sub-Space, International Photography Festival, Group Exhibition, Jaffa

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2015 

> Don’t Tell Yourself not to Tell Yourself not to Panic and Follow Me, Performance, 2nd Berliner Herbstsalon, Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin

> Just a Simple Algorithm, Performance, "There is an exhibition in prison. It is called crack", Group Exhibition, Ehemalige Justizvollzugsanstalt, Weimar

> Über Pässe, Performance, Weimar

> Work, Group Exhibition, Other Music Academy, Weimar

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2014 

> Art Vending Machine, Jewish Museum Berlin, Berlin

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2012 

Reference, Group Exhibition, Binyamin Gallery, Tel Aviv

> Passengers list, Group Exhibition, Hanina Art Gallery, Tel Aviv

> Beyond Illusion, Group Exhibition, Space for Art Gallery, Jaffa

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2011 

> Requiem- Incomplete Chapters, Solo Exhibition, the New Artists Gallery, Kiryat Tivon

> Constructions, Group Exhibition, Indie Gallery, Tel Aviv

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2010 

> Qui Vive?, 2nd Moscow International Biennial for Young Art, Moscow

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Grants and Scholarships

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2016 

> Frauenförderfonds, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

> Kreativfonds, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

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2015-2016 

> DAAD Stipendium

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