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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