Ronit Baranga bor og arbejder i Israel.
Som billedhugger og installationskunstner skaber hun figurativ kunst i spændingsfeltet mellem levende og stilleben. Baranga er optaget af følelsesmæssige tilstande og relationer.

I sine surrealistiske værker kombinerer hun hyperrealisme med myter og fantasier.
Hun tager almindelige genstande fra vores daglige liv og tilføjer fragmenter af den menneskelige krop til dem. Resultatet er en legende, uforudsigelig og surrealistisk blanding af samlede elementer, der legemliggør kompleksiteten af forskellige nutidige emner som identitet, kontrol, og forbrug, på en tvungen, foruroligende og alligevel attraktiv måde.

Med deres undersøgende tunger og omvandrende fingre er Barangas skulpturer umiddelbart genkendelige for deres drilske, legende udseende. Ved at give menneskelige træk til hverdagsgenstande, giver hun dem en identitet ud over deres oprindelige hensigt og forvandler dem til karakterer, der skaber deres egne morsomme fortællinger.

Hendes arbejde er blevet vist på museer og gallerier rundt om i verden og er en del af mange museums- og private samlinger.

Nøgleudstillinger omfatter Banksys gruppeudstilling "Dismaland" og adskillige solo- og gruppeudstillinger i New York, Istanbul, Taiwan, Kina, Tyskland, Tel-Aviv og Australien. Baranga har en B.A. i psykologi og litteratur fra Haifa University, studerede kunsthistorie på Tel-Aviv University og kunst i Beit Berl College ('HaMidrasha'), Israel.

UDDANNELSE

2000 – 2004 Practical Arts Studies, Bet-Berl College, The Art School ('HaMidrasha')
1999 – 2000 Art History, Tel-Aviv University
1994 – 1997 B.A. in Psychology and Hebrew Literature, Haifa University


UDVALGTE UDSTILLINGER

2024
Out in the Open, KIRK Gallery, Aalborg, Danmark

2023
Christmas Show, KIRK Gallery, Aalborg, Danmark
At the Edge of Realism, KIRK Gallery, Aalborg, Danmark
Art Herning, KIRK Gallery, Danmark

2022
Disrupted realism, KIRK Gallery, Aalborg, Danmark
Art Herning, KIRK Gallery, Danmark

2020
Dreambags and Jaguar Shoes, KIRK Gallery, Aalborg, Danmark
All Things Sweet and Painful, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne, Australien
Nude, Størpunkt Gallery, Munich, Tyskland
The Biennale of Art and Design 2020, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel-Aviv, Israel

2019
Microdose, a Small Works Exhibition, Last Rites Gallery, NYC, USA
Ritual: Curated by Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Haven Gallery, New York, USA
The Child Within Me: A Selection from the Ömer Koç Collection, Abdül Mecid Efendi Museum, Istanbul, Tyrkiet
Not All Doors Are the Same, Booth Gallery, NYC, USA
Shades of Black, Størpunkt Gallery, Munich, Tyskland
Fake News, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
Dark Art, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne, Australien
Small Works 2019 Group Exhibition, Beinart Gallery, Australien
And the Ship Still Sails, Artists’ House, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Half a Pound of Art #3, Størpunkt Gallery, Munich, Tyskland

2018
Tea Party, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne, Australien
Demons’ Playground, Booth Gallery, NYC, USA
Beauties and the Beast, Galerie Klose, Essen, Tyskland
Ephemeral: Curated by Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
Small Works 2018 Group Exhibition, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne, Australien
Half a Pound of Art, Størpunkt Gallery, Munich, Tyskland

2017
Embraced, Booth Gallery, NYC, USA
Mimosa Pudica, The Red House, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Shells of Wings, Ra’anana Municipal Gallery, Ra’anana, Israel
We Hereby Declare, 2016 Israeli Ministry of Culture Awards for Visual Art and Design, MoBY Museum, Israel
Small Works 2017 Group Exhibition, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne, Australien
BLIP 2017, Arts Biennale, Quebec, Canada
Hana Orloff: Feminist Sculpture in Israel, Mane-Katz Museum, Haifa, Israel
Gross Anatomies, Akron Museum of Art, Akron, Ohio, USA
Rock Paper Scissors, Arts Center, Haifa Art Museum, Israel

2016
Israeli Ministry of Culture Award for 2016
Ceramic Perspectives, Sant Pau Recinte Modernista, Barcelona, Spanien
Quest, Museum of Photography Tel-Hay, Israel
The 8th Biennale of Israeli Ceramics, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Taiwan Ceramics Biennale, Yingge Ceramics Museum, Yingge, Taiwan

2015
Quest, Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Dismaland, Banksy's Bemusement Park, Weston-super-Mare, UK
FRONTIER, 14th Biennial of Ceramics, Andenne, Belgien
International Ceramic Triennial UNICUM 2015, The National Museum of Slovenia, Ljubljana

2014
Body of Works, Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel
The Feast, Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel

2013
Taiwan Ceramics Biennale, Kaohsiung Fine Arts Museum, Southern Taiwan

2012
Juror’s Recommendation Prize of 2012 Taiwan Ceramics Biennale
KAMA. Sex and Design, Triennale Design Museum, Milan, Italien
Santorini Biennale of Arts, 2012, Santorini, Grækenland
Taiwan Ceramics Biennale, Yingge Ceramics Museum, Yingge, Taiwan

2011
Honorable Mention Award of 2011 China Kaolin Grand Prix
China Kaolin Grand Prix for International Ceramic Art, Great China Museum, Jingdezhen, Kina
The 6th Biennale of Israeli Ceramics, Ceramic Design: Techno.Logical Implementations, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel-Aviv, Israel

2010
The 5th Biennale of Israeli Jewelry, "Sequences; Identities", Eretz Israel Museum, Tel-Aviv, Israel

2008
Dining in 2015, Macef Milano, Italien

2007
Handled with Care, Designers Block, London, UK
Ceramics for Breakfast, Macef Milano, Italien