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| Maya Chorengel | |
|---|---|
| Name | Maya Chorengel |
| Birth date | 1981 |
| Birth place | Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Occupation | Visual artist, filmmaker, educator |
| Years active | 2003–present |
| Nationality | Israeli |
Maya Chorengel is an Israeli-born visual artist and filmmaker whose multidisciplinary practice spans painting, video, installation, and performance. Chorengel's work often engages with themes of identity, memory, and displacement, integrating archival materials, found footage, and site-specific research. She has exhibited internationally across Europe, North America, and the Middle East and has collaborated with institutions, festivals, and cultural organizations.
Chorengel was born in Tel Aviv and raised amid the cultural milieus of Tel Aviv-Yafo, Jerusalem, and the Negev. She attended the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design for undergraduate studies and later completed a postgraduate program at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Chorengel pursued film studies at the National Film and Television School and participated in residency programs at the International Studio & Curatorial Program, the Cité internationale des arts, and the Frankfurt Künstlerhaus. Early mentors and peers included faculty from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, visiting artists from Haifa Museum of Art, and curators associated with Tel Aviv Museum of Art and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
Chorengel's career began with experimental short films screened at festivals such as the Rotterdam International Film Festival, the Venice Biennale Cinema, and Sundance Film Festival. She transitioned into gallery and museum exhibitions, showing work at venues including the Tate Modern, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Chorengel has collaborated with performing arts institutions such as the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Royal Opera House, and the Batsheva Dance Company for multimedia stage projects. She has held teaching posts at the Goldsmiths, University of London, School of Visual Arts, and guest-lectured at the University of Oxford and Columbia University. Chorengel's practice also encompasses curatorial projects with organizations like the Jerusalem Film Festival and the Berlin Biennale.
Chorengel's aesthetic synthesizes approaches from Surrealism, Fluxus, and Conceptual art, while drawing on documentary traditions from filmmakers associated with the British Documentary Movement and the Iranian New Wave. Her visual language references painters such as Pablo Picasso, Francis Bacon, and Wassily Kandinsky, and filmmakers including Chris Marker, Agnès Varda, and Andrei Tarkovsky. She cites influences from poets and writers like T. S. Eliot, Hannah Arendt, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn for their explorations of memory and exile. Chorengel frequently integrates archival ephemera from institutions such as the Israel State Archives, the Imperial War Museums, and the Bodleian Libraries into layered installations that interrogate narratives of migration and rupture.
Key works include the video-installation "Transit Index," which juxtaposes found footage from the Suez Crisis era with contemporary urban documentation; the multipart painting series "Borderlines" exhibited alongside archival photographs from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency; and the feature-length film "Night Atlas," premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and screened at BFI London Film Festival. Chorengel authored essays and artist texts published by Artforum, Frieze, and October (journal), and contributed chapters to monographs from Phaidon Press and Tate Publishing. She produced a catalog essay for retrospectives at the Hammer Museum and an artist book released by Sternberg Press.
Solo exhibitions include shows at Kunsthalle Basel, Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, and Kunstverein München. Group exhibitions featured Chorengel's work in thematic surveys at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and the National Gallery of Canada. Performance commissions were presented at the Edinburgh International Festival, the Lincoln Center Festival, and the Aga Khan Museum. Chorengel participated in biennials including the Venice Biennale, the Gwangju Biennale, and the Istanbul Biennial, and featured in film programs at the AFI Fest and Locarno Film Festival. Her installations have been acquired by collections such as the Centre Pompidou, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Chorengel has received awards and fellowships from institutions including the Graham Foundation, the Fondation Cartier, and the Pratt Foundation. Honors include a residency grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, a film prize from the Jerusalem Film Festival, and an artist award from the European Cultural Foundation. She was shortlisted for the Hugo Boss Prize and nominated for the Guggenheim Fellowship for her contributions to visual culture and cinematic art.
Chorengel lives between Berlin and Tel Aviv-Yafo and maintains studios in both cities. She serves on advisory boards for arts organizations such as the International Film Festival Rotterdam and the Asia Society Museum. Her work is discussed in academic courses at institutions like NYU, UCL, and the Royal College of Art, influencing a generation of artists working at the intersection of moving image and installation. Chorengel's legacy is framed by her interrogations of displacement and archival memory, contributing to contemporary debates in museum practice and film studies.
Category:Israeli artists Category:Living people