1965 Born in Rehovot, Israel; lives in Stuttgart
1990 – 96 Studied Fine Arts (Sculpture) at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart under Prof. Micha Ullman
1996 – 98 Postgraduate studies in Fine Arts (Sculpture)
1998 Employee of the Labyrinth Art School in Ludwigsburg
prizes and scholarships
1991 Scholarship from the Ministry of Science and Art, Baden-Württemberg
1993 Academy Prize “Ateliergemeinschaft Feuerbach”
1996 to 1998 Postgraduate studies in Fine Arts (Sculpture) at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart with Prof. Micha Ullman
1997 Scholarship abroad Prague
2000 Debutant exhibition at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart (catalog)
2016 Studio grant from the City of Stuttgart
2020 Studio grant from the City of Stuttgart
collections
Graphische Sammlung Staatsgalerie Stuttgart Land Baden-Württemberg
Sammlung Kemna Hamburg
Spendhaus Reutlingen
Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern
Sammlung Regierungspräsidium Tübingen
Fondation Carré d’art Vinelz Switzerland
Morat-Institut für Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft Freiburg im Breisgau.
Fondation Carré d’art Vinelz, Switzerland,
Städtische Kunstsammlung, Galerie Albstadt
Stadtmuseum im Spital, Crailsheim
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
Sammlung Grande-Lamey, Engen
individual exhibitions
2021 Gallery Dirk Balke at ART-ECK Solingen Germany
2021 “homo animalis” Municipal Museum Engen Germany
2021 Gallery of the city of Plochingen Germany
2020 Abi Shek, “Creatures and Signs” Art Station Kleinsassen Germany
2020 Abi Shek Gallery Artlantis Müller Stuttgart Germany
2019 Böblinger Kunstverein Abi Shek “Shadows and Signs”, Böblingen
2019 Abi Shek “Traces and companions” Museum Pachen, Rockenhausen
2019 Abi Shek “Who by fire”, Gallery Vayhinger, Singen Germany
2018 Abi Shek “Traces and companions”, Städtische Galerie Ehingen
2018 “Fährte” art space Gewerbepark-Süd Hilden
2017 Abi Shek, “Animal pictures”, Gallery of the Wetzlarer Kunstverein Wetzlar
2017 Abi Shek “Woodcuts” Hans-Thoma-Kunstmuseum, Bernau Black Forest
2017 “Bestiary” Donzdorf Municipal Gallery, Donzdorf Castle
2017 Kunstverein Radolfzell with Martina Geist Villa Bosch, Radolfzell
2016 “Abi Shek” Gallery Hoch+Partner, Leipzig
2016 Abi Shek “Woodcuts and Drawings”, Kunstverein Würzburg
2016 Galerie D’Hamé, Mülheim
2016 Richard-Haizmann-Museum für Moderne Kunst Niebüll
2015 Abi Shek “WHO BY FIRE” Alte Post Neuss / Städtische Galerie, Neuss
2015 Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf (K)
2015 Morat-Institut für Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft, Freiburg i.Br.
2015 Kunstverein Bayreuth
2014 “Konstruktion und Poesie” (with Reinhard Scherer), galerie anja rumig, Stuttgart
2014 “Abi Shek”, galerie, THE BOX DÜSSELDORF, Düsseldorf
2014 Kunstverein Neckar-Odenwald e. V., im Vis-á-Vis, Buchen,
2014 Neuer Kunstverein Regensburg e.V.
2014 “ARCHETYPES woodcuts and drawings” Gallery Offizin S., Merano, Italy
2013 “Shadow” (with Jonathan Ofek) The Yigal Alon Center Art Gallery, Israel,
2013 Municipal Gallery in the Fruchtkasten of the Ochsenhausen Monastery (with Josef Lang)
2013 “ABI SHEK woodcut drawings” Kunst im Alten Spritzenhaus e.V. Bahlingen, Kunstverein Bahlingen
2012 “Maphris-Parsa” Jonathan Ofek and Abi Shek, City Gallery, Givatayim, Israel (K)
2012 “Woodcut Drawing Sculpture” City Museum in Crailsheim Hospital(K)
2012 Siegburg City Museum (K)
2011 “Woodcut Drawing Sculpture” Municipal Gallery Albstadt
2011 “Woodcuts + Drawings” Kunstverein Worms (K)
2011 “Drawings/ sculptures/ woodcuts” with (Guido Kucznierz), Künstlerkreis Ortenau, Galerie im Artforum, Offenburg
2010 “ABI SHEK TOWERS ” Artists’ House, Tel Aviv Israel
2010 “Woodcut and ink” holzhauer hamburg, Hamburg
2009 ABI SHEK “ZEICHEN” Wartbergkirche Heilbronn
2009 “Poetische Transkriptionen” (with Rainer Nepita) gallery anja rumig sttutgart
2008 Abi Shek “Objects” Kunstverein Nürtingen
2008 Abi Shek woodcuts and sculptures made of sheet metal Galerie Thron Reutlingen
2008 TEGNERFORBUNDET Oslo Norway
2007 “instinct icons” Abi shek New woodcuts and wall objects holzhauer hamburg, Hamburg
2007 Like David & Jacob Father & Son Juke Moshe & Abi Shek Holon Art Residence Israel
2006 “3 Places of Drawing” Gallery of the City of Waiblingen “Kameralamt” (with Kristof Georgen and Ashok Kapur) (K)
2006 “3 Places of Drawing” Heidelberger Kunstverein (with Kristof Georgen and Ashok Kapur) (K)
2006 “TO TOUCH THE ESSENCE” Wilfrid Israel Museum Israel (with jonathan ofek)
2005 Small Gallery Bad Waldsee (with Ashok Kapur)
2005 Galerie im Kloster Kunstverein Oberer Neckar e. V. (with A. Kapur)
2004 Abi Shek drawings REIHE 22 Künstlertreff Stuttgart
2004 Woodcut & Sculpture, ATRIUM Gallery Eva-Maria Hill Stuttgart
2004 “Schattenspiele”, Gallery Kinter Abi Shek & Ashok Kapur Remshalden Geradstetten
2004 “Woodcuts + Sculptures by Abi Shek”, Galerie Holzhauer Hamburg
2003 Kränzl Gallery (with Peter Lang)
2002 Kunstverein Feuerbach
2001 Galerie im Kornhauskeller Pro Arte Ulmer Kunststiftung Ashdod Museum Israel
2000 Art Gallery Tova Osman, Tel Aviv Israel
2000 Debutant exhibition at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart (K)
1997 “Sculptures”, Gallery Kinter, (with France)
1996 Gallery “Altes Rathaus”, Musberg, (with Ashok Kapur)
1989 “Works by Abi Shek”, Jerusalem
group exhibitions
2021 Galerie Artlantis Kunstverein Bad Homburg
2021 ARTHUS Galerie ZELL
2020 “HOCHDRUCK” ratskeller-Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst Bezirksamt Lichtenberg Berlin
2020 “All good things come in fives” Jacobihaus Künstlerverein Malkasten Düsseldorf
2019 Dialogue with Yinchuan Yinchuan International Printmaking Center
2019 China National Academy of fine Arts
2018 “Grafikausstellung”, Kunstverein Rastatt, (with E. Freudenreich, T. Heyl)
2017 “TurmBau – Turmmodelle in der zeitgenössischen Skulptur” Rottweil
2015 “getuscht & geschnitten”, Städtische Galerie In der Badstube, Wangen im Allgäu
2014 “Macht.Wahn.Vision. Rapunzel & Co. Of Towers and People in Art”, Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck
2013 “Macht.Wahn.Vision. Der Turm Und Urbane Giganten In Der Skulptur” Städtische Museen Heilbronn
2013 “Dialog -Trialog # 2 Der Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg” at Museum Biedermann, Donaueschingen
2012 Deutsch-Israelische Kulturtage, “connected / verbunden”, Kröpelin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
2012 “Mensch. Animal. Landscape.” Josef Lang, Abi Shek, Peter Lang, Kallmann Museum, Ismaning Munich
2011 “4 sculptors – 4 materials”, gallery pro arte, Freiburg
2011 “STUTTGART 21” – 21 artists from Stuttgart, Galerie Tobias Schrade, Ulm
2010 “druckFest” Xylon, new works by members and guests, Städtische Galerie Reutlingen
2009 “5 years gallery – best of five”, gallery thron reutlingen
2008 “Man Animal Landscape”, Kunstverein Schwetzingen
2007 “connected.”, Altes Museum / BIS Center Mönchengladbach
2007 “animals Tiere im zeitgenössischen Holzschnitt”, Spendhaus Reutlingen
2006 “Drawings”, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart
2005 Prof. Micha Ullman & and students, Weingarten
2005 “triple” New woodcuts by XYLON from Germany, Austria”, Kunstverein Reutlingen (K)
2005 “Dassollkunstsein Vol.4”, Kunstverein Freiburg
2004 Near East Five Artists from Asia, Galerie Schrade, Schloss Mochental
2003 “Le GabbIieliberta”, Gallery Spazio Santabarbara, Milan, Italy (K)
2001 “7up,” Janco – Dada Museum, Ein Hod, Israel (K)
1999 “Märkische Stipendien 1999”, Städtische Galerie Lüdenscheid
1998 “19 languages”,- Turmschulhaus, Gallery of the City of Backnang (K)
1997 “Stuttgarter Aufwind”, Rainer Wehr Gallery, Stuttgart
1997 “Junger Westen 97”, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen (K)