Gregory Abou, performance and video artist (b. Melun, France, 1974, lives and works in Tel Aviv-Yafo since 2013), was recently showcased in the journal As Promised. Abou directs and films himself on location in natural and historic sites using unique scripts of personal ritual and objects of his own design. His work promotes mindfulness and sustainability. He has been awarded artist residencies in Gotland, Sweden (2009); the archipelago Lofoten, Norway (2016); the Yakushima Forest, Japan (2017); and in Israel. He completed studies in communications, and at the National School of Decorative Arts, Paris, before opening a studio for creative visual arts. In 2006, he was invited by the multifaceted Mathias Kiss to exhibit at his experimental gallery in the Marais Quarter. In 2012, his series AREYOUTHERE, 2009, was shown alongside prominent artists Matali Crasset and Arik Levy at the Grand Palais Art Paris Art Fair and as a solo exhibition at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art in 2019, curated by Yona Fischer. In 2016, his film “Kinah” (Lament) was part of a major group exhibition with Marina Abramovic and Louise Bourgeois: À l’ombre d’Éros (In the Shadow of Eros) at the Royal Monastery of Brou.
In 2021, solo exhibition planned to open in March, “JETESAIS” (I Know You), at the Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod.
In 2021, solo exhibition planned to open in March, “JETESAIS” (I Know You), at the Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod.
Solo exhibitions
Curator: Dr. Batsheva Goldman-Ida
2019 “Gotland, three pulses”,Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art,
Curator: Yona Fischer
2006 Piazza dello Amor Perfetto, Gallery Attilalou, Paris
Curator: Mathias Kiss
Group exhibitions
2021 Alyah, Art Space TLV,
Curator: Yair Barak
Curator: Yair Barak
Curator: Marie De Paris
2012 Are you there, Paris design week, Slott Gallery
2012 Are you there, Art Paris Art Fair, Grand Palais
Curator: Paola Bjaringer
2011 Are you there, Festival CineNordica, Paris
2010 Are you there, Galerie Slott, Paris
FILMOGRAPHY
2020 Je te sais / Shivta (Israel - color - 16/9 6’00 min)
2019 Je te sais / Nahal Kziv (Israel - color - 16/9 7’00 min)
2018 Je te sais / Nahal Kziv (Israel - color - 16/9 - 6’50 min.)
2017 Je te sais / Yakushima (Japan - color - 16/9 - 6’50 min)
2016 Je te sais / Lofoten (Norvège - color - 16/9 - 9’00 min)
2014 Takhrikhin / Dead sea (Israël - color - 16/9 - 5’00 min)
2013 Le mystere de la mer de sel / Dead sea (Israel - Color - 16/9 - 10’00 min)
2012 L’île du sacrifice / Gotland (Sweden - Color - 16/9 - 7’20 min)
2011 Alyah (Norway - Color - 16/9 - 9’10 min)
2011 Kinah (France - Color - 16/9 - 11’00 mins)
2010 Dead sea (Israel - Color -16/9 - 7’50 min)
2010 Gotland (Sweden - Color - 16/9 - 8’50 min)
2019 Je te sais / Nahal Kziv (Israel - color - 16/9 7’00 min)
2018 Je te sais / Nahal Kziv (Israel - color - 16/9 - 6’50 min.)
2017 Je te sais / Yakushima (Japan - color - 16/9 - 6’50 min)
2016 Je te sais / Lofoten (Norvège - color - 16/9 - 9’00 min)
2014 Takhrikhin / Dead sea (Israël - color - 16/9 - 5’00 min)
2013 Le mystere de la mer de sel / Dead sea (Israel - Color - 16/9 - 10’00 min)
2012 L’île du sacrifice / Gotland (Sweden - Color - 16/9 - 7’20 min)
2011 Alyah (Norway - Color - 16/9 - 9’10 min)
2011 Kinah (France - Color - 16/9 - 11’00 mins)
2010 Dead sea (Israel - Color -16/9 - 7’50 min)
2010 Gotland (Sweden - Color - 16/9 - 8’50 min)