Artist Statement
My creative work is marked and affected by my being an immigrant who has been uprooted from one country (Brazil) to another (Israel).
As a multi-disciplinary artist, I mainly paint and create object and installations. My objects are built from readymade material and mainly I prefer to use materials that are meant to be recycled, just before they become un wanted, or throne to the garbage.
While trying to accommodate myself to a new place, a new language and a new culture, I found myself attracted by certain species of trees which seemed to me alien to this new landscape, mainly tropical palm trees and Eucalyptuses. These trees where imported from other places for different reasons: the palm trees were meant to decorate and enrich Israeli gardens, and the Bauhaus buildings that populate beautifully widely the city of Tel Aviv.
Alongside this cultivated nature, I focus also on urbanism. My works have a dual existence: from one hand they manifest reductive formal structures and colors and on the other hand the works have a conceptual statement that has to do with contemporary urban culture metaphors.
Born in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel
Special Projects
2019 Project at Fresh Paint, TLV, Israel
2018 The Beauty in Her, special project for the woman international day, at “Gan Hair”, Tel-Aviv
2017 “PERSONAL STRUCTURES Time Space Existence “, Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2018 “Untitled”, Municipal Gallery Beit London-Gordon, Rishon Lezion, Israel
2018 Broken Vessels, Periscope Gallery, Tel Aviv
2018 White City, Lewinsky collage, Tel Aviv
2018 White City, Amot Atrium Tower, Ramat Gan
2017 “Tama Tama”, The Artists House, Tel Aviv
2016 N&N Gallery, Tel Aviv – Solo exhibition
2010 Beit Gabriel (on the Kinneret), Jordan Valley, Israel Curator: Doron Pollack
2010 A comment on Landscape (Painting), The Artists’ House, Tel Aviv, Israel
2010 The Jerusalem Theatre, Israel
2009 Karandaji Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2008 The Migdalor Gallery, Jaffa, Israel
2008 The Collection Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2006 Efrat gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2006 Shorashim Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2005 Artura Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2004 Jerusalem Theatre, Israel
2004 Yahalom Theatre, Ramat Gan, Israel
2000 Amalia Arbel Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 Transitional Object, The Corinne Mamane Museum of Philistine, Ashdod
2020 Biennale for Arts and Craft, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv (With Catalog)
2020 Unforgettable Childhood, Museo Carlo Bilotti Aranciera di Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy (With Catalog)
2019 Spirit of Israel, Lemon Frame Gallery, Tel-Aviv (With Catalog)
2019 “Not in Heaven”, The Van Leer Institute, The Jerusalem Biennale, Jerusalem (With Catalog)
2019 Bim Bum Bam, Museo della Scuola e del Libro per l’Infanzia di Torino, Torin, Italy (With Catalog)
2019 Unforgettable Childhood, Palermo, Italy (With Catalog)
2019 Unforgettable Childhood, Jewish museum, Bologna, Italy (With Catalog)
2019 Spirit of Israel, Merrin Gallery, New York, USA
2018 Spirit of Israel, Erez Israel Museum, Tel-Aviv (With Catalog)
2018 Unforgettable Childhood, Artists House, Tel Aviv
2018 Metamorphosis, Artists House, Rishon Lezion
2018 Unforgettable Childhood, Matera, Italy (With Catalog)
2018 Steel City, Cuckoo’s Nest art apace, Tel Aviv,
2017 Donation exhibition for Levinsky Library, Tel Aviv
2017 Spirit of Israel, Shenkar College of art, Ramat Gan
2017 Back to Nature, Group show with Florentin 45 at Fresh Paint Art Fair, TA
2017 “Sisterhood”, Herzel-Lilinblum Museum, Tel Aviv
2016 “White on White: From Malevich to Contemporary Art”, Mané-Katz Museum, Haifa
2016 “The Kick Inside”, Florentin 45 Contemporary Art Space, Tel Aviv
2015 Efrat Gallery, Tel Aviv – installation – Group Exhibition
2015 Machon Hamaim Gallery, Givataim – installation – Group Exhibition
2015 National Gallery of Mumbai, India- Group Exhibition
2010 The Artists House, Singapore
2009 The Arts center, Kfar Saba, Israel
2008 ZE Architecture Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2007 Florence Biennale, Italy
2007 Villa Pignano, Volterra, Italy
2006 Artexpo, Jacov Javits Center, New York, USA
2005 Habitat Center, New Delhi, India
2005 LINEART International Art Fair, Flanders Expo, Gent, Belgium
2004 Artexpo, Jacov Javits Center, New York, USA
2004 Mayerov Art Center, Holon, Israel
2004 Globes House, Rishon Le Zion, Israel
2003 Euro Art, Geneva, Switzerland
2003 Artexpo, Jacov Javits Center, New York, USA
2002 Windsor gallery, San Francisco, USA
2001 Beit Glickman, Ramat Hasharon, Israel
Awards
2007 Award prize for achievement in art at the Florence Biennale
Selected Publications
Haaretz – Review on Fresh Paint Fair 2019
Xnet 2019 – Life Style – An article About Suly B.Wolff
Portfolio Magazine – Fresh Paint Exhibition 2019
Portfolio Magazine – Personal Structure exhibition
4 makor rishon cover magazine 2017
suly bornstein wolff – Solo Exhibition 2017, Artists House Tel Aviv. Channel 10
At Magazine, March 2017
Haaretz Newspaper, march 2017
