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Ariel Lavian

Jeweller
Published: 27.08.2024

Bio

Ariel Lavian, born in 1983, Israel. Graduated from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, in 2012 (B.F.A, Fashion and Jewelry Department), followed by a Master's Degree in conceptual design, 2016, at Bezalel. Since 2017, Lecturer at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. Lavian has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions around the world. His designs have been acquired internationally, both by private collectors as well as by selected museums, including the SCAD Museum of Art, Georgia, United States, and the Design Museum, Holon, Israel. Since 2018, Lavian has been appointed Art Jewelry Forum (AJF) Ambassador for Israel. In 2019, Lavian received the Design Award from the Ministry of Culture, Israel. In 2020, Lavian won second place in Venice's Design Week in the jewelry selection and the galleries award and was nominated for both the prestigious Friedrich-Becker Award and KOGEI award. In 2021, Lavian won the Milano jewelry week award at RJW. In 2022 Lavian founded the Biennale of Contemporary Jewelry, Israel.

Statement

Lavian design is influenced by the raw materials surrounding him. He creates new worlds from the limited resources and finds tremendous wealth in the soil, the rotting logs, wasp's nest, branches of the trees, broken objects, old plastic bags. It can be anything. He refers to the material and not to the object, studies it, understands its properties and uses it to create small but complete scenes of staged nature, ex-wild. He believes that through design - as a tool - we can make a change, make a difference, affect people.
 

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2024:
Exhibition  07 Sep 2024 - 31 Oct 2024  AGCpunto24. Contemporary Stories in Tarragona.
Exhibition  06 Jul 2024 - 13 Jul 2024  AGCpunto24. Contemporary Stories.
2023:
Exhibition  15 Sep 2023 - 04 Nov 2023  Awe and Alchemy.
Exhibition  23 Jun 2023 - 25 Jul 2023  Anatomy of Decisions.
2022:
Exhibition  10 Nov 2022 - 14 Nov 2022  Israel Biennale of Contemporary Jewelry. Colorful Recovery.
Exhibition  13 May 2022 - 01 Nov 2022  The Truth. Mine and Yours.
Exhibition  13 May 2022 - 14 Jun 2022  Jewelry of utmost importance.
Open call  01 Mar 2022 - 23 Jun 2022  Open Call for Israel Biennale of Contemporary Jewelry.
2021:
Exhibition  16 Nov 2021 - 30 Dec 2021  Between a break and a breakdown. Jewelry as a mirror of our times.
Exhibition  11 Nov 2021 - 30 Dec 2021  Depths of Heaven 2.0. by Ariel Lavian.
Award giving  03 Oct 2021 - 03 Oct 2021  Romanian Jewelry Week 2.0 Award Winners.
Fair  30 Sep 2021 - 03 Oct 2021  Romanian Jewelry Week 2.0.
Exhibition  26 Sep 2021 - 06 Oct 2021  Shape of Nature 2021. Selected artist list announced.
Exhibition  16 Jul 2021 - 20 Aug 2021  The Handshake Project / Israel - Local Boundaries.
Exhibition  26 Feb 2021 - 20 Mar 2021  Depths of Heaven by Ariel Lavian.
2020:
Open call  12 Nov 2020 - 21 Jun 2021  Open Call for Shape of Nature.
Exhibition  23 Jun 2020 - 12 Jul 2020  Friedrich Becker Prize 2020 Exhibition.
Award giving  23 Jun 2020 - 23 Jun 2020  Friedrich Becker Prize 2020 Winner.
Exhibition  28 Jan 2020 - 03 Feb 2020  Materialness.
2019:
Exhibition  09 Nov 2019 - 31 Dec 2019  Tincal lab Challenge 2019: Jewelry and Anatomy.
Exhibition  08 Oct 2019 - 11 Oct 2019  Lié.e.s in Barcelona.
Exhibition  20 Sep 2019 - 20 Oct 2019  Selected Artists at Art Jewelry Night Budapest 2019.
Exhibition  05 Jun 2019 - 29 Jun 2019  Lié.e.s.
2018:
Exhibition  27 Dec 2018 - 25 Apr 2019  Material World by Ariel Lavian.
Exhibition  10 Nov 2018 - 31 Dec 2018  Tincal Lab Challenge 2018. Jewelry and Technology.
Exhibition  22 Sep 2018 - 31 Oct 2018  Collectiva Meeting.
Exhibition  25 May 2018 - 31 Aug 2018  Dandelion Fluff's Flight through the Universe.
Exhibition  27 Apr 2018 - 26 May 2018  Gestures of Locality.
Exhibition  03 Mar 2018 - 17 May 2018  Short Stories. Contemporary and Conceptual Jewellery.
2017:
Exhibition  08 Jun 2017 - 15 Jun 2017  My Garden, Spring Time by Ariel Lavian.
Exhibition  30 Mar 2017 - 21 Apr 2017  Secrets by Ariel Lavian.

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Book:  Shape of Nature. Sun, HermanChina Humanities Publishing House:  Hong Kong,  2022
Book:  Growth & Evolution International Jewellery Exhibition. Sun, HermanChina Modern Publishing House Limited:  Hong Kong,  2020