Nekoda Singer

I am still 20 years old, and I'm at the very starting point of my artistic way, though I was born in 1960. After I was born (in Novosibirsk, Western Siberia, Russian Empire) I immediately began to indulge in fantasies, both verbal and visual. Dreaming of far away continents, at the age of 13 I began to work with animals in local zoo, but after finishing the school instead of going around the world I started to work as a set decorator in the Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre and to study in the Institute of the Theatre, Music and Cinematography in Leningrad. After that I spent several years being a garbage collector in Leningrad and Latvian folk craftsman in Riga. In 1988 I finally set off to a remote destination and settled in Jerusalem. In 1991, together with Gali-Dana Singer, I wrote 'The Manifesto of Neo-Eclecticism', and since then I constantly break the laws of this radical art-movement and dismiss myself from it. Nevertheless my approach remains rather close to the basic principle of Neo-Eclecticism - the proximity of consciousness with its sub-laws: the unity and the struggle of the protagonists, the conversion of a quality into a quackery and a quandary, and the reflection of reflections. I also write fict...

One-man exhibitions:
1990 “Book Illustrations”, the Youth Wing of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (with Gali-Dana Singer)
1991 “Neo-Eclecticism I”, Art Center, Natanya
1991 “Neo-Eclecticism II”, David Gallery, Jerusalem
1993 “Mee? Ma? Moo? /Antropology In Drawers”, David Gallery, Jerusalem
1993 “Inside – Outside”, Artists’ House, Jerusalem
1994 “Transparent Things”, Trouble Space Studio, Jerusalem
1996 “In Ourdays’ Drawers”, The Jerusalem Theatre
1996 “The Balcony”, “Phenomena” Festival, Jerusalem (with Gali-Dana Singer)
1996 “Robinson Crusoe and Other Biblical Heroes”, Amalia Arbel Gallery, Tel-Aviv
1999 “Squaring The Circle”, The Be’ery Gallery
2002 “Around The Fence”, Artists’ House, Jerusalem
2005-6 “Discharge From The Memory Corps”, Barbur gallery, Jerusalem
2009 “Pirchei Avoth (Fathers’ Flowers)”, The Natural History Museum, Jerusalem
2010 “The Dump of Myths”, Kayma Gallery, Jaffa
2010 "Ugligraphy Lessons", Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem


The main group exhibitions:
1993 “Art fosters Art”, Artists’ House, Jerusalem
1994 “Bograshov the Street”, ...