
Talia Keinan
Winner of Kiefer Scholarship 2005

The Ingeborg Bachmann Scholarship, founded by Anselm Kiefer, for the year 2005 is awarded to the artist Talia Keinan.
Talia Keinan, born in 1978, is an artist working in drawing, collage, and installation. Her works often incorporate diverse materials, including video and music. Keinan graduated with high honors from the Department of Art and Design at Bezalel Academy in 2003 and participated in a student exchange program at the School of Visual Arts in New York, USA. She is currently enrolled in the continuing education program in art and photography in Tel Aviv.
Keinan focuses primarily on video works presented as sculptural objects, where sound plays a central role, alongside painting and drawing. Her refined works depict everyday reality as “an event where intimate, poetic, and quiet dramas unfold.” Time in her pieces seems to stand still, creating a sense of suspended moments. The video compositions she crafts aspire to a painterly and static quality, with sound serving as an integral part of their enchanting effect. In her video works, Keinan uses light as a tangible material, creating a mirage-like tension between what is perceived and what truly exists. Through light and sound, she transforms her creations into immersive spaces that engulf the viewer in a strange sensation, as if the elements within her works are operating autonomously.
Keinan has presented solo exhibitions at the Herzliya Museum of Art in 2003 and the Noga Gallery in Tel Aviv in 2004 with the show Walking Distance. She received the Shmuel Givon Award from the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 2004 and is currently preparing for an installation at the Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, to be presented next year.
