Pavel Wolberg (born 1966 in Leningrad [St Petersburg, Russia] USSR) is a visual artist and a former photojournalist living in Tel Aviv. As an immigrant from the Soviet Union, his work revolves around identity, the illusion of a unified identity and the dismantling fragmentation of identity. he uses the camera to expose the fluctuating moments which capture identity’s fictional, misleading and fantastical incarnations set against daily life. he seek to capture the trickery nature of what we call identity in the eye of an immigrant –– and the way we live and experience living is always in between identities and borders. His work is about identity, memory and borders, exposing historical self and contemporary self, in order to see how identity from the past connects to the present and become memory. The personal and the non- personal are united by photography in his work
His work was exhibited in museums and institutions such as Gemak Museum Hag, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Haifa art museum, Ashdod art museum ,the Museum of Photography and Film Rochester New York, the 52 Venice Biennale, the Martin-Gropius-Bau KIM-Kunst Im Tunnel Düsseldorf, La collection Antoine de Galbert La Maison Rouge Paris, Jewish Museum Amsterdam, Passage de Retz Paris, Krefeld Museum, Exit Art New York, Mystetskyi Arsenal National Art and Culture Museum Kiev, OCAT Shanghai, ArtLab, Lausanne, Art. LUMA Westbau Zurich, Victoria and Albert Museum London , The museum of fine arts Huston, among others
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Fond National d'Art Contemporain, France, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, The Jewish Museum, NYC, Kadist foundation, San Francisco, Paris,La Maison Rouge, Fondation A. de Galbert, Paris,Lac Collection, Geneva, Marcel Brient collection, Paris, Neufite Vie collection, Paris, The Phoenix collection of Art, Tel Aviv, Sherman Collection, Sidney,Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Private Collections
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2017 Prix Pictet (shortlist,) 2011 Sony World Photography Awards, 2006 Artist's special residency – La Mairie de Paris, 2005 Leon Constantiner Prize for Israeli Photography, 2003 America Israel Cultural Foundation Prize, 2002 Ministry of Science, Culture and the Sports Prize, 1997 The Gérard Lévy Prize for a Young Photographer, 1994-5 America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship