Ronit Baranga is a contemporary Israeli artist who lives and works in Israel. As a sculptor and installation artist, she creates figurative art on the border between living and still life, dealing with emotional states and relationships.
Her practice combines hyperrealism with myths and fantasies, taking ordinary objects from our daily life, and adding fragments of the human body to them. The result is a playful, unpredictable and surreal mix of assembled elements that embody the complexity of different contemporary topics such as identity, control, consumption, in a forced, disturbing yet attractive way.
With their probing tongues and wandering fingers, Ronit Baranga’s sculptures are immediately recognizable for their mischievous, playful quality. By giving human features to everyday objects, she gives them an identity beyond their original intention and transforms them into characters who create their own amusing narratives.
Her work has been displayed in museums and galleries around the world and is a part of many museum and private collections.
Key exhibitions include Banksy’s group exhibition "Dismaland" and numerous solo and group exhibitions in New York, Istanbul, Taiwan, China, Germany, Tel-Aviv and Australia.
EDUCATION
2000 – 2004 Practical Arts Studies, Bet-Berl College, The Art School (‘HaMidrasha’)
1999 – 2000 Art History, Tel-Aviv University
1994 – 1997 B.A. in Psychology and Hebrew Literature, Haifa University
2025
Art Herning, KIRK Gallery
2024
Art Herning, KIRK Gallery
MIX 2024, KIRK Gallery, Aalborg, Denmark
2023
Christmas Show, KIRK Gallery, Aalborg, Denmark
At the Edge of Realism, KIRK Gallery, Aalborg, Denmark
Art Herning, KIRK Gallery, Danmark
2022
Disrupted realism, KIRK Gallery, Aalborg, Danmark
Art Herning, KIRK Gallery, Danmark
2020
Dreambags and Jaguar Shoes, KIRK Gallery, Aalborg, Danmark
All Things Sweet and Painful, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne, Australien
Nude, Størpunkt Gallery, Munich, Tyskland
The Biennale of Art and Design 2020, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2019
Microdose, a Small Works Exhibition, Last Rites Gallery, NYC, USA
Ritual: Curated by Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Haven Gallery, New York, USA
The Child Within Me: A Selection from the Ömer Koç Collection, Abdül Mecid Efendi Museum, Istanbul, Tyrkiet
Not All Doors Are the Same, Booth Gallery, NYC, USA
Shades of Black, Størpunkt Gallery, Munich, Tyskland
Fake News, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
Dark Art, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne, Australien
Small Works 2019 Group Exhibition, Beinart Gallery, Australien
And the Ship Still Sails, Artists’ House, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Half a Pound of Art #3, Størpunkt Gallery, Munich, Tyskland
2018
Tea Party, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne, Australien
Demons’ Playground, Booth Gallery, NYC, USA
Beauties and the Beast, Galerie Klose, Essen, Tyskland
Ephemeral: Curated by Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
Small Works 2018 Group Exhibition, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne, Australien
Half a Pound of Art, Størpunkt Gallery, Munich, Tyskland
2017
Embraced, Booth Gallery, NYC, USA
Mimosa Pudica, The Red House, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Shells of Wings, Ra’anana Municipal Gallery, Ra’anana, Israel
We Hereby Declare, 2016 Israeli Ministry of Culture Awards for Visual Art and Design, MoBY Museum, Israel
Small Works 2017 Group Exhibition, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne, Australien
BLIP 2017, Arts Biennale, Quebec, Canada
Hana Orloff: Feminist Sculpture in Israel, Mane-Katz Museum, Haifa, Israel
Gross Anatomies, Akron Museum of Art, Akron, Ohio, USA
Rock Paper Scissors, Arts Center, Haifa Art Museum, Israel
2016
Israeli Ministry of Culture Award for 2016
Ceramic Perspectives, Sant Pau Recinte Modernista, Barcelona, Spanien
Quest, Museum of Photography Tel-Hay, Israel
The 8th Biennale of Israeli Ceramics, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Taiwan Ceramics Biennale, Yingge Ceramics Museum, Yingge, Taiwan
2015
Quest, Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Dismaland, Banksy’s Bemusement Park, Weston-super-Mare, UK
FRONTIER, 14th Biennial of Ceramics, Andenne, Belgien
International Ceramic Triennial UNICUM 2015, The National Museum of Slovenia, Ljubljana
2014
Body of Works, Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel
The Feast, Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2013
Taiwan Ceramics Biennale, Kaohsiung Fine Arts Museum, Southern Taiwan
2012
Juror’s Recommendation Prize of 2012 Taiwan Ceramics Biennale
KAMA. Sex and Design, Triennale Design Museum, Milan, Italien
Santorini Biennale of Arts, 2012, Santorini, Grækenland
Taiwan Ceramics Biennale, Yingge Ceramics Museum, Yingge, Taiwan
2011
Honorable Mention Award of 2011 China Kaolin Grand Prix
China Kaolin Grand Prix for International Ceramic Art, Great China Museum, Jingdezhen, Kina
The 6th Biennale of Israeli Ceramics, Ceramic Design: Techno.Logical Implementations, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2010
The 5th Biennale of Israeli Jewelry, “Sequences; Identities”, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2008
Dining in 2015, Macef Milano, Italien
2007
Handled with Care, Designers Block, London, UK
Ceramics for Breakfast, Macef Milano, Italien
