Bio
Mika Aya Azagi, a multidisciplinary artist working predominantly with painting and video installation.
I create oil paintings on canvas that are inspired by natural phenomenons such as impact craters, volcanic eruptions, glaciers, etc. driven by textures, colors and emotion, my work flows between the known and the uncanny, the physical and metaphysical, the exists and the imagined.
my work deals with nature and natural phenomena as the main subject, whether it's a video or a painting , I aim to create a unique viewing perspective that represents my view of the world and to transfer these feelings to the viewer.
I explore the way nature is part of who we are, and i tend to integrate the body within the work itself. the connection to the primary and the sublime, is a strong element in my video work as well as in my painting process.
in other aspects of my work, i show the change in nature life cycles, and the results of human existence on our world.
CV
Mika Aya Azagi
Born in 1995 in Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Resides and works in Northern Israel.
Education/Participations
2016-2020: B.F.A, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel.
2019: Exchange Student, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 Final Graduates Exhibition Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel.
2021 Un Paradiso Amaro/Bitter Paradise, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria.
2022 "Zirut Tarbut" festival, YMCA, Jerusalem, Israel.
2022 "Zirut Tarbut" festival, Gerard Bechar Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
2023 UN PARADISO AMARO- Viaggio a Roma, Group Exhibition with TFR Archive, curated by Judith Augustinovič & Valerie Habsburg, Austrian Cultural Forum Rome, Rome, Italy.
2023 Telemachus, Maya Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
2024 Un Paradiso Amaro- Visita di Ravenna, Group Exhibition with TFR Archive, curated by Judith Augustinovič & Valerie Habsburg, Polo delle Arti di Ravenna, Italy.
2024 Woman Artist on the Move, Group Exhibition with TFR Archive, curated by Anka Leśniak / TFR Archive, Nuremberg House, Krakow, Poland.
Residencies
2022-2023: Telemachus, Atelier School for Sculpture, Painting and Drawing, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Collectives
2021 TFR Archive, Vienna, Austria. https://teresafeodorownaries.com/