Miriam Neiger-Fleischmann
Home: Derekh Hebron 112/28,: Talpiot, 9348110
Jerusalem, Israel
Tel/fax- +972-2-6719335, mobile +972-52-4436351
email- miriamneiger@gmail.com
Miriam Neiger Fleischmann
Born in Slovakia, 1948. Came to Israel,1949. Studied art at the ”Bezalel” academy, Jerusalem, 1977-1981 (B.F A). Completed her master studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem magna cum laude (2008), and her PhD (2015) at the Hebrew University at the Hebrew literature department about the poetry of Avigdor Hameiri. Lives and creates in Jerusalem.
Her works of art are found in the permanent collection of the Israel Museum, Haifa Museum, The national Museum of women in the arts Washington D.C. Ben Gurion University, Mishkenot Sha’ananim and many Public and private collections in Israel and abroad.
She has published four volumes of poems in Hebrew: Words in a Visual Space (1992), Images Reproduced (1999), Material in No Man’s Land (2007), and Song for Miriam (2018). She has won several prizes in Israel. One volume in Hungarian translation, Száműzetés (Exile, 2002, trans. Zsuzsa Zalaba), appeared in Budapest. A volume of poems in English translation, Death of the King and Other Poems (2017, trans. Anthony Rudolf), appeared in Nottingham, England (Shoestring press). This volume was also translated from the English into Romanian by Victor Stir (2017). A volume of "Le poème de Miriam", translated by Michel Eckhard-Elial, edition Levant, Montpellier, France, 2021.
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Awards and scholarships
Visual art
1981 The Best Painting prize for graduate by gallery Linsen. Germany.
1885 The Young Artist prize (Ofer Feniger prize)
1992 Scholarship for the “Cite Internationale des Arts”, Paris.
Poetry
1988 The Hershon prize for literature, the Hebrew University
1991 Prize of the Fund for Belles-Lettres, the municipality of Jerusalem and the Jerusalem Foundation.
2003 Acum prize for anonymous handwriting in poetry.
Selected one person exhibitions
1983 The Israel Museum, Jerusalem - “Haunted environments”
1983 Gallery Gimel, Jerusalem - works on paper.
1984 Gallery Schumacher, Cologne, Germany - paintings, objects.
1985 Gallery Schumacher, Cologne, Germany -Drawing for “Siege”
1986 Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Jerusalem - “Siege”
1986 Henry Street Settlement, New York - “Books”
1987 Aika Brown Gallery, Jerusalem - “Over the rainbow”
1987 Meimad katan Gallery, Tel Aviv - “Books”
1988 Avraham Baron Gallery, Ben-Gurion University - “Siege”
1989 Haifa Museum - “Chariot of Fire” ; “Against all the odds”
1989 Leonarda di Mauro Gallery, New York - works on paper
1990 The Artists House, Jerusalem - “Chapters of observation”
1991 The Israel Museum, Jerusalem - “January 15 - February 28”
1992 Sara Levi Gallery, Tel Aviv -works on paper
1992 Habama, Jerusalem -“Books”
1992 At Daphna Naor’s, Jerusalem - Painting
1993 Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris - “Victoire, Triomphe, Gloire”;
“The remembering river”
1994 The Danube Museum , Komarno, Slovakia - “Jerusalem”
1995 The Artists House, Jerusalem -“Books”
1996 Borussia Dortmund Stadium, Germany “Neiger meets Braque”
1998 The National Museum, Bratislava, Slovakia. - Jerusalem
1999 Casa del Diezmo, Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico - Jerusalen, Fin del
Milenio - works on paper.
2000 The Artists House, Jerusalem - A Day Is Coming
2002 Museo Gilardi, Tuscany, Forte Dei Marmi, Italy – Works on Paper
2003 Komaromi kisgaleria, Komarom, Hungary – works on paper
2007 Netanya Academic College - Jerusalem, Landscapes of the mind
2007 The Artist House, Jerusalem, Bordering on Embroidery
2007 Gallery IX Budapest, Hungary, Jerusalem, landscapes of the mind, works on paper.
2010 The Jewish museum of Hungary, Budapest, Jerusalem-Meanderings in Time.
2010-2011 Szeged, Debrecen, Hungary, Jerusalem-Meanderings in Time.
2014 The Danube Museum , Komarno, Solvakia, A memento from Marika.
Selected group exhibitions
1981 Artists House, Jerusalem, - “Ulam no.1”
1981 The Tel Aviv Museum - “A Turning Point”
1982 The Israel Museum, Jerusalem - “Here and Now”
1982 The Haifa Museum - “Biennale for young artists”
1982 Artists House, Jerusalem - “Ulam no.9”
1982 Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv (3 artists)
1983 Traveling exhibition - Omanut la’am - “Red color”
1984 Visual Art Center, Be’er- Sheva - “Artists’ Studios”
1984 Radius Gallery, Tel Aviv- “Artists’ Studios”
1984 City Gallery Bocholts , Germany
1984 The Israel Museum - “80 Years of Sculpture”
1985 Grand Palais, Paris - “Artists from Jerusalem”
1985 Aika Brown Gallery, Jerusalem - “Slaughtered Camel”(3 artists)
1985 The Artist House, Jerusalem - “Toward a Godless Myth”
1986 The Artist House, Jerusalem - “Self Portrait”
1986 International exhibition Budapest, Hungary - “Art of Today 1”
1986 Mercer 55, Soho, New York - “Art Israel, the 80th”
1987 International exhibition Budapest, Hungary - “Art of Today 2”
1987 U.S.A traveling exhibition - “Art Israel , the 80th”
1987 Kunstverein, Darmstadt, Germany - “Unseen Sculpture”
1987 U.N center, Vienna, Austria - “Artists’ Statements”
1989 The Jerusalem Theater - “Israel Art Week”
1990 The National Museum of Women in The Arts, Washington D.C.,
U.S.A. - “Books As Art 3”
1990 The Jerusalem Theater - “Israel Art Month”
1990 International exhibition Budapest, Hungary - “Art of Today 3”
1991 6 Room Gallery, Jaffa - “Siege, The fight on the gate”
1991 Sf. Gheorghe, Romania - “Medium 2”
1992 Traveling exhibition - “From The Limits of The West”
1993 Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Jerusalem - “Touches”
1993 The Tower, Tel Aviv - sculptures
1993 Wine Festival, Rishon Le’Zion - “Wine and Color”
1993 The Environment Museum, Petah Tikva, “Sculptured trash”
1993 The Yavne Art Workshop Gallery - “A Matchbox Enclosed”
1993 The Janco-Dada Museum, Ein Hod - “ A Matchbox Enclosed”
1994 The Artists House, Jerusalem - “Art Fosters Art”
1995 Colegio de Arquitectos, Malaga, Spain - workshop -“Artists from
the Mediterranean”
1996 Traveling exhibition - “Artists - Messengers of Peace”
1996 “Yadayim” Artists’ Gallery, Jaffa - “Healing The Breach 2”
1996 Gallery Ante ,Herdecke, Dortmund, Germany- “Black and Yellow”
1997 Palaco Ducla, Govio, Umbria, Italy - “Miniartura”
1997 Fingood gallery, West Valley, California, “Women of the Book”
(in 1999 in Kutztown University, pennsylvania and in Philadelphia)
1998 Workshop in Jerusalem with “Drap Art” group from Barcelona.
1998 The Artists House, Jerusalem - “In The Name Of The Land, In The
Name Of The Lord”
1999 “The new Gallery”, Teddy soccer stadium, Jerusalem “Wasteland”
1999 Givatayim Theater, “It Turns” works with CD
1999 Givatayim Theater, “B’teselem’s Ten-Year Anniversary exhibition”
1999 Nador street gallery, Komarno, Slovakia “Komarno as veduta”
2000 The Artists House, Jerusalem - 33X33
2000 The Tel-Aviv Performing Arts Center, “Milestones for Peace”
2000 The Jerusalem Theater, Identity Card - Israel 2000
2001 Gallery Limes, Komarno, Slovakia, international art symposium.
2002 Lions in Jerusalem.
2002 Flag art festival, Seoul, Korea. FIFA world cup.
2002 Markers 2, Electric pole as outdoor sculpture, Kassel, Germany and Ramat Gan.
2002 “Negohot” illustrations for the poetry of U.Z. Greenberg. Jerusalem center.
2003 “Words on fire”, “Wemen of the Book”, Starr Gallery, Boston, USA
2003 “Wandering Library”, Venice Jewish Museum, to mark the Venice Biennale.
2003 Gallery Limes, Komarno, Slovakia, international art symposium.
2003 The Artist’s Studios, Jerusalem
2004 "Wandering Library" Holon Mediatheque, Holon
2004 Vth Bienal of Sacred Art, Roma (Italy), Siena (Italy), Carmona (Spain), Éciga (Spain), Montoro(Spain), Almodovar Del Rio (Spain), Marchena (Spain) 2005 Women of the Book, Futernick art gallery, Miami, Florida, Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey, USA
2005 Gallery Limes, Komarno, Slovakia, international art symposium.
2006 Down Town Jerusalem, Gallery Barbur and In "The Yellow Submarine".
2007 Gallery Limes, Komarno, Slovakia, international art symposium.
2008 “Blue and white”, Mizel Museum, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A
2008 Olympic Fine Art, international exhibition, aside the Olympic games, Beijing, China
2012 Transmission notebook archive, (Curator -Doron Polak), Kassel, city of Documenta
2019 The Cherry Orchard, The Okashi Art Museum, Old Acre (Akko)
