Varda Breger
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Books:
→ 2024 – LETTER & BLOT, Itton 77 Publishing House I Hebrew
→ 2022 - "The Promised Land", paintings and poems, Itton 77 publishing house.
→ 2012 - "Planet of Life", paintings and poems, English-Hebrew edition, Even Hoshen publishing house.
→ 2004 - "Asphalt & Aquarelle": paintings and poems, Tamuz Publishing House.
→ Art Market Magazine November 2023 8 pages
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Solo Exhibitions
→ 2025: "Birds Lovers", Tel Aviv University, Smolarsh building, Tel Aviv, Israel
→ 2024: "Letter & Blot" Retrospective 1986-2024, Tel Aviv Artists House, Tel Aviv, Israel
Link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj5z0qLLxTU→ 2009: "WINGS WITHOUT BORDERS", Tel Aviv Artists House, Tel Aviv, Israel
→ 2009: "WINGS WITHOUT BORDERS", Bet Gabriel, Kineret, Israel
→ 2007: "AFRICA FLUTTERS", Holon, Bet Meirov, Israel
→ 2007: "AFRICA FLUTTERS", Tel Aviv University Library, Tel Aviv, Israel
→ 2005: "ASPHALT & AQUARELLE", Artist’s House, Jerusalem, Israel
→ 2005: "ASPHALT & AQUARELLE", Bet Shagal, Haifa, Israel
→ 2004: "SOFtEVA" 2, Tzavta, Tel Aviv, Israel
→ 2002: "SOFtEVA" 2, Eshkol Pais, Hertzlia, Israel
→ 2001: "ASPHALT & AQUARELLE", Bet Gabriel, Kineret, Israel
→ 2000: “To write in painting”, Tovi Jessel, video report
→ 1998: Workshop around my painting “Mother Teresa”, Tel Aviv & Gratz, Austria
→ 1997: "SOFtEVA", Geographical & Ecological Campus, Ramat Hasharon, Israel
→ 1996: "SOFtEVA" Painters & Sculptors (Vulnerable Nature) Association, Tel Aviv, Israel
→ 1995: "Evolution", Library, Tel Aviv University, Israel
→ 1992: "Touched by Science", Painters & Sculptors Association, Tel Aviv, Israel
→ 1991: "Touched by Science", Artists Association House, Jerusalem, Israel
→ 1990: "Nature Scenes in Aquarelle", Kfar Tavor Museum, Israel
→ 1990: "Nature Scenes in Aquarelle", City Gallery, Ashkelon, Israel
→ 1987: "Nature Scenes in Aquarelle", Kfar Tavor Museum, Israel
→ 1987: "Nature Scenes in Aquarelle", Petach-Tikva Museum, Israel
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→ 2025 Artist's Legend Prize
→ 2025 EL GRECO PRIZE
→ 2020 MUSA International Art Space, Woman's Essence Show Art Award 2020 ROME
→ 2019 London International Art Biennale, Third Prize for works on paper. (140 artists)
→ 2017 London International Art Biennale, Second Prize for works on paper.
→ 2015 ARTQUAKEKYOTO International Biennale, City Museum Kyoto, The Prize for Promoting Peace through Art
→ 2013 International Biennial Izmir Turkey, Second prize for painting (453 artists)
→ 2012 International Exhibition Chianciano, Italy, First Prize for works on paper.
→ 2011 International Art Biennale Chianciano, Italy, Second Prize for works on paper.
→ 2012 "Planet of Life" book of paintings and poems English-Hebrew.
→ 2004 Prague, European Circle, "Franz Kafka" medal for Fine Arts.
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In my paintings and poems (in Hebrew and English), I explore ecology and social life on our vulnerable planet. I use mixed media, transparent, and opaque, mainly on paper.
Streams of spontaneous running paint cages a blurred deer, rudely trodden upon by my shoe or a car tire. An elephant with a broken task emerges from chaos. An abused nude body of a woman, her head hidden with a fig leaf, and a knife and fork beside her to remind us of murder in the family.
The threat of nuclear weapons is always on my mind (MSc. Chemistry, Tel Aviv University & BSc. Israel Technion ). The atrocities and the cruel war in my own country, in Ukraine, and in other places drive me to act for Peace with my humble tools.
Inspired by the return of migrating birds at the revived Hula Lake, I wrote:
FOLLY WARS
Migratory birds,
from north to south and back,
season after season,
millions of miles.
Caressing the planet fraternity of feathers.
No fuel, no flag, no borders, no Gods.
No Folly Wars.
Varda Breger was born in Israel (1937), and lives and works in Tel Aviv. Married to Dov, three children,8 grandchildren,4 grand grandchildren After a career as a chemistry teacher, always painting, she turned completely to art and poetry. She has been a member of the European Artists and the Tel Aviv Artists and Sculptors Associations since 1986. She was elected to AFC- Artists for Conservation, ANF-Artists for Nature, the General Union of Writers and , and the organization of Women Wage Peace.
Education:
Courses at AVIV UNIVERSITY: History of art, English, and Hebrew poetry 1990-2000
PEOPLE UNIVERSITY TEL AVIV- painting 1980-1986
Msc. Chemistry TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY 1965-1970
Bsc.Israel Technion Haifa 1956-1960
"Civilization ignoring the elegies of Mother Earth." I believe that all the planet's inhabitants are part of a chain, linked together, and We Humans must find the way to keep the future of our unique home, in peace between us, and all the life above it, the exceptional planet of life.
