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		SOKOL Haim

Biographical information: 1973 Born in Archangelsk, USSR
1996 – Hebrew University in Jerusalem, B.A in Hebrew linguistics and Jewish literature.
2004 – Hebrew University in Jerusalem, M.A. in Education
2006 - Member of the International Association of Art
2006-2007 Moscow Institute of the Contemporary Art
Collections where works are held: Igal Ahouvi Collection, Tel Aviv, Isarel
Collection of Loushy: Art&Projects, Tel Aviv, Israel
Stella Art Foundation, Moscow, Russia
National Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
Participation in exhibitions and auctions: SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010 “Dead letter mail”, “Triumph” Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2009 “Punctum”, “EK. Artbureau” Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2009 “Curriculum Vitae”, “Art-Strelka Projects” Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2009 “Palimpsests”, Green Art Gallery, Perm, Russia
2008 “Earth” (together with A. Kuzkin), Stella Art Foundation, Moscow, Russia
2008 “Cryptomnesia. Relapse”, “Art-Strelka Projects” Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2005 “Memories about memories”, “Small Room” Gallery, Elul, Jerusalem, Israel

Selected Group Exhibitions

2010 “Russian utopias”, CCC “Garage”, Moscow, Russia
2009 “Against exclusions”, III Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2009 II Biennale of Contemporary Art, Thessalonica, Greece
2009 VIII Krasnoyarsk museum biennale, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2009 “European Atelier: sharing a cultural space”, Central Artists House, Moscow, Russia
2009 “Indentity crisis”, “Open Gallery”, Moscow, Russia
2009 “Past Future Perfect”, “22 Calvert” Gallery, London, UK
2009 “Stone soup”, “Atelier #2” Gallery, CCA “Winzavod”, Moscow, Russia
2009 “The secret life of bodies”, Open Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2008 “Russain dreams’, Art-Basel Miami, Bass museum of Art, Miami, Florida, USA
2008 “Lost & found”, The New Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
2008 “Russian Povera”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm, Russia
2008 “Art-index: Contemporary Russian Art”, The National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow , The Latvian national museum of arts, Riga 2008 I Biennale of Young Artists, Moscow, Russia
2008 “@60.artisrael.world”, Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkley, California, USA
2007 “Coordinates”, Museum of Fine Arts, Kostroma, Russia
2006 “Breathing Memory”, “Limbus” Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2006 “Let’s talk about migration”, Patras, Greece
2006 “New members-2006”, Artists House, Jerusalem, Israel
2006 “Fwd:Re:Form?”, Art-Moscow, The Central Artists House, Moscow, Russia
2004 “Window”, Small Room Gallery, Elul, Jerusalem, Israel
Autobiographical notes
What the critics say: Haim Sokol works with material that has lost memory. He transmutes into metal ancient scrolls, folding planes from iron, as though this were not iron but raher, pages from a school notebook; writing and bundling up rusty letters. Sokol drows on rusting metal plates faces that are not the fruit of his fantasy; rather, they have been copied from somewhere/ This pictures have few prospects of preservation in their renewd form; the memory of metal is no more lasting or trustworhy than human memory, but the process of disintagration can be seen in all its beauty.
Faina Balakhovskaya, Time Out, Moscow

Platonov’s heroes sought to overcome wretched pre-revolutionary life; currently, we are trying to create a life better than the Soviet times. Yet all projects to build a Tower of Babel fail: the man still finds himself at the bottom of the Babel foundation pit. Zinc is reminiscent of tubs which in the old days were used to bathe children, and also of zinc coffins. Besides birth and death, zinc also makes an appearance halfway: these basins are used by Central Asian laborers (“guest workers”) to remove garbage. Sokol places people themselves in these basins, sadly noting that human material always ends up as waste thrown away in pursuit of another high ideal.
Diana Machulina

But Haim Sokol’s mixed-media Foundation Pit is moving in the way the artist so simply—with zinc buckets, toy figures and Russian soap—portrays the dashed hopes of proletariat Russians who dreamed of a better life but instead "dug their way deeper and deeper into the foundation ditch."
FABIOLA SANTIAGO, The Miami Herald
Bibliography: “Haim Sokol 2006-2010”, Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia, 2010
“Russian Povera”, Russia! Publishing New York, 2010

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