May 1, 2024
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Slat By Slat | Hilla Toony Navok
March 12, 2025
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Slat By Slat
opening: 14/03/2025 closing: 31/05/2025
“Slat by Slat” is the new exhibition by Rappaport Prize-winning artist Hilla Toony Navok.
Following two major sculpture exhibitions at the Tel Aviv Museum and the Herzliya Museum, Navok now presents a new series of drawings at Noga Gallery, created using an unusual sculptural technique. Over the past year, she has produced hundreds of small, individual units of abstract drawings—like building blocks. Through an extensive process of assembly, she has carefully combined these units to form rich, dense, and multilayered compositions.
The exhibition features 11 new drawings on paper alongside four relief drawings made of aluminum, each in a square format. In these relief drawings, Navok has integrated various everyday objects taken from domestic spaces—towels, blinds, a pipe, and half of a work table—embedding them into the compositions. This process of merging objects with the drawings highlights their abstract and sculptural qualities.
The techniques of layering, compression, and assembly evoke a sense of fortification and blockage —a feeling of falling apart and collapsing—paired with a desperate attempt to hold everything together and make use of what there is.
Hilla Toony Navok, born in Tel Aviv-Yafo, works across sculpture, video, and drawing. She teaches sculpture at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. Her work explores abstract and poetic qualities found in everyday Israeli surroundings and well-recognized local materials.
Navok has received numerous awards, including the Rappaport Prize for a Promising Artist from the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2020), the Beatrice Kolliner Prize for a Young Artist from the Israel Museum (2019), the Discount Bank Prize (2020), the Minister of Culture Prize (2019), and an Artist Residency Scholarship at Artport (2015).
She is also a co-publisher at Poraz et Navok. Her Permanent public sculptures include Lighthouse (2023), installed on Al Parashat Drahim Street in Tel Aviv, and Sunrise-Sunset (2019), located at the Navon train station in Jerusalem.
November 1, 2025
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recipient of dizengoff prize for arts and sculpture
October 17, 2026
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half turn: solo exhibition, sommer salon gallery, zurich
April 25, 2017
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Hilla Toony Navok, Artist Wall, On the wall of Tel Aviv City Hall
November 23, 2017
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Hilla Toony Navok, Outlet, Solo Exhibition, KM Gallery, Berlin.
October 31, 2013
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Origins
Toony Navok / Origins
Opening: 31/10/2013 Closing: 14/12/2013
Noga gallery is cordially inviting you to “Origins”, Hila Toony Navok’s solo exhibition. In “Origins”, Navok displays an installation which consists of sculptural environments and a colorful series of drawings.
Navok exhibits sculptural works that are assembled of multi-colored metal surfaces, pipes, aluminum poles, PVC fabric, cleaning products, and shelving units – fantastical but bodiless ventilation and cleaning systems and architectural-constructive environments with airy, drawing-like natures that range from abstract to concrete. By means of popular Israeli design codes and by using every day products in conjunction with a glance to past canonic periods, Navok examines with irony the formalistic, abstract core at the heart of the relation of our culture to cleaning, body and dirt.
In opposition to the synthetic nature of the sculptures, Navok presents a series of “Draining Drawings” – large scale toiling and colorful drawings with organically moving marks that freeze and solidify in a moment between stability and collapse. Navok’s drawings are composed of compressed and dense lines that assemble into what seems like a sculptural object, which continues her practice of investigating the affinity between two dimensional and three dimensional and between drawing and object.
Navok is an MFA graduate of Bezalel Academy of Art and Design (2009). She is a recipient of the Givon Prize for young artists from the Tel Aviv Museum (2011) and the Creative Encouragement Award of the Israel Ministry of Culture & Sport (2012). Navok has participated in various exhibitions both in Israel and abroad, amongst them solo exhibitions at the Haifa Museum of Art and at Local_30 gallery (Warsaw, Poland). She has also participated in ART COLOGNE (Germany), and group exhibitions in the Ashdod Museum of Art -Monart Centre, Neues Museum in Weimar (Germany), the Herzliya Biennial of Contemporary Art, CCA Tel Aviv, Rosenfeld gallery (Tel Aviv), Sommer Contemporary Art gallery (Tel Aviv), Rockefeller Museum (Jerusalem) and ARTLV (Tel Aviv, 2008). Navok co-curated the second Herzliya Biennial of Contemporary Art (2009) and was co-editor of the art magazine Picnic.
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