Nogah Engler
Nogah Engler was born in Israel in 1970. She lives and works in London.
Engler’s haunting landscapes tread the tenuous path between the idyllic and its dissolution, attempting to simultaneously depict classical beauty and its negation. This paradox is manifested through the representation of pastoral landscapes that are fragmented and torn. To depict this conflicting situation Engler devotes considerable attention to minute details, contrasting them with broad bands of unyielding color. This is also highlighted by the blend of hard-edge geometric versus soft organic shapes and by the side-by-side use of fine ordinary and crude industrial oil paints.
This conflicting perception derives mainly from two sources. One relates to political upheavals and particularly to her family’s experiences. The other source relates to art history, especially to the northern European pastoral landscape painting tradition, as exemplified by Renaissance masters such as Jan Brueghel and Lucas Cranach, as well as to contemporary practice. Her works are also informed by the sensibility and imagery of German Romantic literature and painting, combined with the austerity of functional architecture.
Drawing on nature’s endless cycle of life and decay, as well as the destructive hand of man, her paintings embody the fragility of existence and the ultimate dichotomy of life/death that lies at the heart of the natural order. Although never directly depicted, the human presence is always implied and traces of man’s history are gradually disclosed across the layered strata of the painted field. Her landscape paintings are therefore an attempt to weave through the pastoral by recourse to discontinuous, diverse, and troubled memory fields. Despite their fragmented nature, the paintings nevertheless endeavour to recreate an internal unity.
Since graduating from her MA in Fine Art from Chelsea School of Art in 2004, Nogah Engler showed a solo exhibition at Ritter/Zamet gallery, London. Her works have been included in numerous group exhibitions such as: Enchanted Forest, at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, The Colour of Water, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Wondrous Worlds, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Haifa Museum of Art.
Nogah Engler has been short-listed for the Ill Castellón Painting Prize and the Celeste Painting Prize in 2006.
Nogah Engler
Born 1970
Lives and works in London
Education
2002-2004 MA Fine Art, Chelsea School of Art, London
1996-1999 Studies of Art and Art Education, Hamidrasha-Kalmania College of Art, Kfar Saba, Israel
1992-1996 History of Art and Philosophy, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Barbarian in the Garden, Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2012 Circles of time, Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2009 Tracing Echoes, Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2007 Endless Night and Day, Ritter/Zamet Gallery, London
2005 New works on Paper, Ritter Zamet gallery, London
2003 Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 25 years to Noga gallery of contemporary art, tel aviv
2018 Erotic Salon, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
2018 Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21 st Century, First Art Museum, Nashville
2015 The Epoch of Space, Haifa art Museum, israel
2015 Pizutti Collection, This just in: New Acquisitions, Columbus, Ohio, USA
2015 Drawing Biennial, The Drawing Room, London
2015 The Epoch of space, Changing Perspectives, Haifa museum of art, Israel
2014 On Reflection (with Ori Gersht), Mummery + Schnelle Gallery, London
2013 Reflections of war, 100 years after the start of world war one, Flowers
Gallery, London
2013 Momentum, Minotaure Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2010-2011 Looking in Looking out: The Window in Art, The Israel Museum,
Jerusalem
2010 The Beholder’s Share – Mummery + Schnelle Gallery, London
2010 The Armory Show, NY, (Noga gallery, Tel-Aviv)
2009 Wondrous Worlds – Five Woman Painters, Tel Aviv Museum of Art – Helena Rubinstein Pavilion
2009 Paperview, John Jones, London
2009 Obsession: Contemporary Art from the Lodeveans Collection, Burton Gallery, University of Leeds, Leeds
2008 Beijing Biennial, curated by Roger Gustafsson, Beijing, China
2008 The Aerials of Sublime Transscapes, Lokaal 01_Breda, Antwerpen
2008 Nowhere is Here, London, Aspex, Portsmouth, The Drawing Room, London, 2008 Fruehsorge contemporary drawings, Berlin
2008 Europe, Europe? The Art Gallery of Kiryat-Tivon Centre, Israel
2007 Wood for the Trees and Falling Leaves, Gimpel Fils Gallery, London
2006 International Castellon Painting Prize Exhibition, Museo de Bellas Artes de Castellan, Castellan
2006 The Disenchanted Forest, Israel Museum, Ticho House, Jerusalem
2006 Territory, The University of the Arts, London
2005 Zoo Art Fair (Ritter/Zamet, London)
2005 Berlin Art Fair, (Noga Gallery, Tel-Aviv)
2005 Young Masters, Art Fortnight, London
2004 Art Cologne, (Ritter/Zamet, London)
2004 Zoo Art Fair (Ritter/Zamet, London)
2004 MA Fine Art degree show, Chelsea School of Art, London
2002 The Colour of Water, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2001 Julie M Gallery, Tel Aviv Israel
2001 Can Art Be Moving?, The Pyramid Gallery, Haifa, Israel Art Gallery of Ramat Eliaoo, Rishon Lezion, Israel
2001 Beit Riback, Petah Tikva Israel
2000 Art Gallery of Ramat Eliaoo, Rishon Lezion, Israel
Bibliography
Catalogues
2012 Nogah Engler: paintings
2009 Israeli Art Now, edited by Iris Rywkind Ben-Zour and Revital Alcalay, Modan Publishing House Ltd., pp. 34-35, ISBN 978-965-7141-13-7
2009 5 Artists – Wondrous Worlds, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, pp. 16-24 ISBN 978-965-7161-86-9
2008 Nowhere is Here, edited by Kate Macfarlane, The Drawing Room, London, ISBN 978-0-9558299-0-1
2006 The Disenchanted Forest: Nogah Engler and Orit Hofshi, edited by Timna Seligman, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Selected Periodicals
2018, Wall Street International, Art, https://wsimag.com/art/37168-nogah-engler , 10th of April
2017 Notey Magazine, Hong Kong, on line: https://www.notey.com/@noteyhongkong/article/13795056/notey-interviews-nogah-engler.html
2017 Vivien Au, Interview in on line Magazine, http://www.wcity.com/articles/art/interview-with-nogah-engler-an-inside-look-at-how-the-mesmerizing-time-lapses-paintings-came-to-be.html
2014 Wall Street International, Art, Nogah Engler&Ori Gersht. On Reflection. 10th of October. http://wsimag.com/art/11609-nogah-engler-and-ori-gersht-on-reflection
2011 Tamar Yogev, Prihat Mohot, Erev-Rav Magazine, www.erev-rav.com, Jan 14
2009 Michal Oren, Hameshicha Hahasera, The Unrevealing Brush Stroke, Ma’arav Calture Magazine,maarav.org.il, May 17
2008 Paul Carey-Kent, New Work: Nogah Engler (interview), Art World, October-November , p. 64-66
Chris Fite-Wassilak, Nowhere is Here, The Drawing Room (review) Artforum Online Critic’s Picks, July
Barry Schwabsky, Nogah Engler, ArtForum, February 2008, XLVI, No. 6. p. 301
2007-8 Paul Carey-Kent, Nogah Engler, Art World, Dec 07 – Jan 08, p. 132-3
2007 JJ Charlesworth, Nogah Engler: Endless Night and Day, Art Review, issue 17, Dec p. 129
Sarah Andress, Nogah Engler, Time Out, October 1-23, 2007. No. 1939, p.49
Sofie Van Loo, Nogah Engler: Trans-Scapes of Langs-Schappen: Kosmiche Abstractie in Figuratieve en Abstracte Kunste, THRU, February
2005 Gallerists’ Choices: Nogah Engler, Spike Art Quarterly 03, Spring 2005, p.82
2004 Art Review supplement, London’s top 25 New Artists, July-August 2004, pp. 16-17 Art Review supplementSarah Vine, Fancy Becoming The Next Saatchi?, The Times, T2, 20 July, pp. 4
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Recent News
May 16, 2015
Nogah Engler,Upside Down Mountain, Oil on Canvas, 60x50cm, 2007
October 9, 2014
Nogah Engler, 2012, Belongings 4, oil on board, 60×80 cm