Hello, my name is Dvora Bochman and I am a multidisciplinary artist and curator.
I was born in Tel Aviv. I am the daughter of Holocaust survivors Shoshana and Arie Zemel and the sister of Pinhas. After I married Zvi Bochman from Givatayim I moved there.
An art mission to Africa
In 1984 we went on a 10-year mission, with our two children, Oren and Roni, to Nairobi, Kenya. Africa was a new world for me. Because it run at a far slower pace then back home, I felt that I needed to fill my free time.
This is how I got started in commercial art projects. It began when I designed a series of commemorative stamps for the Kenyan Post office. But the project involved much more than just drafting the stamps. I met with an expert botanist and then I travelled to a mushroom farm because I was tasked to collect the supplementary material which was part of the first day issue. This effort finally paid off and I was able to create compelling visuals for the issue and I got to work with the Kenyan Post Office on and off for over a decade.
Next I a friend asked me to paint some stage sets for the National Theatre. Stage sets is art on a grandiose scale and requires a good grasp of perspective. And Soon I found myself working on even larger projects. The architect of Ya Ya shopping center asked to design of a mural for the entrance. My terracotta mural was the inspired by Maasai necklace . And I was commissioned to created some Murals for the UNEP headquarters near Nairobi. I travelled, painted and had a number of exhibitions between these projets.
Mixing the media
Following our return home to Israel, in 1990, I continued painting and exhibiting my works. All In all, I had ten Single artists exhibitions. I also designed a stamp series for the Israeli Post Office, which received International acclaim.
In 1996 I returned to academia and obtained a “BA” degree in Computers and Education from Beit Berl College. Later, in 1999, I received my “MA” in Information Science from Bar Ilan University.
After graduating I had more time for art. I experimented with mixed media which and I become a multidisciplinary artist by combining painting and sculptures in papier-mâché and pursued my interest in becoming a curator.
A European adventure
In 2004, we traveled to Budapest, Hungary following Zvika’s business. We spent there about ten years. In this time I worked as part of the fine art museum in Budapest. Through my participation in the docent program and the International Women organization I was introduced to the cosmopolitan art scene of Budapest. I made many friends amongst gallery owners and curators which hosted a substantially different art then what could be seen in the Museum. I was drawing and I started working more extensively with paper mache, creating sculptures and other artifacts. I had a number of exhibitions to show these work. One of the more memorable was at the historical Rombach Synagogue which was designed by The Secessionist architect Otto Wagner in the Moorish Revival style.
Becoming a Curator
When I returned In 2014 to my apartment studio in Givatayim Israel, I continued my work as a multidisciplinary artist and in parallel with curator studies in Kalisher. I chose to study again because, for a long time, I had wanted to dive deeper into the art milieu. By earning a diploma in art Curation studies many new opportunities opened up for me. For instance, I curate and organize exhibitions for artists in my community. I also started the “Sharp Angle” blog as a medium to host my reviews of these exhibits. But as the Yiddish proverb says “man plans and god laughs”. This is also sometimes accompanied by artist mentions of exhibitions that I knew early on, and events related to artistic activity that came along the way.
Here are links to pages with some more information:
- My Art C.V. including My Exhibitions
- My Diplomas
- Exhibitions curated by me
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