Oren Pinhassi
Oren Pinhassi's installations examine the relationship between the human figure, nature and the built environment by conjuring evocative and erotic sites that intersect public and private exchange. His sculptures are frequently a combination of the superfluous and the ergonomic, erring towards the utopian. They mimic familiar objects, seeking to render visible the way that humankind builds the world in its own image. Pinhassi's primary materials are plaster and sand, used for their porosity to propose fluid environments where rigid categories collapse. In this way, much of Pinhassi's work is concerned with human vulnerability and the materialisation of queer spaces, considering obstructions that prevent social interaction as well as environments that facilitate transformation and transgression.
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Tower of Babel, 2024
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Blind Spot, 2024
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Blind Spot, 2024
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Blind Spot, 2024
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Blind Spot - I, 2023
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Blind Spot - II, 2023
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Blind Spot - III, 2023
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Reception, 2022
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Duo (II), 2020
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Magistrate, 2020
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Duo, 2020
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Pink Figure 2 (London), 2020
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Untitled (Figure no. 2), 2020
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Untitled (Deck Chair 1), 2019
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Nesting Tables (NYC), 2019
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Three Basin Figure (NYC), 2019
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One in the Mouth and One in the Heart II, 2018
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Springs II , 2018
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Urinal (London II), 2018
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The Patient I , 2018
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Drip Dry, 2018
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Towel Snake (Zig Zag) , 2018
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Two Basin Figure, 2018
Watch Oren Pinhassi and Rachel Thomas, Chief Curator at Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, discuss Pinhassi's solo show 'After Pleasure'.
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Oren Pinhassi: After Pleasure
19 January - 9 March 2024Opening reception | Thursday 18 January 6-8pm Edel Assanti is pleased to present After Pleasure, Oren Pinhassi's third solo exhibition at the gallery. Featuring a series of new and recently...Read more -
Oren Pinhassi: The Crowd | Part 2
20 October - 18 December 2020Edel Assanti is pleased to present The Crowd, Oren Pinhassi’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. The Crowd is comprised of a group of freestanding sculptures which on first impression...Read more -
Oren Pinhassi: The Crowd | Part 1
St Cyprian's, Clarence Gate 6 - 10 October 2020Edel Assanti is pleased to present The Crowd, a five-day offsite exhibition by Oren Pinhassi, staged at St Cyprian’s Church over the course of the week of Frieze London. The...Read more -
Oren Pinhassi: Second Nature
6 July - 24 August 2018Private View | Thursday 5 July 6 - 8pm ...is postmodernity the pastime of an old man who scrounges in the garbage-heap of finality looking for leftovers, who brandishes unconsciousnesses,...Read more
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Frieze London
11 - 15 October 2023For Frieze London 2023, Edel Assanti presents new and previously unseen works by five artists spanning film, painting, photography and sculpture. An immersive video presentation...Read more -
Art Basel Miami Beach
Oren Pinhassi: I Would Talk About the End 29 November - 3 December 2022Edel Assanti’s booth presents Oren Pinhassi’s latest body of sculptural work that explores the act of mourning. Pinhassi’s interest in mourning first emerged in his...Read more
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Oren Pinhassi in The Brooklyn Rail
'Oren Pinhassi: Losing Face' by Osman Can Yerebakan 12 October 202412 October 2024 Where is the body? There is a scrolling headless torso locked in a frame on a hook-up app. A marble god is...Read more -
Oren Pinhassi in Something Curated
Interview: Sculptor Oren Pinhassi on Architecture, Eroticism and the Generosity of Human Labour by Keshav Anand 20 September 202420 September 2024, New York-based artist Oren Pinhassi creates sensuous sculptures and large-scale installations that explore the politics of architectural spaces as they relate to...Read more -
Oren Pinhassi in The Standard
'The best exhibitions this week in London, from Gerhard Richter to Oren Pinhassi' by Elizabeth Gregory 24 January 202424 January 2024 With access to hundreds of museums and galleries a tube ride away, we Londoners are spoilt for choice when it comes to...Read more -
Oren Pinhassi in The Observer
'On View Now: Two Shows on Domesticity and the Housing Crisis' by Farah Abdessamad 12 October 202312 October 2023 The University of Pennsylvania’s Institute of Contemporary Art and the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum invite us to explore what lies at the...Read more -
Oren Pinhassi in FAD Magazine
'Art Basel Miami Beach 2022 - 7 Artworks From 7 Booths' by Ida Ivanka Hamilton 5 December 20225 December 2022 As Mera Rubell stated: “Sun and fun became a cultural destination” Art Basel Miami Beach celebrated its 20th anniversary in December 2022....Read more -
Oren Pinhassi in The Guardian
'‘Being queer is amazing’: LGBTQ+ artists take the stage at this year’s Art Basel Miami' by Veronica Esposito 1 December 202201 December 2022 In a state where anti-LGBTQ+ legislation has recently dominated the headlines, the annual gathering of artists sees queerness out in front. This...Read more -
Oren Pinhassi in The Wall Street Journal
'Art Basel Miami Beach Plays It Safe in the Sun' by Brian P. Kelly 30 November 202230 November 2022 The art fair, now celebrating its 20th anniversary, features thoughtful work but shies away from taking chances. The Miami area has always...Read more -
Oren Pinhassi in ARTnews
'New Talent: 5 Artists Fusing Furniture and Sculpture' by Emily Watlington 20 August 202120 August 2021 Everyday designs often bear inadvertent traces of the beliefs and values of the people who produced them. But sometimes, it’s hard...Read more -
Oren Pinhassi at Kölnischer Kunstverein
Group exhibition 'Guilty Curtain' from 21 August to 17 October 2021 19 August 202119 August 2021 Guilty Curtain is a site-specific installation made for the historical space of the Kölnischer Kunstverein. Inside the long transparent exhibition hall,...Read more -
Oren Pinhassi in Art in America
'Oren Pinhassi on erotic architecture and sculpting with sand' by Emily Watlington 4 June 202104 June 2021 In Oren Pinhassi’s current exhibition at Helena Anrather in New York, the Tel Aviv–born, New York–based sculptor investigates sand as a material...Read more -
Oren Pinhassi in Sculpture Magazine
'Edel Assanti and St Cyprian’s Clarence Gate' by Elizabeth Fullerton 1 May 202101 May 2021 The anthropomorphic sculptures of Israel-born, New York-based Oren Pinhassi hold up a strange, disconcerting mirror to humanity. Though vaguely like us in...Read more -
Oren Pinhassi at Aora Space
Virtual group exhibition 'AORA: III' from 01 February to 02 May 2021 1 February 202101 February 2021 The Crowd is a series of sculptures created by Oren Pinhassi, the finalist for AORA’s virtual open call. Responding to ‘bodies’...Read more -
Edel Assanti in Frieze Viewing Room
24 September 202024 September 2020 The gallery will participate in Frieze London's online viewing room; featuring new work by Noémie Goudal, Dale Lewis and Oren Pinhassi. Noémie...Read more -
Oren Pinhassi and Sheida Soleimani in ArtAsiaPacific
'Roundup From the Armory Show 2020' by Paul Laster 6 March 202006 March 2020 The Armory Show, which returned to Piers 90 and 94 on New York's Hudson River for its 26th edition boasted 183 exhibitors...Read more -
Oren Pinhassi and Sheida Soleimani in Artsy
'The 10 Best Booths at The Armory Show' by Alina Cohen 5 March 202005 March 2020 The lovely lavender backdrop at Edel Assanti’s booth belies the heavy political content in the exhibited work. The hue references Iran’s president,...Read more -
Oren Pinhassi at Castello San Basilio
Pinhassi is the artist in residence from 05 July to 19 August 2019 28 August 201928 August 2019 Situated in Basilicata, Italy, Castello di San Basilio was built as a fortified farm by the monastic community of the Basilians in...Read more -
Oren Pinhassi at Palazzo Monti, Brescia, Italy
Solo exhibition 'Oren Pinhassi a Palazzo' from 22 June to 19 July 2019 1 July 201901 July 2019 Palazzo Monti is excited to announce “Oren Pinhassi a Palazzo”, a solo show of the NY-based artist. The show includes a selection...Read more -
Oren Pinhassi in Domus
'Oren Pinhassi: The trembling image of Second Natures' by Ginevra Bria 15 August 201815 August 2018 [Translation] The first solo show by Oren Pinhassi, in the UK is at Edel Assanti. Set in a large, well lit ground-gallery,...Read more -
Oren Pinhassi in The Quietus
'(An)Other Space: Oren Pinhassi's Second Nature' by Robert Barry 5 August 201805 August 2018 The air looked cooler inside, somehow. Stifled by the heat and close sweat of London’s heatwave, the smog rising from the ground...Read more -
Oren Pinhassi in Wallpaper*
'Oren Pinhassi presents 'non-binary' sculptures at London's Edel Assanti gallery' by Michael Yeung 6 July 201806 July 2018 The Israeli artist Oren Pinhassi has created sculptures around the world. Whenever he has an exhibition abroad, he doesn’t ship pieces from...Read more -
Oren Pinhassi at David Zwirner
Solo exhibition 'This is Not A Prop' from 27 June to 03 August 2018 6 July 201806 July 2018 David Zwirner is pleased to present This Is Not a Prop at the gallery’s 525 and 533 West 19th Street locations in...Read more