As part of the year-long "Genius Loci" format, the Kunstverein Ludwigshafen 2025 is devoting itself to a critical examination of linear national narratives through the appropriation of historical locations, objects and collections. Works by Maeve Brennan, Kevin Jerome Everson, Hélène Fauquet, Andrea Geyer, Itamar Gov, Aziza Kadyri, Germain Marguillard, Omar Mismar, and others.

Openings:
Ludwigshafen - May 1st, 18:00 at Rudolf-Scharpf-Galerie
Speyer - May 8th, 18:00 at Industriehof Speyer
Bad Kreuznach - May 22nd, 18:00 at Museum Schlosspark
Neustadt - June 7th, 16:00 at Vineyard Müller-Catoir
Mainz - August 22nd, 18:00 at Schule des Sehens Uni Mainz

The German Federal Ministry of Culture has awarded the scholarships for residencies at the federally funded German Academy Rome Villa Massimo, the Casa Baldi and the German Study Centre in Venice. With these scholarship stays in Italy, the Federal Government enables highly talented artists from Germany to further their artistic development. Itamar Gov will be resident at Casa Baldi / Villa Massimo in April-June 2025.

Zilberman Gallery is pleased to announce the second solo exhibition of Itamar Gov, titled “In the Family of Things”. It is Gov’s first solo exhibition in Istanbul.

March 5th - May 15th 2025

Opening: Tuesday, March 4th, 18:00

Kicking off the anniversary year, Georg Kolbe Museum presents an international group show that centres around the museum’s opening in 1950 as the first newly founded museum in post-war West Berlin. With works by Christian Borchert, Cao Fei, Ryan Gander, Itamar Gov, Taus Makhacheva, Hande Sever, Laure Prouvost, Álvaro Urbano, Kaari Upson, Marion Verboom, Danh Võ and Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt.

Tea and Dry Biscuits. An Anniversary Exhibition
April 17th - October 26th 2025

Itamar Gov is part of ‘Total Liquidation’, an exhibition showcasing 555 visuals of artworks that have disappeared (lost, stolen, damaged, destroyed). The exhibition blends old masters and contemporary artists, and is the result of a research conducted as part of the ‘Oblivion Collection’ project. Curated by Andy Rankin.

Opening on Thursday, October 10th at 18:30.

From September 19th to November 30th, Zilberman | Istanbul is presenting the group exhibition “Rising Waters, Radiating Lights” in its two locations in the city.

Participating artists: Omar Barquet, Sena Başöz, Itamar Gov, Larry Muñoz, İz Öztat, Yaşam Şaşmazer, Hale Tenger.

Opening on Thursday, September 19th at 18:30 (Mısır Apartmanı) and Saturday, September 21st at 18:00 (Piyalepaşa).

Itamar Gov is one of the contributors to the Croatian Pavillion at the 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia.

Vlatka Horvat’s project for the Croatian Pavilion, ‘By the Means at Hand’, curated by Antonia Majaca, exists as an accumulative exhibition of artworks by a wide-ranging group of international artists living “as foreigners,” reflecting on questions and urgencies of the diasporic experience.

April 20th - November 24th

Itamar Gov’s sculptural installations 'The Nursery' and 'Olympia (CER.810)' are part of ‘Natural Acts’ by Perel.

September 27th - 30th at 17:00 / 20:00

Residing in Istanbul from the beginning of June until the end of September 2024, the current fellows of Kulturakademie Tarabya are Itamar Gov, Sandra Hetzl, Schokofeh Kamiz, Philipp Farra, Tümay Kilinçel, Biene Pilavci and Idil Baydar.

Zilberman | Berlin is happy to invite you to the presentation of the new book ‘Of Phantom-Limbs and Rejected Citrons’ by Itamar Gov, taking place on the occasion of our group exhibition ‘Pondering Provenance’ at Zilberman | Berlin.

Itamar Gov will speak about the process of creating the book, as well as about his works currently on display at Zilberman | Berlin, Salzburger Kunstverein and Kunstverein Hannover.

Gov’s book includes texts by Carlos Kong and Caterina Taurelli Salimbeni. It is published by Claudia de la Torre (publisher, backbone books) and supported by Stiftung Kunstfonds.

Thursday, May 23 at 19:00
Schlüterstraße 45 Berlin

Taking place between May 4th and July 14th, ‘The Myth of Normal: Of Competing and Conceding’ deals with and questions about bodies and society, which are mutually dependent and revolve around what constructs the concept of communal inclusion and which can be illuminated uniquely through artistic practice.

Participating artists: Emilie L. Gossiaux, Itamar Gov, Nikita Kadan, Marcos Lutyens, Berenice Olmedo, Peter Schloss, and Imogen Stidworthy.

Opening on Friday, May 3rd at 19:00.

From May 8th to June 30th, Salzburger Kunstverein showcases 'The Myth of Normal: Chronic Contradictions' a group exhibition conceptualized in collaboration with Kunstverein Hannover. This exhibit is intricately paired with Kunstverein Hannover’s own “The Myth of Normal: Of Competing and Conceding,” serving as its sororal twin in exploring the standards of “normalcy” in health and societal expectations inspired by the insights of Dr. Gabor Maté, a renowned expert in the study of trauma.

Participating artists: Cat Chong, Jeamin Cha, Itamar Gov, Anastasia Sosunova, Imogen Stidworthy, and Julia Zöhrer.

The exhibition Landscape of Memories brings together the works Carlos Aires, Alpin Arda Bağcık, Omar Barquet, Sandra del Pilar, Memed Erdener, Itamar Gov, Azade Köker, Larry Muñoz, Erinç Seymen, Yaşam Şaşmazer, Lucia Tallová, and Cengiz Tekin, exploring the intricate relationships between human, nature, and memory through their distinctive artistic approaches.

Opening on Friday, December 1st at 18:30-21:30.

Les Filles du Calvaire is delighted to announce the group exhibition Le citron est la fleur la plus sincère (The Lemon is the most sincere of flowers), curated by Yvannoé Kruger, which brings together a group of artists from around the world to explore the many facets of the humble citrus fruit.

Participating artists: Abdelhak Benallou, Çağla Ulusoy, Mateo Revillo, Baptiste et Jaïna, Maya, Inès Touam, Nika Kutateladze, Leï Saïto, Nicolas Momein, Raphaël-Bachir Osman, Charles Hascoët, Ugo Schildge, Bianca Argimón, Itamar Gov, Taisiia Cherkasova, Claudio Coltorti, Anna Farouche, Apollinaria Broche, Léo Fourdrinier, Bruno Verjus.

Opening on Saturday, December 2nd at 15:00-18:00.

Platform 82 | Zilberman cordially invites you to a conversation between artist Itamar Gov and curator and writer Zippora Elders. Presented as part of Platform 82's screening program Instances of Erasure, Gov’s Letters to Shevik addresses major questions of human existence, embedded in descriptions of everyday events. The video work will be the starting point of a conversation about Gov's artistic work and practice. 

Thursday, November 9th at 19:00.

Itamar Gov is the recipient of the Special Prize UTOPIA as part of the Talent Prize 2023. The group exhibition featuring the works of the prize recipients opens at Mattatoio in Rome on Thursday, October 26th at 18:30.

Zilberman | Berlin is delighted to invite you to an artist talk between Itamar Gov and Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu  in context of Gov's ongoing solo exhibition Chemistry and Physics in the Household.

Sunday July 16th at 17:00.

The selected residents at the Kulturakademie Tarabya for 2023/24 have been announced. The jury was appointed by the Advisory Board of the Kulturakademie. The advisory board includes representatives of the Bundestag, the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Federal Foreign Office and the Goethe-Institut. The Advisory Board also discusses the conceptual guidelines for the Kulturakademie.

The selected residents are Amen Feizabadi, Cem Kaya, Ahmet Öğüt, Hakan Silahsızoğlu, Itamar Gov, Peter Steckroth, Bettina Allamoda, Ingo Arend, Ebru Düzgün, Andreas Fanizadeh, Ulya Soley.

Zilberman | Berlin is delighted to announce the opening of its new space in Berlin’s Schlüterstraße 45 with the exhibition Transit. Curated by Lotte Laub and Susanne Weiß, Transit brings together works by Yane Calovski & Hristina Ivanoska, Antje Engelmann, Memed Erdener, Hanna Frenzel, Itamar Gov, Fatoş İrwen, İz Öztat & Zişan & BAÇOY KOOP, Judith Raum, Sim Chi Yin, and Annette Weisser. Opening on April 28th, the exhibition runs through July 29th.

The first solo exhibition of Itamar Gov at Zilberman Gallery, titled “Chemistry and Physics in the Household”, will open on April 27, 2023. The show will run through July 29.

Bringing together historical moments and fabricated futures, the exhibition will form a trajectory that moves between different realms, questioning scientific and technological responsibilities of a society that cherishes progress, innovation and efficiency.

Four new installations will follow the alchemical pursuit of an ultimate remedy and the accidental creation of Prussian Blue in 1705, the suicide of chemist Clara Immerwahr as a protest against her husband’s invention of chemical weapons in 1915, the Nazi desires for and depictions of a perfect human body, cloning, automatons and robotic utopias. Together, the works will create an immersive factory of human bodies, a domestic laboratory of mechanical entities and living tissues.