■ Artist Statement

My work is an attempt to manifest one’s own intimate biography through materials into the public and social discourse. This is not only about the form or the finished object, but rather about the process, the perspective and perception of a structure — all of which is defined by our dynamic surroundings, and contemplated through the tools, mediums, and technology of the present time and local place.

Putting a mark of paint on a surface is an intuitive gesture that holds within it the intention of the work more than it represents the finished image. The finished work narrows down visual information to its essential gestures and primordial symbolism, exploring collective perception, producing and communicating classical and local iconographic characters encountered in the visual and literary domain. 

photo by Kameradinnen

■ CV

Liat Grayver (1986, Kfar Yehezkel, Israel) is a Berlin-based cross-disciplinary painter and media artist, investigating methods to redefine one of the primitive forms of art— painting— within the current technology-based era. Grayver currently serves as the Artistic Director and works as an Artistic Researcher within the project EACVA— Embodied Agents in Contemporary Visual Art- a multidisciplinary collaboration between artists, philosophers, psychologists and computer/robotics engineers dedicated to exploring the use of robots as an interactive painterly tool and their influence on creativity, authorship and agency in artificial systems. EACVA, co-founded by Grayver in 2022, has successfully secured multi-year funding from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). This funding supports a cross-disciplinary collaboration hosted by two esteemed institutions: Goldsmiths, University of London (UK), and the University of Konstanz (Germany). In 2022–23, Grayver hold a Junior Fellowship position at the Collegium Helveticum (ETH), where she is developing an autonomous perceptual painting robot. Since January 2016, Grayver has been collaborating with the University of Konstanz on the development of the e-David painting robot, exploring various approaches to integrate robotic and computer languages in the processes of painting and creative image-making. She is an active member of SALOON — Network for Women of Berlin’s Art Scene and an associate artist research at the Epistemologien ästhetischer Praktiken programme at the ETH Zürich.

■ Education

2015–2018

Meisterschülerin (Doctoral) Media Art. Prof. Joachim Blank, HGB — Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (Leipzig, DE)

2010–2015

Diplom (MFA) Painting and Printmaking. Prof. Heribert C. Ottersbach, HGB (Leipzig, DE)

2014

New York Art Student League (New York City, USA)

2013–2014

Accademia di Belle Arti (Napoli, IT)

2010–2013

Private student of the artist Neo Rauch (Leipzig, DE)

2008–2009

Shiboku Studio, School for Japanese Painting and Calligraphy (Tel Aviv, IL)

2005–2008

Jerusalem Studio School of Painting and Drawing (Jerusalem, IL)

■ Residencies

2022-23

Junir Fellowship - Artist in residece at the Collegium Helveticum ETH (Zürich, Switzerland)

2020

»Artist in Lab - Dualität« Residency of the Fraunhofer network for science, art and design (Jena, DE)

2018–2019

VERTIGO STARTS: Transhuman Expression, Casa Paganini| InfoMus (Genova, IT); Artist-in-Residence, Kulturwissenschaftlichen Kolleg “Cluster of Excellence Cultural Foundations of Social Integration,” University of Konstanz (Konstanz, DE) 

2018

Guest Artist, “Exploring Methods for Computational Creativity in Painting,” Curiosity Lab, TAU (Tel Aviv, IL)

2017

Optimization, Chung-Ang University (Seoul, KR) 

2016–2017

Artist-in-Residence, Kurt-Tucholsky-Literaturmuseum, Schloss Rheinsberg (Rheinsberg, DE)

2016

Endegra 8, European Network for Education and Development in Printmaking, Saimaa University of Applied Science (Imatra, FI); Pleinair Israel, Beit Sturman Museum (Ein Harod, IL) 

2015

Guest Artist (ongoing 2015–19) working with new robotics in the fields of painting, University of Konstanz (DE); Guest artist, StartLab MIT— Massachusetts Institute of Technologies (Cambridge, USA)

2013

Europäisches Pleinair Symposium (Jena, DE)

2008

Goliat Artist Residency, Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC, USA) 

2007

International School of Painting, Drawings and Sculpture in Umbria (Monte Castello di Vibio, IT)

■ Scholarships  and Grants

2021

Continuum,  Modul C, BBK Berliner Senat.

2020

Atelierförderung, Berliner Senat; Stiftung Kunstfonds; Projektförderung, Kulturamt Konstanz

2018–2019

STARTS, European Commission; Exzellenzcluster, University of Konstanz

2017

Grant for International Project, Cultural Department of the German Embassy in Tel Aviv

2015–2018

Promovierendenförderung, Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Studienwerkes (ELES)

2013–2014

Leonardo-Stipendium (DAAD)

2012–2015

Studentenförderung, Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Studienwerkes (ELES)

2007–2008

Jerusalem Studio School

■ Awards, Nominations

2023

KI-Newcomer*innen, Art section, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Germany.  

2018–2019

1st DAGESH Kunstpreis, Jewish Museum Berlin

2017

Finalist, 25 Frauen, deren Erfindungen unser Leben verändern, Magazine EDITION F; 4th Prize, Robotart, international competition for robotic painting.

■ Solo Exhibitions

2022

Continuum, in collaboration with Daniel Berio and Nora Al-Badri, Silent Green Kulturquartier, Berlin (DE)

2021

InComputable Imagery: Reimagining the brushstroke, Kulturzentrum Konstanz (Konstanz, DE)

2020

Conditioned Gestures, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, IOF (Jena, DE)

2019

Open Closed Open/ פתוחסגורפתוח, with Yair Kira and Amir Shpilman, Jewish Museum (Berlin, DE); (Learning) The Grammar of the Act [Catalog], University of Konstanz (Konstanz, DE)

2018

Transhuman Expression, Casa Paganini| InfoMus (Genova, IT); Traversing the Threshold, Ex-girlfriend Gallery (Berlin, DE)

2017

Brushstrokes in the Digital Age,Weizmann Institute of Science, curated by Yivsam Azgad (Rehovot, IL);Étude de l’objet: Bilder und Klangbilder,Kurt-Tucholsky-Literaturmuseum (Rheinberg, DE); Pinselstriche im digitalen Zeitalter,Interdisziplinäre Forschung in Malerei und Robotik, Halle 14 (Leipzig, DE)

2016

Portrait of a Sabra: Gestalt of a Symbol,Jafo Creative (Jaffa, IL) 

2015

Wende und wende sie immer wieder / הפוךבהוהפוךבה, Tapetenwerk, Gallery Projektort 4D (Leipzig, DE).

■ Exhibitions

2023

Art Encounters Biennale - My Rhino is not a Myth, Timișoara Romania: Data Alchemy–Observing Patterns from Galileo to Artificial Intelligence, curation and participated artist, Zürich art weekend at the Collegium Helveticum ETH Zürich Switzerland ; KI- Camp, Factory Berlin at Görlitzer Park (DE).  

2022

Transpassing ,APIS+, Benevento Italy; Magic Machines, Technische Sammlungen Dresden (DE); Heimat Europa, Fotofestival Görlitz; Kunst Forscht, Kunstverein Wolfsburg (DE)

2021

The Golden NFT Project, Peng CollectiveLudwig Forum für Internationale Kunst Achen (DE); Chai, Of Offenbach (DE);  Streifzüge, Europäische Kunstakademie (Online Exhibition); AI, Robotics & Art. Hosted by the online platform Women in Ai and Robotics Germany;
Offen Verschlossen Offen,[Catalog] Kunsthalle Trier (DE).

2020

IDENTITÄT [Catalog] Ignatz Bubis-zentrum (Frankfurt, DE); SÉANCE FICTION, Kunstverein Familie Montez (Frankfurt,DE); Vertigo STARTS, CENTQUATRE (Paris FR) 

2019

Out of Office. Wenn KI und Roboter für uns arbeiten [Catalog], Zeit Stiftung and Museum der Arbeit (Hamburg, DE); Heim_Spiel Lichtenberg [Catalog],RK Gallery (Berlin, DE); Lebens Wert Arbeit [Catalog], curated by Gabriele Lohberg, Museum am Dom (Trier, DE); Pendoran Vinci — Kunst und künstliche Intelligenz heute, curated by Tina Sauerlaender and Peggy Schoenegge (Peer to space), NRW Forum (Düsseldorf, DE); DRUCK SACHE Tendenzen zeitgenössischer Druckgrafik zwischen Tradition und Innovation [Catalog],Gallery Pankow (Berlin, DE)

2017

Transparent Bodies [Catalog], Gallery Hinterconti and Gallery 21 (Hamburg, DE); Optimization [Catalog], Gallery 301 of Chung-Ang University (Seoul, KR); Figuration und Variation,Werkstätten Zürcher Eglihof 8 (Zürich, CH); VSAC Art Night,Kunsthaus ACUD (Berlin, DE); Supervision,Studio Lange Strasse 31 (Frankfurt, DE);4th Europäisches Pleinair Symposium [Catalog], Gallery Huber & Treff (Jena, DE); Brushstrokes in the Digital Age [Catalog],Fresh Paint — Contemporary Art & Design Fair, Museum of Natural History (Tel Aviv, IL); Leipziger Grafikbörse [Catalog],travel exhibition Sächsischen, Kunstwandelhalle Bad Elster, Museum Schloß Burg (Burgk), Städtischen Museum Eisenhüttenstadt, Landtag (Dresden, DE); PENDORAN Vinci — Art & Artificial Intelligence Today, NRW Forum (Düsseldorf, DE)

2016

Leipziger Grafikbörse [Catalog], Museum für Druckkunst (Leipzig, DE); Transhuman Motivation,Kreuzberg Pavillon (Berlin, DE); Es lebe das Kollektiv, Cammerspielen, WERK II (Leipzig, DE); Endegra 8,Saimaa University of Applied Science (Imatra, FI); Eyesight,Beit Sturman Museum (Ein Harod, IL)

2015

Peace, Halle 11, Spinnerei (Leipzig, DE); L’espace de l’espèce,HB55 Kunstfabrik (Berlin, DE);Family Paint,Contemporary Art & Design Fair (Tel Aviv, IL); No Future — No Past,Institut fuer Zukunft (Leipzig, DE); Civilization,Gallery Kub, curated by Franziska Eißner (Leipzig, DE); 24 Stunde Kunst Westpool,(Leipzig, DE)

2014

Prints Made in Leipzig,Gallery of the Hungarian University of Budapest (Budapest, HU)

2013

Europäisches Pleinair Symposium [Catalog], Galerie Solotoy Plijos (Jena, DE); Grafikbiennale 100 Sächsische Grafiken [Catalog], Neue Sächsische Galerie (Dresden, DE)

2012

Pocket Landscapes, P8 Gallery, curated by Ron Bartosh (Tel Aviv, IL); Grafikbiennale. 100 Sächsische Grafiken [Catalog], Neue Sächsische Galerie — Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst (Chemnitz, DE) 

2011

Thus Far,Gallery Livia (Jerusalem, IL); Fresh Paint [Catalog], Contemporary Art & Design Fair (Tel Aviv, IL)

■ Artist Talks, Public Presentations and Lectures

2022

Guest critic at the final presentations of the course "The Digital in Architecture II" of the Gramazio Kohler Research Group Digital Fabrication and Architecture. ITA, ETHZ; RETHINKING HUMANS AND MACHINES: ETH Zürich at the Berlin Sience Week, Naturkundemuseum Berlin, Holistic Technologies, „AI+Art“ Day, Zurich Art Weekend (CH), Pannel Discussion, Diversify the Code! Deichtorhallen Hamburg (DE)

2021

LINKed - AI as a tool in the Arts” hosted by Stiftung Niedersachsen and NRW Forum (Düsseldorf, DE)

2020

Kreativität und Künstliche IntelligenzLudwig-Maximilians-Universität München (München, DE)

2019

The Grammar of Robotic Paintings, Forschungsmaschine: Verschränkte Verfahren von Kunst & Theorie, Volksbühne Berlin (Berlin, DE); Open Closed Open, Jewish Museum (Berlin, DE); Machines and Creative Practice, Wissenschaftsjahr on Artificial Intelligence, Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (Berlin, DE); Transhuman Expression, STARTS Residencies, Centre Pompidou (Paris, FR); Painting Machines and Creative Practice, Goldsmiths University (London, UK); Painting Machines and Creative Practice, HKB — Hochschule der Künste (Bern, CH); Das genuin Menschliche Künstliche Intelligenz und Kreativität, Museum der Arbeit (Hamburg, DE); Painting in the Post-Digital Age, Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture (Helsinki, FI)

2018

Transhuman Expression, Chaos Computer Club (35c3) (Leipzig, DE); Brushstrokes in the Digital Age, Shenkar College of Engineering and Design (Tel Aviv, IL)

2017

Optimization [work presentation], Dong-A University (Busan, KR); Optimization [work presentation], Chung Ang University (Seoul, KR); Avoiding the Image, DAGESH — ELES Kunstlab (Berlin, DE); Pinselstriche im digitalen Zeitalter: Interdisziplinäre Forschung in Malerei und Robotik, Halle 14, Spinnerei (Leipzig, DE); (Learning) The Grammar of the Act, University of Konstanz (Konstanz, DE); Étude de l’objet: The Infinite Visual Existences of a Singular Object, Kurt-Tucholsky Literaturmuseum (Rheinsberg, DE).

■ Publications

2021

The Machine as Art/ The Machine as Artist ISBN 978-3-03936-064-2 (Hbk); ISBN 978-3-03936-065-9 (PDF) שירת המדע, שנתון לספרות, אמנות ומדעweizmann institute of science

2019

Transhuman Expression: Human-Machine Interaction as a Neutral Base for a New Artistic and Creative Practice, co-authored with Gualtiero Volpe, Collection of Expressive Artwork, Eurographic (Genova, IT)

2018

Self-Improving Robotic Brushstroke Replication, co-authored with Marvin Gülzow and Oliver Deussen, in MDPI (CH); Lebens Wert Arbeit, Exhibition Catalogue [ISBN 978-3-945277-04-1], Museum am Dom (Trier, DE); Out of Office, Exhibition Catalogue [ISBN: 978-3-947178-05-6], Zeit Stiftung und Museum der Arbeit (Hamburg DE)

■ Teaching

2023

Master Project Co-Superrevision ETH and Universität Zürich 

2021

Ausgewählt für die W3-Professur für die künstlerischen Werkstätten, HGB Leipzig

2019–2021

Europäische Kunstakademie Trier (2019)

2018

Digital Humanities, Universität Genua

2016

StartLab, IAP, MIT — Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)