Alona Rodeh

Alona Rodeh (Hebrew: אלונה רודה; born 1979) is a multimedia artist whose work combines sculpture, video, immersive installations and photography.^[1]

Alona Rodeh
אלונה רודה
Alona Rodeh in Berlin, 2015
Born	1979 Ben Ami, Israel
Nationality	Israeli, Romanian
Education	Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
Known for	Visual art
Website	alonarodeh.com

Biography

Alona Rodeh was born and raised in Israel. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem in 2003. and participated in the BFA exchange program of the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. She completed her Master of Fine Arts degree at the Tel Aviv campus of Bezalel in 2009, spending a semester at the Sculpture Department of the Royal College of Art in London.^[2] Rodeh lives and works in Berlin.

Art career

Applying her experience as a set designer for theater,^[3] Rodeh creates large-scale installations combining light, movement, and sound. She describes these creations as a performance without performers^[1] offering a time-based experience.^[4]

Rodeh's Safe and Sound Project explores the history of off-the-shelf reflective and fluorescent illumination technologies.^[5][6][7]

Solo exhibitions

• Phenomenal!, The Center for Digital Art, Holon 2025^[8]
• Interzone, Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen, May 2024^[9][10]
• Architecture of The Nights, Kunstpalais Erlangen, 2019^[2][11]
• DARK AGES 2020, Salzburger Kunstverein, 2019^[6]
• The Runner (LIVE), KOENIG2 by_robbygreif, Vienna, 2017^[12]
• Safe and Sound (Evolutions), Grimmuseum Berlin, 2015^[7]
• Safe and Sound I, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 2014^[13]
• Above and Beyond, CCA Tel Aviv, 2013^[14]
• The Resurrection of Dead Masters, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, 2012^[15]
• The Etheric Body, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, 2011^[13]

Group exhibitions (selection)

• Access Kafka, Jewish Museum Berlin, 2024^[16]
• CLUB, Dittrich and Schlechtriem, 2024^[17][18]
• In the Spotlight of the Night: Life in the Gloom, Marta Herford, 2019^{[19][better source needed]}
• Showtime, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2013^[20][21][22]

Public Art

Rodeh’s work in public space focuses on the visual language of safety infrastructure, particularly through artificial light, including nocturnal public walks, examining how illumination shapes behavior, perception, and control in the urban environment.

• The Tale of the Scale and the Skull, 2024: a permanent public artwork installed in 2024 on the terrace of PETRI Berlin, an archaeological research and visitor center at Petriplatz, Berlin^[23]
• Nightcaps, 2021/2024: sculptures on street lamps addressing light pollution and cultural head coverings. ^[24][25][26]
• Night walks: Rodeh conducts nocturnal walks through urban environments as part of her artistic research into the aesthetics and infrastructure of artificial illumination. These walks inform her broader investigation into how light technologies shape perceptions of safety, visibility, and control in public space.^[27][28]

Video Games

• Wasted, 2024^[29]

Awards and recognition

Rodeh was the recipient of the 2011 Young Artist Prize from the Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sport.^[30] She also won various stipends from Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn (2019), the Berlin Senate for Culture and Europe (2019, 2017), the Israel Lottery Council for Culture and Arts (2014, 2012), Artis (2013, 2010, 2008), Rabinovich Foundation (2013, 2012) Outset Israel (2013) and the Ostrovsky Family Fund (2013) and others. Fellowships included, among others, a six months residency at the Berlin Fire Brigade (in the frame of KUNSTrePUBLIK and ZK/U Artist Dis-Placement Residency),^[3][2] and a year-long residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin.^[13][7]

Alona Rodeh, 2019

Rodeh is represented by Christine König Galerie, Vienna and Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv.

Published works

• Deiss, Amely; Kröger, Malte, eds. (2019). Safe & Sound: The Third Dimension, Kunstpalais Erlangen (in English and German). Kunstpalais Erlangen. ISBN 978-3-923899-51-7. With contributions by Deiss, Amely; Esteve, Pol; Hood, Raymond M.; Kealy, Séamus; Kroeger, Malte; Lam, William MC; Rodeh, Alona; and Wiggam, Marc.
• Rodeh, Alona, ed. (2017). Fire: Safe & Sound (in English and German). ZK/U Press. ISBN 978-3-945659-07-6. With contributions by Karjevsky, Gilly; Schöder, Thore; McCleary, Kristen; Hensler, Bruce; and Meinhoff, Ulrike.
• Rodeh, Alona, ed. (2015). Safe and Sound Delux Edition (in English and Hebrew). The Green Box. ISBN 978-965-7463-20-8. With contributions by Atwan, Shachar; Gallanti, Fabrizio; and Schwartz, Hillel.

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  Bollard as Ashtray, Pproduction stills, 20222

  Rodeh, Alona, ed. (2013). Above and Beyond (in English and Hebrew). CCA Tel Aviv. ISBN 978-965-7463-20-8. With contributions by Tamir, Chen; Rodeh, Alona; and Brand, Roy.