Niv Fridman
Niv Fridman is an Israeli artist, working and living in London. In his works, Fridman uses history as a source of material in which he can play with and imagine new possibilities. Based on a matriculated historical research, it offers an alternative narrative to the stories which shaped our world. His new installation comprises of nine matzos, each engraved using pyrography. The engravings refer to the unique place of matzah in the Passover Seder and the religious meanings embedded in its recipe. Fridman reflects on how the Passover matzah has been weaponised since the Middle Ages as the central focus of antisemitic folklore.
His work has been shown at the Tate Modern in London, The Jewish Museum in Munich, The Hecht Museum in Haifa, and The Israel Museum in Jerusalem and presented his video works at the Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival, and the Beer Sheva Short Film Festival. He is the winner of multiple academic excellence awards, photography and music video competitions and the ARTiq scholarship.
Recently Fridman participated in two group shows curated by Orit Schreiber at Kent House Knightsbridge, featuring works in a variety of mediums including photography and assemblage.
His work is held in museums and private collections in Europe and the UK.
Niv have shown his sculptures photographs and drawings in the exhibition DreamSpace (18.9-15.10.2025) at Kent house Knightsbridge in London as well as in the exhibitionHope is But Waking Dream (8.4-8.5.2025) which I curated.
