ABOUT
Born 1983, Israel. Ariel Graduated from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, 2012, followed by a Master's Degree in conceptual design. Since 2017, Lecturer at Bezalel. Lavian has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions around the world. In 2018, Art Jewelry Forum (AJF) appointed Lavian as an ambassador for Israel. In 2019, Lavian received the Design Award from the Ministry of Culture, Israel. In 2020 Lavian won second place in Venice's Design Week in the jewelry selection and the galleries award.
My design is influenced by the raw materials surrounding me. I create new worlds from the limited resources and finds tremendous wealth in the soil, the rotting logs, wasp's nest, branches of the trees, broken objects, old plastic bags, it can be anything. I refer to the material and not to the object, study it, understand its properties, and use it to create small but complete scenes of staged nature, ex-wild. I believe that through design - as a tool - I can make a change, make a difference, affect people.
Education
2014 - 2016 - Master's Degree in Industrial Design at Bezalel, Academy of Art and Design.
2008 - 2012 - B.F.A at Bezalel, Academy of Art and Design, Department of Fashion and Jewelry.
Residences
2018 - Erasmus+ KA107 project, teaching mobility, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia
2020 - The observation tower and the artificial selection case, Eretz Israel Museum, TLV, Israel
Collections
Design Museum, Holon, Israel
Shallat Family, NYC, United States
SCAD Museum of Art, Georgia, United States
Grants and awards
2020 – VDW Jewelry Selection, second prize
2020 – VDW Jewelry Selection, galleries award.
2019 - Winner of the Ministry of Culture Design Award.
2018 – PortoJoia Award.
2012 - Excellence Scholarship in memory of Shneidinger, Bezalel, Academy of Art and Design
Solo exhibition
2018 - "Mydaybyday Gallery", Rome, Italy
2018/9 - "Material World", Geological Museum, Ramat Hasharon, Israel
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 - " The first Craft & Design biennial ", Eretz Israel Museum, TLV, Israel
2020 - " Japan Jewellery Competition", Tokyo, Japan
2020 - " International Paper Triennial", Musée Charmey, Charmey, Switzerland
2020 - " Friedrich Becker Prize ", Düsseldorf City Museum, Düsseldorf, Germany
2020 - "Rash Rash Rash", The Cymbalista Synagogue and Jewish Heritage Center, Jerusalem, Israel
2020 - "Materialness", Parsol Projects Gallery, New York, United States (curator (
2019 - "In My Opinion…Jewellery with a Message, Museum of Contemporary Jewelry, Warsaw, Poland
2019 - "Jewelry and anatomy", Tincal Lab, Porto, Portugal
2019 - "In My Opinion…Jewellery with a Message, City Museum in Zabrze, Poland
2019 - "LIE-E-S”, Institut français, Barcelona, Spain
2019 - “In My Opinion…Jewellery with a Message ", Gallery of Art in Legnica, Poland
2019 - "Hamsa, hamsa, hamsa", Ein Dor Museum, Israel
2019 - "In My Opinion…Jewellery with a Message, Regional Museum in Sandomierz, Poland
2019 - "Reimagining Otherness”, Pratt Institute, Design Gallery, New York, United States
2019 - " RENEWAL”, Dock Street Studios, Dundee, Scotland
2019 - "LIE-E-S”, Galerie Art'Course, Strasbourg, France
2019 - "Gioielli in Fermento, Museo di Storia Naturale del Mediterraneo, Livorno, Italy
2019 - "Jewelry Making: Past & Present, the Museum for Islamic Art, Jerusalem, Israel
2019 - "Gioielli in Fermento, Villa Braghieri, Castel San Giovanni, Italy
2019 - "Metamorphosis Paramorphsis", Koniaren, Slovakia
2019 - "In My Opinion…Jewellery with a Message ",Galerie YES, Poznan, Poland
2019 - "Metamorphosis Paramorphsis",Galeria Caraffova vaznica, Presov , Slovakia
2019 - "Hammer My Jewel ", Galerie beyond, Antwerp, Belgium
2018 - "Rencontres bijoux France - Israel", Institut national des Metiers d’Art, Paris, France
2018 - " Sibush", Vitrina Gallery, Holon, Israel
2018 - "The second biennale for contemporary jewelry", Galería de Arte Portable, Bogotá, Colombia
2018 - "Jewelry and Technology ", Tincal Lab, Porto, Portugal
2018 - "Triple parade, Biennale for contemporary Jewelry", How art museum, Shanghai, China
2018 - "Joya Barcelona", Barcelona, Spain
2018 - "PLASTIC", Rome, Italy
2018 - "BCN Joya", Barcelona, Spain
2018 - "MadridJoya", Madrid, Spain
2018 - "Collectiva Meeting", Collectiva Gallery, Porto, Portugal
2018 - "The second biennale for contemporary jewelry", MAJA museum, Jericó, Antioquia
2018 - "The second biennale for contemporary jewelry", Juan del Corral museum, Santa Fe de Antioquia, Colombia
2018 - "Rencontres Bijoux France - Israel", Institute & bijouterie, Saumur, France
2018 - "Hamsa, hamsa, hamsa", The Museum for Islamic Art, Jerusalem, Israel
2018 - "Dandelion fluff’s flight through the universe", Putti Art Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2018 - Legnica Jewelry Festival (SILVER), Legnica, Poland
2018 - "Gestures of Locality", Artists' House, Tel Aviv, Israel
2018 - "Short Stories", Putti Art Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2017 - "Beijing International Jewelry Art Biennial", Beijing, China
2017 - "Illustrator and designer walk into a bar", Hansen House, Jerusalem, Israel
2017 - "The Jerusalem Biennale", Jerusalem, Israel
2017 - "The Otarki Studio", Design Week, Jerusalem, Israel
2017 - "Secrets", Hansen House, Jerusalem, Israel
2017 - Legnica Jewelry Festival (SILVER), Legnica, Poland
2017 - " Platforma", Hansen House, Jerusalem, Israel
2016 - " over view", Design Museum, Holon, Israel
2016 - " Elements Hansen House, Jerusalem, Israel
2016 - " Judaica Now! Goblets and Kiddush Cups", Rishon Le-Zion Museum, Israel
2016 - "About the place- Israeli improvisation", Binyamin Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2016 - "Creativity roughness - Contemporary Israeli Design", Taipei, Taiwan
2016 - "Not contagious", Hansen House, Jerusalem, Israel
2016 - "State of DESIGN", Design Week, Berlin, Germany
2016 - Legnica Jewelry Festival (SILVER), Legnica, Poland
2016 - "Chairs Game", WIZO Haifa Academy of Design and Education, Israel
2015 - "De-Tech - in praise of Slowness", Hansen House, Jerusalem, Israel
2015 - Legnica Jewelry Festival (SILVER), Legnica, Poland
2015 - "Street View", city Hall, Acco, Israel
2015 - "Layers", contemporary Jewelry exhibition - Old Jaffa Museum, Jaffa, Israel
2014 - Legnica Jewelry Festival (SILVER), Legnica, Poland
2013 - "Footnotes - Notes on Shoes" - Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
2013 - "Light and Matter" Jewelry Exhibition, Alon Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
2012 - "Eco-fashion" - an exhibition of ecologist flowerpots, Tel Aviv, Israel
2012 - Final Exhibition - Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel