Biography
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Eyal Gever is a renowned contemporary artist whose work sits at the fusion of art and technology. Using just a palette of code, he develops life-like digital simulations of moments in time - often dramatic or catastrophic in nature from which he fabricates 3D-printed sculptures and light installations.
Born in 1970 in Tel Aviv, Israel, attended Jerusalem’s prestigious Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. Eyal has been working on the development of 3D technologies for over twenty-five years.
Few artists possess Eyal’s deep knowledge and passion for all things digital. Harnessing this expertise, Eyal’s artworks are always characterized by the use of cutting-edge technologies to explore and examine issues surrounding the human spirit, ecology, and global issues.
In September 2015 Eyal exhibited ‘Water Dancer’ at the Lichtsicht 5 Projection Biennale curated by internationally acclaimed Peter Weibel, Director of the prestigious ZKM | Center for Art and Media alongside a high-caliber international spectrum of artist such as William Kentridge, Robert Wilson, Random International, etc
In 2016, his sculptures were exhibited as part of a Turner retrospective at the Rijksmuseum Twenthe alongside Gerhard Richter and JMW Turner.
In 2017 Gever was commissioned by ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art to create a 400-meter large scale light installation for Karlsruhe Palace - called CLEANSING. The ZKM is showing the artwork for the last 4 years - each year to an audience of hundreds of thousands of people from mid-August until mid-October,
In 2018 Eyal collaborated with NASA and Made In Space Inc. to create #Laugh which was over three years in development, the first art sculpture ever to be produced in space when it was 3D-printed onboard the International Space Station and became the first piece of artwork ever to be produced in space.
In 2019 in his latest exhibition Uncanny State: Notion of Acceptance at Alon Segev Gallery, Gever presents six newly created metaphysical representations of human movement performed by internationally acclaimed contemporary dancer and choreographer Sharon Eyal to the music of world-renowned contemporary pianist and composer Rosey Chan. Also in 2019 Gever’s ‘Water Dancer’ and ‘Fire Dancer” was commission by Tel Aviv Jaffa municipality for the Eurovision 2019 week - seen by Tens of thousands of people
Eyal is known as a visionary artist and had received numerous awards for his innovation in Art and technology.
In July 2019 it was announced that Eyal was chosen as a world top finalist in the category of ‘Art’ at the prestigious The 2018 World Technology Awards! Winners and Finalists.
In 2018 Eyal was chosen to be a jury member at the honorable international competition "beyond Bauhaus - prototyping the future". The competition took place on the occasion of the one-hundredth anniversary of the Bauhaus (2019) and was an official program highlight of the German nationwide Bauhaus Association.
In 2017 Eyal Gever received FIRST PRIZE award at Technarte Bilbao 2017 - The International Art and Technology Conferences which took place at Museo Guggenheim Bilbao On 11th and 12th May 2017. http://www.technarte.org/
In his past before becoming an artist - Eyal has founded and was the CEO of several technology high-tech start-ups including ZAPA, renowned for developing one of the first virtual worlds; GIZMOZ, inventor of widgets (miniature applications that can be embedded in other applications); and Daz3D, the leading publisher of personalized 3D digital characters, software and accessories for creative professionals, game developers and 3D virtual enthusiasts.
Eyal has 8 technology patents in 3D computer graphics animation technologies, vision technologies and data transmission and propagation of rich media over networks.