Daniel Oksenberg, Teen Spirits (Suitor in the Desert), 2024, oil paint on canvas. Photo: Elad Sarig
Moonstruck | Winner of the 2024 Osnat Mozes Painting Prize for a Young Artist
Daniel Oksenberg
Curator: Tali Ben Nun
2 November, 2024 — 4 January, 2025
Daniel Oksenberg is the winner of the 2024 Osnat Mozes Painting Prize for a Young Artist, awarded in collaboration with the Jerusalem Artists’ House. Introduced in 2007, the Prize includes a 10,000 NIS award and a solo exhibition at the Jerusalem Artists’ House. Oksenberg’s exhibition will open at the Jerusalem Artists’ House on November 2, 2024.
In their statement, the prize committee members—Hadas Hassid, Talia Israeli, and Tal Yerushalmi—noted:
Daniel Oksenberg’s painting is sensitive and sensual. Color meets color, texture meets texture; the color is smeared, erased, scraped, and layered. The image is built through a constant search into the depths of painterly languages. It is a multifaceted, multidirectional, and multidimensional painting, with an inherent passion for experimenting with matter, language, and image.
Oksenberg’s painting stems from seeking and taking unknown paths. It is as though he strives to give form, color, and substance to the depths of the soul, to places where words lose their power. The images appear and forthwith lose their form; flowers, fruits, and bodily organs are identified and soon disappear in the painting’s layers. His painting touches on absence; it gets lost only to grow into something lively, surprising, and unique.
The value of searching and experimenting in Oksenberg’s paintings also crosses over into the installation. The boundaries of the painting, like the boundaries of the image, are unraveled and open to questions. The paintings spill into installations, which expand and stretch the painterly possibilities, transforming the painting into a space, and the exhibition space into a painting that extends beyond itself. The ability of a painting to become an installation is an internal position in Oksenberg’s works, resulting from the painting’s freedom to be experimental, seeking, and living.
For all these qualities we have decided to confer the 2024 Osnat Mozes Painting Prize for a Young Artist on Daniel Oksenberg, in the hope that it will serve as a lever for fruitful studio work and artistic excellence.
Prize committee: Hadas Hassid, Talia Israeli, Tal Yerushalmi
*The award ceremony will be held on November 17, 2024*
Daniel Oksenberg – CV
1992, Israel; Lives and creates in Tel-Aviv
Education
2016 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Cum Laude), Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem.
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Daniel in Paris, Institut Français d’Israël, Tel Aviv. Curator: Naama Arad.
2022 Into the Sunset, Offnobank Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curators: Yoav Weinfeld and Omer Sheizaf.
2020 Sweaty Grips, Maya Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Sagie Azoulay.
2019 He Who Fell But Couldn’t Tell If He Even Tried To Resist, Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem. Curator: Abraham Kritzman.
2018 Club My Heart, Third Floor on the Left Project Space, Tel Aviv. Curator: Meital Aviram.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 Reconstructed Deconstruction, Schönfeld Gallery, Brussels. Curator: Elie Schönfeld.
2019 No Body No Land No Blood No Country, Bar David Museum of Arts and Judaica, Bar’Am. Curator: Avi Ifergan.
2018 So Much So, Gabirol Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Michal Ben Jakob
2018 Mozernidm, Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv. Curator: Boaz Arad.
2017 Temporary Jerusalem, Alliance House, Jerusalem. Curators: Hila Cohen-Schneiderman and Michal Ben Jakob.
2017 Independent Artists Greenhouse, Fresh Paint Art Fair, Tel Aviv. Curators: Yifat Gurion and Raz Shapira-Fainburg.
2015 Romantic Land and Art Life, Steambox Gallery, Dublin. Curator: Brendan Fox.
Grants and Awards
2024 Yehoshua Rabinovich Tel Aviv Foundation for the Arts.
2022 Young Artist Award, Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sports.
2022 Yehoshua Rabinovich Tel Aviv Foundation for the Arts.
2019 Special Projects Division of Tel Aviv Yafo Municipality and Rabinovich Foundation.
2016 The Haim Shiff Prize for Figurative Realistic Painting, Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem.

Moonstruck | Winner of the 2024 Osnat Mozes Painting Prize for a Young Artist, Daniel Oksenberg, Untitled, 2024, oil paint on canvas. Photo: Elad Sarig  

Moonstruck | Winner of the 2024 Osnat Mozes Painting Prize for a Young Artist, Daniel Oksenberg, Autumn Girl, 2023, oil paint on canvas. Photo: Elad Sarig