Artist Name: Michal Luft
Residency Dates: August – September 2025
Born: 1989
Hometown: Haifa
Lives & Works: Antwerp
URL: michal-luft.com | Instagram @michal.luft
Education:
2024-2025 – Researcher, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
2021-2022 – MFA, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
2015-2018 – BFA, Shenkar Multidisciplinary Art School, Tel-Aviv
Bio/Statement:
Michal Luft is an interdisciplinary artist based in Antwerp, Belgium. Her artistic practice encompasses photography and site-specific installations, in which she explores ordinary objects and spaces as reflections of human fragility and vulnerability. She is interested in the thin line between what we see and what is bubbling beneath the surface, the undercurrent of the everyday and the mundane. She captures, interprets, and meticulously recreates elements that may appear familiar but behave in unexpected ways. These objects – through their repetitive function, misplaced location, or redundancy – hint at deeper, often hidden issues. In her current fellowship at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, she carefully researches the layered notion of home and belonging through multiple perspectives. This study explores how personal and collective histories of displacement and migration, sorrow, and loss shape our perceptions of home.
Her works have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions, among which the recent ones include: “From a Distance” – solo exhibition, Forbidden City, Antwerpen, BE (2025); “Call It A Day” – trio show with Árni Jónsson & Sigurrós Björnsdóttir, Antwerpen, BE (2024); “25XNICC” – S.M.A.K, Ghent, BE (2023); “Currents #10” – Marres, Maastricht, NL (2022); “Over The Top” – solo exhibition, Universal Exports, Antwerpen, BE (2022); “To be Antwerp” – De Slegte, BE (2022); MFA exhibition – The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, BE (2022); “Black rain” – Edmond de Rothschild Foundation, Tel Aviv (2021); “A-okay” – duo exhibition with Anael Berkovitz, Artspace, Tel Aviv (2021); “Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind” – Haifa Museum of art (2020); “Still life Aided” – solo exhibition, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv (2019). She has received several awards, including the InSitu³ Prize from The Royal Academy, Antwerp (2022), Young Artist Award from the Ministry of Culture (2022), Rabinovich Foundation Award (2021), Adams Prize for Emerging Artists (2019), and AICF Cultural Foundation Award for extraordinary achievement (2018).
Support: Michal Luft’s residency is made possible with support from Artis.
