Oz Almog

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**Oz Almog** (born 15.04.1956, in Kfar Saba, Israel) is a highly renowned Austrian-Israeli artist and author, whose works have been exhibited in more than a few dozens museums and galleries worldwide– from Vienna to Tel Aviv, from London, Berlin and Amsterdam to Balkan… Each of his exhibition catalogs is a book, which transcends the usual presentation of one artist and his work, turning it into an indispensable lexicon of Jewish personalities and phenomena. Throughout the ’80s, while still a student of **Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna**, Oz Almog was recognized as one of the most influential off-scene underground art figures in Austria, while in ‘90s he turned his interest into artistic reconstructions of complex social issues, including **Armchair Assassination** (symbolic execution of anti-Semitic writers, 1988), **Birth of a Myth** (evolution of a personality cult, 1994), **The Psychonaut and His Mind Navigator** (1995), **Block Brut** (auto-erotic deaths, 1997) and **Shaheed** (Suicide Terror phenomena, 1997). **Him Too?? Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession** (400 portraits of famous Jewish personalities, 1999) represents Oz Almog’s artistic analysis of hidden forms of anti-Semitism and, in the same time, radical de-construction of The Artist as a phenomenon. After being shown at the Jewish Museum Vienna, the installation continued to Israel, Germany, the Netherlands and dozens museums worldwide … **Action T-4: Opera Euthanasia** - part of the Memorial exhibition at the Pro

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