Bio
"Creation is an uncontrolled muscle" according to Arik Levy (born 1963).
Artist, technician, photographer, designer, video artist, Levy's skills are multi-disciplinary, and his works are shown and installed worldwide. Best known publicly for his sculptures – such as his signature Rock pieces –, his installations, limited editions and design, Levy nevertheless feels "The world is about people, not objects."
Hailing originally from Israel and moving to Europe after his first participation in a group sculpture exhibition in Tel-Aviv in 1986, Levy set up his studio in Paris in 1992.
Heavily dyslexic, art became his medium of expression. His formation was unconventional where surfing and painting on surfboards as if they were canvas, as well as his art and graphic design studio, took all of his time back home. After years of practice Levy decides to take on studies at the Art Center Europe in Switzerland where he gains a BS with distinction 1991.
After a stint in Japan where he consolidates his ideas, observing Japanese minimalist culture and way of life, and taking on very different experiences such as manufacturing products and pieces for exhibitions, Levy returns to Europe where he contributes his artistry to another field – contemporary dance and opera by way of set design and installations.
The creation of his studio then meant a foray back to art, his first love, followed by industrial design, as well as
other ways of expressing his talent.
Considering himself now more of a "feeling" artist, Arik Levy continues to contribute substantially to our
interior and exterior milieu, his work including public sculpture, as well as complete environments that can
be adapted for multi-use. "Life is a system of signs and symbols," he says, "where nothing is quite as it
seems."
Arik Levy is Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres de la République française.
UPCOMING EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS
Podgorny Robinson Gallery, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France – FragileBalance – solo exhibition – 21/08/2024-21/10/2024
ONGOING ART EXHIBITIONS AND INSTALLATIONS
Pilevneli Gallery, Yalıkavak Bodrum Turkey – The Beauty of the Other – solo exhibition – 12/07/2024-08/09/2024
Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg, Germany – Transition of Balance - solo exhibition – 05/2024 – 07/2024
RockFormationTower 318 Corten, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France – temporary installation monumental public sculpture –12/2023-04/2025
Arik Levy Sculpture Park, Saint-Paul-de-Vence - opening April 2022
Ghost 350 Corten, Domaine du Muy, Le Muy, France – monumental sculpture installation – summer 2022
Crystal Worlds Museum, Wattens – Transparent Opacity – Chamber of Wonder – 2012-2023
SELECTION OF ART EXHIBITIONS AND INSTALLATIONS
2024
INTERNI CROSS VISION, Università degli Studi di Milano - Ca’ Granda, Milan - Path of Visions – temporary installation with Sans Souci – 15-28/04/2024
SIN Studio Gallery, Prague – Heavy Weights – group exhibition – 03/2024
2023
7th Jing'an International Sculpture Project, Shanghai PRC – RockGrowth 320 Corten and RockFormationTower 455 Corten – 20/09/2023 - 31/12/2023
Blickachsen 13 (2023), Blickachsen Foundation, Bad Homburg and Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Germany – 14/05-01/10/2023
Musée Barbier-Mueller, Geneva, Switzerland – Pensées invisibles – group exhibition – 09/11/2022-03/09/2023
Podgorny Robinson Gallery, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France – Mutual Attraction – group exhibition with Zoé Ouvrier – 06-26/04/2023
Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg, Germany – Im kleinen Format / In Small Format – group exhibition – 25/11/2022 – 04/02/2023
MUDAC, Geneva, Switzerland – A chair and you – group exhibition – 28/10/222 – 05/02/2023
Ghost 350 Corten, Domaine du Muy, Le Muy, France – monumental sculpture installation
2022
Podgorny Robinson Gallery, Saint Paul de Vence, France – solo exhibition – 07/2022-08/2022
Louise Alexander Gallery, Porto Cervo, Italy – solo exhibition – 07/2022
Pilevneli Gallery, Yalıkavak, Turkey – group exhibition – 02/07/2022 – 18/09/2022
Sculpture Park, Eschborn, Germany – solo exhibition – Galerie Scheffel – 07/05/2022 – 09/2022
Pilevneli Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey – EmotionalEquity – solo exhibition – 15/12/2021-29/01/2022
Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg, Germany – Im kleinen Format / In Small Format – group exhibition – 26/11/2021 – 05/02/2022
2021
Crystal Worlds Museum, Wattens, Austria – EmotionalFormation, Chamber of Wonder n. 8 2017 – 2017-2021
Galerie Scheffel, MineralForest, Bad Homburg, Germany - solo exhibition – 2021
Kaplankaya, Milas, Turkey - PILEVNELI x KÖNIG - group exhibition – 09/07-30/09/2021
Pilevneli at Mandarin Oriental, Bodrum, Turkey – Natural Fusion – duo exhibition with Zoé Ouvrier – 07/07-01/08/2021
Louise Alexandre Gallery, Porto Cervo, Italy – RockFormationTower 144 Corten and RockFormationTower 157 Corten - Summer outdoor installation – 01/07-02/09/2021
Venice Design Biennial, 3rd edition – Stick&Structures – main entrance installation at SPUMA – Space for the Arts, Venezia – 20/05 - 27/06/2021
2020
Method & Concept, Naples, USA – BeyondNature – solo exhibition – 13/11/2020 – 05/02/2021
Podgorny Robinson Gallery, EmotionalGhosts, Saint Paul de Vence, France – solo exhibition – 08/2020
Art Biesenthal, Germany – group exhibition – 08/2020
Château Sainte Roseline, Les Arcs, France – MineralNature – solo exhibition – 06/07/2020 - 02/10/2020
Louise Alexander Gallery, Porto Cervo, Italy, CrossoverReflections – solo exhibition – 27/06/2020 - 07/09/2020
Espace Muraille, Geneva – Independence - solo exhibition – 29/01/2020 - 28/06/2020
Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg - In small format, group exhibition, 29/11/2019- 01/02/2020
Sotheby’s, London –The Blazing World, group exhibition – 04/12/2019-30/01/2020
2019
Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, Australia – group exhibition - 10/2019-11/2019
Pilevneli Gallery, Istanbul,Turkey - Intersection of existence - Solo Exhibition – 28/03-10/05/19
Blickachsen 12 (2019), Blickachsen Foundation, Bad Homburg and Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Germany, 05/2019 – 10/2019
Installation of five monumental sculptures: GiantLog, Rock Tower 131, RockStoneShift 235, RockstoneFusionVertical 170, RockStoneImplosed 207
2018
RockTripleFusion VerticalGiant 660 and RockTripleFusionGiant 500, Taipei - permanent installation of two monumental public sculptures commissioned to be part of the residential project Da-An Park Towers by Sir Richard Rogers, in Taipei, Taiwan, 10/2018
Biennale Internationale Saint-Paul de Vence 2018 - RockStoneShift 235 installation, 06/2018-08/2018
RockGrowth 420, permanent installation, private collection, New York, USA, 07/2018
Podgorny-Robinson Gallery, Saint-Paul de Vence - Shift of Perception, solo exhibition, 06/2018-07/2018
Permanent installation of 6 monumental outdoor sculptures, private collection, Düsseldorf, Germany, 05/2018
Artmonte-carlo 2018, group exhibition, Setareh Gallery, Monaco, 04/2018
Podgorny-Robinson Gallery at Art Paris 2018, group exhibition with John Franzen, Arik Levy, Nicolas Sanhes, 04/2018
Podgorny-Robinson Gallery, Saint-Paul de Vence, In the Light of Spring, group exhibition, 03/2018-04/2018
Fox/Jensen/McRory Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand – Carbon - group exhibition – 02/2018-03/2018
Shenzhen Bay Boning Garden, China - RockFormationTower 350 and a horizontal installation of 3 Rocks in bronze, permanent public installation of 4 monumental sculptures - 01/2018
Naples Botanical Gardens, Naples, Florida – Unnatural History - installation of 7 monumental outdoor sculptures – 01/2018 to 06/2018
Artis-Naples, The Baker Museum, Naples, Florida – Unnatural History - solo exhibition – 09/2017 to 01/2018
2017
Please Do Not Enter, Los Angeles – New Works – solo exhibition – 11/2017 – 01/2018
Crystal Worlds Museum, Wattens, Austria – EmotionalFormation, Chamber of Wonder n. 8 2017 – 2017-2021
Somerset House, London (during the London Design Festival) – Mineral Gravity – installation in collaboration with COMPAC- 09/2017
Podgorny Robinson Gallery, Saint Paul de Vence – Visual Dialogs – group exhibition – 06/2017
SoLocal Group Headquarters, Boulogne-Billancourt – RockGrowthCube 150 – permanent installation – 06/2017
SuperYacht Gallery at Saatchi Gallery, London – group exhibition – 06/2017
Louise Alexander Gallery, Nomad, Monaco – solo exhibition – 04/2017
Multiplex Galleria Manzoni, Milano– Kryptonite – installation for COMPAC– 04/2017
Palazzo Crivelli, Milano– UrbanLog – installation at Delta Light– 04/2017
Aeroplastic, Brussels – group exhibition – 04/2017
Setareh Gallery, Dusseldorf – I Remembered It Differently - solo exhibition – 03/2017
Samsung, commission for BaselWorld – Galaxy Stand – 03/2017
Jensen Gallery, Sydney – Carbon - group exhibition – 02/2017
2016
Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv – Absent Presence - solo exhibition – 03/11/2016
Dice Kayek Pop-up store, Paris – pop up installation – 11/2016
Podgorny Robinson Gallery, Saint Paul de Vence – Julian Schnabel & Arik Levy – group exhibition – 08/2016
Design Miami, Miami – Ice by Arik Levy – 12/2016
Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles – 20/20 – group exhibition – 07/2016 to 09/2016
Podgorny Robinson Gallery, Saint Paul de Vence – Summer group exhibition – 07/2016
2015
Setareh Gallery, Dusseldorf – Mineral Memories - solo exhibition – 09/2015
Somerset House/The London Design Festival – Transition : Warm/Wet – installation with Tabanlioglu Architects- 09/2015
Please Do Not Enter, Los Angeles – Intimate Formations – solo exhibtion - 05/2015
Praguekabinet gallery, Prague - Intuitive Reactions – solo exhibition – 05/2015
Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels - Humble me – group exhibition – 04/2015
Atomium, Brussels – RockGrowth 808 Atomium – public space permanent installation– 04/2014
Crystal Worlds Museum, Wattens – Transparent Opacity – five-year solo installation – 09/2012 to 2017 selection of art exhibitions and installations
Pékin Fine Arts, Hong-Kong - Manmade (Human) Nature – solo exhibition – 02/2015
Alon Segev Gallery, Art15, London – group exhibition – 05/2015
Louise Alexander Gallery, Art15, London – group exhibition – 05/2015
2014
Le Frenois, Tourcoing – Lux – group exhibition – Sparkler art video – 10/10/2014
Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv – Primitive Components – solo exhibition – 30/10/2014
Louise Alexander Gallery, Porto Cervo – Uncontrolled Nature – solo exhibition – 06/2014
Ilan Engel Gallery, Paris – New Works – solo exhibition – 06/2014
Atomium, Brussels – RockGrowth 808 Atomium – public space permanent installation and exhibition – 04/2014
Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels – Full House: 100 artists – group exhibition – 04/2014
Fondation EDF, Paris – Que la lumière soit – RewindableLight art video – 04/2014
2013
Galerist, Istanbul – Activated Nature – 11/2013
Enclos des Bernardins, Paris – RockGrowth installation – 09/2013
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris – selection of artworks alongside the exhibition “Dans la ligne de mire” – 09/2013
Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein – RewindableLight art video – Lightopia group exhibition – 09/2013
La Maison Champs Elysées, Paris – Crater_F210 and installation of other artworks – 09/2013
Galerie Maubert, Paris – Nouvelle Lune – group exhibition – 04/2013
Alcazar, Paris – Fractal installation and photo exhibition (Orchids and Seduction series) – 04/2013
Mitterrand+Cramer, Geneva – new sculptures – solo exhibition – 03/2013
2012
Passage de Retz, Paris – Nothing is Quite as It Seems – solo exhibition – 11/2012
Bisazza Foundation, Montecchio Maggiore – Experimental Growth – solo exhibition & permanent collection – 11/2012
Galerist, Istanbul – Le Jardin de la Spéculation Cosmique – group exhibition curated by Fatoş Üstek – 10/2012
Crystal Worlds Museum, Wattens – Transparent Opacity – two-year solo installation – 09/2012
Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv – Genetic Intimacy – solo exhibition – 09/2012
London Design Museum, London – Osmosis Interactive - installation at Swarovski’s Digital Crystal – group exhibition – 09/2012
Jardin du Hauvel, Saint-Hymer – Art et Nature – group exhibition curated by Jean-Gabriel Mitterrand – 06/2012
Hedge Gallery, San Francisco – Flections – group exhibition curated by Sabrina Buell – 06/2012
Priveekollektie, Heusden aan de Maas – EmotionalDeflection – solo exhibition – 05/2012
Galerie Maubert, Paris – Le Sacre du Printemps – group exhibition – 04/2012
Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv – Arik Levy & Guy Yanai – group exhibition – 03/2012
Stonetouch, Geneva – Candelabra – group exhibition – Nuit des Bains – 03/2012
2011
Natural History Museum, London - installation - Regeneration : Chaton Superstructures at the Natural History Museum
JGM. Galerie, Paris – M+C group exhibition
Galerie Pierre-Alain Challier, Paris – Un regard d'Obsidienne – group exhibition
Design Museum Holon, Israel – Post Fossil: excavating 21st century creation – group exhibition
21_21 Design Sight gallery, Tokyo – Reality Lab – group exhibition
2010
Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv – Natural Disorder – solo exhibition
Mitterrand+Cramer, Genève – Geotectonic – solo exhibition
Priveekollektie, Heusden aan de Maas – My Name Is Arik – solo exhibition
Istanbul Modern, Istanbul – Log Forest installation – Dice Kayek’s Istanbul Contrast
Art Amsterdam, Amsterdam – Personality Disorder Social Codes – installation at No Holds Barred
Eighth Veil Gallery, Los Angeles – Out there logging – solo exhibition
Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica CA – Luminescence, between Fire & Ice – solo exhibition
Lambretto Art Project, Milano – 13 798 grams of design – group exhibition
21_21 Design Sight gallery, Tokyo – Post Fossil: excavating 21st century creation – group exhibition
2009
Slott gallery, Paris – Confessions – solo installation in “Préliminaires” exhibition
Kenny Schachter/ROVE, London – Fruit & Flowers – group exhibition
Chaton Superstructures at the Liechtenstein Museum and TableScape architectural Jewellery at Sotheby’s, VIenna
Osmosis commissioned by Swarovski Crystal Palace, Ex Magazzini di Porta Genova Milano – solo exhibition
Oratorio Basilica di S. Ambrogio, Milano – Prophets & Penitents, Confessions of a Chair – group exhibition
Galleria Nina Lumer, Milano – Love Design – group exhibition
2008
Design Miami, Miami – Beyond Organic: Design In the State of Nature – group exhibition
Kenny Schachter/ROVE, London – Diversion – group exhibition
Chatsworth, UK – Beyond Limits – group exhibition
Sudeley Castle, UK – The Artist’s Playground – group exhibition
Wright20, Chicago, IL – Absent Nature – solo exhibition
Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX – Imperative Design – group exhibition
Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris – Propositions lumineuses 2 – group exhibition
Galerie NumerisCausa, Paris – Il était une fois… – group exhibition
2007
Kenny Schachter ROVE Projects LLP, London – Cosmic Nature - 2007The Mews Gallery by Rabih
Hage, London – Sitting Pretty – exhibition of photos by Jonathan Root, featuring a portrait of Arik Levy with his creation Identity Disorder
Dialogues méditerranéens, St. Tropez – BigRock – installation
Centre des arts, L’Autre – solo exhibition
Drugstore Publicis, Paris – MiniMaxi – installation
2006
Baccarat, Paris – Phantom – installation
Passage de Retz, Paris – BigRock – permanent installation
Centre culturel français, Milan – République Libre du Design – installation Organ
Passage de Retz / Mouvements modernes, Paris – Du Bois Dont On Se Chauffe – group exhibition
2005
Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris – Propositions lumineuses – group exhibition
Centre Pompidou, Paris – D.Day – From primitive to virtual - installation
Garanti Gallery, Istanbul – Feel before you see – solo exhibition
National Glass Centre/Glass Gallery, Sunderland, UK
2004
Park Ryusook Gallery, Seoul – Love counts – solo exhibition
Victoria & Albert Museum, London – Brilliant – group exhibition
2002 and before
Hertzlia Museum, Israel Video Zone Biennale – Two stars hotel – in collaboration with Sigalit Landau
Pascale Cottard-Ollsson Gallery, Stockholm – solo exhibition
Isart Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich – Virtual light
Isart Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich – Virtual/Religious’
Sculpture Biennale Ein Hod, Israel – Humanism 2020
Louisiana Museum, Danemark – Design og identitet
Sculpture Park, Jaffa, Israel – 1986
SELECTION OF COMMISSIONS
One Park Taipei, Taiwan – RockTripleFusion Giant 660 and RockTripleFusionGiant 550 – permanent monumental installation part of Sir Richard Rogers’ Da-An Towers residentials project - 2018
The Moinian Group – Oskar building, New York, USA – RockGrowth 420 - 2018
Atomium, Brussels, Belgium – RockGrowth 808 Atomium – public space permanent installation - 2014
SoLocal Group, Boulogne Billancourt – RockGrowthCube 150 - 2017
Fondazione Bisazza, Montecchio Maggiore – RockChamber + ExperimentalGrowth series – 2012
HSBC Connection Collection / Volume 1 – Rockshelves + Rocksplit – 2009
MUSEUM ACQUISITIONS
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago – Contemporary Domestic Confessional – 2010
Museum of Arts and Design, New York – Giant Giant Mega Heliodor – 2010
Triennale Design Museum, Milan – Meteorite drawing – 2009
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris – installation Fractal Cloud – 2006
Seoul Arts Center, Hangaram Design Museum, Seoul – Umbilical Light – 2005
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris – Handshake light – 2005
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris – Piflow light – 2005
Victoria & Albert Museum, London – Umbilical ball and Umbilical knitted lights – 2004
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris – Xm3 duo, Light pocket, Alchemy tube lights – 2002
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris – Double layer chair, CD shelf – 2002
FNAC, Fond national d’art contemporain, Paris – Infinite light video – 2001
Israel Museum, Jerusalem – White hole light installation – 2001
Israel Museum, Jerusalem – Need light – 2000
Museum of Modern Art, New York – Need light – 1998
PUBLICATIONS
Arik Levy and the Musée Barbier-Mueller – PENSÉES INVISIBLES – Paris 2023
Arik Levy – FORMATIONS – Paris 2022
Arik Levy GHOSTS – exhibition catalogue – Podgorny Robinson Gallery, Saint-Paul-de-Vence 2020
IN/DEPENDENCE – exhibition catalogue - Espace Muraille, Geneva 2020
Arik Levy / COMPAC - TECHNO POETICS – Paris 2019
Arik Levy UNNATURAL HISTORY – Paris 2017
Arik Levy FIXING NATURE – Paris 2016
Arik Levy OUT THERE 2nd edition – Black Dog Publishing – London 2014
Arik Levy ART - Black Dog Publishing – London 2013
UNCONTROLLED NATURE – exhibition catalogue - Louise Alexander Gallery – Porto Cervo 2014
Arik Levy OUT THERE - 1st edition – Paris 2012
EXPERIMENTAL GROWTH – permanent installation at Fondazione Bisazza – Montecchio Maggiore, 2012
TRANSPARENT OPACITY – permanent installation at Swarovski Kristallwelten – Wattens 2012
GENETIC INTIMACY – exhibition catalogue - Alon Segev Gallery – Tel Aviv 2012
Arik Levy REGENERATION – The Hennessy XO commission – Paris 2011
ABSENT NATURE – exhibition catalogue - Wright, Chicago 2008 – 2010
The Connection Collection Volume 1 : ARIK LEVY RockSplit & RockShelves - HSBC Private Bank - 2009
OSMOSIS – exhibition catalogue - Swarovski Crystal Palace – Milano 2009
COSMIC NATURE – exhibition catalogue - Kenny Schachter ROVE - London 2007
Arik Levy THE OTHER – Centre des arts d’Enghien-les-Bains & Isthme Editions - 2007
DU BOIS DONT ON SE CHAUFFE – exhibition catalogue - Passage de Retz– Paris 2006
LOVE COUNTS - exhibition catalogue - Park Ryusook Gallery – Seoul 2004
LIGHT LIGHT - exhibition catalogue - Passage de Retz– Paris 1998