Gamburd Miriam

About

Miriam Gamburd, born on July 10, 1947, in Chișinău, Republic of Moldova, into a family of remarkable artists, is a renowned sculptor, draftswoman, and author, considered one of the most important draftswomen in Israel. She graduated in 1970 from the Muchina Academy of Art in Leningrad (today Saint Petersburg) with a degree in Monumental Sculpture. Since 1977, she has been living in Israel, where she works as an independent artist and a senior university lecturer at Beit Berl Academic College – Hamidrasha School of Art, as well as a lecturer at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Her career includes numerous solo and group exhibitions in Israel, Europe, and Moldova, such as "Centaurs" at the Herzliya Museum of Art, "Fabricated Truth" at the Israeli Museum of Art in Ramat Gan, "Time to Gather Stones" at the National Museum of Art in Chișinău, and "Homo Vulgaris" at the Artists' House in Tel Aviv. Her artistic achievements combine monumental sculpture with innovative graphic design, exploring intimate and erotic themes inspired by Talmudic and Midrashic texts, as seen in her illustrated book "The Pulse of the Evil Impulse" (2010), which contains 80 drawings and quotes from Jewish scriptures. She has created major sculptural projects, such as wall reliefs in Moldova, Israel, and Slovakia, outdoor statues, and installations like "Cherubs in Life-Size." Between 1999-2003, she was the curator of the Israeli wing at the Salon d’Automne in Paris, and from 2014-2018, she was active in the Visual Arts Department of the Ministry of Culture of Israel. She has also published monographic albums about her parents in collaboration with the National Museum of Art of Moldova and essays in magazines such as Zvezda in St. Petersburg. The daughter of the classical Moldovan painter Moisei Gamburd (1903-1954) and set designer Eugenia Gamburd (1913-1956), who collaborated with director Sergei Parajanov on the film "Andriesh," Miriam inherited and promoted the family legacy through exhibitions and publications dedicated to them. Based in Tel Aviv, she is fluent in Russian, Hebrew, and French, and her work continues to influence the Israeli art scene by integrating Jewish culture with universal contemporary expressions, reflecting deep Moldovan roots within the context of international art.