Uri Weinstein lives and works in Tel Aviv–Jaffa. He holds a BFA and MFA in Fine Art from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (Jerusalem, 2019; Tel Aviv, 2023).
His practice primarily consists of installations that combine sculpture, theater, sound, and text. He works with existing objects such as various types of speakers, personal items, and textiles. His installations present dark, melancholic, and at times humorous mise-en-scènes that often address Israeli masculinity and militarism, local rituals of commemoration and initiation, and political, cultural, and personal cross-generational nostalgia.
Through the use of personification as a central tactic, Weinstein treats speakers and other objects as actors in a play characters identified by their voices, subtle additions, and readymades. He seeks to create a poetic image through minimal intervention, allowing the objects to remain close to their original form. A speaker is inherently designed to emit a variety of sounds and voices; however, in Weinstein’s works it is assigned a single voice a singular persona. Rather than producing an abstract impression, Weinstein aims to create a spatial-theatrical viewing experience that is both intellectual and phenomenological.
Many of his projects draw on local references from the past, such as plays, books, artworks, pop music, and television series. Weinstein seeks to distill the essence of these references and reposition them within new contexts, examining their contemporary relevance and meaning in relation to the passage of time. Time also plays a central role in the viewing experience, and his works explore the idea of sustained auditory attention to sculpture as another means of personifying objects.
His works have been presented in solo and group exhibitions at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2026); the Nahum Gutman Museum of Art, Tel Aviv (2025); Artport, Tel Aviv (2025); CCA Tel Aviv-Yafo (2025); Parterre Gallery (2024); Lobby Gallery (2024); Jerusalem Artists’ House (2024); Beit Ha’ir Museum (2023); the Edmond de Rothschild Center (2023); the Fresh Paint Art Fair (2023); the Uri and Rami Nechushtan Museum (2022); Talfiyot Artists’ Studios (2022); Hansen House (2022); the Loving Art Making Art Festival (2022); Benjamin Gallery (2021); Alfred Institute (2020); and École des Beaux-Arts de Paris (2018).
He is the recipient of a 2026 exhibition grant from the Outset Israel Foundation; a 2025 exhibition grant from Mifal HaPais; the 2024 Young Artist Award from the Ministry of Culture and Sport; the 2024 “BaZman” scholarship from the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality and the Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts; the 2023 Michael and Pauline Lückman Scholarship; the 2022 Excellence Award for MFA Studies at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design; the 2020 Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation Scholarship; the 2019 America-Israel Cultural Foundation Sharett Scholarship; and the 2019 Bezalel Friends Association Zola Zilcer Award.
He participated in the 2025 annual residency program at Artport, the 2020 professional development program of the Edmond de Rothschild Center, and the 2020 Alma-Matan Fellows Program at Alma, Home for Hebrew Culture.
