Debora Gutman

Debora was born in West Berlin, Germany in 1957. After finishing school at the Collège Francais de Berlin in 1975, she studied music at the Berlin "Hochschule der Künste". For many years she taught singing and piano and gave many performances in Germany, Israel, Hungary and France with a repertoire ranging from Bach to Berg.

After the birth of her daughter Arnina in 1988 she concentrated more in the field of art. The first solo exhibition of her “Graphical Artwork” was held in 1992.

She became a member of the group "Künstlergruppe Steglitz", where her teachers, Bernd Beck and Ebrahim Ehrari were already members. They held several joint exhibitions like for example at the "Freie Berliner Kunstausstellung" in Berlin in 1994 and 1995.

In the years 2003 to 2011 she has been teaching argentine tango as well and has performed as a tango dancer in Germany, France and Israel.

She finally found her new expression and style with beautiful and colourful naive paintings. Since summer 2012 she joins the group of naive artists in Israel.

In 2012 she opened her own gallery for naive art in Berlin.

She lives and works partly in Berlin and Tel Aviv.

List of exhibitions:

Solo Exhibitions

1992          Galerie Jevenstedt Rendsburg

                   Bayerische Handelsbank Berlin

1993          Galerie im Rapallo, Berlin

1994          Stadttheater Meißen

1995          HypoBank, Berlin

1996          Galerie im Restaurant am Fasanenplatz, Berlin

1998          Rosenthal Licht-Galerie, Berlin

2000          Kreative Ader, Berlin

2001          Language Specialists International, Berlin,

                   Kreative Ader, Berlin

2002          Borchert Küchenstudio, Berlin

2003          Kreativer Bypass, Berlin

2010          Quasimodo, Berlin

2011          Shorashim Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

Group exhibitions

1993          Polizeischule Berlin-Biesdorf

1994          Freie Berliner Kunstausstellung Berlin

1995          Freie Berliner Kunstausstellung Berlin

2003          Kirche am Tempelhofer Feld, Berlin

2004          Art Galerie Richter, Berlin

2009          Kudammtango, Berlin

2010          Galerie Patrice Vuillard, Hilton Hotel, Berlin

2011          Tangonale, ufaFabrik Berlin,

                   HanseArt, Bremen

2012          Galerie Marziart, Hamburg

                   AAF Tel-Aviv, Israel

                   Gina Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel

                   Festival d'Art Naif, Kattowitz, Poland

                   Berliner Liste, Berlin

                   Galerie Gutman-Art, Berlin

2013          Ruka Art, Ruka, Finnland

                   Rendez-vous des Naifs, Verneuil sur Havre, France

                   Nurol Gallery, Ankara, Turkey

                   Festival d’art Naif, Kattowitz, Poland

                   Musée d’art Spontanée, Bruxelles, Belgium

                   Gina Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

                   Nurol Gallery, Ankara, Turkey

                   Gallery Gordon 36, Tel Aviv, Israel

                   Festival de peinture naif, Varenna, Italy

                   Art Market Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

                   2ème Biennale de l’art Naif en Alsace, Ottmarsheim, France

2014          Gordon 36 gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

                   BCM art gallery, Barcelona, Spain

                   Gina Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

                   Landskrona Art Gallery, Sweden

                   Eagl Gallery, Berlin

                   Chateau de Waroux, Lièges, France

Group member of

Künstlergruppe Steglitz

Naive Artists of Israel

Montmartrois de Berlin