as IKEA's other customers wander through. In Foreign Names (2012), Ben Ner visited nearly 100 Aroma Espresso Bar locations, left a fake name in English that would be called out at the counter when his beverage was ready, then edited all the videotaped segments to create an "ode" lamenting the disappearance of waiters. Soundtrack (2013) takes an eleven-minute scene from Steven Spielberg's 2005 movie War of the Worlds as a "ready-made" soundtrack and pairs it with footage shot in Ben Ner's kitchen in Tel Aviv, with smashing plates and combusting appliances. Ben-Ner’s 2016 video, Escape artists, was acquired by The Israel Museum, Jerusalem in March 2019. The work consists of two years of weekly video lessons that Ben-Ner gave to Sudanese and Eritrean asylum seekers at the Holot Detention Center in the Negev desert. He uses the medium of film to mirror the refugees' difficult reality, and uses that same reality to reveal cinematic tricks and illusions. Because of this style, the film viewer learns about the lives and circumstances of the refugees in addition to learning lessons about filmmaking. Exhibitions Ben-Ner represented Israel in the 2005 Venice Biennale. He also had solo exhibitions at the Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (2006); Center for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne (2006); Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal (2007); L'Espace Shawinigan of the National Gallery of Canada (2008); and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (2009). His work is currently in a group show titled Uncommon Commonalities at Aspect/Ratio in Chicago, IL. Awards and recognition 1994 Ingeborg Bachman Scholarship, established by Anselm Kiefer, Wolf Foundation 2007 Preis des Internationalen Wettbewerbs: KunstFilmBiennale, Köln/Cologne, Germany 2008 The Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel See also Visual arts in Israel References External links Guy Ben Ner in the IMJ Collections Guy Ben-Ner profile at Kadist Art Foundation Photo of the artist, Haaretz Galleria, Haaretz, 13.08.2010 BELLEMODE, 01.09.2010 Galleria, Rosh Hashana, 08.09.2010 7 Nights, Yediot Aharonot, 01.10.2010 TIME OUT Tel Aviv, 14.10.2010 Galleria, Haaretz, 05.01.2011 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 26. August 2011, p. 52 Exhibition Uncanny Valley/Wohnwelten in der Kunst, Offenbach am Main, Germany Guy Ben-Ner Artist Page at Sommer Contemporary Art Gallery Website Simon, Joshua: Neomaterialism, Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2013. Israeli video artists Sandberg Prize recipients Living people Jewish artists 1969 births Israeli contemporary artists HaMidrasha – Faculty of the Arts alumni Columbia University School of the Arts alumni