At the core of Michal Fuchs’ artistic practice is the landscape as a carrier of history, memory, and political ideologies. Her research begins with the vegetation of Palestine and Israel and its appropriation by the Zionist movement since the late nineteenth century. Plants are understood not as neutral elements of nature, but as cultural and political actors that shape notions of belonging, ownership, and homeland.
Building on this, Fuchs investigates how landscapes, plants, and materials preserve and transmit political narratives. In her sculptural and site-responsive works, she combines historical research with personal memories and observations rooted in specific places. Natural and industrial materials enter into dialogue with one another. Plants and materials carry different historical and emotional meanings in Israel and Palestine than they do in Germany. From this difference emerges a space in which questions of memory, identity, and the political dimension of landscape can be renegotiated.
Michal Fuchs is an Israeli visual artist who has lived and worked in Germany since 2010. In 2020, she graduated with a diploma in Metal Sculpture from Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle. Since 2024, she has been an artistic associate in the Sculpture / Materiality and Space class at Burg Giebichenstein. She has received grants from the Stiftung Kunstfonds and the Kunststiftung Sachsen-Anhalt, among others. Artist residencies have taken her to Künstlergut Prösitz e.V., Offspace Kaisitz e.V., Pilotenküche – International Art Program in Leipzig, and the Ananeh Center for Art, Nature and Research in Jerusalem. Her awards include the Stiftungspreis of Sparkasse Halle and the Münzenberg Forum Berlin Prize. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions at A&O Kunsthalle Leipzig, Kunsthalle Trier, Haturim Art Space Jerusalem, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, as part of the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz in Mittweida, Insel Galerie Berlin, Palais Podewil Berlin, and the German Hygiene Museum Dresden. She lives and works in Halle (Saale), Berlin, and Jerusalem.
