Works
About
Biography
Dita Amiel was born in Israel in 1958 and currently lives and works in Tel Aviv.
From 1979 to 1982, she studied at the Art Teachers' College in Ramat Hasharon.
Between 1982 and 1985, she worked as a stills photographer on Israeli film sets and served as assistant to the late photographer Micha Kirshner.
Among the films she worked on:
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A Very Narrow Bridge, directed by Nissim Dayan
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Bar 51, directed by Amos Guttman
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Until the End of the Night, directed by Eitan Green
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The Lover, directed by Michal Bat-Adam
From 1986 to 2022, she founded and designed the fashion brand diTa.
Exhibitions:
1982 – First solo exhibition, Sarah Levi Gallery, Tel Aviv
1985 – Group exhibition, Holon Art Museum
1988 – Solo exhibition, Mymad Gallery, Tel Aviv
1994 – Group exhibition, Nofar Gallery, Tel Aviv
2003 – Group exhibition of 1982 graduates of the Art Teachers' College, tribute to Rafi Lavie, Caesarea
2010 – Solo exhibition, Primitive, Tel Aviv
2015 – Group exhibition, Amalia Arbel Gallery, Tel Aviv
2025 – Solo exhibition "My Hands, Myself", Beit HaOmanim (Artists’ House), Tel Aviv
Words from the Curator
Prof. Philip Rantzer
Dita Amiel chose a provocative name for her exhibition, “My Hands, Myself.” There is no doubt that it is a humorous provocation — even a defiant one. She says something that we don’t say, and that says everything.
When we think about her body of work, the question arises about the status of craftsmanship and the pleasure in doing it. The answer to this rhetorical question lies at the heart of the existence of the pieces and in the very joy that they create.
Dita is a kind of hunter — a hunter of forms, images, and objects that have lost their usefulness. Her almost exclusive use of rusty, brittle, and corroded iron is essential to her quest to give validity and life to a strong, rigid material that has lost its original properties over time. These properties are transformed in Dita’s hands into humanity, fragility, and compassion. As in Picasso’s saying, „I do not seek, I find,” Dita finds forms that have long since finished their function. This is the threshold condition for her to begin her work.
With creativity, talent, and rare visual intelligence, the artist instills new life after death.
