Alona Rodeh

Alona Rodeh was born in 1979 in Ben Ami

Alona Rodeh was born in 1979. She was born in Nahariya to a family of Romanian origin and grew up in Ben Ami.

She earned a BFA from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem in 2003 and took part in an exchange program at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. She completed an MFA at Bezalel's Tel Aviv campus in 2009. During her master's studies she spent a semester in the Sculpture Department of the Royal College of Art in London.

Drawing on her work as a stage designer for theater, she creates room installations that combine light, movement and sound. She describes them as a performance without performers. Her Safe and Sound Project looks at reflective and fluorescent lighting technologies, and she also makes animation films and a video game.

She has shown solo exhibitions in Israel, Germany, Austria and Canada, and has made public artworks in Germany and Israel. Her work on artificial light includes night walks through cities and sculptures on street lamps about light pollution. She lives and works in Berlin.