Michel Platnic

Michel Platnic was born in 1970 in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges

Platnic was born in 1970 in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, France, to Jacques Platnic and Françoise Stoll Platnic. His father was a Holocaust survivor who later became a fighter pilot in the French military. His mother was a writer and was active in WIZO in France.

From 1989 to 1994 he studied electrical engineering at ESIEE in France, earning bachelor's and master's degrees. He worked as an engineer from 1995 to 2007, registered several patents and served as an editor on international standards committees. He also traveled widely in Asia and the Americas and met tribes with little contact with the West.

He moved to Israel in 1998 and kept working in high tech. He studied acting and voice at the studio founded by Yoram Levinstein in 2001 and 2002, and physical theater in 2003. He then turned to art and graduated with honors from Beit Berl's art school in 2010.

In 2013 Gordon Gallery began to represent him, and he restaged scenes from paintings by Francis Bacon by painting on people and life-size sets. From 2014 to 2017 he studied at the Berlin University of the Arts. Later works include the video Genesis-deGenesis in 2017 and the series Bordermine in 2020, inspired by Egon Schiele.