Dani Karavan

1930–2021

The son of the chief landscape architect of Tel Aviv, Dani Karavan began designing site-specific environmental sculptures in Israel in the early 1960s. In 1976, he represented Israel at the Venice Biennale with a work from his series, Environments for Peace. Since then, he has created large-scale environmental sculptures around the world. Among his most notable projects are Passages, Homage to Walter Benjamin (Portbou, Spain, 1990–1994) and The Way of Peace (between Israel and Egypt, 1996–2000). Karavan earned the Israel Prize (1977) and Japan’s Praemium Imperiale Art Prize (1998).

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Kikar Levana (White Square)

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Kikar Levana is an environmental sculpture in Tel Aviv, located on a hill in Edith Wolfson Park. Commissioned to commemorate the builders of the city, its simple geometrical shapes and white concrete…

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Passages, Homage to Walter Benjamin

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Passages is a memorial in Portbou, Spain, created by Karavan to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of cultural critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin. Benjamin committed suicide in Portbou…