Aviv Grinberg is a multidisciplinary artist who reimagines cleaning objects to explore personal and social patterns, tracing the complex relationships between human behavior, nature, and industry.
Aviv Grinberg is a multidisciplinary artist working between painting and sculpture. Over the past decade he has developed a body of work centered on everyday cleaning objects, forming what he calls the Language of Cleanliness. Through ready mades and industrial waste, particularly defective plastic containers and carpet beaters, he examines repression, concealment, and transformation, tracing how systems of order shape personal memory and collective structures. By restoring, fragmenting, and reframing discarded materials, he shifts them from functional tools of control into singular anti heroic forms. His recent works expand this inquiry toward organic imagery and ecological tension, exploring the unstable relationship between human behavior, industry, and nature, and questioning the desire for purity in a world marked by rupture and excess.
Aviv Grinberg (1991) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Tel Aviv working across painting, sculpture, and installation. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors, his identity as a gay man, his late sister’s mental illness, and his military service as a prison guard form the conceptual foundation of his practice. He received his BFA with Excellence from Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art. His solo exhibitions include I Opened the Door of Fire at the Historic Water Tower in Kiryat Tivon, Inflating Errors at the Petah Tikva Museum of Art, and Synthetica at Corridor Contemporary Gallery. His work has been presented at Givon Art Forum, Nassima Landau Art Space, Edmond de Rothschild Center, Zumu The Traveling Museum, and City Gallery Kfar Saba. He has participated in residency programs including the NARS International Residency Program, The Practical Magic Lab at Schechter Gallery, and Mifal Hapais Art and Design Incubators. He is a recipient of the Independent Creators Fund Grant and the Margaret and Sylvan Adams Prize for Emerging Artists, and was nominated for Forbes 30 Under 30.
