The German Consulate General hosts the exhibition “90 Days in Berlin” by Zigi Ben-Haim.

Zigi Ben-Haim, an American-Israeli artist, was invited to Berlin in 2004 as part of DAAD’s renowned Arts and Media Program. In Berlin for the first time, he drew a picture each day as a diary of his im- pressions. “They tell a story of my experience,” says Zigi Ben Haim, “taking in the spirit and heartbeat of the city as an inspiring place for art and creativity.”

Zigi Ben-Haim was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1945, and fled with his family to Israel in 1951, where he graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts in Tel-Aviv in 1970. After the America-Israel Foundation granted him a scholarship to study abroad, he went to California and received an MFA from San Francisco State University and California College of Arts in Oakland.

In 1975 he became a U.S. citizen, and has been living and working in lower Manhattan ever since. With his sculptural works made out of discarded newsprint and industrial paper, which he found on the streets of Soho, he gained notoriety in the 1970s in the US, Europe and Israel. Later on, aluminum became the industrial basic material of his work.

Ben-Haim’s work can be found in the collections of leading museums such as the Guggenheim, the Jewish Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Israel Museum and the Tel-Aviv Museum.

The exhibition will be on view from November 3, 2011 to December 15, 2011.