Bio

Enrique Rottenberg was born in Buenos Aires in 1948, to Jewish parents of Polish and Russian origin, and emigrated alone to Israel at thirteen.

After his military service he built a career in real estate, studied Philosophy at the University of Tel Aviv and filmmaking at the Camera Obscura Film Institute. He produced and directed feature films — among them Bar 51, Himmo, King of Jerusalem and Revenge of Itzik Finkelstein, which won awards from the Israeli Film Academy and was Israel's submission to the 1994 Academy Awards. [Number of awards to confirm.]

Since the 1990s he has lived and worked in Havana, where he published the novel La mujer de su vida (2006) and turned to photography. His series Sleeping with… (2010) entered the permanent collection of the Fototeca de Cuba.

His photographic work stages imaginary beings, crowds and self-portraits — from the farcical to the brutal — and grows into large-scale installations such as 19 Women and One Bed, The Dance and I Am.

Philosophy, University of Tel Aviv
Filmmaking, Camera Obscura Film Institute, Tel Aviv

Fototeca de Cuba
MOCA, Los Angeles
Rubin Foundation
Kunsthalle HGN, Duderstadt
21c Museum Hotels