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Nabat Isaac (born 1975 in Jerusalem) is an Israeli video artist and installation, the doll is positioned using archival materials and the construction of identity in cultural categories, and examining Eastern and Western traditions. The Beatris Cooler Award for the Israel Museum, the Encouragement Award for the creation of the Ministry of Culture and Sports. The Shmuel Gabson Prize from the Tel Aviv Museum and the Landau Award for the Memphis Factory.

biography
Isaac was born in Jerusalem, studied digital photography and visualization at Hadassah College, continued art studies in the teacher of the multidisciplinary school of art and society by Nger and completed the postgraduate studies in Bezalel. She later participated in a peer program with a home to Hebrew culture, Tel Aviv- Jaffa.

Its works, video installations and visual concerts, break foundations and definitions from their fixed courses, store the cultural elements and undermine the separation between east and west. Through the editing of sculpted archival materials and digital manipulations on the correlation between sound and image and time dimension, a look at the building of the past and a new meaning for the discourse of identities is created.

Members of the Bitris Cooler Prize committee in 2014, noted that “Many of the turtles that Isaac creates a dialogue with Muslim culture through artistic sources such as Persian carpets, manuscripts, and other objects or through the music of Fried Al-Attash and a complete speech. The relation to these sources is woven in its creation within the fragile and conflicting relationship between Islam and today’s Israel.”

her work.
Isaac’s works are presented at exhibitions in museums and galleries in Israel and abroad, and are included, among other things, in the collections of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, at the Museum of Israel and the Wilfring Museum.

Huge funds ("video fromping") of its works were presented on the stage theatre in 2013 with Avi Benjamin, at the Jerusalem Theater in the framework of the Israel 2016 Israel Festival and the cultural hall in Tel Aviv, along with Ran Salin as part of the 80th anniversary of the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, 2016.

In October 2018, an exhibition was held in the center of contemporary art, the only exhibition of Yitzhak’s “always exhibition”. Following the collection of the House of Masks in Bezalel - the first Hebrew museum in the land founded in 1906 Boris Schatz. “The birth of a long-standing interest in hand crafts and traditional art bombs, such as in questions of representation and display strategies, “a constant exhibition” focuss attention on the social meaning inherent in objects as carriers of memory, knowledge and ideology.” "Nattt Isaac is trying to go back for more than a century to look back at the very ambitious factory of Bezalel," explained the curator of the exhibition, Sally Hegel.

In June 2021, the Wilfrid Museum opened a single exhibition by Yitzhak – “Remember Things.” The exhibition included two video installations that deal with Wilfring Israel’s collection and its character. In the exhibition, the same arranging a song from Lüller-Jimucci, Isaac looked at the relationship between the collection and the collector and built a new cavalry space, combining historical and Swedish elements.

Single exhibitions
“Remember Things,” 2021, the Wilfriger Museum. Treasurer: song from Miller-Jimucci
“Always Exhibition,” the Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, 2018. Treasurer: Sally Hegel.
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, United States, Off the RULING CLASS, 2015-2016, Motel: Rose Bouthillier, MOCA, Cleaveland.
WarCraft, 2015 Gallery Yossi Milo, New York.
"The Land of the Creatures" 2014. The Naga Gallery, Tel Aviv.
"Orient Express", 2013-2014. Museum of Islamic Art, Jerusalem. Treasurer: Sally Hegel.
“The Sun of the End of the Day,” 2013. Line 16 - Community Gallery of Contemporary Art, Neve Eliezer, Tel Aviv. Treasurer: Sally Hegel.
"Big Joy Tonight," 2009. audio-video that combines