Ohad Fishof – Batsheva Archive

Ohad Fishof was born in 1970 in Jerusalem. He is a multidisciplinary artist who works in the fields of sound, dance, performance, and visual art.

He began his artistic journey in the mid-1980s as the leader of the band “Nosei Hagevaha” (The Hat Wearers), and gradually expanded his work to other artistic fields.

In the 1990s, he lived and worked in London, and in 1997, he completed a master’s degree in Dance Studies from the Laban Centre in London. Over the past twenty years, he has developed and refined a rich and unique body of work — a complex continuum of time-based art, ranging from stage performances, improvised music, and pop music, to site-specific performance pieces, video, animation, installations, dance works, and soundtracks. His works have been exhibited in museums, galleries, biennales, and theaters in the UK, the United States, Israel, Japan, Switzerland, and more.

Fishof frequently collaborates with the Batsheva Dance Company and Ohad Naharin. He composed the soundtracks for the works “Shalosh”, “Furo”, and “Seder”, served as dramaturg for “Talfaza” and “Playback”, Naharin’s solo performance, which he also musically directed, and worked as a musical producer on “Max”. Fishof has been a Gaga teacher since 2004 and is a lecturer in the Department of Art at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and at the Midrasha Faculty of Art in Beit Berl.