Critique – Veiled Heart, Solo Exhibition, Bread & Roses Gallery, Tel Aviv

Haaretz
Melzer lauds this exhibition as a “courageous artistic move,” naming the panorama-video piece “one of the sharpest visual responses to the bleeding Israel-Palestine conflict ,” “Exhibition proves that raw historical reality cannot be hidden”.
Haaretz Critique  PDF

October 2025

Critique – Veiled Heart, Solo Exhibition, Bread & Roses Gallery, Tel Aviv

Calcalist

October 2025

Interview – My city

Timeout

September 2025

Item – Action’s Echo, Solo Exhibition at Keren Bar Gil Contemporary Art Gallery, Ramat Hasharon

Ha’aretz Article Actions Echo PDF

“When Photography and Sculpture Become One Ohad Matalon’s artworks destabilize the boundaries of the medium, creating shifting arenas of appearance and disappearance.”

September 2025

Critique – City Level, Group Exhibition, Tel Aviv City Museum

Haaretz

 

June 2025

Critique – “Lunar seas, lunar days”, Solo exhibition, Contemporary art gallery, Ramat Hasharon.

Haaretz

Gilad Melzer hails this solo exhibition as “contemporary Israeli art at its best,” praising Matalon’s unique positive-negative layering for masterfully challenging photographic depth and creating a brilliant response to painting and sculpture.

Critique Haaretz – PDF

February 2022

Item – “Lunar seas, lunar days”, Solo exhibition, Contemporary art gallery, Ramat Hasharon.

Haaretz

December 2021

Feature – Across A Dark Land

LensCulture 

Shooting in the deepest folds of night, these photographs of architectural forms scattered across the desert in Israel are enigmatic relics of the history of the region.
Essay By Liz Sales
June 2020

Item – “Photo Op” Solo Exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art

The Eye of Photography Magazine

January 2015

Critique – Globes – “Photo Op” and 2 other Solo Exhibitions at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Globes

Hagit Peleg Rotem

December 2014

Recommendation – “Photo Op” Solo Exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Yediot Achronot

November 2014

Item – “Across a Dark Land” Solo Exhibition at Podbielski Gallery, Berlin

Photography-Now

 

October 2014

Item – “Across a Dark Land” Solo Exhibition at Podbielski Gallery, Berlin

Ha’aretz

September 2014

Article – “10 Israeli Photographers you should know”

The Culture Trip

Graziano Scaldaferri

August 2014

Critique – “No Mans Land” Group Exhibition at the Artists House, Jerusalem

Ha’aretz

Uzi Tzur

July 2014

Article – “Ghost House” Solo exhibition at tamtamART TAIPEI IPIX

Veryview\ArtSalon

Dr. Chiang Ling-Ching

Read Eng Translation

May 2014

Cover & Editorial – “Action’s Echo”

PIPELINE

July 2013

Item – Artist Spotlight

TELAVIVIAN
Dalit Nemirovsky

April 2013

Cover & Editorial – “The Zone”

ZENITH

July 2012

Article – “The Zone”

CULTFRAME
di Maurizio G. De Bonis

June 2012

Critique – “The Zone” Solo Exhibition Podbielski Gallery Berlin

NEUES DEUTSCHLAND
Von Volkmar Draeger

February 2012

Article – “North True South Bright” Solo Exhibition

ARTCO
Jia Zhen Tsai
Read Eng Translation

December 2011

Critique – ART FORUM Magazine Review – “North True South Bright” Solo Exhibition, Negative Positive Static Projections Installation
ARTFORUM

Writing for Artforum, Julia Friedman celebrates Ohad Matalon’s radical installation for “dispensing with conventional photographic factuality”. She praises how the groundbreaking exhibition “makes the unwitting visitor part of the installation,” brilliantly eschewing conventional stillness through immersive static projections

April 2010

ARTCO Critique Article – North True South Bright – Solo Exhibition Ohad Matalon

ARTCO

Jia Zhen Tsai praises at ARTCO Magazine Matalon’s radical screen-based installations for launching an intense “internal political critique”. Celebrating how his non-object light projections brilliantly resist aesthetic capitalism, she lauds his masterly manipulation of the “politics of images” and “inversion of inversion” to dismantle the passive consumer gaze

ARTCO Critique Article PDF

April 2010

Conversation about “North True South Bright” Pioter Shmugliakov – Ohad Matalon
Mahol Magazine
April 2010

Studio Visit
Haaretz
Eli Armon Azulai
April 2010

Critique – HAARET’Z – “North True South Bright” Solo Exhibition Negative Positive Still Images Installation
Haaretz
Smadar Sheffi acclaims Matalon’s intellect and technical mastery, declaring him “exceptional in the field of photography” for crafting an unforgettable, cinematic ontological limbo that forces viewers into a deceptive, multi-layered journey.
March 2010

Item – “Today” – Exhibition at the Herzliya Biennial
Haaretz
Avital Burg
October 2009

Critique – Yediot – Musaf
Critic – Sadnaot Ha’amanim exhibition
Ruti Director
June 2008

Critique – Petach Tikva Museum Exhibition, Winners of the Ministry of Culture Awards
Haaretz
Smadar Shefi
February 2007