Exhibitions & Awards

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Solo exhibitions

1994 France Lerner: "Shipwreck of the thought". University of Kingston upon Thames, England. 

November 1996 France Lerner: " Tearing", (booklet by Laurent Cohen). Jerusalem Theather. Jerusalem, Israel. 

1996 France Lerner: "Coal", photo exhibition. Holocaust Memorial Museum Library. Washington DC. USA.

1996 France Lerner: "Coal", sculpture installation, (booklet by Mr. Jacques Lepage.  French Judaism Foundation, Place St Georges, Paris. France.

1996 France Lerner: " Villa de Noailles", (catalog preface by François Carassan).  Hyères, France.

1998 France Lerner: "Light and skin",  Rachi space. Paris, France. 

2003 Grant recipient from the European Association for Jewish Culture.

2004 France Lerner: " Sacrifice without an offering". Gallery Robert Vallois, St Germain, Paris. France. (Catalogue preface by Prof. Eric Marty).

2008 France Lerner: " Protected spaces MIR". Gallery Nachson. Curator Mrs. Yael Kaeni, (booklet by Dr.Eli Weisstub).

2011 France Lerner: " Topography of the bond when the dead seizes the living". Video screening 24mn. Bruxelles Royal Academy of Arts. Belgium.

July 2015 Museum on the seam Socio-Political Contemporary Art Museum. Exhibition and gallery talk: "Architecture of Near-death experiences".

In collaboration with Romain Gary French Institute. Jerusalem, Israel. 

2016 France Lerner:" Near-death experiences Spatio-temporal, affective and cognitive representations". Screening room of Louvain Audio-Visual Center

(CAV). Louvain, Belgium.

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Selected group shows & Collaboration

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1994 Kingston Fine Art Show. Hungarian University of Fine Arts. (Budapest, Hungary).

1994 Curtain Road Gallery. (London, England). 

1994  White Night festival of St Petersburg: Art/Music with Mr. Yuri Kassyanik, Russia.

1995 Espace Pierre Cardin: France Lerner and Gilles Delmas, (curator Mr. André Parinaud). Paris, France. 

1995 Enter the private art collection of Mr. André Parinaud (Paris, France).

1996 Writing of the script for Gilles Delmas short movie: "Leda and the swan". https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcxqtl

1996 Gallery La Tournelle: exhibition Gilles Delmas and France Lerner. (Poët Laval commandery.  Drôme, France). 

1998 Enter the private art collection of Mr. Ilan Shabtai. (Jerusalem, Israel).

1998  French Jewish National Foundation David de Rothschild. Prize awards Julien and Stella Rozan. Paris, France.

1999 Gallery Alexandre de la Salles: " Victims and persecutors". (St Paul de Vence, France).

2000 Enter the private art collection of Mr. Beno Kalev. (Tel-Aviv, Israel). 

2001 Enter the private art collection of Mr. G. Braun, I. Kugler. (Tel-Aviv, Israel). 

2002 Enter the public art collection of Israel Museum. (Jerusalem, Israel).

2003 Katharina Maria Raab Gallery. (Berlin, Germany).

2003 Prize award of the Alliance Israélite Universelle (Jewish European  fund, Paris, France).

2005 Monart Museum: " In and out", curator Mr. Yona Fisher. (Ashdod. Israel). 

2008: " Fresh Paint", Contemporary Israel Art Biennale. (Jerusalem, Israel). 

2008 Baumann prize award by the French Jewish Foundation. (Paris, France).

2008: "Ha Challalit", (curator Mrs. Maya Shimony). (Tel-Aviv, Israel). 

2009 Gallery Artneuland: " Art of emergency", a joint group of Jewish and Arab artists. (Berlin, Germany). 

2010  Pardes Institute of Contemporary Art Group sow: Anselm Kiefer, Jiri Kolar, France Lerner. (Venice, Italy).

(Catalog text  by Dr. Nadine Shenkar).

2010 Dwek Gallery of the Konrad Adenauer Center, curator Mrs. Irena Gordon. (Mishkenot Sha'ananim. Jerusalem, Israel).

2014: " Serendipité", DAM Gallery, Bruxelles Royal Academy of Arts. (Bruxeles, Belgium).

2015 Production of video-dance with the participation of the dancers Mrs. Flora Gaudin and Mr. Gabriel Forestieri

(3D, thermal video). Bruxelles, Belgium). 

2015 July: Museum on the seam Socio-Political Contemporary: "Architecture of Near-death experiences". In collaboration with Romain Gary Cultural French Institute. Jerusalem, Israel.

2016: "Near-death experiences Spatio-temporal, affective and cognitive representations". Louvain Audio Visual Center, Belgium.

2025 April-May : Photography Solo Exhibition See+ gallery, 798 Art zone Beijing & Shenzhen, China. Catalogue of the exhibition :
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Online- Auction

2018 Stanley Auction: lot 50, 51, 53. (Drouot invaluable).

https://www.invaluable.com/artist/lerner-france-vfgon4sr44/sold-at-auction-prices/

March 2019 (Drouot online invaluable) De Baecque & Associés. Lyon, France.

https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/art-moderne-et-contemporain-france-lerner-nee-e-426-c-46140e3893

2021 Stanley Auction, lot 55 . Gazette Drouot (catalog).

https://www.artfoxlive.com/product/6627006.html

2022 From March 27th- April 10th Stanley Auction sale of  France Lerner photography  serie untitled "Jerusalem: Meurtriere".(30 lots),

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J5a1qcm5AIfbdBjK1RNY-K5ecLcUAMpp/view?usp=sharing

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Current Ongoing Research

 • "The Sense of Space, Feelings of Motion, Emotions, and Sensations in NDEs". In collaboration with Bar Ilan University's Cognitive Neurosciences Department (Professor Roy Salomon) and  the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS). Data collection : March 2023 to 2025.

 • Ongoing collaboration with Professor Ben Thompson (University of Waterloo), an expert in optical physiology, focused on objectifying the visual physiological basis of representations reported by Near-Death Experiencers.

 • Collaboration with David Lobser (Profile) on a pilot project to develop a 3D digital version of a questionnaire for Near-Death Experiencers, designed for administration in hospital settings.

 • Collaborating with Professor Guillaume Tahar (BIMSA) and Dr. Ben-Michael Kohli (YMSC, Tsinghua University) on the development of a virtual reality application for knot theory, enabling the creation and computation of knots in an immersive environment.

 

Papers & Art installation in Preparation  

• "Extracorporeal affects and related bodily sensations in Near-Death Experiences Spaces." Frontier in Human Neuroscience and Cognitive Neuroscience. Research Topic: “The Brain and the Inner World - A Wide Range of Subjective Experiences”. 

• "Time perception of various space-time geometries in virtual reality".

• “Lifeline”  sculpture installation in progress, created in collaboration with Sino Sculpture Group, Beijing.