Ariel Reichman was born in South Africa during the apartheid year of 1979.
In 1991, Ariel immigrated ( what one would call "Aliya" ), to Israel.

Ariel studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and the U.D.K. Berlin with Katharina Sieverding and Hito Steyerl. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions including most recently Kunst und Öffentlichkeit (NBK, Berlin, 2009), Emergency Art (Art Neuland, Berlin, 2009), The political body (Tel Aviv, 2008), 5th Berliner Kunstsalon (Berlin, 2008), Tape Modern No. 4 (Berlin 2008) and Slick Paris ’08.  His most recent solo exhibition How Can I Say Something About Them If You Don’t Know Who I Am  took place at e.l. Bannwarth Gallery, in Paris in 2008. Reichman was awarded the lbb Prize for Photography by the Karl Hofer Foundation in 2008. He is planned to exhibit in the Moscow Museum of Modern Art and the Petach Tikva Museum in Israel during 2009.

Ariel Is currently exhibiting - Legal Settlement,  his first solo exhibition in Berlin, at 'Program'.   www.programonline.de/legalsettlement.html

He works in a wide range between photography, video, performance, installation and drawing.
He lives and works in Berlin.

Publications

Nuke
Whitehot Magazine of contemporary art
Celecte
crtitique.org
ART
Saatchi online