Netai Halup’s body of work explores the possible performativity that sculptures can manifest. Through the use of organic and industrial materials, he creates precarious compositions that are held by the force of tension and balance.

Theatre and poetry take a major role in Halup’s installations and thus give context to his sculptural language. The works revolve around the materials’ potentialities to act as “bodies” — as characters — that perform poetic relationships within the installations.

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Tension is a main element in the environments Halup is creating; it may be physical, poetic, or as subject matter. The notion of tension is the common ground that conjoint all the layers in Halup’s work. His practice looks further into how tension can be manifested as visual poetry and expressed through different sculptural events. In that sense, his assemblages investigate the possibilities in which precariousness, resistance, subtlety, and tension can appear together

as theatrical situations.

 

Halup's work has been exhibited in contemporary art galleries around Barcelona such as Galería Carles Tache, Galería àngels, and Espronceda, where he exhibited his solo exhibition as part of 'Art Nou' festival 2019. He was one of the finalists in BIG awards 2018 and has won a grant to take part in Nectar AIR program. He founded 'Pujós Studios' in 2017, art studios an exhibition space for art and critical thinking. In 2022‭ ‬Halup exhibited a solo exhibition at Artport‭, ‬Tel Aviv, and installed a permanent public sculpture in the city of Ofakim‭, ‬Israel‭. ‬In 2023‭ ‬he took part in Arad Contemporary Art Center Residency program and exhibited a big-scale installation at Zumo Museum‭. ‬

Today, Netai Halup is Based in Tel Aviv.