Omer Fast
Omer Fast, Professor of Film
Contact:
- Room:R104, 204, Fi 42
- Phone: +49 40 42 89 89-0
- Mail: omer.fast@hfbk-hamburg.de
Omer Fast was born in Jerusalem in 1972. He holds a BA in English from Tufts University, a BFA in Visual Arts from the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts and an MFA from Hunter College, City University of New York. Since finishing his studies in 2000, Fast has had one-person exhibitions at Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (2021), Times Art Museum in Guangzhou (2018), Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin (2016), Jeu de Paume in Paris (2015) and Whitney Museum in New York (2010) Group exhibitions include dOCUMENTA13, Venice Biennale in 2011. Fast received the Bucksbaum award for his work The Casting at the Whitney Biennial in 2008 and the National Galerie’s Prize for Young Art in Berlin in 2009 with his work Nostalgia. His work is in several international collections including Tate Modern, the Guggenheim Museum and the Centre Pompidou. Fast’s first feature film Remainder, an adaptation of Tom McCarthy’s novel, premiered at the Berlinale in 2016. His second feature film Abendland is currently in post-production.