Lali Fruheling (b. 1982) lives and works in Hod Hasharon and Kfar Saba.
Her multidisciplinary practice spans sculpture, installation, video, and drawing. She holds both a BFA and MFA in Fine Arts from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, is a graduate of the Artport residency program, and serves as a lecturer in the Fashion Department at the University of Haifa.



Fruheling’s work navigates the tension between delicacy and chaos. She examines cinematic and romantic imagery, reinterpreting it through an apocalyptic lens—balancing between saccharine, childlike allure, and underlying violence. Her art explores notions of beauty that emerges from destruction, shifting between morbid kitsch and untamed rock ‘n’ roll, offering a poignant yet luminous critique of popular culture.

Her artistic process spans a spectrum of rhythms—from sharp, impulsive gestures such as sketching on a postcard or transforming a credit card into brass knuckles, to meticulous, meditative acts, including weaving Japanese silver threads into metal grids, constructing glowing spiderwebs that consume entire spaces, or crafting intricate paper cutouts that hover like floating islands. In her series of hyper-realistic sculptures, Fruheling distills contemporary figures and fleeting moments, imbuing them with a paradoxical blend of innocence and unease—like a modern-day sorceress on the verge of awakening them, infusing both sensual beauty and an underlying fear of reality.



Fruheling has been awarded the 2015 Young Artist Prize by Israel’s Ministry of Culture and Sports and has received exhibition grants from Mifal HaPais and the Rabinovich Foundation, as well as artist support grants from the Asylum Arts Foundation, the Plums Foundation, and the Arison Foundation. Her solo exhibitions have been presented at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, the Petach Tikva Museum of Art, and the Artists’ Residence in Herzliya. Her work has also been featured at the Israel Museum, the Bat Yam Museum of Contemporary Art, the Artport Gallery in Tel Aviv, the Raw Art Gallery, Beeri Gallery at Kibbutz Beeri, the Kupferman Atelier at Kibbutz Lohamei HaGeta'ot, the Center for Digital Art in Holon, the Jerusalem Drawing Biennale, and the "Loving Art, Making Art" festival.