Itschak
de Lange
Projects and Enterprises
Kiryat Shmona Art Center
1982-1983 – Director of Kiryat Shmona Art Center.
Tel Hai College Print Workshop
1983-1995 – Establishment and directorship of wood printing, lithography and etching workshop in Tel Hai college. Instructing students in printing techniques, drawing and painting.
'Sadna Banof' – Workshop in the Woods - Biria Forest
1987-1995 – Initiated and founded "Sadna Banof" ,Biria forest, in the Upper Galilee.
Founded and managed an open-air art venue, on a ridge overlooking the Hula valley, the Golan Heights and the Hermon mountain. Activity included regular art courses, lectures, musical performances, multi-disciplinary artistic events and collaborative projects. Participants included local residents as well as art students from all over Israel. Activity was eventually extended to include a gallery and café ("Ktze Ha'Nof" – view point on the edge) were changing exhibitions curated by de Lange were held.
Nahariya
1995 – Moved with his family to the Western Galilee city of Nahariya, founded a studio that raised many generations of art students, as well as providing his own creative space.
2006 - With the artist Lee Rimon, his wife they founded "Ha'Katze" – (The Edge),a center for arts, culture and community in the Galilee. Together they operate a rich program of changing exhibitions, social project and courses in various art disciplines.
The gallery's exhibition program includes solo and group shows that deal with issues appertaining to the multi-cultural environment within which it operates, and is accompanied by relevant lectures and talks by leading experts. In 2007 "Ha'Katze" received the statues of an NGO, with members including artists, educators and leading members of the community.
Exhabitions Curation
The Edge Centre
2015 'Lakmus' – Testimonies, Time, Space
Gilad Ophir, Kobi Goffer, Orit Reich, Michal Frank
2014 'Bunkers, Walls and Trenches'
Micha Ullman, Avraham Eilat, Itschak de Lange,
Shoshi Choresh and Lee Rimon
The exhibition travelled to Beer Sheba University.
Images from this exhibition were published in an archeological research book, of the same subject.
2012 'West meets East'
Tom Thijsse & Bea Farenhorst
2011 'Sources, Town, Homeland'
Jacob Steinhardt
2009 'The Family'
Haim Maor and Khader Oshah
2008 'Northwards' Artists from the North of Israel
Dror Ben Ami, Eliya Beany, Jack Jano, Salman Molla, Alon Porat, Lea Frenkel, Ruth Kestenbaum Ben-Dov
2008 'The Path'
Salman Molla and Emil Swaed
2007 'Black Waters - White Waters'
Dror Ben Ami
Guest Curator
2006 'The Bather '
Dror Ben Ami
The Artists House, Jerusalem
2005 Avraham Eilat
The Gallery of the German Council in Haifa
2004 Norma Drimmer
The Gallery of the German Council in Haifa
2003 'Borders and Identities '
Eliya Beany ,The Artists House, Jerusalem
2003 'Testamonies'
Salman Molla
Castra Gallery, Haifa
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'Artist Wall' in Workshop in the Woods
1995 Dror Ben Ami
1994 Uri Shechner
1994 Shuka Glotman
1993 Avraham Eilat
Teaching positions
1983-1995 School of painting, art institute, Tel Hai College- teaching drawing and painting, founding and managing print studio, instructing students in wood printing, etching and lithography.
1983-1995 Teaching drawing and painting to architecture students, Tel Hai College.
1991 - present Leading community art projects.
1995-2000 Teaching drawing and painting, Art department, Oranim College.
1995-2001 Teaching drawing and painting, art ,
architecture and industrial design
departments, Western Galilee College.
1995-present Teaching drawing and painting and
preparation of portfolio, de Lange's studio.
1998-1999 Teaching drawing and painting, faculty of architecture, Technion, Haifa.
2001-2005- Teaching drawing and painting, Wizo- Haifa school of design.
2008-2010 Teaching drawing and painting, Haifa Museum.