Bashir Makhoul

Bashir Makhoul was born 1963, the Galilee. Lives and works in the UK.

Uriel Miron was born in 1968 in Tel Aviv. He lives and works in Tel Aviv. “In my creative process, two main matters merge, which in fact I find them to constitute one sequence. One is investigating essential questions in sculpture, and especially the relationship between sculpture and drawing – observation and construction. The second is the different representations of the course of remembrance.

The Jacob Alkow collection

Jacob Alkow led a fascinating life, full of adventure, spanning several continents. His life is reflected in the works of art that he collected, indicating his fields of interest. An eclectic collection, it includes 43 plastic art works in various styles and techniques, by American, Dutch, French, Italian, Israeli and other artists, but nonetheless exhibiting some common denominators. The larger part of the collection dates from the 20th century, but there are also several works from the 19th

Osias Hofstatter

Text: Yoav Dagon Osias Hofstatter was born in 1905, Poland. Died in 1995, Israel. When Osias Hofstatter arrived in Israel in 1957 and laid down his wandering stick, dams opened releasing a powerful stream of creativity which seeped into the artistic consciousness of the country. Researchers and art critics as well as museum curators define his work as being close to expressionism and the atmosphere as being directly influenced by his personal history. “Hofstatter’s

Philip Rantzer

Philip Rantzer wan born in 1956, Romania The work was shown first in the Israeli pavilion in the Venice Biennale in 1999. Curator: Meir Ahronson. “The work of Philip Rantzer takes place in a defined space. In a spacious shack, made of simple wood. Old dolls, stuffed animals, lie on a large table covered with ratty carpets that stands in the center of the shack. The whole comprises remnants of a past that inhabits undefined, continuous time, progressing toward an equally undefined

Yossi Berger

Placement in the staircase leading to the large central space of the museum.

Joshua Neustein

Joshua Neustein was born in 1940, Poland. Lives and works in New York. The Hertzliya Museum of Art is dedicated to contemporary art, which inherently delves into day to day circumstances of public and private existential issues. Upon the opening of the new wing i endeavored to feature a work of art that engages both the architectural aspects of the building and Israeli reality. It seems fitting to conclude Neustein’s series of ‘ash cities’ with the installation

Local Dialogue

A group exhibition of Hertzliya’s local artists, celebrating the city’s 75th anniversary, and the opening of the museum new wing.

Uri Zeig

∞, video, 20 min., 1998 W\B, video, 18:40 min., 1999 Uri Zeig was born in 1965 in Kiriat-Gat. Since 1996, Uri Zeig has been creating video works whose themes are sports games and the concepts of space. Zeig experiences different relationships between body and time while

Adam Rabinowitz

Adam Rabinowitz was born in 1973 in kibbutz Merom Golan. “The work was designed for the accessible corridor of the renovated Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art. ‘Eshet’ is a tribute to Pinchas Eshet who was my teacher at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design during my first year of studies and taught a basic course in sculpture. The work reflects an attitude of love–rejection towards Israeli modernism, which Eshet is one of its repressed symbols.

2000