2009
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Durar Bacri
Paintings Durar Bacri’s works engage in architectural mapping of his neighborhood in the city of Tel Aviv-Jaffa. From the rooftop of his building he documents Chlenov Street which links Salame Street to the south with the Begin Road to the north, west of the old-New Central
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Osama Said
Paintings Osama Said’s landscape paintings featured in the exhibition were created in Berlin following his graduation from art school. Untitled (1990) depicts a forest comprised of black felled trunks, whose rhythm and nature hint at an olive grove. The grove,
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Men in the Sun
The exhibition “Men in the Sun” explores contemporary Palestinian art, whose practitioners live and work in Israel. It borrows its title from Ghassan Kanafani’s story by that name. Published in 1963 , the novel unfolds the journey of three Palestinians of different generations who seek work in the Emirates in an attempt to deliver themselves and their families from their harsh conditions of life. Lacking the necessary transit permits, the three are forced to hide in an empty
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Gregor Schneider
Videos, sculpture and photography from the Haus u r project The works on show in the exhibition are all derived from one particular site of origin: Haus u r. This is the name that Gregor Schneider has given to a continuous project he
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Ai Weiwei
Fairytale, 2007, documentary, 2:42 hrs Fairytale is part of an eponymous project conceived by renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei for Documenta XII. One of the most important exhibitions of contemporary art worldwide, it is held once every five years
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Tsibi Geva
Blinds, 1993 | Wall, 2009 The Israeli aluminum-plastic louver shutters (trisol) emerged somewhere in the 1950s, and were originally intended to filter and block the intensity of the glaring, scorching, blinding local sunlight. Over the years
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Volker März
Kafka in Israel, 1924 – 2009, installation, 2009 Volker März’s working premise in this project was that Franz Kafka did not die of tuberculosis in 1924 at the age of 40, but rather arrived at the shores of Palestine, and has been living in
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