Ofri Cnaani and May Zarhy

The Audio Project If, Then… Else from the series “Useful Interventions in the Museum” is an art work camouflaged as a museum audio guide, created by the artist Ofri Cnaani and the choreographer May Zarhy (sound design: Elad Bardes). It is an intervention in the museum space that will continue for an entire year. This audio piece takes its inspiration from reviews written by

Merav Kamel and Halil Balabin

Merav Kamel (b. 1988) and Halil Balabin (b. 1987) have worked together as a couple since 2013 while also maintaining individual artistic practices. Their output – together and apart – is characterized by witty humor, wild imagination, nonsensical spirit, and untamed confrontational inclinations. These attributes serve them in highlighting dark, sensitive, exposed, and painful aspects of individual and social human existence in all its weaknesses and limitations. Their interdisciplinary language,

Goldreich & De Shalit

The personal archive of the professional partners and married couple Arthur Goldreich (1929–2011), artist, architect, freedom fighter, and teacher, and Tamar de Shalit (1932–2009), interior designer, has been entrusted in recent years to the Israel Architecture Archive. The collection, selected parts of which are presented here in their archival drawers, includes tens of thousands of items documenting their work. This is an unusual personal collection that spans a variety of mediums, a twofold

Ofer Lellouche

By Ofer Lellouche In memory of Dan Bergstein a man raises his hands he is nude one may dress him like girls dress up their Barbie dolls sometimes in the flight suit of a pilot surrendering to the enemy in a prison uniform with a yellow star in the crimson gown of a Caesar addressing his victorious armies with the robe of a priest or preacher or

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Yehuda Porbuchrai

Yehuda Porbuchrai’s solo exhibition focuses on a number of series that he created between the mid-1980s and today. It reflects key recurring themes in his works, as well as the unique language that he has developed over the years.

Ada Ovadia

Ada Ovadia’s solo exhibition at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art brings together a body of work created in recent years in acrylic and varnish on paper. The works reflect a refinement of this talented artist’s unique language. At first sight, Ovadia’s paintings invite us to join her on a magical journey to an unknown land; a realm of wonders, beauty, and fiction characterized by a vivid palette, clear lines, rich textures, as well as sweet temptations and marzipan treats.

Shai Azoulay

Early in his thirties, Shai Azoulay found God. From that point onward, there was a profound and fundamental shift in his painting – in its palette, language, and the way he paints, as well as in his attitude toward the act of painting and its contents. The inner struggle within him between the secular and the religious continues to this day, fueling his creativity. For Azoulay, the act of painting is a spiritual one in every respect, like studying Torah, and the studio is akin to a yeshiva (religious

Gabriel Cohen

This exhibition is a tribute to the unique painter Gabriel Cohen (1933-2017), laureate of the Jerusalem Award for Painting and Sculpture, who passed away in May 2017 at the age of 84. Cohen, a self-taught painter, was one of the most enigmatic and fascinating artists to have worked in Israel from the 1970s onward. He was fairly unknown by the public, and his life often took place in the twilight zones of Jerusalem’s social margins. At the same time, his work gained recognition in artistic circles

Miri Segal

At the heart of Miri Segal’s exhibition lies a new and essentially experimental project: Crushed Spirits: Exercises in Continental Philosophy. Surrounding it is a selection of her previous works, from 1998 to the present, which interact with it in various ways and offer keys to Segal’s artistic language as it has crystallized over the past twenty years. Segal’s works use a variety of media – including video, light and text, treated objects, and photographic and computer-manipulated

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