Exhibitions

This exhibition presents works in a variety of techniques by Israeli artists, and works from the graphic art collection by international artists from Europe, the US and elsewhere. Most of the works are from the second half of the twentieth century until the present day - years in which the Museum was active since its establishment in 1951.

At the height of 20th Century modernism and one of the followers of Moholy Nagy and his concept of New Vision, Moi Ver, alias Moshe Vorobeichic (1904-1995), was one of the shooting stars in European photography.

Changing Perspectives
The present cluster of exhibitions seeks to view the issue of the relation to "place" in Israeli art. What is the effect of the presence of the artist here in Israel or his absence from it, on the representation of the "Israeli place", of the "here and now? The artistic oeuvre presented in the exhibitions express the tension between an artistic practice that is activist and socio-politically oriented, and one that seeks the realms of dream and fantasy. It seems that the further away an artist is from the pit of the volcano, the more it sparks his interest, and the closer he is, the more urgent is his need to escape.

Nogah Engler / Noga Shatz / Yehudit Sasportas / Eliezer Sonnenschein / Shai Zurim / Sharon Yaari / Larry Abramson / Orit Hofshi
The exhibition discuss the issue of distance in regard to the concept of "the sublime." In Romanticism, the experience of the sublime was described as emerging i

 Changing PerspectivesThe present cluster of exhibitions seeks to view the issue of the relation to "place" in Israeli art. What is the effect of the presence of the artist here in Israel or his absence from it, on the representation of the "Israeli place", of the "here and now? The artistic

Nurit David confuses "here," which includes the landscapes of Haifa and Tel Aviv, with a classical Japanese "there," insistently attempting to reformulate her family past in terms of a new, glorious fiction. Her new works evince the artist's shift from more traditional figurative painting to

Anat Betzer paints morbid, desolate landscapes populated by thickets, snow-covered woods, or forest cabins. Betzer's "there" is "another place," a remote geography signifying demise. Her romantic-German landscapes seek the darkness and cold that can blot out the Israeli light and sun. They are

The paintings of Ronen Siman-Tov are a meditation on the riddle of existence and the metaphysical dimension of human life. His interest lies with art that addresses existential and religious questions. Siman-Tov's works depict unknown vistas, proposing a quest into the fields of art and culture. The

In her series "Night Watches," Hanna Sahar presents a selection of photographs of landscapes not identified as any specific place. She proposes a gaze that is aware of its own limitations in capturing reality. The artist addresses the empty spaces between the revealed and concealed landscape

Einat Arif-Galanti addresses the illusion of the control of time and human deeds – an illusion at the heart of modern perception. By changing the rhythm of the events depicted in her works, the artist offers a meditation on man's way of understanding time and existence.
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