Weekly Highlights in Jerusalem’s Contemporary Art Scene
Online Gallery Talk: Remote Revolt
Jacques Servin — half of The Yes Men duo — infamous tactical media activists — will talk with Maayan Sheleff, the curator of LowRes Jerusalem, about art, politics, viruses, solidarity, humor, care and more, from his home in NY. The conversation will be held in English, on Zoom and Facebook Live.
Gallery Talk Online Thursday May 21st, 21:00 (Israel time). A link will be made available on the day of the event, on the Facebook event. If you would like to receive the link via mail on the day of the event please register. For more info, click here.
Online Exhibition Opening: I Am A Photographer
Online opening of the exhibition I Am A Photographer in honor of the late Yoram Amir who was a local artist and activist, and very influential to Jerusalem’s art scene. The exhibition features an excerpt from the documentary TV installation by Eric Potterman, which was inspired by Yoram’s work and is currently installed at HaMiffal’s Artist’s Room. During this event, the Artist’s Room will be screen online, featuring a panel of local artists and curators who will discuss Yoram’s legacy and this work. The conversation will be held in Hebrew, streamed on Zoom and Facebook Live.
Exhibition Opening Online Thursday May 21st, 20:30. Visitors can join on Facebook Live, and link to the Zoom event will be made available the day of the event. For more info, click here.
Exhibition Opening: Youth Cuts: The Early Prints of Leo Roth
A rare 1932 graphical novella by artist Leo Roth (1914-2003) contains thirty original linocuts made in the spirit of German Expressionism. The turbulent black-and-white linocuts tell the tragic story of an abandoned child, raised by a Christian woman in a remote village. The boy learns of his true identity and is torn between women and the Christian world, on the one hand, and the Jewish world on the other. The series of prints presented in this exhibition was discovered by curator Yakir Segev, after rescued from destruction by the artist himself, who had burnt all his early work from Germany.
Exhibition Opening to the public Sunday May 24th at The Jerusalem Print Workshop, Shivtei Israel St. 38. *There will be no opening event. For more info and gallery hours, click here.
Exhibition Opening: As She Transforms
This exhibition features print works from the Jerusalem Print Workshop collection, created at the workshop during different times by ten female artists in a variety of printing techniques. The works revolve around the poetics of the female body and image, regarding them from a feminine perspective: how they spin and transform, changing appearance, form and existence within the fluid boundaries between outside and inside, the relationship between intimacy and exposure, and the tension between matter and spirit.
Exhibition Opening to the public Sunday May 24th at The Jerusalem Print Workshop, Shivtei Israel St. 38. *There will be no opening event. For more info and gallery hours, click here.
Contemporary Art in Jerusalem 