Weekly Highlights in Jerusalem's Contemporary Art Scene Gallery Talk: Strangeness The Israel Museum debut of actress and artist Raida Adon (born 1972), displaying her new video work Strangeness – an epic and poetic work addressing identity, refugees, and the yearning for…
Written by Natalie Chetboun In Russian, "Pravda" means truth. It is also the name of the former official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union—and the title of acclaimed Israeli artist Zoya Cherkassky’s first solo exhibition, currently on…
Written by Lonnie Monka Moshe Hoffman was an accomplished Israeli artist and Holocaust survivor, who passed away in 1983. For the current Jerusalem Artists’ House exhibition of his work, curator Ron Bartos chose the name Fighting the Rules of Attraction.…
Amidst a winter day, just meters from the Shivtei Yisrael train stop in Jerusalem, The Museum on the Seam was stands tall and proud under a sunny sky. It's old stone walls make it look graceful and immanent all at…
Written by Lonnie Monka On Barbur Gallery’s website, a poster for the Courtyard exhibition contains two works by the featured artists: Boaz Levental and Yana Ar. Levental’s work depicts a fuzzy scene. A human figure, distinguishable by a white and…
Hamiffal, one of our favorite spots in central Jerusalem is an art cooperative which, over the past two years, has turned an old abandoned building into a cultural hub and a vibrant home for creativity. HaMiffal works daily as a…
Gabriela Gleizer is a 27-year-old student based in Jerusalem, studying a BFA in photography at Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design. Gleizer in interested in portraying social matters through documentary photography This annual project, entitled Through the Stations documents people on a…
As spectators and participants of Jerusalem's contemporary art world—enthusiasts, visitors, writers, curators, critics, artists, gallerists, etc.— it is our job to contemplate and justify the works of art that we see in local galleries, exhibitions, museums and studios. But it…
