Exhibitions

The Haifa Museum of Art will be opening the first ever Outsider Art exhibition (also known as Art Brut) in Israel in January 2013.

The year was 1913, the place - Paris. Marcel Duchamp was then 26 years old. He took a bicycle wheel and a kitchen stool, fastened them together via the fork of the bike, and placed this work in his studio. He coined the term "readymade" two years later, when he was in New York.

The exhibition will present works of art created in a variety of casting techniques - from ancient art to the latest technology. Works made in bronze, wax, liquid clay, porcelain, polymers and other materials will be exhibited. The exhibition will explore the mysteries inherent in working with materials which are transformed from liquid to solid, from a state of movement to a state of solidity. The works will reflect the expressive power and the unique properties of art made using various casting processes.

For the past decade Ron Amir has been consistently and persistently photographing the village of Jisr al-Zarqa, which lies adjacent to Caeserea and is revealed before the eyes of travelers on the highway that runs between Haifa and the Tel Aviv metropolitan area.

In 1974, Judy Chicago began working on her monumental creation The Dinner Party. First exhibited in 1979, this art installation was immediately recognized as a groundbreaking celebration of the presence of women in the field of art.

The 2013 Ministry of Culture and Sport Awards for Arts and Design exhibition presents the works of the 39 artists, designers and curators who received awards in six categories: Lifetime Achievement Award, The Minister Award for Visual Art, Artistic Encouragement Award, Young Artist Award, Curator Award, and Design Award.

Olaf Breuning is a prominent international artist who resides in New York and works in the fields of photography, sculpture, drawing and video.

A new permanent space of the museum used for study and gatherings and dedicated to Artist Books - a unique medium that creates an intimate observation experience, and is considered an artwork of its own, despite the mass production involved.