Exhibitions

Amongst the artists whose work is exhibited:
Micha Ullman, Mordecai Ardon, Deganit Berest, Meir Gal, Tsibi Geva, Yitzhak Dantzinger, Yocheved Weinfeld, Irit Hemmo, Moshe Tamir, Avital Cnaani, Raffi Lavie, Juan Miro, Andre Masson, Michal Neeman, Joshua Neustein, Eli Petel, Jacob Pins, Mike Clay, Paul McCarthy, Moshe Castel, Jacob Steinhard, Aviva Uri, Pinchas Cohen Gan, Michael Gross and Kathe Kollwitz.

The term "spolia" is used by architects and archeologists to describe the integration of older structural elements into new constructions for functional, political, or aesthetic reasons.

"Semaphore Island" is an exhibition comprised of layers of sound and image.

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.

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.