Noa Tavori

At the center of Noa Tavori’s exhibition is a collection of head sculptures, made from a mixture of soil materials. This group of figures is akin to random passersby: each hailing from somewhere else or headed in a different direction, and all mutely recounting their respective experiences. Untethered, the heads are left to their own devices: planted in a time with no memory, either fallen to the ground or sprouted from it.

Haviv Kaptzon

In his video installation, Haviv Kaptzon places the character Weltschmerz amidst a world that has no grip and offers no solid ground beneath our feet. He has modeled his wondrous protagonist after the German notion, which translates as “sorrow of the world,” or “world-sorrow.” As a phenomenon, Weltschmerz typifies German Romanticism, but is as apt today as it was in the nineteenth century. Signifying a sadness about life, it simultaneously describes a sense of pain suffered in

Yair Garbuz Hosts Osias Hofstätter

In 1957, the painter Osias Hofstätter immigrated to Israel from a nightmarish and dark world that could not be left behind. He arrived in this part of the world as an experienced figurative painter, a Jewish refugee full of sorrow, tinged with a penetrating and ironic humor. When he arrived in Israel as a mature painter, he encountered an avant-garde a little behind the times, marching resolutely forward without looking back and bringing forth the new because of the old. As far as I recall, Hofstätter

Zeev Engelmayer | The Daily Postcard

Zeev Engelmayer From the series: The Daily Postcard colored markers on A4 paper November-December 2023 Zeev Engelmayer began posting the series of Daily Postcard drawings on his Facebook page, against the backgdrop of the deal to return the abductees held captive by Hamas from the 7th of October 2023. In the days immediately following the terrible Shabbat, he responded with black-and-white paintings,

Tell Me More

The series of exhibitions Tell Me More presents diverse, unexpected aspects of the local illustration scene. Illustration bursts out of the page and dons new material expression in various mediums – two- and three-dimensional sculpture, textile, photography, and animation. In preparation for the exhibitions, the request (or claim) “Tell me more” was addressed to key artists, from different generations, working in the world of Israeli illustration today. They were asked to think of

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Art Director: Shy Inbar The traditional poster format hasn’t changed since it first appeared on billboards – rectangular, uniform size, printed on paper, in color or in black-and-white – until the digital age came and changed everything. The new medium has challenged the traditional static format because it allows a new dimension to be added to the poster: movement, or in other words, temporality. On the face of it, this is merely a formal change, but in an age of information overload

Tell Me More

Eight illustrators who have written and illustrated a graphic novel for adults were asked to revisit their book and tell us more: Ofra Amit (b. 1966, Israel), Nino Biniashvili (b. 1980, Georgia), Alon Braier (b. 1983, Israel), Zeev Engelmayer (b. 1962, Israel), Keren Katz (b. 1986, Israel), Noa Katz (b. 1991, Israel), Michel Kichka (b. 1954, Belgium), and Gilad Seliktar (b. 1977, Israel). Their books were published during the past decade’s boom in the local graphic novel scene. This flourishing

Niv Tishbi

Carnival is a folk ritual that highlights elements of freedom, fantasy, and imagination. It defies the social order by celebrating forbidden desires, breaking boundaries and taboos, and unleashing of passions. The carnival created by Niv Tishbi (b. 1986, Israel) is a frozen moment in time in what may be a celebration, a demonstration, or a military parade; an orderly procession of figures being led or leading, walking in silence or shouting. Tishbi gives free rein to hidden desires; to the appeal

Merav Salomon

Merav Salomon (b. 1967, USA) tells stories through visual images, almost wordlessly. In her exhibition The Unforgettables, she revisits the topic that has received the closest and most comprehensive treatment in her illustrations over the years: death, and its companions – pain, sorrow, and trauma. On view are new works that address the tension between the two forces that have shaped her life: the need to remember and the longing to forget. At the heart of the exhibition is a series titled

The Wild and Crazy History of Israeli Illustration

This series of mockumentary stills “documents” key events in the history of Israeli illustration and comics, while appropriating compositions of some of the most iconic works in Western culture. The first comics class at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, the birth of Shoshke, the sudden death of the cartoonist Dudu Geva, the thousandth issue of Zbeng!, the cancelation of Illustration Week, and so on, are all subjected to an interpretation full of pathos and hyperbole.