It starts with a paradox: Aren’t highways the opposite of furniture? Movement, fluidity, itinerancy. Highway Furniture is the name of the joint exhibition by Alona Harpaz and Bettina Allamoda. But even being on the move requires a setting, needs objects and images.
Read moreBettina Allamoda / Alona Harpaz Highway Furniture | 23.04.16 – 25.06.16
Karen Russo’s video wo
rk “Externsteine”, takes as its subject the rock formation in Germany which attracts neo-Pagans, new-Agers and neo-Nazis to seasonal celebrations, in which each cult relates Externsteine’s extraordinary landscape to their own version of ecological, spiritual and political mythology.
In the gallery’s main space in our current show we are displaying the exhibition “Reclaim Fame” by Yochai Matos who explores the materiality and the social relations around public space as a property.
(Photos: Mia Gourvitch)
In our current show we host three distinguishable artists: Francesca Fini, Michal Helfman & Olaf Kühnemann. one thing is clear – our space never looked so different. and we have launched our new video space in the basement – so there is certainly a lot to see.
Parallel Port: Siebzehn Kunststudenten reisen zwölf Tage nach Israel. Im Sinne einer klassischen Studienreise geht es um die Auseinandersetzung mit den politischen Konflikten und ihrem Erleben aus der Sicht eines Besuchers. Das künstlerische Konzept folgt einem beinahe tautologischen Plan. Er hat mit der besonderen Aufmerksamkeit zu tun für das, was jeder Reisende seit Jahrhunderten tut: etwas in das besuchte Land mitzunehmen und etwas anderes wieder mitzubringen. Das kann eine Erfahrung, ein Gegenstand, ein Ding oder ein Vorgang sein.
(Photos by Merav Maroody)
In our current show is an exhibition by artists Peleg Dishon and Avinoam Sternheim. “White to play and win” – Dishon’s show – is composed of two major pieces: a paper cutout landscape which depicts a celestial city and a composition of popup elements drown from the landscape and serves as pieces or pawns.
In our main space of Circle1 we are displaying two exhibitions by two distinguishable artists – Khen Shish and Nevet Yitzhak. Both artists are dealing with the problematic of Orientalism in Israeli culture and the complex local identity, and refer to it through personal and theoretical prisms.
In our current show is a joint exhibition by Roy Mordechay and Gil Shachar exploring, each in their unique way the mutual passion for matters such as time, paper (or the imitation of it), shadows, the expression of the human face and the tradition from which it evolves.
Among the pieces exhibited in our current exhibition are Zoya Charkassky’s paintings. Zoya is an Israeli painter born in Kiev. A few years ago she was quoted regarding her unique outspoken way to deal with the Israeli identity & Judaism: “it was never my intention to shock Holocaust survivors. They have had enough shock and horror in their lives. For me it is about coming to terms with such things. If that’s the way a Jew is drawn – then perhaps that’s what he really looks like, perhaps there’s something to it.”
