Reading "You Are Not Here" maps by Mushon Zer-Aviv and Laila El-Haddad, 2009
We're back from our fourth arts professionals research trip to Israel, timed with Art TLV and special visits to museums, galleries, and studios in Tel Aviv, Haifa, Herzliya, Jerusalem and Holon. Check out our photos and read reviews in The New York Times, The Guardian, Art in America and Art Review. We brought back the brand new issue of Programma Magazine with articles by top Israeli and international writers, ready for purchase for $20 - email us to request a copy!
September kicks off with fantastic international shows...below are our top picks, with much more on www.artisrael.org:
We are proud to support the North American debut of the Mobile Archive at Art in General New York, an archive of over 1,200 videos from the Middle East and beyond, viewable on-demand from September 24-October 17. Talks with curators Chen Tamir, Regina Basha, and Adina Popescu, special screenings, and daily video selections provide an incredible opportunity for research and discovery by scholars, curators and art lovers. Join us for the opening this Thursday, September 24 from 6-9pm.
At the Jewish Museum in New York, "Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life" surveys the explosion of new Jewish rituals, art, and objects that has occurred since the mid-1990s with excellent work by over 40 artists, on view September 13-February 7.
The Jerusalem Syndrome, the phenomenon by which city visitors experience religious delusion, is the springing point for a show organized by Al-Ma'mal Foundation for Contemporary Art in Jerusalem, presenting walking tours, sound art, video and more launches October 11-20. Between fifty and two hundred travellers, pilgrims and tourists are affected annually by the syndrome, believing they are Virgin Mary or the Messiah. They walk around the city trying to spread the news of their palingenesis or the apocalypse before being taken to the state psychriatic ward.
Herzliya hosts its 2nd Biennial of Contemporary Art from October 3-December 12. The urban, nocturnal and festive group show will be held for one week in Herzliya’s city center during the October 3–10 Sukkot holiday, with select projects presented subsequently at the Herzliya Museum. Vardit Gross interviews the curators Adi Englman, Meir Kordevani and Toony Navok, co-editors and publishers of the Israeli-based Picnic Magazine, for our website in October.
The 3rd Riwaq Biennale launched on June 3 with the first Palestinian Pavilion at the Venice Biennial and continues through October 16 as a virtual journey that focuses on the rehabilitation and revitalization of 50 Palestinian villages.
Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall presents Smadar Dreyfus’ large-scale installation entitled Mother’s Day (2006-08). Using sound recordings from the Mother’s Day celebration at the Israeli-Syrian ceasefire-line in the Golan Heights, the work explores the role and impact of the voice in this contested public space.
Image: Art TLV presentation of www.youarenothere.org.