1. Earth // Ortfurt
A solo exhibition for Natalia Zorbova, which presents huge paintings, a kind of scenery without a play, alongside an installation of sticks, miniature models of the stage that does not exist. Its setting is like giving directing instructions to our existential theater. The city of Arad is used by Natalia as the perfect setting for a dream and its destruction.
Opening on Thursday at 20:00, Artport, Hamel 8
Natalia Zorbova, Artport. Photo: Tal Nissim
2. Givat Haretzii Yaffa Tel Aviv // Rosenfeld Gallery
A solo exhibition for Zamir Shatz that includes video work and oil paintings. The works mix the private and the public, the personal and the political. The resistance, which Zamir Lehm Khuko had for more than twenty years of creation, gives way to a contained, reconciled position, which is evident in the language of the painting and its subjects.
Opening on Thursday at 19:00, Rosenfeld Gallery, 1 Factory Road
Zamir Shatz, Rosenfeld Gallery
3. Grassroots // Zimak Gallery
A solo exhibition for Jonathan Gold, who presents a series of large-scale new paintings. Alongside it will also open a winter exhibition of the gallery’s artists and a solo exhibition for the artist Lee Yanor.
Opening on Friday at 11:00, Zimak Gallery, H. Bayer 68
Jonathan Gold, Zimak Gallery
4. We are thirsty for blood // Row Art Gallery
A solo exhibition for Noam Toren that presents, through a montage of different mediums, personal memories and ghostly remnants of a film set, an installation that materially and sonically explores the illusionary vision of space and landscape that exists within the Western imagination, more as a myth than as a place.
Opening on Thursday at 8:00 p.m., Row Art Gallery, 3 Hamertz Trail
Noam Toran, Row Art Gallery
5. Nature Theater from Oklahoma // Gordon Gallery
A new solo exhibition for Michal Naman, one of the oldest and most important artists active in our districts. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog with a text by Oded Volkstein.
Opening on Thursday at 19:00, Gordon Gallery, Hashem 5
Michal Naaman, Gordon Gallery
6. Processing the body // Alfred Gallery
Alfred Gallery launches its new space in Kiryat Al-Malacha with a solo exhibition by Emi Spain, which presents a journey into her body. The journey consists of memories, experiences and moments from a period of extensive hospitalization for physical procedures, some invasive, which left a deep mark on her.
Opening on Thursday at 8:00 p.m., Alfred Gallery, 6 Hamertz Trail
My Spain, Alfred Gallery
7. Big eyes // Hanina Gallery
A solo exhibition for Miriam Yochabats (Hanina Salon winner for 2022), which touches on the journey between images: images that are based on a series of small stories from Yochabats’ personal life and are created using color, lightness, freedom and humor.
Opening on Thursday at 8:00 p.m., Hanina Gallery, 5 Shivil Hamertz
Miriam Yochabats, Hanina Gallery
8. Yael Duroma // The lobby is a place for art
A group exhibition bringing together the works of seven artists with a biographical connection to Be’er Sheva, which they all left in favor of living in the center of the country or in other places in Israel or the world.
Opening on Thursday at 20:00, the lobby of Art Place, 6 Arlozorov
Sigal Primeur, the lobby is a place for art
9. Mistress of the Desert // Almasen Gallery
A joint exhibition by the artist Anna Farah and the artist Gaston Zvi Izkovits (in collaboration with the Fireflies Project) whose starting point is the rock carving sites in the Negev Mountain, Mahia Mountain, Arakov Mountain and Ramat Metrad. The engravings are paintings, carved into the limestone rocks in the area over thousands of years.
Opening on Thursday at 8:00 p.m., Almasen Gallery, Hapaninim 1
Anna Farah, Almasen Gallery
10. Have a Closer Look // Corridor Gallery
A group exhibition presenting 80 works less than 100 cm in size, by Israeli and international artists. The works create observation and an intimate space and are also part of an economic agenda and the promotion of the idea of human functioning on a smaller scale.
Corridor Gallery, Kuipman 12 (David Intercontinental Hotel)
Eran Rashef, Corridor Gallery
11. Wounds and kisses // Gallery P8
Two evenings of screening video works dealing with injury, trauma, comfort, intimacy, and the range between the injury and the kiss. Participation: Shani Avivi, Tair Uria, Sharon Belvan, Neta Dror, Shir Handelsman, Dan Robert Lahiani, Michael Liani, Eden Orbach Ofrat, Ruth Patir.
Thursday and Tuesday night at 19:00, 20:00 and 21:00. Gallery P8, Hatish 1
Tair Uria, Cinema P8
12. Zachary // Rena Mansion Hotel
An exhibition presenting the products of the first gathering of the creative laboratories from the “Nature Reserve” project that took place in the Dead Sea area, led by the artist Iris Nice. The corridors of the Rena Mansion Hotel and some rooms will wear representations of earth, fire, water and gulping salt spirits.
Thursday to midnight. Rena Mansion Hotel, Beit Romano, 3 Beit Habed Alley
From “Zachary” by the artist Iris Nice
out of town
13. The Authority for Identity Security // Mishkan ha-Hamanis Herzliya
A group exhibition dealing with Hau’s identityWhat is Jewish? The participating artists deal, each of them in their own way, In the cornerstones of the Zionist identity as raw materials. The “wrong” use of them reveals something about the gap between the myth and life itself, the gap between what is promised and what is broken. But perhaps it also offers other life possibilities within the rigid framework of this identity.
Uri Zamir, Herzliya Artists’ Residence
14. The Earth Diver // Bari Gallery
A joint exhibition by Nivi Elroy and Atar Geva that weaves a world of an imaginary journey that takes place after the year 2150, deals with the connection between memory and trauma and enables scarred sites to heal through evolution and movement.
Opening on Friday at 11:00, Bari Gallery, Kibbutz Bari
Nivi Elroy and Atar Geva, the gallery in Bari
15. Olivetti // Showcase Gallery, Holon Institute of Technology
An exhibition focusing on the “Olivetti” brand that produced typewriters – a product that brought about transformations in the field of communication, management and the office. The exhibition will feature a selection of iconic Olivetti typewriters, alongside calculating machines and the company’s first computers. Alongside them will be presented examples of the innovative advertising system and graphic design that includes posters, ads and advertising videos.
From Thursday, Showcase Gallery, Holon Institute of Technology
Olivetti, a showcase gallery at the Holon Institute of Technology