2024-03-10 16:40:20
Tamar Horvitz Livna is an artist, curator, researcher, doctoral student and volleyball instructor (yes, yes). In recent years, she has been the manager and curator of the Jewish-Arab cooperative gallery in Kibbutz Kbari HaPoni, which these days is being reopened after being closed with the outbreak of the war.
In October, a memorial exhibition was supposed to open in the gallery, which was intended to commemorate the 33 boys and girls from the Mata Regional Council who fell in the Yom Kippur War, and for which Horvitz Livna created a series of paintings for each of them with the view of their home. The exhibition was placed but not opened: in the first week of the war, soldiers moved into the gallery, the kibbutz became a military base and the residents left it. Now, little by little, they are coming back, and although not all of them are still there, including not Horvitz Livna herself, she has decided to reopen the gallery with two exhibitions of artists who live in and around the kibbutz.
“The activity of the gallery did not stop even when it was closed,” she says. “We stayed at the Wilfrid Israel Museum in Kibbutz Zora at an exhibition presented by 14 gallery artists that I have worked with over the years – Jews and Arabs. It was important to me that we continue to work.’
These days, Horvitz Livna is working both on her solo exhibition and on special exhibitions that will open in Kibbutz Kabri this summer and will mark the 100th birthday of two masters who left the kibbutz: the painter Uri Riesman and the sculptor Yehiel Shemi, including children’s books that will be dedicated to the works of each of them.
At the same time, she is staying at the residency of the Old Jaffa Development Company, where she creates in a studio that was used for the activities of artists and female artists who were evacuated from the north and south. “When the world shook on October 7, everything collapsed in on itself. As a doctoral student in history who took courses on art in the Holocaust, it seemed to me that everything I learned was happening in reality, and that I had no choice but to continue. I took the colors and the materials with me to the emissions of my own volition and I am constantly painting. It balances me.’
She is an artist, curator, researcher, doctoral student and volleyball instructor (yes, yes). In recent years, she has been the manager and curator of the Jewish-Arab cooperative gallery in Kibbutz Kbari HaPoni, which these days is being reopened after being closed with the outbreak of the war.
In October, a memorial exhibition was supposed to open in the gallery, which was intended to commemorate the 33 boys and girls from the Mata Regional Council who fell in the Yom Kippur War, and for which Horvitz Livna created a series of paintings for each of them with the view of their home. The exhibition was placed but not opened: in the first week of the war, soldiers moved into the gallery, the kibbutz became a military base and the residents left it. Now, little by little, they are coming back, and although not all of them are still there, including not Horvitz Livna herself, she has decided to reopen the gallery with two exhibitions of artists who live in and around the kibbutz.
“The activity of the gallery did not stop even when it was closed,” she says. “We stayed at the Wilfrid Israel Museum in Kibbutz Zora at an exhibition presented by 14 gallery artists that I have worked with over the years – Jews and Arabs. It was important to me that we continue to work.’
These days, Horvitz Livna is working both on her solo exhibition and on special exhibitions that will open in Kibbutz Kabri this summer and will mark the 100th birthday of two masters who left the kibbutz: the painter Uri Riesman and the sculptor Yehiel Shemi, including children’s books that will be dedicated to the works of each of them.
At the same time, she is staying at the residency of the Old Jaffa Development Company, where she creates in a studio that was used for the activities of artists and female artists who were evacuated from the north and south. “When the world shook on October 7, everything collapsed in on itself. As a doctoral student in history who took courses on art in the Holocaust, it seemed to me that everything I learned was happening in reality, and that I had no choice but to continue. I took the colors and the materials with me to the emissions of my own volition and I am constantly painting. It balances me.’
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