Category: TV & Video

Alon Segev Gallery

Alon Segev Gallery opened in 2000. It has since become a leading contemporary art gallery in Tel Aviv. The gallery focuses on young and well established contemporary artists, both Israeli and international. The gallery’s artistic agenda allows the display of all aspects of contemporary art; from complex installations through videos, sculptures, drawings and paintings. Artists represented by Alon Segev Gallery are currently living, working, and exhibiting both in Israel and abroad. Alon Segev Gallery is regarded as one of the leading contemporary art galleries in Israel today. Often reviewed by local and international media. It is our vision and intention to expose Israeli contemporary art to the international scene. We believe Israeli art is of relevance world wide and has an interesting perspective to offer.​

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Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design Jerusalem

Established in 1906 by artist Boris Schatz as the “Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts”, Bezalel has evolved into one of the world’s most prestigious art schools. The name Bezalel is synonymous with more than 100 years of Israeli art, innovation
and academic excellence. Bezalel’s unique strength stems from the numerous breakthroughs it has been responsible for and its ability to respond and adapt to cultural changes. It takes pride in its numerous generations of graduates – the spearhead of Israeli artists, designers and architects, in Israel and around the globe. The Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design is, first and foremost, a group of talented, inspired and motivated artists and professionals. Both faculty and students are driven by a passion to create and by their dedication to quality and excellence. These two pillars of the Academy have placed Bezalel at the epicenter of Israel’s
cultural discourse and at the forefront of its artistic scene, making it instrumental in shaping the country’s cultural identity.

Bezalel has over 2000 students studying towards undergraduate degrees in the following departments: Fine Arts, Screen Based Arts, Architecture, Ceramics and Glass Design, Industrial Design, Jewelry and Fashion Design, Photography and Visual Communication. In addition, Bezalel offers graduate degrees in the fields of Fine Arts, Urban Design, Industrial Design and Policy and Theory of the Arts. Each department preserves the traditional knowledge, tools, materials and workshops collected over many decades, while using state-of-the-art software and cutting-edge technologies.

Bezalel trains and prepares its students for a life of achievement and excellence. Our students receive a practical education of the highest order, along with a broad-based intellectual foundation in history, literature and philosophy, social studies and the fundamentals of scientific and technological thought. Through interdisciplinary, inter-departmental and ‘basics’ courses and the option of enrolling in courses in all of Bezalel’s departments, our students are introduced to additional fields, outside of their specialized field, thereby enriching their artistic-design understanding. The Bezalel Academy has an outstanding faculty as well as an extensive variety of expressive tools, providing our students with total freedom of choice and creative liberty. By the time they graduate, they are able to effectively cope with the challenges presented by the global world of the 21st century and succeed in blazing their own unique and individual trails through the magical – yet demanding – fields of art, architecture and design.

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Dor Guez

Artist

Dor Guez (born in Baka, Jerusalem) is an artist and a scholar who lives in Jaffa. His work interrogates personal and official accounts of the past while revealing histories that were previously absent. His practice raises questions about contemporary art’s role in narrating unwritten histories, and re-contextualizing visual and written documents. The artist’s cultural heritage, Christian Palestinian and Jewish Tunisian, is reflected in his artistic interest.

Guez’s work has been the subject of over 25 solo exhibitions worldwide, with his most recent at the ICA in London, and Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit. Past solo exhibitions have been held at The Rose Art Museum in Boston, Artpace, San Antonio, the Mosaic Rooms, Centre for Contemporary Arab Culture, London, The KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin,Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and Petach Tikva Museum of Art. Guez’s work has been included in numerous international exhibitions and biennials including the 12th Istanbul Biennial; 8th Berlin Biennial; 17th, 18th and 19th International Contemporary Art Festival, Videobrasil, São Paulo; 3rd Moscow International Biennale, Moscow; Biennale Benin, Cotonou; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; MAXXI Museum, Rome; Cleveland Institute of Art; Triennale Museum, Milan; Villa Stuck Museum, Munich; Weatherspoon Art Museum, North Carolina, among others.

In 2014 Guez was nominated as head of the Photography Department at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem.

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Fresh Paint Art Fair

Changing its location every year, this annual event is the largest art event Tel Aviv has to offer. Fresh Paint Fair mixes the big and the small together, when the small galleries are working side by side with the large museums to bring you an art fair you won’t forget. With the support of leading international art institutes, Fresh Paint Fair attracts more than 30,000 art ­lovers every year.

The fair brings together leading Israeli galleries and significant forces of the Israeli art scene, collaborates with all the Israeli museums, and enjoys the support of leading international art institutions. The fair’s visitors enjoy presentations of the nation’s top galleries, promising emerging galleries and the unique Greenhouse – showcasing the works of select, independent Israeli artists. While following the formula of professional art fairs around the world, Fresh Paint is unique in its role as a launch pad for the careers of up-and-coming, unrepresented artists. The fair’s community projects and fund-raising activities benefit the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and several other nonprofit organizations. Fresh Paint contemporary art fair is an extraordinary opportunity to get to know the energetic Israeli art scene.

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Hila Korach

TV Presenter & Radio Host

Hila is a journalist, radio host and TV-personality. HIla holds a Bachelors degree in Psychology and Political Science, a Masters degree in Diplomacy and is currently studying Medicine at Tel Aviv University. Hila lives with her husband and their two children in Holon.

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Irit Fine Sommer

Owner at Sommer Contemporary Art Gallery

Irit Fine-Sommer is the founder and owner of Sommer Contemporary Art gallery. Today, Sommer Contemporary Art is a first rank international gallery and an important cultural landmark in the city of Tel Aviv. Irit Sommer is also the founder of Art TLV, the First Israeli art biennial and a member of the board of Muzot high school for the Arts. She was born and raised in Switzerland to a family of art collectors. At the age of 19 she moved to Paris and studied French culture and architecture at the Sorbonne. Upon graduation she moved to Israel and completed her BA in Business and Economics and her MA Studies in Environmental Economics and History at the Tel-Aviv University. In 1999, after three years of intensive preparatory work, she opened Sommer Contemporary Art.

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Jerusalem Season of Culture

The Jerusalem Season of Culture gathers hundreds of visual artists, DJs, chefs and artists from other genres, to draw inspiration from Jerusalem’s complexities, divides and layers and create something that taps into the deeper sides of Jerusalem and the lives of the people here. All events that are part of Jerusalem Season of Culture are unique to Jerusalem’s ambiance, style and different layers. These events could scarcely work outside of Jerusalem and they give expression to a creative, sophisticated, artistic, social and humanist statement that is enjoyed by many every year.
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Karen Brunwasser

Deputy Director at Jerusalem Season of Culture

Karen is a proud native of Philadelphia, but “is madly in love with her adopted hometown of Jerusalem”. Karen is the deputy director and one of the founders of the Jerusalem Season of Culture, a summer music festival that showcases Jerusalem as a vibrant, musical, and creative city. According to their website, “Jerusalem is the greatest font of creativity in the world. For us, Jerusalem plays the starring role, forming a backdrop for the performances and acting as our primary source of inspiration. Jerusalem is both the reason and the instigator. We are permanently attuned to the voices emerging from within this city, the harmonious and discordant alike, and, despite all the background noise, we try to extract from them an open and clear sound of creativity.” Karen cares deeply about the city’s civil society and hosts her own radio show, Cosmopolitan Jerusalem that profiles activists, artists, and entrepreneurs from Jerusalem.

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Michal Helfman

Artist

Michal Helfman (born 1973 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli artist living and working in Tel Aviv, Israel. She is a multidisciplinary artist working in various disciplines including sculpture, architecture, video and drawings. In order to demonstrate the relations between the reviled and the hidden forces working within society and culture, she has developed an installation platform based on the back-stage front-stage structure of the theatrical stage as one, which brings together simultaneously both the real and the symbolic.

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Naomi Bloch-Fortis

CEO at Jerusalem Season of Culture

Naomi Fortis is best known for her tenure as CEO of the world-famous modern dance troupe, Bat Sheva. She left this position to head up the Jerusalem Season of Culture, which she manages to this day. Naomi’s creative approach, and her ability to fuse different cultures and points of view, is the driving force behind the refocusing of the Jerusalem Season of Culture on the spirit of the people and sacredness of Jerusalem, hence the name that symbolizes the festival: Mekudeshet (Sacred). Naomi’s passion is to enable the expression of the clashes of cultures that Jerusalem so aptly represents, through unique works of art, clashing points of view and original collaborations.

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Nirith Nelson

Contemporary Art & Design Curator

Nirith Nelson is an independent contemporary art and design curator, as well as an active and wide-ranging art educator. In line with her role as the art director of the JCVA Residency Program, much of her prominent curatorial work is notable for its international, multi-disciplinary approach.  Nelson studied Art History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. During her studies for the master’s degree she began her work at the Israel Museum, where for nearly ten years she practiced curatorial work and public speaking on art and design. Since 2002, she has run and developed the JCVA Artists Residency program, where she screens and invites international artists and curators and creates individually-tailored programs for each in line with their artistic interests. Special projects such as exhibitions, lectures, workshops and multidisciplinary seminars are initiated and encouraged; these enrich visiting artists as well as the local art milieu.

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Outset Israel

Outset has been helping Israeli artists to realise their visions since 2008: we give strategic advice, we build communities of interest, we expand public audiences, we create circles of trust. Outset Israel was founded in 2008 to strengthen contemporary visual art production in Israel and abroad by supporting new commissions from established and emerging Israeli artists and to further the donation of Israeli works to both international and Israeli public institutions. We are seeking to engage international art professionals with the growing talent pool of Israeli artists and to host international talent in Israel for an engaged artistic dialogue.

Under expert guidance, Outset’s directors, patrons and partners provide funds to respond to what artists and curators really need. Outset Israel’s patrons are closely involved with the supported art projects. Our ethos is best expressed through our name: be there at the outset. That’s why we can offer our supporters – both individuals and corporates – experiences, insights and opportunities they won’t find anywhere else.

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Ruti Direktor

Contemporary Art Curator at Tel Aviv Museum of Art

I am an Art critic, curator and lecturer.  I hold a B.A in Art History & Classical Studies, from Tel Aviv University and an M.A from the Department of Poetics and Comparative Literature, Tel Aviv University (cum laude).  I was the Chief Curator, Haifa Museum of art since 2011, and today I am the Contemporary Art curator at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. I was an Art critic of “Ha’ir”, a weekly magazine, between the years 1995-2005, served as an Art critic of Yedioth Ahronoth, the daily newspaper, between 2005 – 2008, and wrote a blog – Ha’Zofa – between 2008-2009.  I also write reviews and articles for catalogs, magazines and other publications. In 2005  I published a book “Contemporary Art I am talking to you” (published by Sal Tarbut Artzi publishing house). I lecture about contemporary art and Israeli art in general.

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Sergio Edelzstein

Director & Chief Curator at The Center for Contemporary Art

Sergio Edelsztein was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1956. Studied at the Tel Aviv University (1976-85). Funded and directed Artifact Gallery in Tel Aviv (1987-1995). In 1995 founded The Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv and has been its director and chief curator since then. In the framework of the CCA he curated seven Performance Art Biennials and five International Video Art Biennials – Video Zone. Also curated numerous experimental and video art screenings, retrospectives and performance events. Since 1995 curated exhibitions and time-based events in Spain, China, Poland, Singapore and elsewhere. Curated the Israeli participation at the 24th Sao Paulo Biennial (1998) the 2005 and 2013 Israeli Pavilion at the Biennale in Venice.

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Sharon Toval

Contemporary Art Curator

Sharon Toval is an independent contemporary art curator. He was born in Tel -Aviv, grew up and educated in Toulouse, France. He is currently completing a thesis for a Master’s degree in Policy and Theory of the Arts at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. Sharon academic degrees include: Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering and Management (Technion); Master’s Degree in Business Administration (ESCP-EAP, Paris); History of Art ( Bezalel Academy of Art and Design). Master’s in Theory and Policy of the Arts (Bezalel Academy).

His main curatorial activity in the years 2011-2013 is Digiart- Digital Art incubator TLV. DigiArt is an exceptional groundbreaking initiative of the Royal Beach Tel Aviv Hotel, to promote young Israeli digital artists. DigiArt– The digital art incubator is a state of the art addition to the Isrotel chain’s range of activities that aims at advancing Israeli culture and art. The goal of this project is to support and promote young Israelis working in the field of digital media: photography, video art and animation, supporting 18 chosen recent art graduates of Israel’s leading academic institutions. The hotel was transformed into a gallery, showcasing 600 digital artworks. It aspires to expose these artists’ works both to the local and the international artistic discourse, while also contributing to the community and the culture of Israel.

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Sigalit Landau

Artist at Sigalit Landau Studio

Sigalit Landau has been scratching the surfaces for over two decades. But the bruises are still open; the pain doesn’t seem to ease. She spreads salt crystals on open injuries, blends them in sugar, covers them in papier-mâché, immerses them in the Dead Sea. But their bloody presence is always here. Landau’s work is of a bridge maker. [Un]consciously looking for new and vital materials to connect the past to the future; the west to the east; the private with the collective; the sub-existential to the Uber-profound; the found objects to the deepest epic narratives and mythologies.

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Sommer Contemporary Art Gallery

Sommer Contemporary Art was founded in 1999 by Irit Fine Sommer. Since its opening the gallery has been committed to promoting Israeli artists in the international art scene, as well as representing and exhibiting leading international artists in Israel and abroad. The gallery is distinguished by the deep relationships it develops with artists, from emerging and mid-career to established, by regularly collaborating with museums, biennials and publishing houses, and creating meaningful exhibitions and publications. International artists are often invited by the gallery to conduct extensive research and create specially-curated projects. They regularly present site-specific installations in the gallery’s space, works that are formed out of a continuing dialogue and that cannot be witnessed in other venues. In addition to these,Sommer Contemporary Art aims to bring artistic exchange, experimentation and discussion to the forefront. In the gallery’s project room, “S2”, young curators receive an opportunity to curate small scale exhibitions of emerging artists. The purpose of this initiative is to support the curatorial role and allow for diverse theoretical discussion to take place within the gallery compounds.

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The Center for Contemporary Art

The Center for Contemporary Art is Israel’s foremost institution for the commissioning and presentation of experimental contemporary art, and as such is a vibrant place of inspiration, provocation, and reflection. Situated in the heart of Tel Aviv, the CCA is a registered nonprofit organization that produces four to six unique large-scale exhibitions annually, often focusing on time-based or site-specific practices by outstanding local and international artists. Along with exhibitions, the CCA organizes a wide variety of public programming, including panels, screenings, artist talks, and performances that challenge perceived notions and stimulate debate, experimentation, and engagement.

The CCA is housed in a municipal building that contains two exhibition spaces and an auditorium in its approximately 300 square meter facilities. These spaces often come to life through solo exhibitions, and have housed the work of major international artists who have not shown in Israel before, including Marina Abramovic, Sharon Lockhart, Gary Hill,  Rosa Barba, and Christian Jankowski. Many important Israeli artists have had their first institutional solo exhibitions at the CCA, including Yael Bartana, Guy Ben Ner, Roee Rosen, Nir Evron, Michal Helfman, and Nira Pereg. Most exhibitions are accompanied by catalogues with commissioned texts that contextualize these artists’ practices and further the discussions they spur among Israeli and international audiences.

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The Night Spectacular at the Tower of David Museum

The walls of the Citadel serve as a stage for a nightime show which is a celebration of sight and sound. Amidst the archaeological remains in the Citadel’s courtyard and to the sound of original music, the story of Jerusalem unfolds through giant breathtaking, virtual reality images. The Night Spectacular uses trompe l’oeil technology – the stones of the walls and structures fade into the scenes and the screened images envelop the viewers and whisk them off to a one-of-a-kind multi-sensory experience.
Innovative techniques and a sophisticated computer system operate 20 projectors, 10 video players, 14 computers and 14 loudspeakers. All this in addition to some 10 kilometers of cable and two projection rooms. The Night Spectacular, the first of its kind in the world, is for everyone – tourists from Israel and abroad, families, speakers of all languages and all Jerusalem lovers.

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Yifat Gurion

Co-Founder, Art Director & Head Curator at Fresh Paint Art Fair

Yifat is the co-Founder, Art Director and Head Curator of the Fresh Paint Art Fair, Israel’s largest, most influential annual art event. The fair attracts over 30,000 visitors each year, who enjoy presentations of the nation’s top galleries, promising emerging galleries and the unique Greenhouse – showcasing the works of select, independent, up-and-coming Israeli artists. Further offerings are the Most Promising Artist award winner show, presented by the Igal Ahouvi art collection, the Sotheby’s “Under the Hammer” noteworthy independent artist’s work, a selection of special projects and commissioned works, the fair’s community projects and fund-raising activities, and the Fresh Paint Salon – an educational program of lectures, talks and encounters. The fair is held each year in a surprising, new location in Tel Aviv.

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