Category: Visual Arts

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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Alternative Tel Aviv Art Tours

Alternative Tel Aviv specializes in graffiti and street art. Our urban art walking tours provide a peek into the world of artists and graffiti writers who work and exhibit independently while conducting a dialog with us about the world we all share. The tours examine the past and present of one of the most consistent, widespread and engaging art movements of our time. We also offer gallery tours, architecture tours and special art tours – make sure to ask us about this months special tour. Located in the cultural capital of Israel, Alternative Tel Aviv is always up to date about the latest trends in contemporary art. We offer several unique tours, customized tours and special event tours that correspond to particular art events in Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem, Israel. We do mostly private tours for couples or groups, but once in a while we do an open tour to which anyone can join. We publish dates for our open tours on our Facebook page, Instagram account and Twitter profile, be sure to follow to know about the next open tour.  Alternative Tel Avivs’ different art tours are a high quality team building activity suited for organizations, families and groups who are searching for enriching content for a day out or a celebration of a special occasion and for art lovers who desire to deepen their knowledge in the fields of contemporary art and urban visual culture.

Join us and discover the real cultural DNA of Israel.

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ArtPort Tel Aviv

ARTPORT TELAVIV is the new art arena of The Center for Young Art, a nonprofit organization founded by Mr. Jason Arison, Chairman of The Ted Arison Family Foundation. The Arison family has been a major supporter of the arts for many years, both in Israel and in the United States. Jason initiated and founded The Center for Young Art out of his passion for the arts and his wish to support emerging artists. The Center for Young Art and ARTPORT TEALVIV is one of 5 vision ventures of The Ted Arison Family Foundation. To read more about the Ted Arison Family Foundation, visit us at www.arison.co.il.

Jason Arison wishes ARTPORT TELAVIV to be a home for emerging artists, a place that will be reflected upon as the turning point in the lives of talented artists, and to serve as a platform for an alternative artistic dialogue, between the local contemporary art scene, international organizations and independent artists worldwide. As such, ARTPORT TELAVIV will also benefit the general public, spreading artistic awareness and knowledge locally and internationally, experiencing trends and insights from the contemporary art world.

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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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Comme il faut

“Comme il faut”, literally translated from French to ‘properly,’ is a business by women for women.

Comme il faut is comprised of a fashion house, women’s only spa, and chef’s restaurant located at the Beit Banamal (Home in the Harbor) complex at Tel Aviv port, that offers a women’s venue for culture and entertainment. Sybil Goldfiner founded the company together with Carole Godin 22 years ago, as a business by women for women. The company seeks to advance women in Israeli society by developing and cultivating feminist awareness. The approach that guides the company’s activities is that a garment is not only a garment, but is also part of an entire gamut of political actions that are motivated by a cultural-critical worldview. The designers at comme Il faut believe that a piece of clothing truly resembles the way in which it was produced, the body image it carries, and the way we choose to advertise and display it. Moreover, the clothing article will always signify the values that inspired its creation.

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Debby Luzia

Owner at Stern Gallery

I am Debby Luzia. Art has always been a part of my life. As a child in London, I would accompany my father to his art gallery and on Saturdays to his little stall at Portobello market. When I was 9 years old we immigrated to Tel-Aviv Israel where he established Stern Gallery in 1971. It seemed only natural to go to art school and become involved in the gallery. That was 30 years ago…. In 2001,  I became the owner of Stern Gallery Tel-Aviv , my mission being the promotion of Israeli contemporary painting alongside the classic art the gallery is famous for. I also collect art and this urge to acquire brought me  to the academy to research this remarkable phenomenon, surprisingly neglected albeit its popularity. I completing my M.A studies, doing qualitative research on art collectors in Israel and analysing their ways of creating value. In January 2015 I self published my book: Why the Mona Lisa lost her smile, a behind the scenes analysis of the global art world. The Hebrew edition has been very successful and I am now working on the English version.

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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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Edna Fast

Founder at Lunart Fund

Edna Fast was born in Tel Aviv and moved with her family to New York in 1984. During her 34 years in NYC, Edna founded and managed EZ Fast Realty, Inc. – a company providing consulting, management and brokerage services for foreign real estate investors. In addition to her successful business venture Edna taught Israeli Law at Cardozo Law School and took an active role in the Inter Agency Task Force on Israeli Arab Issues, an umbrella organization dedicated to educating the Jewish communities in the US about the problems of the Arab Israeli minorities in Israel.  Edna returned to Tel Aviv with her husband in 2011. She currently runs her non-profit venture, established in 2008 – the Luna Art Fund (“LunArt”) for the promotion of Art and Advancement of Art Education in the Israeli Arab Sector. In addition to initiating and supporting free pre-college prep courses in art to Arab-Israeli high school graduates aspiring for a career in the visual arts, the program also provides study scholarships to some of its graduates.

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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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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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James Snyder

Director Emeritus and International President at The Israel Museum

From 1986-1996, Snyder served as deputy director of The Museum of Modern Art, New York. During his tenure, he oversaw the museum’s $60-million, 350,000-square-foot expansion, which was completed in 1984. Snyder has been the Anne and Jerome Fisher Director of the Israel Museum since 1996. During his tenure, the Museum has strengthened its international presence with a series of important loan exhibitions in Jerusalem and traveling exhibitions worldwide; continued to expand its holdings across all of its collecting areas; developed its network of International Friends organizations, now operating in sixteen countries worldwide; launched a campaign to double its endowment to $150 million; and undergone a series of upgrades and enhancements. In 2011, Snyder oversaw the completion of a comprehensive $100-million project to unify and enhance the facilities throughout the Museum’s campus, the most comprehensive capital undertaking since the founding of the Museum in 1965

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Jerusalem Culture Unlimited

Jerusalem Culture Unlimited (JCU), seeks to strengthen new, emerging, and mid-size arts organizations in Jerusalem through professional development and organizational management training, education, and other resources.

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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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Karen Gillerman-Harel

Author, Photographer

Karen was born in 1970 and is married with two children. She is an artistic photographer and the director of one of the leading Art Galleries-Tavi Art Gallery in Neve Zedek, Tel Aviv. Karen studied photography at the renowned Goldsmiths College – University of London and at The School of Visual Arts, New York. Her work was displayed in well-known New York galleries and in exhibitions throughout the U.S., China, Berlin and Israel. She has published the book: Love & Other Bad Habits, which consists of texts and photos about Women.

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Kutiman

 Kutiman (Born Ophir Kutiel, 1982) is a multi-talented artist from Tel Aviv. Kutiman is a musician, composer, producer, and an acclaimed video artist. Kutiman burst onto the international music scene in 2007 with the worldwide release of his critically acclaimed and self-titled debut album, which gained him the title of “psychedelic funk architect” by the UK based magazine Straight No Chaser. In 2009 Kutiman released his groundbreaking YouTube video mash-up project, ‘Thru-You’. In this project Kutiman mixed dozens of unrelated YouTube videos to create an online album which has received more than 11 million views to date. Internationally lauded, ‘Thru-You’ has received hailing reviews from newspapers, magazines, blogs, and media outlets from all over the globe. His work has been deemed “the future of music” and “internet’s new frontier”. Time Magazine included ‘Thru-You’ in their 50 best inventions of 2009. In 2014, Kutiman was nominated for a Webby Award in the Video Remix/Mashup category for his ‘Thru Tokyo’ project, in which he created an intimate musical landscape for the city of Tokyo. He has since been commissioned by various cities such as Tel Aviv, Riga, New York, Krakow, and Jerusalem to create audio/visual portraits of each city’s uniqueness. Following the success of ‘Thru You,’ Kutiman released ‘Thru You Too’ in October 2014, an online music album composed of unrelated YouTube videos. He was awarded a 2015 Webby Honoree for his work on ‘Thru You Too’. This project led to interesting international collaborations with some of the world’s most prominent producers, DJs, and musicians, birthing the creation of the ‘Thru You Remixes’. Kutiman’s two-track Deep Jazz Funk vinyl release titled Space Cassava was released in July 2015 to raving reviews ad support from world renowned DJs. In the coming months, Kutiman is set to release his highly anticipated sophomore full-length album 6AM, the first release off his new record label Siyal Music.
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Maya Gold

Artist

Maya is a contemporary artist who was born in 1978, in Jerusalem. She lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel, and teaches at the Bezalel Academy of Art & Design. She has exhibited in Israel and around the world, and has won numerous awards, including the Young Artist Award by the Ministry of Culture in 2014 and 2015.

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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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