7.10.2017 - 5.11.2017 #WallCarpetsDreams and Dramas
ZUZEUM Art Centre, Riga, LatviaDreams and Dramas – an exhibition organized by the art and culture publishing house Arterritory.com – constitutes the largest exhibition to date in the Baltic States of contemporary art from Israel. Curated by Roy Brand, an Israeli philosopher, curator, and lecturer at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem,it brings together works by fourteen distinguished Israeli artists: Porat Salomon, Dor Guez, Nir Hod, Guy Zagursky, Noa Eshkol, Avner Ben-Gal, Sagit Mezamer, Erez Israeli, Keren Yeala Golan, Marik Lechner, Daniel Kiczales, Eitan Ben-Moshe, Sigalit Landau, and Yehudit Sasportas.Dreams and Dramas depicts contemporary Israel in all its poignant vibrancy, its joys and sorrows, its soaring dreams and fierce dramas: “For good or bad, Israel is intense, and its culture and art participates and reflects that – it is both earthy and mythic, a mixture of present-day conflicts, past traumas, harsh realities and lofty ideals,” says Brand. More particularly, this exhibition portrays a generation of IsraeliSee More
01.09.2017 - 28.01.2018 #ChamberDanceGroup #NoaEshkolArchive #WallCarpetsThe Event of a Thread
Kunsthaus Dresden, GermanyThe Event of a ThreadGlobal Narratives in Textiles Textiles are at the heart of the new ifa touring exhibition, which focuses on questions including: What inherent meanings and messages can be found in fabrics? What is the cultural significance of material? How can they be ‘read’? What can fabrics tell us about their origins, meanings and social roles? Which traditional textile techniques have artists appropriated, abstracted, relocated and brought back to life?In 1965, the Bauhaus artist Anni Albers described “the event of a thread” as something multilinear, without beginning or end: more broadly, it meant the constant possibility of reassessing relations and restructuring connections. This reconfigurative vision is illustrated by the objects, installations and video essays assembled in the exhibition, which disclose the specific qualities of textiles, their contexts and their histories. In this way, the works highlight the complex ways in which “textility” is interwoven in our lives. For example, Vincent Vulsma’s piece TechniqueSee More
04.02.2017 - 19.03.2017 #NoaEshkolArchiveNoa Eshkol; I Look at the Moon and Think about My Daughter-in-Law
Kunstverein, Amsterdam, The NetherlandsJanuary 21–March 19, 2017 Vleeshal Markt Markt 1, 4331 KG Middelburg, The Netherlands Opening with performances by The Noa Eshkol Chamber Group: January 21, 5pm Workshops with The Noa Eshkol Chamber Group: January 22, 11am & 2pmFebruary 4–March 19 Kunstverein Hazenstraat 28, 1016 SR Amsterdam, The Netherlands Member’s preview & walk-though: February 3, 5pm Film screening: February 4, 4pmWhen looking closely at a hand turning a doorknob, a “rotary movement” is observed, very different from the motion one would witness of jumping jacks, which are considered the result of a “plane movement,” and certainly unlike the perceived effort of a waist circling inside a hula-hoop. How do we define one movement from the next, and how do we preserve them in time, in order perhaps to redo them one after the other?Kunstverein, together with Vleeshal (Middelburg), is excited to present a joint solo exhibition in two parts: ‘I Look at the Moon and Think aboutSee More
