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In her current double exhibition installed in Terezín’s Small Fortress (1 May – 26 Aug 2013) and at DOX (7 Jun – 26 Aug 2013), the “Advocate of Dreams and Emotions”, Kamila Ženatá, works with raw-sounding terms like trans-generational trauma transmission, displacement of pain or the rule of totalitarianism, all of them applied to the female world. The author, who became known on the Cz...   [more]

Where do we look for the form within contemporary visual poetry?  This was the fundamental question posed by the author of the exhibition project, Barbora Toman Tylova (born 1981). She approached the specified problem from a graphic design perspective. Much like visual poetry is an incisive area of words and images, the expressive means chosen by Tylova explore opportunities how to innovatively re...   [more]

Opening: May 30th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Mohammed Kazem was born in Dubai, U.A.E. in 1969.  It is here that he first studied fine art at Emirates Fine Art Society.  He went on to learn music, attend national and international art workshops, as well as teach painting at Dubai Art Atelier with Hassan Sharif. Kazem’s works have been selected for Biennials and Exhibitions  around the world for over two decades, including, Holland, Singapore...   [more]

The 2013, the theme of the 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia selected a theme based on Marino Auriti’s The Encyclopedic Palace to “realize” metaphorically the unfulfilled dream or imagination of this early twentieth century Italian immigrant in the United States: “An entirely new concept in museums, designed to hold all the works of man, in whatever field, discov...   [more]

Ali Kazma’s multi-channel video installation Resistance explores the interventions and strategies that both release the body from its own restrictions and restrict it in order to control it. As an extensive survey on the contemporary discourses, techniques and management tactics developed for the human body, Resistance is an attempt to unravel the interventions imposed and practised on the body today. I...   [more]

Jasmina Cibic's presentation for the Slovenian Pavilion, For our Economy and Culture, continues the artist’s interests and methodologies and takes the curatorial directive of the 55th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia: The Encyclopedic Palace as a starting point to further explore systems and hierarchies of knowledge and presentation. Using the architectural specificity of the Sl...   [more]

Félix Toranzos Born in Asuncion, Paraguay in 1962. Visual artist, architect, graphic designer and set designer. He studied Fine Arts at the School of Fine Arts and the Faculty of Architecture of the National University of Asunción respectively. He taught Drawing and Painting at the Workshops for the Visual Arts Center. His work is part of the permanent Collection of Paraguayan Contemporary A...   [more]

‘Beware of the Holy Whore: Edvard Munch, Lene Berg and the Dilemma of Emancipation’ is a project organised by the Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA) and Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice, as the official Norwegian representation at the 55th International Art Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia in 2013. The exhibition, which includes a series of rarely exhibited works by Edvard Munch in...   [more]

Bill Culbert is well known for making art from light. He is also renowned for lightness of touch – a talent for putting familiar objects together in ways that activate both them and their surroundings. And in 2013, at the 55th Venice Biennale, Culbert’s art will be lighting up some remarkable spaces within the Istituto Santa Maria della Pietà, right by the lagoon on Venice’s busy Riva degli Sc...   [more]

Shadowplay, a large-scale installation by contemporary German artist Hans-Peter Feldmann, uses shadows to transform simple, everyday objects into magical figures in an imaginary world on the gallery walls. A variety of toys, figurines, and other items whirl on rotating pedestals, illuminated by spotlights in the dark space, creating a fascinating theater of moving shadows.   [more]

Opening: June 4th   4:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Is what we think we see really what we see? Or do our eyes not always tell us the truth? In this interactive exhibition, visitors are invited to feel the sense of surprise, awe, and wonder that arises in us when something turns out not to be what it seemed. Optical illusion – also known as trompe l’oeil – occurs when there is a gap between the information that is transmitted to the eyes from th...   [more]

Opening: June 2nd   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

The exhibition reveals a selection of works from the 17th century during the course of which landscape became a genre in its own right in European art. Throughout the years artists painted landscapes they had either seen with their own eyes or in their imagination, and described scenes that touched their hearts or suited their mood; among them Annibale Carracci, Rembrandt van Rijn, Claude Lorrain, Wi...   [more]

Opening: June 2nd   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Beauty and mystery envelop every single part of this complex installation by Yehudit Sasportas, a prominent Israeli artist who lives and works in Berlin and Tel Aviv, and for whom this is the first solo exhibition in an Israeli museum in over a decade. Composed of sculptures, video works, and drawings – some intimate in scale, others covering entire walls – it is structured as a multitrack journey conn...   [more]

Opening: May 29th   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Many of the 20th century’s key figures in photography, such as André Kertész, Brassai, Bill Brandt, Man Ray, and Robert Frank among others, were immigrants – people uprooted from their native countries, whether by choice or by necessity. This exhibition explores how this affected their vision and creativity while also promoting the evolution of the photographic vernacular in general. Presenting so...   [more]

Opening: May 28th   4:00 PM - 9:00 PM

On the day of the Aleppo Pogrom, December 1, 1947, Shmuel Sabag collected a scrap of parchment from the pages of the codex. Placed in his wallet, it served as an amulet until his last day. In 2003 his family donated this precious fragment to the Ben-Zvi Institute, and it is now on display at the Museum.   [more]