You are invited to the launch of the new artist book Antisemitism, Homophobia and Contemporary Art by our international artist-in-residence, Ana Hoffner.

“Antisemitism, Homophobia and Contemporary Art“ (Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic*, published by Routledge 2025) analyzes synchronization as a symptom of the contemporary art world. Acting as a tool within presentday social, economic, and political systems, synchronization assigns individuals to predetermined forms of representation. At its core, this book challenges normative synchronization concepts as projections of a unity of bodies and voices, past and present, self and environment.

Ana Hoffner and Joshua Simon will discuss the unravelling of the of the contemporary moment, its uneven and combined development, and its unexpected materialiries.

Joshua Simon is a curator and writer. Among his books: Neomaterialism (Sternberg Press) and Being Together Precedes Being (Archive Books). He is the editor of the upcoming book The Digital Revolution as Counter-revolution (B_books). His latest curatorial projects include Slime (Secession, Vienna) and In the Liquid (Hamburg Kurtzfilm Festival).

Witchcraft and Gardening 2025 – A solo performance by Ohad Fishof

Thursday, February 26
Doors open: 8:00 PM
Performance begins: 8:30 PM

Witchcraft and Gardening is the title of Ohad Fishof’s new solo album. It is his first solo release since Album 1 from 2019, and it continues and further develops the musical direction of that album, weaving a dreamlike narrative from a multifaceted blend of instrumental pieces and songs. The formal range, from abstract electro-acoustic environments to avant-garde pop, allows for a wide spectrum of expression and sustains a kind of parallel universe. The solo performance does not aim to recreate the album on stage, but rather to create a new, one-time evening in which Fishoff weaves together materials from the album alongside additional works from his broader body of practice.

Ohad Fishof is an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersections of visual art, live art, sound, text, movement, and image.

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Glam, Body, and Destruction
A conversation between artists Lali Fruheling and Daniel Liberman, and fashion designer Shahar Avnet

An encounter between fashion, image, and the body, and the ways in which fantasy and destruction operate as complementary and opposing creative forces.
Lali Fruheling invites fashion designer Shahar Avnet to a conversation about the formation of her language as a designer and her path into worlds of tulle and glamour, as the realization of fantasy and a conscious choice of identity as a creator, woman, and mother, alongside artist Daniel Liberman, whose figure based sculptures are presented in the exhibition. Liberman will share an ongoing investigation of the body as both raw material and pedestal, and her transition from appearing as a model in magazines to the dismantling of the body and its image through photography, video, and sculpture.

Daniel Liberman is an artist working with photography, video, and sculptural objects. Her practice explores subject object relations, self representation, and personal and familial archives, using portraiture and photography as performative acts. She holds a BFA in Photography from 2022 and an MFA in Art from 2024 from Bezalel Academy, and is the recipient of the Micha Kirshner Prize for Excellence in Photography.
Shahar Avnet is a fashion designer and artist, a graduate of Shenkar College from 2016. In 2018, she founded the brand that bears her name.

Tuesday, January 27, 8:30 PM

Exhibition tour and talk
With Lali Fruheling and exhibition curator Vardit Gross

Friday, February 6, 12:00 PM