Events

Swiss artist Elianna Renner and Dr. Shani Agron (Weizmann Institute) will meet for a conversation where art and science intersect—exploring the political and emotional power of tears.
Dr. Agron’s research reveals a surprising finding: chemical compounds in female tears may reduce male aggression. This raises sharp questions about the medical blind spot surrounding male emotions and violence.While the female body has long been subject to strict medical regulation—through interventions...

Join us for a conversation between international artist-in-residence Maya Schweizer (Berlin) and curator Evgeny Gusyatinskiy (Tel Aviv).
Focusing on urban landscapes and the facets of the everyday, Maya Schweizer’s films and videos explore the invisible narratives that lie behind the façade of reality. In a subtle yet sharp manner, her work navigates the liminal space between past and present, memory and amnesia, history and oblivion—a political and existential spectrum of modern life. In conversation with programmer and curator Evgeny Gusyatinskiy, Maya Schweizer will discuss the poetics and...

Gallery tour led by the artist Fatma Shanan

Friday, May 30th, 12pm...

Celebrating International Women’s Day by adding more women artists to the Hebrew Wikipedia.

Artport is pleased to continue the tradition and join international art institutes, for a day of content writing on female artists. Let’s enrich Wikipedia with more information on great artists...

In the conversation between historian and writer Ofri Ilany and artist Hillel Roman, the connection between landscape, history, and artistic practice emerges—between the forests burning in California and the images igniting in the mind.

Roman, whose work explores the relationships between image, material, and space, seeks to deconstruct and reconstruct what is taken for granted. Ilany...

?How can we broadcast dance on the radio? What would a choreography of resistance sound like

Radio-Choreography is an artistic research project initiated in 2019 by Netta Weiser. The project explores various ways to broadcast dance on the radio and examines the relationship between live transmission and muted histories. As part of this project, Weiser is developing a radiophonic archive that focuses on...

PERFORMATIVE SONGS I.
“THE SHAPES OF THE THINGS”
In his creative work as a librettist, composer or director, Andrej Kalinka works with people. By shaping their movement, speech, singing, acting or playing musical instruments, he works with time, rhythm, movement, relationships...

Limbus: A Performative Event Celebrating the Closing of Nonfinito

A horse is standing behind a screen, with the image of a woman looking back. On the horse’s back rides a headless horseman. The horse, which is also a tent and a dress, sings a polyphonic composition. The song is an imaginary conversation between the horse and the lonely rider—a guardian—a fallen warrior...

What are the performative and political implications of collective listening? How can acts of listening become a choreographic motor? How can we listen to the histories we carry within our bodies?

During her residency at Artport, Netta Weiser developed a new phase of her research, “Choreographies of Listening.” Since 2019, she has been exploring...

NonFinito 2024, the year end exhibition of Artport’s annual residency program, which began in October 2023 and concludes these days, presents new projects and ideas that have sprouted in the six studios on the two floors above the gallery. As part of the exhibition, we will hold several guided art tours and events:...

You are invited to an artist talk with Ben Hagari (New York/Israel), a participant in Artport’s residency program for Israeli artists living abroad. The event will feature screenings of several works from recent years alongside a preview of a project currently in development. During the talk, Ben will discuss the creative processes behind his previous works and the research process for his current project.
Ben Hagari creates films, video installations, video sculptures, kinetic environments, animations, photographs, and exhibitions. His tragicomic work conjures...

You are invited to a launch event of the outdoor sculpture “Luna” by artist Moshe Roas, at sunset on a full moon night.

The evening will begin with a performance in relation to the sculpture by dancer Or Ashkenazi, followed by instrumental music performed on the sitar by Ehud Ifrach...

Exhibition Tour & Meeting with artist Shiran Yitzhari
Friday Aug 23th, 11am
A conversation and additional points of view on Yair Perez’s exhibition with Oded Wolkstein and Assi Meshulam.
Sunday, August 25th, 7:30pm
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Artport’s artist-in-residence Esther Schneider in conversation with Emma Sham-Ba Ayalon and Dr. Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel about symbols, images and words. During the talk they will discuss the connections between the world of visual arts, Kabbalistic literature and the language of poetry, and the ways in which these worlds revive ancient layers of mystical experiences and present a space of sacred femininity...

Events within the exhibition:
The Craft of Translation Closing Event
Live musical performance by the artist Eje Eje
Date: Thursday, May 16, at 20:00
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Celebrating International Women’s Day by adding more women artists to the Hebrew Wikipedia.

Artport is pleased to continue the tradition and join international art institutes, for a day of content writing on female artists. Let’s enrich Wikipedia with more information on great artists...

You are invited to a screening event and discussion around the video works of Tal Alperstein, an artist in residence at Artport. Alperstein creates video works that serve as a platform for performative action and an exploration of the living body, time, and space. The cinematic space and time serve as the backdrop for these actions.
In the video works, the encounter between performance and cinema allows for exploring immediacy through both mediums. Within the cinematic...

As part of Artport’s new exhibition ‘More Than Enough’, join us on a series of events:
Fanzine Workshop led by artists Faina Georgiesh Feigin and Naga Or Yam
Friday March 1st 2024, 10:00am to 2pm
The artists will hold a fanzine workshop suitable for all ages, which will take place within the exhibition space.
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Artport invites you to join short art workshops to take a breath and clear your mind, if only briefly, from these difficult times.
The workshops will be conducted by Artport artists and will take place on Sundays between 3pm to 6pm, for youth and adults.
Dates:
Sunday, 24.12: Hosting artist Shiri Cnaani for a Shibori workshop.
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Nonfinito 2023, the year-end exhibition of Artport’s residency program, marks ten years of activity since the inception of Artport Art Center. A decade of studios for artists from Israel and abroad, of exhibitions and events, books, films, thoughts, and conversations. A decade of support for art and artists.
Exhibition’s curator, Vardit Gross tours: Saturday, November 2nd, 12pm and Friday, December 15th, 12pm.
The current show was conceived in dramatic, stormy days of internal and external disconcert. In a time of uncertainty regarding our place and reality...

Join us for a screening of GAZE IN BATTLE, a work by international artist-in-residence Ayla Pierrot Arendt, a filmic work based on her experiences in Israel. The screening will be followed by a discussion and open studio.
“The perfect sunset. A circling helicopter. The white cone of light seeks the beach and brushes me hard. But I don’t feel fear. It’s so cinematic. I’m neither on stage nor behind the camera. My position is in between. I’m lying on my back on the street. I ask to be filmed. I want to look at me lying there. It’s like a...

Inspired by the Seven Species as a symbol of local culture and history, the conversation will focus on the power of plants to mark place and boundary but also to challenge political narratives. A dialogue between Prof. Daniel Montrescu and Dr. Ariel Hendel with the participation of artists Ella Littwitz and Guy Goldstein.
The event will include a wine tasting session.
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Gallery Tour
A tour of the exhibition In This Earth, In This Soil, led by Savannah Gorton, alongside artists Dor Guez, Leor Grady, Relli De Vries, and Guy Goldstein.

Friday, June 2nd, 12pm...

Curating Contemporary Israeli Art: The recent history through the women and exhibitions that defined it

Curated by Joshua Simon...

A lecture by art historian and philologist Pauline Yermakova
How can a landscape painted almost 200 years ago inspire a modern artist? What tradition does Natalya  Zubarova follow? What rules does she break when she turns to the work of a 19th-century serf painter? And what is the secret of the Russian landscape as a genre?
We will talk about this and many other things with the art historian, philologist and publisher Pauline Yermakova, author and editor of many books on art and...

Curating Contemporary Israeli Art: The recent history through the women and exhibitions that defined it

Curated by Joshua Simon...

The talk will deal with the unique planning of Arad, a town that was built as an amendment to the towns that were planned, built, and inhabited by the country before its establishment, though, in practice, it embodied modern international and urban concepts. These ideas were globally spread in a book that compiled plans for a new British town that was never actually built. But Arad, which was designed by its inspiration, came to life...

Celebrating International Women’s Day by adding more women artists to the Hebrew Wikipedia.

Artport is pleased to continue the tradition and join international art institutes, for a day of content writing on female artists. Let’s enrich Wikipedia with more information on great artists...

Third lecture: Dalia Levin’s Cluster
Joshua Simon, in the presence of Dalia Levin.
Dalia Levin is recognized more than anyone as the one who turned the Yad Labanim Museum in Herzliya into a museum of contemporary art in Herzliya for its many achievements – presenting female artists and young artists alongside established artists, an emphasis on video art, integrating young curators into...

In the exhibition “Hundred Muscle Army”, Effi and Amir tell the human stories of those whose identity has been deconstructed into their vocal apparatus and reduced to a single sound, which they can or cannot produce, and the way the system looks at them.

In the book “The Way Some People Talk”, which starts on the day he lost his voice, Yonatan Sagiv traces the silenced voice, which is later revealed during its...

Curating Contemporary Israeli Art: The recent history through the women and exhibitions that defined it
Curated by Joshua Simon.
Second lecture:
Sara Hinski’s Library
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In this talk, Vanina Saracino will present the latest projects she curated in the public space and in non-conventional venues, especially referring to Other Minds (Screen City Biennial 2022, Archenhold Observatory, Berlin). She will argue that curating outside the white cube (or the black box) is particularly relevant for artistic positions rooted in ecological and socio-political concerns. In fact, it allows us to reach diverse audiences, interweave them, and temporally step outside our own epistemic bubble—creating instead a platform for unexpected encounters, contagions, fascinations, and also frictions...

In his talk, Stanislaw Welbel will present his recent curatorial experiences connected to working both with visual art and music. The talk is focused on how sound is present in exhibitions and how it could be used as a curatorial tool.
The starting point will be the exhibition The Cave of the Demons (Ivy Ma, Aifric Prior Beliere, Alona Rodeh) presented in 2022 at Collateral / Lateral Art Space / Cinema ARTA in Cluj-Napoca in Romania. The show in many ways referred to film and the moving image history and explored how soundtracks create a...

A screening of “By the Throat”
The award-winning film by Effi and Amir, the basis for the exhibition Army of Hundred Muscles (winner of the Omomet Sade Award, Dokaviv 2021, and the IndieLisboa (2021) and Festival En Ville! (2021) awards)
Duration: 78 min
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Curating Contemporary Israeli Art: The recent history through the women and exhibitions that defined it

Curated by Joshua Simon...

A moment after the opening of the exhibition ‘Hundred Muscles Army’ this Thursday, and just before Effi and Amir are going back to Brussels, we are happy to invite you to the upcoming events this weekend.
Exhibition events:
Friday, December 9th, 12pm – a gallery talk with the participation of Effi and Amir, and curator Vardit Gross
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Artist residency programs all over the world grant artists the opportunity to live and work outside of their common environment, providing them with time to ponder, explore, encounter, and create. These programs are able to profoundly impact the professional development of artists, to broaden their horizons, strengthen connections with the international art world and advance them in all aspects...

“NonFinito 2022,” the year-end exhibition of the Artport residency program, presents new ideas and projects that took shape on our two studio floors over the past year. As part of the exhibition, we will host several gallery tours:
Lali Fruheling – Friday, September 23rd, 11am
Maayan Elyakim – Saturday, October 1st, 12pm
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International artists-in-residence Carolina Boettner & Rosario M. Aróstegui will discuss their previous works and share their plans for their residency at Artport.

During their stay in Tel Aviv, they plan to work in a rhizomatic way, with the city as the protagonist by generating an interactive installation in a space that...

Beyond Netai Halup’s concrete sculptures hover stories about different creatures: From The Spleenón, the Pons, the Darglám to his grandfather, Halup weaves tales ranging between reality and fiction.

As part of his exhibition ‘And Other Stories’, we’re excited to invite you to a reading event alongside Halup’s concrete sculptures, where his stories will be...

Join us on a night in the exhibition ‘Dilating in the Dark’ by Maayan Shahar, accompanied by music played in honor of the sculptures and inspired by the darkness, by the musician Kutiman.

Through the title of the exhibition, “Dilating in the Dark,” Shahar reminds us of a well-known scientific fact: even if it takes a while, the eyes will eventually...

Noam Alon, a contemporary art curator and critic based between Paris and Tel Aviv, will discuss the main topics from his thesis in the Sociology of Art (EHESS PARIS) dealing with the relations between artists and curators and the tension between authority and authorship.

Can the curation of an exhibition be considered an artistic action? And if so, how does it affect the artist and his creation...

Roi Boshi will talk about the projects of the Forensic Architecture research agency based at Goldsmiths College and the new models it proposes for intervention in the public space and its documentation. 

 Roi Boshi will discuss the projects of the Forensic Architecture (FA) research agency based at Goldsmiths, University of London. Using digital and graphic...

Image-based lecture with Ariel Avissar

Once Upon a Screen is an international project that was created during the COVID-19 pandemic, dedicated to the processing of cinematic childhood traumas through the creation of personal video essays, in an attempt to revisit the origins of trauma through the editing table. The project received great acclaim...

Image-based conversation with

Amir Yatziv, Neta Spiegelman, Maya Arad Yasur, and Dr. Ohad Landesman...

Film festivals have long since been a major hub for films made outside of the commercial film industry. At the same time, the number of contemporary artists who focus on filmmaking and call themselves filmmakers continues to grow, redefining the moving image and challenging the concept of “film” as we know it. In response to these trends, film festivals around the world are expanding the frames in which such films are screened. Not only do they present them to a wide audience, but they also fully support them: from helping with funding, through integrating the films into various screening programs to the distribution...

Image-based lecture with Tami Liberman

Jean Rouch, an anthropologist and experimental filmmaker, has made several films since the 1950s that have challenged the existing distinctions between art and science, between “Western” and “non-Western” culture, between researcher and researched, and between truth and fiction. Via creative collaborations...

A lone actress stands on an almost empty stage. Behind her is a large wall on which the interior of an apartment is projected. Underneath her clothes she wears a motion capture suit that records her body and facial movements, transferring them to three digital figures inside the apartment. thereby breathing life into them. The director, who is in the wings, synchronizes the character played by the actress with her virtual figures on screen in real time, using a control system. The point of departure for the performance is Jean Paul Sartre’s play No Exit (Huis clos) which recounts the story of three people—two...

How do you design an art studio? How do you convert an office building into a first-rate space for exhibiting art? Tours with Vardit Gross, the director and chief curator of Artport, and Keren Pozner, the gallery designer. During the tours, they will talk about the steps that were taken to convert the office building, which formerly housed startup companies, into a contemporary and dynamic exhibition space...

“American architect and inventor, Buckminster Fuller, proposed the “World Game” as a way to examine holistic design approaches in relation to global problems. Players teamed up for multi-hour games on a room-sized map, during which they regularly received information from a computer and tried to tackle issues of excess and lack of resources, or fertility and migration trends. (…) These world games may appear like a legacy of the last century, but they are in fact the basis of current attempts to propose credible images and possible scenarios for unfolding global events, such as the state of the oceans or...

How and to what extent can institutions such as Biennials contribute to critical and progressive canon shifts within the art field? What is the function of Biennials between hegemony and counter-hegemony? Biennials today understand and describe themselves as sites of intervention in neoliberal conditions of which they themselves are a part of, addressing these conditions in critical terms while also fueling and fostering them. This faces us with a paradoxical phenomenon of neoliberalism and to an extent we must accept, that biennials today are both brands and sites of resistance – or, as Panos Kompatsiaris...

Celebrating International Women’s Day by adding more women artists to the Hebrew Wikipedia.

Artport is pleased to continue the tradition and join international art institutes, for a day of content writing on female artists. Let’s enrich Wikipedia with more information on great artists...

Last chance for a night stroll through Hinda Weiss’ video park alongside original music and a glass of warm sangria.

William Chang, who appears and sings in Weiss’ video works, will join us from snowy New York for a performance before the exhibition closes...

Friday, February 11th, 11 am

Via meticulous editing, Weiss presents a video collage that connects the different times: moments of despair and moments of respite, the parks and spontaneous gatherings, movement restrictions and lockdowns. The documented image is her raw material, from which she cuts and paints, builds new...

An edition of 48 prints portraying the moon phases for 2022 by artist Maayan Elyakim.

Natural pigments and screen prints on cotton paper, 56.5×42 cm...

Join us for a Christmas celebration with spiced wine and chocolate, a digital snowstorm and a conversation about photography, New York, wanderings and lockdowns.

Via meticulous editing, Weiss presents a video collage that connects the different times: moments of despair and moments of respite, the parks and...

Artport is thrilled to participate in ‘Loving Art, Making Art’. Artport’s events that will take place as part of it are:

Thursday-Friday, 14-15.10
Open studio with the artists in residence program – Maayan Elyakim, Keren Gueller, Tomer Dekel, Ana Wild, Nardeen Srouji and Lali Fruheling...

Spectacular simulations of a Mediterranean landscape are projected on a screen in a dark space. Between weeping willows and desert sands, walls of buildings and stubborn thorns, computerized figures emerge like savages, as in a dream. This is an innovative military range. The computerized characters are the targets in the range. Waiting. ...

On imagination and the intervention in each other’s works at NonFinito exhibition

Tchelet Ram and Shahar Yahalom’s artworks stray between their designated exhibition spaces and visit each other. Shahar’s ceramic sculptures ground Tchelet’s memory garments with their materiality; they hold the door open for her, as a reminder of physical presence no longer there. The fragility of...

Curator Vardit Gross in conversation with Artists Orly Sever and Maria Saleh Mahameed.

Monumental canvases are spread out on the floor in Maria Saleh Mahameed’s living room. The sofas are pushed aside, life is crammed into the kitchen, and art takes over the house; or so we would like to think. In reality, life creeps in, constantly, everywhere and at all times. Saleh Mahameed’s bare feet step all...

June 24th, 6pm – Curator Vardit Gross: Adhesion and the connection between artists
                  
July 1st, 6pm – Artist Orly Sever: The tremble of material...

As the exhibition ‘A Part from Me’ has come to its end, two events will take place:

A tour with the exhibition’s curator, Vardit Gross: Thursday, May 6th, 6pm...

Artport is pleased to invite you to A Part from Me
Catalogue Launch.

A residential apartment is being built inside Artport gallery. Front door, kitchen, bedroom, window, driveway. Its boundaries are fluid—the gallery’s interior...

Celebrating International Women’s Day by adding more women artists to the Hebrew Wikipedia.

Artport is pleased to continue the tradition and join international art institutes, for a day of content writing on female artists. Let’s enrich Wikipedia with more information on great artists...

“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven” (Ecclesiastes 3,1). All matter eventually deteriorates. A responsible conservator is obliged to conform to the profession’s International Code of Ethics, which states that the main duty of a conservator is to strive to preserve cultural heritage for future generations at the highest standards. Nevertheless, could and should this task always be fulfilled? And how? Hadas Seri, a conservator at the Israel Museum, will share the nature of her daily work as an Object Conservator at the “Metals and Organic Materials Conservation...

In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Artport is pleased to present the unique and thought-provoking film ‘Another Planet’ (2017) by Artport’s artist in residence Amir Yatziv. This animated documentary embodies diverse aspects of memory and documentation. The film focuses on several creators of virtual simulations of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. As Yatziv places them in the virtual worlds they have created, he takes us on a mutual journey while questioning reality versus virtuality, the aesthetic and the inconceivable, and the possibility to recreate or represent a traumatic space...

Join us for an online series with the participating artists at NonFinito exhibition. The recorded talk:

Artist Yael Frank and art curator Adi Englman in a freestyle-yet-committed conversation, from public-related art to the installation of artworks in public spaces. The conversation is held amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, which led to the re-birth of public spaces in civic life, following lockdowns and restrictions of...

How do you design a protest? Every demonstration, protest, revolution or rebellion has a preceding goal for which people rise up, leave their houses and take to the streets. This physical and virtual act is guided by a language – words and design. Artport is thrilled to host graphic designer Lahav Halevy for a talk on the visual language of protests, here there and everywhere...

Artport joins the cooperative and independent galleries for a weekend of art events, as part of “Loving Art. Making art.”, in order to raise awareness of the difficult situation the arts and culture world has been in since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Artist Rachel Levian, participating in Artport’s fall residency, and her band ‘Reish’ will perform an outdoor electronic rock show from the balcony of Artport’s...

Join us for an online series with the participating artists at NonFinito exhibition.

In a cross-generational conversation, artists Gil Yefman, Dov Or-Ner and historian Dr. Ran Or-Ner will discuss their collaborative work and professional subjects of interest, art, gender and the Holocaust. Dr. Ran Or-Ner will talk about his research and the lesser known narrative of Ilse Koch, wife of Karl-Otto...

Join us for an online series with the participating artists at NonFinito exhibition.

“Meet Me in Petah Tikva” – Scholar Gala Rexer in conversation with artist Ruth Patir.
In the months leading to the NonFinito exhibition opening, artist Ruth Patir and scholar Gala Rexer have been exchanging thoughts on the interconnectivity...

“I have always been preoccupied with history and histography, representations of the past, anything that has a trace. My interest is not in the past per se, but in its importance to our present.”
– Nir Evron...

Gallery Weekend is a joint event of Tel Aviv’s galleries and art spaces, which will open their doors to public on July 2nd-July 4th, 2020.

Artport is excited to be a part of it! Through out this weekend will host several events:...

Thinking of public art and its limitations in the context of the current shut down of public space in our cities, and the change in social sphere as a whole. Sara Reisman, Executive and Artistic Director of Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation and previously the director of New York City’s Percent for Art program, will be talking about public art projects, citing examples of realized and unrealized commissions. Udi Edelman, director of the Israeli Centre for Digital Art and founder of the Institute for Public Presence will talk about contemporary art presence in the Israeli public space. They will join in conversation with artist...

Young filmmaker Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis’s disturbing film addresses a phenomenon common among gamers in the United States: cyber harassment as part of which one gamer learns the personal details of another, makes a call to the police with a bogus story, which sends out a SWAT team to burst into the second gamer’s house (who is being swatted). Since all online players see one another during the game, the violent raid is viewed by the other gamers streamed live, entirely subverting the differentiation between the virtual game and actual reality. In addition to testimonies by the victims of such raids, the...

Yael Kanarek’s World of Awe is a multi-platform universe that is wholly unique in the history of internet art. Kanarek, an Israeli artist based in New York and among the first generation of internet artists, created this ambitious project 25 years ago, which can now be seen as a moment of transition from the first internet age, praising hypertexts and anonymity, to the current age, that of sociality, collectivity and constant connectivity as a form of hope.
Celebrating a 25-year milestone to this groundbreaking project, Kanarek, in dialogue with Dr. Lior Zalmanson, will be our guide as we collectively walk...

White City addresses the complex figure of one of the founders of Zionism, Arthur Ruppin, who was briefly an ardent supporter of the binational state idea as well as an enthusiastic researcher of race. It focuses on his 1933 meeting with German eugenicist Hans F.K. Günther, whose studies greatly influenced Nazi racial theory...

Tours and meetings with each of the participating artists will be held on Thursday evenings throughout the exhibition.
The tours are limited to 20 people and by registration only:

Thursday August 27th , 7pm – Ruth Patir – Register here
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Artport is excited to invite you to online film screenings and conversations with local and intentional video artists. The screenings are part of Art/Doc – Artist Film Festival (artistic director: Gilad Reich), which will be held at Artport in the coming months. The festival will present video works created by artists who operate on the line between art and cinema, searching for new visual languages in order to represent, touch and intervene with aspects of reality...

Ten years ago, Rafram Haddad found himself imprisoned for 5 months in a tiny cell at Abu Salim prison in Tripoli, Libya. From his current home in Tunisia, he will talk about his experience of isolation in solitary confinement compared to self-isolation today, about time that moves at a different pace, about daydreaming and reliving dreams. He will also discuss life in Tunisia compared to life in Tel Aviv, the different art scenes, the differences in governmental support for culture in Corona times, and why everybody, everywhere, can’t seem to stop cooking...

‘Wall Piece’ is a site-specific projection installation occurring in the space between Artport’s resident Dor Zlekha Levy’s studio and the wall of a building viewed from his window. Over the past few months, the artist photographed the wall under different lighting conditions, compiled the photographs and processed them digitally. 
The complex, layered images that were created are projected back onto the wall from the studio’s window. The neglected wall, which stands completely...

A conversation with Tereza Jindrová, Artport’s curator in residence and Czech artist Tomáš Kajánek on their practices and trends in contemporary Czech art.

Tereza Jindrová (born 1988 in Prague, Czech Republic) is an art critic and curator based in Prague. She is generally interested in methods of creating curatorial ‘frames’ to layer different interactions between artists, artworks and the public. Recently she is focused on the topic of rational and irrational...

Jean Blaise, curator and artistic director of Nantes, transformed the city into a lively international urban center through the development of art and cultural projects in the public space.
Blaise broadened the curator’s work, from common exhibition spaces to the outdoor urban space, making art an indispensable part of the city life.
Blaise will discuss the decisions and steps that paved the way to the transformation of Nantes, and the challenges to preserve these changes...

Artist Olga Kisseleva, Head of International Art & Science Institute and Professor of contemporary art in the Sorbonne University, will talk about EDEN (Ethics-Durability-Ecology-Nature), a project she has been developing in her laboratory since 2016.

EDEN represents an artistic utopia assuming that extinction, despite its supposedly definitive and irreversible characteristics, can be revoked thanks to the...

Join us fro an open studio and goodbye drinks from Jordan Nassar, and the opportunity to see “Jaffa”, the new body of works he created during his residency at Artport.

Jordan Nassar is an Palestinian-Polish-American artist from New York City who works with traditional Palestinian and European embroidery techniques...

VJ Live! Gilad Ratman & Shay-Lee Uziel
Free Entrance!

Gabi Kricheli (Artport’s artist in residence), Avi Sabah and Pesah Slabosky have been performing together since 2009 as Ohtoh Olam Trio. Nothing is...

An artist talk by Artport’s resident Filip Pagowski. Filip will introduce his father Henryk Tomaszewski’s graphic oeuvre followed by the presentation of his own work. His father’s segment will consist of a show of his work, mostly posters, with some book covers, illustrations and satirical drawings, starting in the mid 1940s and continuing till the early 1990s. He will present the social, historical and political meaning of that time period in Poland and how it influenced, or not, the work and creative process of the leading member of the so called Polish School of Posters.
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Artport and The Petach Tikva Museum of Art are pleased to invite you to the book launch of Guy Goldstein’s artist book Once, a Bit, a Second Hit, published on the occasion of his solo exhibition (curator and editor: Drorit Gur Arie).

Life performance of songs from the project at 9pm, special guest: Nitzan Horesh...

Ofer Grunwald is an international bonsai artist, operating with a groundbreaking approach in this unique artistic field. Aside his extensive work with traditional bonsai, Ofer focuses mainly on the development and interpretation of this field as a new medium for local-contemporary ways of expression.

Ofer will discuss the different notions of Japanese traditional arts – the philosophies, techniques, aesthetics and worldviews – and the ways in which they...

A Conversation with Jessica Hodin, manager of Art Basel’s crowdfunding initiative. The Art Basel’s Crowdfunding Initiative is a creative partnership with Kickstarter, recruiting nonprofit organizations from around the world and coaching them on building crowdfunding campaigns for Art Basel’s curated page on Kickstarter. Jessica will discuss her experience in art crowdfunding, gaining awareness for your projects and connecting with local and international audiences...

19:00-21:00 – lots of surprises by Artport’s Residents:

Performance by Michal Baror and Patrick Hough...

Celebrating International Women’s Day by adding more women artists to the Hebrew Wikipedia.

As part of the International Art + Feminism Initiative and in collaboration with Wikimedia Israel, Artport is pleased to be participating for the third time, for a day of content writing on female artists...

During Gabi Kricheli’s exhibition In Disbelief, we will hold performances by the musician Kinoro Shel Rothschild, who had taken a part in the video that is part of the exhibition.

Dates:
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Tanya Habjouqa, award winning photographer, artist and educator based in East Jerusalem, in conversation with Maya Benton, international photography curator based in NYC.

The talk will be held in English...

Invested in art and theory, Daria Kravchuk, Moscow-based curator, museologist and art journalist is currently pursuing her curatorial research at Artport Tel Aviv residency program. Her recent curatorial practice focuses on the topics of re-framing museum collections, rethinking «the everyday», researching projects that are conceptual, interventionist, contextual, socially engaged and locally involved...

As part of the International Art + Feminism Initiative and in collaboration with Wikimedia Israel, Artport is pleased to be participating for the third time, for a day of content writing on female artists.

Wikipedia has become a major source of knowledge, though when looking for information about personalities in Hebrew, less than 20% are about women...

Starting with tiny movements and awkward gestures Diana Tamane is following long roads from the East to the West of Europe and her family members are often the main characters in her work. Sometimes it is her grandmother, who became a smuggler by trying to cross the Latvian/Russian border with two small pots of flowers. Or it is her dad, who since mid 90’s makes travels frequently to the West to buy cars, electronics and other items to resell it in Latvia. Or her mom, who became a truck driver after her enterprise went bankrupt several years ago. Often she uses vernacular photography taken by my family...

Red wine, chocolate and a conversation between artist Rudolf Samohejl and curator Savannah Gorton on sculptural situations.

Rudolf Samohejl (*1987, České Budějovice, Czechoslovakia) lives and works as a visual artist and collaborator between Prague, the Czech Republic and Brussels, Belgium...

Loic Tallon in a conversation with Dr. Lior Zalmanson, founder and artistic director of the Print Screen festival, as part of the symposium Art and Museums in the Post-Digital Age, about the changing demands of museums in the digital age, the changing roles of digital and technology departments in museums and the growing use of web technologies and virtual and augmented reality applications inside the gallery premise. How should we make museum experiences more accessible to a new generation and global internet cultures...

We are thrilled to invite you to the book launch of Yaara Zach’s artist book Lay Low.

The book was published in conjunction with Zach’s solo exhibition Unreasonable Doubt at the Petach Tikva Museum of Art (closing Sep. 29th 2018)...

In an era where the means to control and power-over, have become sub-visuals: debt derivatives, DNA manipulations, algorithms, metadata, and so on, the curatorial part is required to challenge the political reality sub-visual power with visuals means.
Therefore, questions about representation alternate with demo strategies. Before the model and the platform, lay two key terms in the digital world: Simon will offer the exhibition, the basic curatorial gesture, as a site in which relativity can be exemplified and experienced.
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In these days of post reality, curator Anissa Touati, joined by French artists Lucille Uhlrich and Julien Lacroix, will try to push the boundaries of reality in a performative conversation between real life and fake characters, involving art and literature, avatars and pseudonyms.

The event will become part of a book published by Collection Verticales Gallimard, one of France’s leading publishing houses...

Derek Fordjour’s images draw upon a variety of sources, including sporting imagery, board and card games, carnival motifs, and the circus to explore ideas of vulnerability. He uses the economic, political and psychosocial implications of games to discuss the power structure that exists around rewards and sanctions, merit and punishment, for both the player within the game and as an allegory for the broader human experience. Team dynamics that evoke the tension of an individual situated within a collective effort, convey the seductive sense of the risks and rewards that are inherent in the drama of both games...

We are thrilled to invite you to the book launch of Nevet Yitzhak’s artist book Video Works.

An afternoon of video, music, Cava and strawberries...

A talk with Artport’s artist in residence at the exhibition “KEDEM-KODEM-KADIMA” at the CCA, in collaboration with The French Institute, Tel Aviv.

With the support of Fondation Jacqueline de Romilly under the auspices of Fondation de France...

Artist talk with Artport resident TUNCA (Istanbul) at the exhibition “Table Manners” at the University Art Gallery.

In conversation with the exhibition’s curator Nirith Nelson and Artport’s director Vardit Gross, followed by Dillek’s famous Turkish water bourekas...

You are invited to join an informal conversation at the Artport studios with artist Marissa Lee Benedict (b. 1985. US). Benedict has been in residence at Artport since June as part of a new international exchange program with the Hyde Park Art Center’s Jackman Goldwasser Residency. She will present a brief presentation on her current research into the parallels between Israeli and California infrastructure as related to water management and drought resistant technologies. Benedict will be producing sculpture and video installation works on these topics that will be presented in the next year at Bert Green Fine Art...

Gallery talk with Artport’s artists in residence Gabi Kricheli ,Lihi Turjeman, Yaara Zach, Dror Daum, Gili Avissar, Fatma Shanan.

NonFinito 2017 is not only the ending moment of Artport’s fifth year residency program, it is also the end of an era. It is the last exhibition at Artport’s gallery on 55 Ben Zvi Road. With its conclusion, Artport will leave the compound on the way to its new location, and the whole area will be destroyed as the first...

Screening of the documentary film “Happily Forgotten”, the story of Asher Feldman, an unrecognised Israeli painter, and his daughter Lola, who tries to revoke his anonymity after his death.

Free Entrance, screening will take place in the gallery...

Screening of the film “Eva Hesse”
Free Entrance, screening will take place in the gallery

The story of Eva Hesse could provide material for at least a dozen (mostly dark) documentaries. This one, made 45 years after her death, focuses on the...

As part of the International Art + Feminism Initiative and in collaboration with Wikimedia Israel, Artport is pleased to be participating for the third time, for a day of content writing on female artists.

Wikipedia has become a major source of knowledge, though when looking for information about personalities in Hebrew, less than 20% are about women...

The Empire Remains is a long-term project by Cooking Sections that explores the imaginaries that were set up by the British Empire to promote food trade between home and overseas territories. The project attests how global desire, geopolitics, power and food networks have evolved from the beginning of the 20th century until today. In order to understand the making of natures and economic landscapes, such as the “tropical” or the “middle east”, it traces rum, sugar, tobacco, chocolate, “exotic” fruits, and spices throughout the world...

This one-day conference will include contributions by curator and producer Vardit Gross, artists Agnieszka Kurant and Miri Segal, editor Nicola Trezzi, and curator and philosopher Avi Lubin.

Trying to avoid a specific position, the conference will gather conflictive positions as well as disparate points of view, trying to understand and decode our...

Invoking multiple histories of conversation, which have taken place around kitchen tables the world over, the residents at Artport invite you to join us for an evening of drinks, soup and discussion about the desire to think of art as a useful tool vs. the autonomy of art.

Art is usually squeezed between two opposite expectations: to be free on the one hand and socially relevant on the other. In this kitchenette, we will...

They’ve been saying that Painting is dead, asked what is it good for, pushed it out of the galleries – but painting is still here, as strong as it has always been.

The New Barbizon are committed to finding a pictorial language that suits what they see, that fits to the spirit of our times. In the last month they were working at Artport with German artist Mandy Kunze, who’s currently a resident at Artport, and were examining together the limits of painting and its...

The artist talk can often feel stale, hierarchical and one-sided, with the artist on a pedestal and the audience as plebeians. Join Todd Shalom in an artist talk that will involve active audience participation, and of course, some walking. Todd will talk about Elastic City, the participatory walks organization he started in 2010 and together, using techniques from various walks, the audience will respond poetically to the immediate environment around Artport...

Disruption, a new documentary film premiering worldwide on September 21st weekend, features some of the environmental movement’s top leaders, and calls for a new strategy to address the climate crisis: a public movement and uprising that forces world leaders to replace rhetoric with action.

The world premiere of Disruption in New York City is the flagship for hundreds of screenings taking place around the world on Sunday. The screening will be...

Context hacking transfers the hackers’ objectives and methods to the network of social relationships in which artistic production occurs, and upon which it is dependent. In a metaphoric sense, these relationships also have a source code. Programs run in them, and our interaction with them is structured by a user interface. When we know how a space, a niche, a scene, a subculture or a media or political practice functions, we can change it and »recode« it, deconstructing its power relationships and emancipating ourselves from its compulsions and packaging guidelines...

Developed while in residence at Artport 2014, Visit Palestine: Change Your View will be presented alongside other works produced by Public Studio. Public Studio was founded in 2009, by filmmaker Elle Flanders and architect Tamira Sawatzky who live in Toronto. Together, and often in collaboration with others, they produce large-scale film installations, public art works and other media works that are formed within a socially engaged practice...

Noam Sandel, Matar Pershitz and Galit Criden graduated from the school of visual theater in Jerusalem. They live and work in Tel-Aviv.

Artists of performance and theater, creating works that are intended to be shown on a stage. As a group’ they are looking new spaces to perform at. Working in new platforms that aren’t intended to be used as a stage. In this evening, we will be presenting three new works, one from each artists, all will take place...

Participants: artist Boris Oicherman, scientist Prof. David Avnir and designer Ido Bruno.

Invoking multiple histories of conversation, which have taken place around kitchen tables the world over, the residents at Artport invite you to join us for an evening of drinks, soup and focused discussion about the meaning of an experiment as an artwork...

The term “Site Specific” became over-used in the artistic jargon to the point of almost losing meaning. My own interest in it arises from my general interest in processes and mechanisms of learning: how do we gain knowledge about the world, as individuals and as society. I seek ways to put myself in situations of not knowing and having to “learn by doing”. For example, beginning with the unknown site, researching it, and producing work that is inseparable from the site. One consequence of this approach is re-thinking of the role and function of sites, and asking – what are they good for? why working in them? how...

During the month of January Berlin based artist and Artport’s resident Jenny Bockmann has been following an 11 kilometer spiral around Tel Aviv.
Nine stations were marked in advance along the spiral route, in each the artist stayed for 3 hours, during which she kept a journal, drew, talked to passersby, and gathered findings, evidences, and different indexes that represent the nature of the place. Brockmann walks from one point to another like a portable laboratory of a scientific-cultural-sociological experiment. In order to achieve accurate findings, she is assisted by analogue and digital devices that...

American artist Shimon Attie, who is currently taking part of Artport’s artists residency program, will present his work around the world, talking about the new project he is currently working on in Israel.

Attie’s projects invite the viewer to think about the relationship between space, memory and identity. Through photography, video, and projects exhibited in...

Art Port Tel Aviv and Lucie Fontaine are proud to present Fontaine, school of, a project that will take place in Tel Aviv in July 2013.

Lucie Fontaine will be in residence at Art Port Tel-Aviv in the summer of 2013. During her stay, she will establish a summer school inspired by the legacy of the artist’s “bottega” [workshop] in the Renaissance, an interesting time when figures like Giorgio Vasari redefined the notion of authorship and signature, and...

Artist Tamara Moyzes will present two works in process:

“Gypsy Black Panthers in the Czech Republic – The First and Last Media Intifada in the Czech Republic” and “When Political Art and Activism Share the Same Practices
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Masami grew up in Tokyo and graduated from Joshibi University of Art and Design in Tokyo, where she studied Japanese traditional technic of dying and hand weaving. She currently lives in Reunion Island. She creates large scale site specific installation , often in nature, working with natural and copper fibers, as well as with painting and calligraphy. Her work touches issues relating to the fractured relationship between man and nature, reflecting hidden energies and forces that create and destruct. She works in the terrain between contemporary and traditional art...

DEMOCRATIC RAIN 01 – TEL AVIV is an open-source-installation on a public square and in the Internet. It invites all local and virtual passers-by to participate via their smartphones or computers, by answering the question: WHAT DOES DEMOCRACY MEAN TO YOU?

The RAIN consists of A4 sheets, free-falling from a CLOUD in the shape of a high-hanging-printer , to a public square in Tel Aviv. Each paper represents an...

Artist Rirkrit Tiravanija will hold a public event at artport with Rafram Chaddad , one of the Israeli artists in our residency program 2012,

Tiravanija was invited to hold a master class to the group...