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Alumni Exhibition Celebrating Artport’s New Building

After five years based on Ben Zvi Road in South Tel Aviv, and after nearly two years in search of a new venue, Artport’s residency program is reopening its doors in a new building on 8 Ha’amal St., Tel Aviv.

Marking the building’s inauguration, the program will host the exhibition “Back to Artport”, showcasing works by its Israeli alumni. The exhibition will span two floors, including the gallery and some of the studios.

The residency program will continue under the same format, with six Israeli artists in residence for a year, and international artists and curators invited for shorter periods. Artport Gallery will reopen with a wide range of activities including exhibitions, the annual art book fair, artist talks, professional workshops, reading groups and more.

Artport Contemporary Art Center was founded in 2011 by Jason Arison and is fully funded by the Ted Arison Family Foundation. Artport aims to be a home and a significant milestone for artists in different stages of their career, supporting and enabling the creation of new art.

Artists

Ronit Porat, Ido Michaeli, Einat Amir, Yair Perez, Rafram Chaddad, Guy Pitchon, Leor Grady, Nevet Yitzhak, Noa Gur, Rani Lavie, Public Movement, Natalia Zourabova, Hinda Weiss, Guy Goldstein, Tzion Hazan, Ron Amir, David Adika, Hilla Toony Navok, Naama Arad, Michal Baror, Elad Rosen, Tamir Zadok, Gabi Kricheli, Dror Daum, Lihi Turjeman, Yaara Zach, Fatma Shanan, Gili Avissar
Vardit Gross
Address

8 Ha’amal St. Tel Aviv
Dates

13.6.2019 – 11.8.2019
Opening

Thursday, June 13th, 8pm
Opening hours:

Wed-Thurs: 12pm-7pm
Fri-Sat: 10am-2pm

Sun-Tue: By appointment

Back to exhibitions

Projects

Public Movment

Debriefing Session II is based on a series of one-on-one exchanges about the performative relationship between the state and its cultural institutions. During the performance, which takes the format of a private meeting,
the Agent recounts their research about modern art made in Palestine before 1948.

Public Movement presents the debriefingformat as a methodology for the transmission of information, turning research into action. At the root of the debriefing is the possibility that to activate art in the political field, an agent may be a double agent.

By: Dana Yahalomi, Director of Public Movement;
Alhena Katsof, Director of Strategy and Protocol.
Agents: Hagar Ophir, Nir Shauloff
Research: Hagar Ophir

Works

Einat Amir

One More River, 2017

A country singer sings an adaptation of “The East Bank of the Jordan” by Ze’ev Jabotinsky. The lyricsare militant, but the music is sweet and the view is pretty. An ironic gesture to New Nationalism in theTrump era.

This work was conceived during an artist-in-residence program in Bemis Center For Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska 2016

This work was made possible by the generous support of Lighton International Artists Exchange Program (LIAEP)

Ron Amir

Untitled

Nevet Yitzhak

Off the Ruling Class

A video installation based on Rodin’s sculpture “The Thinker” that was purchased and placed in a museum in Cleveland. The sculpture’s legs were damaged and broken during riots by activists protesting against the Vietnam War.