Art events

Exhibition of Polish artists at the Dvir Gallery
October 13 – November 17

Presentation of the works of one of the most popular Polish artists: Miroslaw Bałka, Marzena Nowak and Rafał Jakubowicz who are cooperating with the prestigious Foksal Gallery. 
Curator: Adi Engelman

	Mirosław Bałka makes use of an abstract and ambiguous language. The materials that he uses in his works play an important role. Lastrico, soap, ashes, salt, hair, felt, old boards, rusty bars and sheets take on new meanings in the context of human stories. In Tel Aviv it will be possible to view the installation: BlueGasEyes and Sza.
BlueGas Eyes, 2004, courtesy of Gladstone Gallery, N.Y.

Marzena Nowak – she is shooting simple gestures, body parts thus creating subtle pictures and documenting feelings. Her works are incredibly intimate and ambiguous. At the Dvir Gallery it will be possible to see her work What if.

Rafał Jakubowicz – in his works one will often find references to the Holocaust. In Tel Aviv he will present a video work documenting the project Temporary monument – a projection of the Hebrew inscription “Breichat Schia”  for the facade of the building of the Poznan swimming-pool.

Opening on October 13, at 20:00. The exhibtion will be open until November 17.
Opening hours:
Tuesday-Thursday: 11:00 – 18:00
Friday – Saturday: 10:00 – 13:00

Dvir Gallery, 11, Nahum St., Tel Aviv, tel. 03-6043003, www.dvirgallery.com

Co-organized by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in the framework of preparations for the Polish-Israeli Season 2008-2009

Two Drops of Water
October 11-30

The first of a series of joint exhibitions by Polish and Israeli artists. The project shall be inaugurated by Ifat Leist’s and Rafał Jakubowicz’s video work The Lost Whistle that was presented in Warsaw in October, 2006.

 Opening on October 11, at 20:00. The exhibition shall be open until October 30

Opening hours:
Monday – Thursday: 10:00 – 13:00, 16:00 – 19:00
Fridasy – Saturday: 10:00 – 13:00

Beit Haomanim, Tel Aviv, 9, Alharizi St., Tel Aviv, tel. 03-5246685

       Co-organized by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in the framework of preparations for the Polish-Israeli Season 2008-2009

Arkadiusz Tomalka “The Hollow Cast Project"
March 29 – April 27 2007
invitation

Arkadiusz Tomalka was born in Poland, He has lived and worked in Israel for the last 4 years. In the year 2004, together with photo artist Noa Sadka, he established Studio A, which is a private artist atelier that also functions as a non commercial gallery.
"PRACOWNIA" (workshop in Polish - it's a new name instead of Studio A) invites you to a show of the project "The Hollow Cast Project" which combines painting, drawing, photography, object as well as sound installation.

Pracownia, 29 Yehudit Blvd., Tel Aviv
Opening: Thursday, March 29 at 20.00
Opening hours: Monday, Wednesday 12.00 – 19.00

Paper cut-outs Exhibition by Marta Golab
March 14, 2007, at 7:30pm – opening. The exhibition will be open till April 15, 2007.
Galeria Le’Itzuv, Hankin Str. 109, Holon, tel. 035590021

Marta Golab – artist, graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. She was interested in paper cut-outs since childhood, at the beginning taking as example for her work stylish secession and highlands motives. At the Festival of Jewish Culture in Cracow she got in touch with the Jewish paper cut-outs of which she had never heard before. After two years of intensive studies of the Jewish culture and tradition she publicly presented her paper cut-outs. Since then, she organised many individual exhibitions, showing Jewish paper cut-outs all over Poland and beyond: in Vienna, Lubliana, Sarayevo, Groebzig, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Huston. She creates thematic cycles: Mizrahies, Song of Songs, illustrations to Rabbi Nahman of Breslav’s stories, illustrations to The Book of Ruth, to yiddish poetry by Itzik Manger, she has also been working on a rosettes’ cycle in the last years. She is experimenting techniques, creating monochromic or multicoloured papercuts, in paper, in parchment, according to classical techniques and collage.
 

“Warsaw – Many Women”
The Polish photographer MIKOLAJ GRYNBERG will arrive to Tel Aviv in March, in order to take pictures of Israeli women in his own special way.


Mikolaj Grynberg has been taking pictures for 15 years. He was awarded prestigious prizes. He started the realisation of the project “Many Women” some years ago in Warsaw, he continued in Rio de Janeiro and in Kiev, the next city is going to be Tel Aviv. The artist exhibits “Many Women – Warsaw” at the public spaces of the cities – a railway station, a square, a park, while, in parallel, photographing women at his temporarily arranged studio. Portraits which are born in those unprofessional conditions document common emotions – embarrassment, shyness, joy, coquetry, and, in truth, universal emotions and feelings experienced by all.
 

“Ad Hoc photo atelier” will be opened on March 23rd between 10:00 to 16:00 at the Dizengof square and on March 25th between 12:00 to 18:00 at the Bet Ariela square. Women are invited.