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Festival launch eve 22.7

Manofim Festival 2025 opens across three main hubs — all within walking distance — where art moves and unfolds between rooftops and streets, open spaces and intimate interiors, beginnings whose direction is yet unknown. This evening seeks to touch the edge — as an open call for observation, encounter, and the emergence of new thought.

22.07

Festive inauguration of Bustana

During the festival days, the Art Cube Artists' Studios rooftop will come alive with a celebration of art, music, performance, parties, workshops, and activities for the whole family. Bustana is a new and inspiring space for cross-cultural encounters, community creation, scents, flavors, and shared dreams — right in the heart of Talpiot.

Orphaned Land

After a decade of not performing in Jerusalem, Orphaned Land, Israel's international metal band, is coming to open the 2025 Manofim Festival!

22.07

The Jackal

Two mysterious cases, two lost figures, a fragment of a story. In a multidisciplinary performance of painting, video, light, and sound, Efrat Gal-Nur and Alona Friedberg create a charged capsule of consciousness — oscillating between control and chaos, between documentation and misinterpretation.

22.07, 23.07, 24.07, 25.07, 26.07

Justice once dwelled there

An artistic experience using Augmented Reality (AR) technology in the YMCA Jerusalem bell tower. A virtual and intimate encounter with legendary guitarist Shlomo Mizrahi takes place in the tower. Created by Miri Segal, in collaboration with Ofer Gertz, the work is a memory act and a dystopian hallucination about Jerusalem, where destruction is real and redemption may still be possible — in the imagined space.

22.07, 23.07, 24.07, 25.07, 26.07

Four Beginnings and One Ending

Five artists present only fragments — beginnings that will not continue and endings with no start. A radical performance evening inspired by abandoned notebooks filled with incomplete stories, celebrating the freedom of incompletion — at the edge where everything is either wide open or already lost.

22.07

The Fear of Emptiness | A multiple-identity collective solo

Roy Rieck and band, along with Tomer Yeshayahu and Daniel Rubin, in a live performance on the edge of the void. Songs, video art, and self-reflection are woven into an experience that seeks to fill the void — with words, images, and a search for meaning in a time of extremes.

23.07

Step Up

The studio is open to the public! Dozens of Jerusalem artists open the door to the heart of the process: the thoughts, the materials, the little moments of magic and hesitation. A free wander through the studios will reveal personal worlds, turning points and works that are being born right now.

22.07, 25.07

Twinship

Like two pulsating minds within one being, twins Guy and Neta Mozes create in real time a synchronous ritual of sound, image and memory. Between synthesizers and loopers, between projectors and a twin pulse, their show is a living, intimate and unexpected occurrence, born between them and presented to us.

22.07

Manofim Tours

The beloved Manofim Festival tour program returns in a refreshing summer edition! You are invited to join in-depth artistic tours throughout Jerusalem – between galleries, independent spaces and public spaces

22.07, 23.07, 24.07, 25.07, 26.07

Ticho House Museum is opening its gates

23.07

Kaddish

A live sound show by Shaul Dahan, who creates a changing soundscape using analog synthesizers and texts from the world of prayer. "Kaddish" serves as a basis for musical decomposition and reassembly in real time – from quiet to chaotic, from ritual to wild.

23.07

Bliss

In a fragile world where dystopia meets utopia, Ayelet Carmi and Meirav Heimann create a parallel universe of image, body and memory. Through video works, objects and drawings, they explore the language of femininity and Israeliness through myth, metamorphosis and poetic disruption of reality.

01.01-09.07

The Garden – A Space for Shared Life

A site-specific project in the garden of Ticho House, created by students from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in a variety of media and identities. The works respond to the historical, cultural, and social layers of the garden and the house, and offer a new perspective on communal life in Jerusalem.

25.07-23.07

Want to Die in Venice

Eshchar Hanoch Klingbeil presents powerful and shadowy drawings of mythological figures, suspended between sublime beauty and inevitable death. Set in a space reminiscent of a Christian burial site, the installation unfolds as a spiritual-aesthetic experience, charging the image with new meaning — poetic, painful, and ironic.

31.07-30.05

Triptych of Performances at the Edges of the World

A unique musical evening at Ticho House: three performances, three emotional spaces, one unforgettable work. Idit Mintzer and an ensemble of diverse musicians lead the audience on a sonic journey between intimacy and publicness, from the depths to the sky.

23.07

Tchellet

In the exhibition "Tchellet", Noa Yafe invites the viewer on a slow journey between matter and spirit, between reality and illusion. The installation unravels the conventions of perception and representation, and opens a sensory and meditative space of observation, stay and change.

11.09-17.07

Manofim Festival x Hansen House

The Manofim Festival and Hansen House collaborate in an evening entirely dedicated to the dialogue between body, machine, and live music – in three spaces, with three artistic languages.

24.07

Auto-Biography

Yarden Colsey reveals the soft underbelly of the machine. A journey between disruption and ritualistic cyclicality. Faulty systems, repetitive actions, and endless loops create a new language of maintenance, desire, and emotional burden.

11.09-17.07

Materials for Treatment – Stand-up that digs deep: Extreme situations

Adi Helman and guests at a stand-up evening for writers who are willing to give a stage to the ego, the id, and the superego.

24.07

Hugs

In Ruti Sela’s new exhibition at the Mamuta Art & Research Center (Hansen House), four video works are presented, dealing with the body, technology, and interpersonal relationships. The central piece, HUGS 2025, re-enacts a 1999 performance and reflects on the social and political changes that have occurred in Jerusalem and Israeli society since then.

26.09-24.07

Kiki Malinki – Album Launch at the Cleopatra

Launch show + a very spicy opening act by American Igal + a top DJ set by Rivy, at Cleopatra at Hansen House.

24.07

Drag De Paz – Musical Extravaganza

Gal de Paz and three top drag queens: Kay Long, Christina Fox and Celine La Divine invite you to a liberating celebration of art that is not afraid to go to the extreme.

24.07

khavroshechka-in-jerusalem

An ancient Russian folktale is transformed into a giant, colorful, wordless comic-carpet. Batia Kolton and Roni Fahima weave image and narrative through textiles, blending folktales, weaving traditions, and wild visual imagination.

01.08-10.04

Tried And True

A video installation and live performance on opening night. Between breath and sound, between fragmented identity and a delicate, precise structure. An intimate musical journey inside Hacubia, where a broken flute tells a story of transformation, searching, and staying.

28.08-24.07

When a Circles Becomes a Sun

When does a circle become a sun? And when does a line turn into a world? In her exhibition, Veronique Inbar explores the birth of the image through movement, light, and memory — in the space between human intuition and digital processing.

13.07-11.06

The Root of the Matter

"The Root of the Matter" examines local vegetation as a political, emotional, and cultural agent. Four women artists explore questions of belonging, memory, and territory through trees, flowers, and wild plants — not as decoration, but as active witnesses in struggles over identity.

14.10-25.07

Open Closed Open Lesson

Reut Asimini transforms a classroom into a live drawing performance of relationships, listening, and movement. Between studio and teaching, notebook and emotion — this is a lesson inscribed in the body, opened, closed, and remains open.

25.07

Saga @ Manofim | A Sunset Rave into the Night

Saga, a prominent Jerusalem-based collective in the rave scene, arrives at Bustana with an electronic rave that kicks off in daylight and rolls into the night.

25.07

An art-filled Saturday for the whole family at Manofim Festival

A bilingual experience full of imagination and inspiration at the Art Cube Artists' Studios: exhibition tours, creative workshops, interactive stations on the roof of “Bustana,” and a captivating, laugh-out-loud circus performance – all with a single ticket. Art, community, and connection – for children and parents.

26.07

Festival Closing Concert – TATRAN with Strings

The instrumental power trio that has conquered the peaks of the Israeli and international music scene, in a fierce musical exploration of pure beauty and mesmerizing restlessness.

26.07