Manofim 2022

After ten years of living on screens, Harama Magazine stepped into the real world, and climbed on the roof to celebrate its 10th birthday with an irl live issue devoted to the theme of Active Ingredients!

Artists working in different mediums and disciplines were set off visual and audio materials, pushed the boundaries of gender, freed the mind and worshiped the material.

Harama is an online magazine, produced by Manofim, which centers on contemporary art and contemporary art writing. Every three months, the magazine invites artists and writers to present artworks and texts around a specific theme.

Over the years, Harama Magazine has become a platform for displaying art that allows navigation between new and familiar works created by emerging and established artists, which are assembled in thematic issues. Each artist featured in the magazine joins a growing index of artists on Harama website, which serves as an archive for the general public and a tool for professionals working in the Israeli art scene.

Artists: Roman., Yoanna Blikman, Davi Barell, Ayala Berger, Shirel Horovitz, Shai-Lee Horodi, Yael Weiss, Hila Lulu Lin Farah Kufer Birim, Oz Malul, Roy Menachem Markovich, Ruti Sela and Maayan Amir, Avner Pinchover
Curators: Rinat Edelstein and Hadassa Cohen

The 7th Jerusalem Art Conference was be dedicated to the role of art in tackling international and local political, environmental, and technological issues. The presentations touched on artistic use of algorithms and emotion recognition technology, the connection between art and biological processes (bio-art), artists’ and designers’ responses to the climate crisis, and the dance language of protesters.

The conference also hosted two panels on current events: The first was be dedicated to Documenta Fifteen, held this summer in Kassel, Germany, which had been at the center of debates and controversies even before it opened, and the second was be dedicated to the status of artists in times of emergencies, war, and displacement, with artists from the post-Soviet region.

Founded by Manofim Festival and Erev Rav and Harama Magazines, the Jerusalem Art Conference is aimed at connecting higher education institutions with artists, curators, artistic directors, and cultural practitioners. The previous conferences were devoted to the themes of “Signature,” “What Shall We Do With Art?” “Excess Demand,” “Trick,” “The Moment of Truth,” and “Excess.”

The international hosting with the assistance of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Goethe Institut Israel

Participants: Jens Hauser (Germany), Oliver Marchart (Austria), Marina Naprushkina (Germany), Nora Sternfeld (Austria), Ivor Stodolsky (independent funding), Dmitry Vilensky (Russia), Yonatan Amir, Carmel Barnea Brezner Jonas, Dr. Lilia Chak, Documenta 15 course by the Bezalel M.A program moderated by Dr. Shaul Setter, Rinat Edelstein, Galit Eilat, Dr. Liat Lavi, Material FLow eCollective, Jonatan Omer Mizrahi, Dar Moussafir, Neta Moses, Yael Mushkin, Tal Nisim, Dr. Shaul Setter and Tzaphira Allison Stern, Dr. Oded Wolkstein
Curators and directors: Dr. Ronen Eidelman and Yonatan Amir (“Erev Rav”), Rinat Edelstein (“Manofim”, “Harama”)
Producer: Alina Alexa Osipova

The smell of paint is still fresh, models for a new sculpture are resting on the workbench, in the editing suite – raw footage is still sitting in no particular order in the timeline. A moment before they become a finished artwork, you have a rare opportunity to peek behind the curtain and witness the work processes, the mindset, and materials that make up the work of art.

First Reveal was a series of guided meetings with Jerusalem-based artists, held every day throughout Manofim. In the series, the participants got to see artworks that have not been exhibited publicly yet in one-off sessions with artists in their creative work space.

The Tzipi Ziskind Award for the “First Reveal” project was awarded to the winning artist Hanan Abu Hussein at the closing event of the festival – the opening of the exhibition “Burrows” at the Hacubia Gallery.

Thanks to the The Jerusalem Film & Television Fund for their support of the “First Reveal – Video” works by Marcel Tehila Bitton, Dan Robert Lahiani and Neta Mozes.

Participants: Hanan Abu Hussein, Shay Azoulay, Shuki Burkovsky, Marcel Tehila Bitton, Raya Bruckenthal, Naomi Brickman, Zvi Tolkovsky, Dan Robert Lahiani, Neta Mozes, Yael Serlin
Artistic director: Rinat Edelstein
Production: Einat Arnheim

Every afternoon throughout Manofim Festival we opened our hearts and minds in a special family activities area: art workshops, music and theater shows, a collective mural created by various communities and more. The complex also operated an open and inviting space for free work, lounging areas and a nonstop tea party! Under the Bridge we met friendly and colorful creatures who helped us to face our fears, formed new friendships, and got to know one another through art, stories, and the imagination. On Saturday, the last day of the festival, we put up an exhibit displaying all the artworks that the children created in the workshops!

Location: Park HaMesila, under Moshe Baram Bridge

Art Workshops:
Under the Bridge workshops are a series of sessions that sow the seeds for a long-term bilingual activity. The workshops centered on simple crafts, offering the participants, as well as the viewers, an unmediated encounter with the material and with the people around them. Together we created a collaborative artwork through which we looked at the winding path of the knitted thread, the doubled reflection, the repetitive circle of the mandala lines, or the intersections of the Tree of Heaven branches. These simple products held stories and an experience of meeting, talking, and being together, and a hope for a common future.

The art workshops were suitable for children aged 5-10 and their parents and are led in Hebrew and Arabic.

The time has come to go back, to shift from the digital world to the analog world. To sail among countless chance musical moments and clear and measured technological moments. Back to the future.

The social world is moving towards, or perhaps reverting to, fragmentation into communities. Anyone can join a virtual community and find their place in it, while in real life, we hardly every meet anyone around us.

As its name suggests, The Mixer allows us to connect and reorganize the things that matter most, as we would like to see them happen. This year in Jerusalem, with its many communities and identities, with the hottest local music and freshest international music we’ll try to translate what is happening online to the real world, connect between remote connections and personal connections and bring artists together their audience.

The Mixer will guide us through the ins and outs of electronic music with all the possible transformers towards pitches of soul music to red-hot local cassette music. In the hope that we will leave the online virtual community for a human encounter of the closest kind.

Performances List:
13.9 | The Mixer – DIGITAL Echo, Opening Act: Avizohar
15.9 | The Mixer – CONVERTER Sima Nun, J. Lamotta, Hype
16.9 | The Mixer – ANALOG El Khat, Riff Cohen, Khen Elmaleh

Artistic director: Noa Melamed Vazana
Producer: Alina Alexa Osipova
Manofim Festival artistic director: Rinat Edelstein

The tours were led by Dveer Shaked, the curator of Koresh 14 Gallery, local history buff and an art tour guide.

From Bezalel to Clal Center
Jerusalem Artists` House * Marie Gallery * Agripas 12 * Black Box
We started the tour at the Artist’s House, located in the historical Bezalel building, where we got to know the history of the school established here in 1906, hear about the foundation of the Israel Museum at this very place, and about the current life of the building as the Jerusalem Artist’s House. We visited the “New Members” exhibitions (curator: Ravit Harari), the Osnat Mozes Painting Prize for a Young Artist exhibition, Natasha Kuznetsova’s solo show (curator: Nava T. Barazani) and May Elimelech’s solo show “The Princess” (curator: Nir Evron). From there, we continued to the adjacent collective galleries Agripas 12 and Marie for a visit to “Spatial Action,” a group exhibition featuring the galleries’ artists (Nava T. Barazani). We ended the tour with a visit to the outdoor gallery Black Box, at the Davidka Square, just outside the iconic Clal Center.

From the Factory to the College
HaMiffal * Koresh 14 Gallery * Azrieli Gallery of the Hadassah Academic College
We opened the tour with a visit to the Factory by the Independence Park, where we got to know the historical building and the activities it hosts today. From there, we continued to Koresh 14 Gallery for a preview of “״Private Collection – Pieces from the Vered Hadad Collection,” which presented the private collection of the gallery’s founder and director, and curator of the exhibition, Vered Had(a)d.. We then walked a couple of minutes to the Azrieli Gallery at Hadassah Academic College, where we visited the group exhibition “Thought Farm” (curators: Tali Kayam and Roni Raviv).

From the Leper House to the Painter’s House
Hansen House * Mamuta * The Tea House * Studio of Her Own in the Painter’s House Litvinovsky
We opened the tour at the Hansen House – the former Leper House. We got to know the building and its unique history and visit the retrospective exhibition of Sharon Balaban – “Resting Bitch” (curators: Sala-Manca). At Hansen House courtyard, we visited the Tea House brought from the nearby Villa Sherover, and currently serving as a sound art gallery. We ended the tour at a Studio of Her Own, which operated in the former home and atelier of the painter Pinhas Litwinowsky, where we visited the exhibition “At the Same Time” (curator: Meital Manor) as well as Litwinowsky’s historical collection.