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The Persian Deer Lift

An Imaginary Middle Eastern Opera That Really Happened. A performance of original music, storytelling, and epic poetry, in which the performers tell, play, and sing an imaginary tale that actually took place: the journey to return the Persian fallow deer to the wild in Israel, aboard the last El Al flight from Tehran to Tel Aviv during the revolution. Created by Nitai Kallay ("The Howl").

20260714

Rafael | A musical performance

A musical performance. A Rashomon of events from our dystopian reality, moving between past and present to diagnose the state of the heart torn between Gaza and Jerusalem.

20260714, 20260715

Hazira presents: Zik Galaxy

Hazira and the Zik Group continue to celebrate 40 years of the group's creative work together. The Zik Galaxy will run for a week across three spaces at Hazira simultaneously. It's a chance to experience the group's unique and rich oeuvre, which spans different fields, periods, and scales.

20260714, 20260715, 20260716, 20260717

The Institute for Mapping Islands of Consciousness

The Institute for Mapping Islands of Consciousness is dedicated to mapping areas that have not yet received recognition in the personal, social, and conscious realms. As part of the Manofim Festival, the public is invited to one-on-one meetings with artist Hadas Duchan, in an attempt to give form to that which still lacks words.

20260714, 20260717

Drawing Journey

Rachel Kainy steps out of the studio to wander and sketch in the urban-industrial environment with a unique device that allows continuous drawing with both hands while walking

20260714, 20260717

Half and Half

Manofim Festival, the Art Cube Artists’ Studios, and the Kulna Jerusalem Association invite you to a shared viewing of both World Cup semi-finals, broadcast live on a giant screen. The live broadcast will be split evenly – "half and half" – with one half in Hebrew (Kan 11) and the second half in Arabic (Makan). Before the matches: language exchange with Speaking Jerusalem, live music, DJ sets, and backgammon. Free admission — sunflower seeds and watermelon are on us!

20260714, 20260715

Vacuum Service | The Outdoor Sculptures series

"Vacuum Service" is a cleaning and maintenance group that operates in artistic spaces from a stance of care and attention. Until now, the group has worked within the museum walls, and this year, in the two performances that will be presented at the Manofim Festival in the Outdoor Sculptures series, the group will venture into public space for the first time.

20260714, 20260715

COW PARK | Guy Dolev

Guy Dolev opens his studio at the Art Cube Artists’ Studios to the visitors of Manofim Festival, and reveals, in an intimate performance, the collaborative process with the Save the ArQ movement, the activist group leading the struggle of the Armenian community in Jerusalem over the “Cow Garden”. On the boundary between documentary theater and experimental lecture, the Cow Park performance combines interviews and archival materials with video clips filmed over the past two years across the parking lot in the Cow Garden through a car's backup camera.

20260714, 20260716

צילום: דניאל חנוך

Islands of Unknowing

Open studio events at the Artists’ Studios in Talpiyot, an invitation to wander into the heart of artistic practice, into the unfolding process, and into the streams of consciousness of each of the 17 artists working there.

20260714, 20260717

ירון שטיינברג, הארכיטקטורה של הזיכרון, 2026. צילום מתוך העבודה בסטודיו: ירון שטיינברג

Drift

A group exhibition featuring artists from the Art Cube Artists’ Studios in Jerusalem, focusing on creative processes and the central role that not-knowing has in artistic work. The exhibition ties in with the main theme of Manofim Festival 2026 – ‘Recognition’ – and seeks to explore the space that comes before knowledge and recognition: a zone of searching, experimenting, a patient stay, and coming into being.

29.07-19.06

Sfat Olam – Tomer Baruch and Daniella Tourgeman

Within a painful and impossible reality, Tomer Baruch and Daniella Tourgeman send gentle and healing sounds, from a place of compassion and humanity. Music that acts as a protective wall, regulating the senses, a connecting point between the listener and the world

20260715

מתוך הווידאו ״כדור קופץ״, צילום: מישה קמינסקי

Hole in the Heart

A sculptural video installation that transforms the gallery space at Mamuta into a grotesque play gym where playfulness and ritual are exaggerated and disrupted. The exhibition is presented as part of Design Week at Hansen House

18.09-09.07

לשאוף אל הנוף, צילום: אורה לב

Taking in the View: Ticho House hosts new acquisitions in photography

The exhibition presents works by contemporary Israeli artists who explore the local landscape not merely as documentation, but as a space for inquiry and meaning-making. Through the camera and its technical mechanisms, they create new interpretations of familiar environments, sometimes to the point of detaching them from their original context, thereby prompting reflection on the relationship between reality and representation, and between documentation and artistic creation.

01.11-01.05

NOT LETTING IT IN

Jason Danino Holt invites the public to practice the art of human communication through autobiographical confession. Ten years ago, the confessions show 'Not Letting It In' premiered – an event that formulated a unique language of communication, exclusively through confessions – and has since been performed dozens of times in Israel and around the world. It is a performative event where it is only allowed to speak in confessions: no responses, no questions, no conversations, and no verbal judgment.

20260715

"טהור" - יוסף משיח וזיו בראשי בגלריית המפעל / תמונות הצבה. צילום: ניב גפני

Pure

In direct response to the war between Israel and Iran and the ongoing emergency situation in Israel in recent years, artist Yosef Mashiah and musician Ziv Barashi, in their first collaboration, have created a space entirely dedicated to immersion in light and sound.

17.07-08.05

Shkula | A musical-linguistic performance: Neomi Hashmonai and Neta Weiner

A musical-linguistic performance that was born out of an ongoing dialogue between Neomi Hashmonai and Neta Weiner. Their work deals with language and identity, the relationship between word and sound, and the space between personal experience and socio-political stance

20260716

They Say It’s You: Gedy Ronen meets with the band Devek and the project Echad Chelkei Echad

The Manofim Festival is dedicating a special evening to the work of Gedy Ronen: Pianist, singer, composer, and producer, who has been creating songs for two decades that blend poetry, social critique, and raw emotion. The evening will move through key milestones in his work: songs from his solo album, new material, and a one-time special meeting created just for the festival with the members of the two bands he founded with Boaz Reinshreiber, "Devek" and "Echad Chelkei Echad," marking their first appearance on stage together in over a decade.

20260716

Ura Kvodi — Jazz & Vizuals

Jazz that emerges from listening and from the pulse created between four attentive musicians. Wandering through the expanses of India and the Middle East, gently dismantling traditional symmetries of ceremonial music and the groove of modern presence

20260716

מיכל שץ, ME TIME

NAILS – Temporary Exhibition Closure

The artistic-visual research NAILS examines the place and complex meanings that gel nail culture has in Israeli society, looking at how the field influences local culture and art and is influenced by them.

17.07-11.06

צילום: דניאל חנוך

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

20260714, 20260715, 20260716, 20260717

יעל סרלין ,ספריה, 2026, סטילס מתוך וידאו. עיבוד תמונה: משה זילברנגל

Four Cubits

Yael Serlin presents an intimate and exposed artistic process, dealing with the deep grief her family experienced after the death of her son, Yosef Haim Tzvi Serlin, during his military service. Serlin transforms the gallery space into an inner realm charged with longing and pain, where familiar household objects are combined with archival documentation of Judaica from Jewish communities that were destroyed.

25.09-10.07

Suddenly, There’s a Figure

The starting point for the exhibition at Hacubia is a completed oeuvre by the late forgotten local artist Ran Harari (1944–2020) and Sharon Livne's documentary film about him: Suddenly, There’s a Figure (2014). Following the encounter with Harari's persona, the exhibition curator Dan Orimian embarks on a journey of artistic inquiry and a search for contexts through the works of five contemporary artists. The exhibition expands into an examination of the act of creation itself, unfolding as a system of responses, reformations and reverberations.

26.08-15.07

יעל סרלין, אימהות, 2026, סטילס מתוך וידאו, צילום: דורון עובד

Midrash of a Tear

In the middle of the Three Weeks, approaching the twilight of the sixth day of Shabbat Chazon – the evening when Jewish tradition looks straight into the fracture while marking the vision of future comfort – the Manofim Festival invites the public to a communal ceremony that will include performance pieces, singing, and study, accompanying the opening of Yael Serlin’s solo exhibition Four Cubits.

20260717

צילום: דניאל חנוך

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

A bilingual experience full of imagination and inspiration at the Artists’ Studios: through a guided tour and creative workshops, we will explore memories, imaginary maps, and miniature worlds together — and discover how art can turn every visit into an adventure. All this with a single ticket.

20260718

צילום: Pavel Sajner

Roni Hajaj | Performance at Koresh 14 Gallery

As part of the opening of his solo exhibition Residence and a Neighboring Ear of Grain at Koresh 14 Gallery, Roni Hajaj will perform a live ambient-noise show based on real-time improvisation using analog synthesizers and drum machines

20260718

רוני חג'ג', ללא כותרת, 2023, מיצב סאונד, ספוג תעשייתי, נעליים, 220X110X90 ס״מ, מראה הצבה בתערוכה "אל תאמרו מים" במוזיאון בת ים לאמנות, אוצרת: הילה כהן שניידרמן

The Shibboleth Next Door

The solo exhibition by artist Roni Hajaj at Koresh 14 Gallery present sculptures, sound works and paintings, like the edges of icebergs representing depths that stretch beyond the gallery space and allowing visitors to find themselves within the works

18.09-18.07

צילום: ילנה קווטני

Deluge

A single figure through whom voices and stories resonate, dripping onto the stage. The live, sung voice breaks apart, replicates, and changes form, resisting the unity of a single narrator. Working with recorded material and live electronic processing, testimonies to stories that never happened and are happening all the time emerge.

20260718

Festival Closing Event | Jimi Prasad Orchestra feat. Avishai Cohen

Jimmy Prasad, Avishai Cohen, and Rejoycer. They gathered with them a unique team of musicians and formed a group that moves freely between genres, traditions, and worldviews. At the closing performance of the Manofim Festival, on the rooftop of the Art Cube Artists' Studios, the Orchestra invites the audience to experience how music serves as a bridge between different parts of the city, and through it, invites us to close the days of the festival with a shared and expansive breath.

20260718