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Yitzhak Yerushalmi, Portrait, 1970, colored analogue photograph

Yitzhak Yerushalmi: Photo Archive

As part of "Photopoetics," the exhibition features photographs by Yitzhak Yerushalmi, a self-taught photographer, who as a teenager in the 1960s and 1970s photographed family and friends at Morasha neighborhood, Ramat Hasharon.
25.10-13.12
Free
Juan Federovsky, Monica saluting on the Balcony, 1967, photograph

Sokolov Katan

Monica Lavi faces ghosts from her childhood via the photos of Juan Federovsky, her father. These document pivotal events her immigrant family from Argentina witnessed, as well as a reflective gaze on the school "Sokolov Katan" in which Lavi studied

25.10-30.11
Free
Noa Kurnick, Mind the Gap!, mixed media on hand-made paper, 12X21 cm

Age-Based

Age is a sensitive topic; We speak of  it proudly or refuse to disclose it. The artworks in the exhibition will present a variety of emotions, feelings and thoughts that age brings with it, and will prove - age is not merely a number.
25.10-10.12
Free
Yoram Bouzaglo, A woman with headdress, 2023, Digital+AI process

Silk and Crimson: From analog to digital to AI

The exhibition examines and corresponds with the subject of the portrait in light of the changing technologies throughout the history of photography: from analog, to digital, to AI.
25.10-30.11
Free
Yam Amrani, Red or Firecracker and Thunder, 2023, charcoal, polymer adhesive and acrylic on canvas

Rewind >>> Forward

For one evening, you are invited to be swept into a whirlwind of intense contemporariness mixed with memories of distant pasts. Join us in this festive swirl between new and old art centers, between poetry, plastic art, performance, music, and artificial intelligence.
25.10
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Vered Nissim, Untitled (from “The Diary” series), 2008-2013, Manipulated photograph, 80x100 cm

I didn’t ask for much

Vered Nissim raises the discussion on family – the major agent inculcating cultural capital.
25.10-02.01
Free

Manofim Tours

Manofim Tours, our festival tour program, will continue its activity with this year’s edition, which will present an extended format adding even more excursions than before to make sure you will not miss the vast array of exhibitions that the festival and Jerusalem have to offer.
24.10, 25.10, 26.10, 28.10
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The Tea House, photo by: Dor Kedmi

Spirits

Almost 30 years later, after Rabin's murder, Daniel Kiczales returns to Rabin's figure to enter another space. A space in which a vocal ceremony for a male choir takes place that combines episodes from the country's history, words of rebuke and moments of prophecy.
26.10-30.11
Free

Up Top: Manofim Festival X Hansen House

Manofim Festival together with Hansen House devised a day filled with activities and content: The Jerusalem Art Conference together with “Erev Rav” and “Harama” journals, the opening of Daniel Kiczales exhibition, more exhibitions, tours and a one-time performance by Naarot Reines hosting Hila Ruach.
26.10
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Monoprint print from the book 'It's not there, it's here' (50x35cm), Ariel Werdi. (Photo: Eli Posner)

The Private Press in the Small Room

The exhibition is a journey into the worlds of printing by Ariel Wardi, who, for more than thirty years, used a manual printing press  to produce unique books with letters that he cut and cast with his own hands. Hadassa Goldvicht, created a multi-channel video and sound work, which breaks down the printed books into Morse messages transmitted between the underground spaces of the Mamuta center.
13.10-01.12
Free
Guy Goldstein, Work in Progress, Mixed Media, 2023

A Smart House in a Dumb Body

In a project that was specifically conceived for Hansen House, Guy Goldstein explores ongoing preoccupation with the intricate interplay between the private and the public domains. It delves into historical events that continue to shape our present and future, encompassing social, political, and technological trends.
13.10-02.12
Free
Far Out at Sea, mixed technique on paper, 69X100 cm, 2023, photo: Igal Pardo

The Small Hours of the Night

The inception of both the exhibit "The Small Hours of the Night" and the book "Mariam" occurred in a harmonious and continuous creative process, where artist Said Abu Shakra fearlessly navigated concealed alleys within the depths of his soul and past. A dominant and poignant presence is that of the mother figure - Mariam - embodying the essence of all mothers.
26.10-01.01
Free
Sharon Valevski, “Speeches”, from the Asif Festival 2023 at the Kelim Choreography Center, Artistic direction: Ayala Frenkel, Photo: Keren Kraizer

The 8th Jerusalem Art Conference

The 8th Jerusalem Art Conference is dedicated to the role of art in political, climate and technological debates, both internationally and locally. The presentations will engage with the artistic use of mapping and simulation technologies, with the proliferation of international academic programs combining artistic practice with research, issues concerning the world of curation today, and the changes to which the art scenes are subjected to in countries undergoing anti-democratic processes.
26.10
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Amit Goffer, Sleeping for tomorrow, P\ 2, 2021, detail, digital software connected to the internet

Sleeping for tomorrow (Project #0.2)

AG works in physical/digital projects. The Shelter gallery (a type of Israeli bunker) through its special voice, together with the local community, invites the audience to participate in this social-artistic project, and to record and share a significant moment from the past two years.
24.10-27.10
Free

The Mixer

Whether you have attended the exhibitions, tours or conference of the Manofim Festival, we are happy to invite you to a series of musical performances curated and inspired by the events of the week. The series serves not only to musically mirror the exhibitions included in this year’s festival, but significantly links these to unique musical worlds.
25.10, 26.10, 27.10
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Avigail Fried, Kedem, 2022, Oil on canvas, 33x48 cm, Photo: Michael Amar

One + One

This thought-provoking exhibition celebrates the dynamic interplay between two artistic compositions. Each diptych offers a unique dialogue, showcasing the power of juxtaposition, contrast, and harmony.

26.10-25.11
Free
Ilana Hoffmann, Virtual Reality: A Clean House, Video, 3:05 Minutes, 2023

The Final Frontier

At the Oman - the ultra-orthodox center for art and design, will present 3 female artists, sensitive and in-depth works that explore the reality of their daily lives, as well as the unique journey for each of them, required from this reality.
27.10-30.11
Free

A Journey Across the Skies – The Bilingual Children’s Club

The festival's bilingual kids club is back! A weekend full of creativity on the most beautiful roof in the industrial area in Talpiot!
26.10, 27.10, 28.10
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At Hanita Ilan’s studio, Manofim Festival 2021, photo: Itamar Ginsburg

Common Ground

The 16 artists at Art Cube Artists' Studios accompany the opening of the exhibition "Lactism" with a marathon of performances and participatory installations happening inside, across, and above the Artists' Studios.
27.10
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LACTISM, Tamara Moyzes & Shlomi Yaffe, Gallery NOD, Prague, Photo by Michal Ureš

LACTISM: The new monotheistic religion worshiping the goddess Lacteria

The exhibition revolves around the central concepts of human connection, sociality and interactions between man and the environment. The exhibition is part of an ongoing project by the artists Shlomi Yaffe and Tamara Moyzes that deals with social aspects of environmental quality and egalitarian social imagination, in which the concept of justice also applies to that which is not human.
27.10-05.01
Free
Dirty Talk, markers, charcoal, soft pastels and colored pencils on paper, 2021

Well Hidden

Artist Tal Simon showcases figurative botanical drawings alongside abstract paintings and drawings capturing living plants. This exhibit delves into concealed layers of rooted enigmas, while Simon's work engages in a dialogue with artifacts found in JBG library's archives. These artifacts, cataloged by JBG's legendary founder, Dr. Michael Avishai, celebrate the flora's enduring charm.
28.10-10.02
Free

Rev up

The artists of Ha’turim Center Incubator projects invite you to an evening of experiencing creative processes and moments of becoming where stage materials, in their humanity and sensitivity, stand out in various exuberant performances!
28.10
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Einat Amir, Radiance, 2023, video work, three screens, 04:09 min, loop

Homegrown: Four Artists React to Ticho House and Its Garden

All works relate to questions of growth – organic and inorganic, past and present. Orly Maiberg, Yifaet Ziv, and Elinor Sahm position their works inside the house, while the work of Einat Amir spreads across the garden.
24.07-01.12
Free
Poli Blum

Parallel Strata

The ‘punctum’, according to Barthes, is the “thing that jumps at the viewer from the photograph,”  arousing the unique experience of photography. In our age of image overload, analog photography slows the pace in a process of restoring spirituality and mysticism to the medium. The exhibition is a joint project of Beita and Punctum (Noga Greenberg, Art Director).
07.09-27.10
Free
Rina Peled, From the series: Exercises, In Watercolor, Watercolor and collage on paper, 2016

Through and beyond paper

In the exhibition will be displayed artists’ books Alongside other works on paper
19.10-18.11
Free

Let there be images

Nine biblical verses were selected depicting various scenes of vision, visual survey, mapping and image creation. The texts were input into image generators powered by AI – Artificial Intelligence – enabling the creation of an image from a text. “And Man saw the words; and words were written; and there was an image.”
30.11-30.11
Free
Zvi Tolkovsky, Untitled, 1992, Etching, soft-ground and aquatint,105 x 76 cm

Mashkof in Print

Mashkof was a multidisciplinary collective composed of painters, poets, and musicians. The following exhibition is a compilation of works from the Mashkof period and works created by individual artists in later years.
30.08-08.12
Free
Nasrin Abu Baker, from the exhibition "Family Business", 2023, Studio of Her Own, Jerusalem

Family Business

Nasrin Abu Baker returns to the family photo album, and corresponds with her family's personal biography. Abu Baker turns the identification between ethnicity and class into a cultural marker, associated with social and economic periphery.
16.06-28.10
Free
Hamutal Bar Cohen, from the exhibition "Brutto", 2023, Studio of Her Own, Jerusalem

Brutto

The materials in Hamutal Bar Cohen's exhibition were on their way to be thrown into the trash before they became real works and were collected into an exhibition.
16.06-28.10
Free
Moran Kliger, from the exhibition "Correspondence", 2023, Studio of Her Own, photo: Daniel Hanoch

Correspondence

Moran Kliger creates, through her mother's stories, a biographical journey and a fictitious dialogue between her and her deceased grandmother.
16.06-28.10
Free
Eden Bezalel Habas, Matter of Time, 2023, Video installation

1st exhibition in the 24th Nidbach series: Matter of Time

Eden Bezalel Habas, a graduate of the Department of Screen Arts at the Bezalel Academy, presents a video installation that explores the complex relationship between humans and nature, and their surrounding living environment. The artwork examines the crisis of trust between the viewer and the screen in the contemporary era, where the proliferation of images and multiple screens has become the "natural" environment.
02.09-12.11
Free
Adi Bezalel, Child, 2023, gouache on paper

Wounded Healer

Adi Bezalel, a photographer, painter, and art therapist, combines  two mediums that seemingly compete with each other. She turns things around and positions photography, which historically developed from painting, as the starting point for her painting practice. The painting redeems photography and presents it in a different dimension, as a poetic act of healing between mediums.
02.09-12.11
Free
The New Gallery Artists’ Studio Teddy, photo: Revital Cohen

Gang

The works presented by the resident artists within the framework of the Hall Talk 10 relate directly to this ambivalent space prescribed for exhibition.
08.09-31.12
Free
Anna Yam, Untitled, 2023

May things be

The exhibition explores the dynamics between remembrance and oblivion, the complexity of identity, and issues of ownership and belonging. The photographs were taken at different times, some over the last year and others were drawn from the archive and given a new context in the nebulous present.
08.09-03.11
Free
Yam Amrani

Yam Amrani – Winner of the 2023 Osnat Mozes Painting Prize for a Young Artist

In his large-scale paintings, Armani re-examines the language of abstract painting while interweaving aspects of contemporary visibility in a world dominated by digital screens. Amrani's painterly work is based on abstraction of complex images, mainly representations of the organic body.

02.09-12.11
Free
Noga Grinberg, Tehila, 2022, color photography

New Members 2023

Three new members have joined the Jerusalem Artists Association this year: Sara Benninga, Noga Grinberg and Yael Boverman-Attas.
02.09-12.11
Free