Exhibitions

Ron Amir’s camera sees green everywhere: agricultural, military, and private areas; synthetic turf next to an inflatable tank; camouflage colors next to the evergreen of the cypress trees. The Galilee, where he has lived in recent years, provides him with new vantage points on the local landscape and its narratives. His camera lingers on the small details, the ways in which the landscape is subordinated to human needs, the tension between freedom and supervision, between improvisation and solution. ...

Hillel Roman makes monumental charcoal drawings, returning to the primal material with which humanity first created art and to the elemental drives that fueled it. With charcoal born from fire, he illustrates the consequences of the flame that blazes within people. 

The drawings originate in stories of warriors who confronted war in different ways. “Burn the ships!” is a phrase attributed to Spanish conquistador Hernán...

NonFinito 2024, the year end exhibition of Artport’s annual residency program, which began in October 2023 and concludes these days, presents new projects and ideas that have sprouted in the six studios on the two floors above the gallery.
The inescapable reality is at once present and absent in everything created during the past year, whether consciously or not; whether it is really there or that we, as viewers, cannot help but find it everywhere. Faced with a present, which seems like a nightmare from which we cannot awaken, the featured works...

The establishment of the State of Israel changed the city of Haifa fundamentally. By the end of the war, the city’s demographics changed, and Haifa was left without most of its Palestinian population. Under mayor Abba Hushi, the city launched “Operation Shikmona” to demolish the old city area. A defining moment in the city’s history, it sought to realign and rewrite the memory of Haifa. Unlike the cityscape, which was constructed gradually, over the flux of history and regional regime changes, this was a deliberate act, later repeated in other cities, the contrivance of a new narrative.
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Limbo: An abode of souls that are according to Roman Catholic theology barred from heaven because of not having received Christian baptism.
A place or state of restraint or confinement; a place or state of neglect or oblivion; an intermediate or transitional place or state; a state of uncertainty.
[Merriam Webster Dictionary]
Yair Perez dares to look at people. He met the figures appearing in his paintings long before they emerged at the encounter between the brush and the...

It seems that the distance between East and West has never been greater. After years in which we thought that the poles were getting closer and the gaps were gradually narrowing, the last few months came and divided the world again into “us” and “them.” Surrounded by such noise, it is difficult to observe nuances, listen to whispers, remember how similar different cultures are, and to what extent they are connected and deeply influenced by one another.
Ido Michaeli undertakes the task of translation. Born into a family that hailed from an Arab country and raised in Israel, Michaeli, who now lives in New York...

“The hope of changing directions is always that we do not know where some paths may take us: risking departure from the straight and narrow, makes new futures possible, which might involve going astray, getting lost, or even becoming queer.” – Sara Ahemd.
The exhibition “More than Enough” assembles a group of Israeli artists, residing in Israel and overseas, who are united by their powerful harnessing of a queer perspective and approach that emanate from a risky departure from known and familiar pathways in favor of an exploration of possible new futures...

Nonfinito 2023, the year-end exhibition of Artport’s residency program, marks ten years of activity since the inception of Artport Art Center. A decade of studios for artists from Israel and abroad, of exhibitions and events, books, films, thoughts, and conversations. A decade of support for art and artists.
Since the program’s first year, every residency year ends with an edition of “Nonfinito,” which took its name from a series of unfinished sculptures by several Renaissance masters, including Michelangelo and Donatello, indicating a conscious desire to present ideas in various stages of development. In this sense...

In this earth, / In this soil, / In this pure field / Let’s not plant any seed / Other than seeds of compassion and love
– Rumi

In the 13th century poet, scholar, and Sufi mystic Jalaluddin Rumi’s poem, the planting of a seed in fertile ground heralds the highest intentions, filled with...

“A country road. A tree. Evening.”

These three short stage directions at the opening of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot dictate the mood that dominates the entire play. A futile wait, a meaningless search. Existential absurdity that ends up as mundane absurdity...

And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay; Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan. [Judges 12: 5–6]
Loose lips sink ships. So do the palate and the tongue. The way we move the different parts that make up our mouth, the way the air passes through the...

“NonFinito 2022,” the year-end exhibition of the Artport residency program, presents new ideas and projects that took shape on our two studio floors over the past year.

Originally referring to unfinished sculptures by Renaissance masters, the term “non finito” also indicates the conscious desire to represent ideas in various...

A suggestion made by a friend, a brain researcher, led Maayan Shahar to Ichilov Medical Center. She drank a prescribed dose of a drug and wandered the white corridors accompanied by an assistant. She then lay down, was inserted into an MRI scanner, and let the machine linger inside her head. The machine slowly monitored brain tissue, scanned her body vertically and horizontally from the crown of the head to the base of the spine, and ultimately produced a printout: layers of blacks, whites, and grays; scans recounting her brain...

The walls in Netai Halup’s studio are high, towering upward in off white, with drill holes here and there. Scarce furniture dot the paint-stained old terrazzo flooring: a table, shelves laden with iron rods. The north wall boasts large windows, and in the morning the sun bathes the studio with dazzling light, that grows brighter during the day. There is one office chair that rolls through the different sections of the studio, and in the middle—an empty space. ...

When the sun set the howls begin, this is the singing of the Golden Jackals. They welcome the moon that symbolise the beginning of another day in their urban life.

The Synanthrope Preserve invites you to walk in the paths of the urban wild life that inhabits Ganei Yehoshua Park (Yarkon Park). Hopefully, we are going to...

By seeing how images operate, we can go beyond the borders of what most images present us, beyond what most images want us to see, and by doing so, we no longer see the image, but the counter image.

– Kevin B. Lee, Harun Farocki: The Counter-Image...

Glasses clink, eye meets eye, hands are extended to be shaken. In “Finger Food and Future Mistakes,” Guy Goldstein brings together two different events—the multi-participant World’s Fair and a small, intimate home cocktail—for a shared inquiry into the forces that drive them and the motivations that set them in motion. From bottles opened for an intimate toast to the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, from a face to face conversation to an outdoor public address system, from the demand not to crowd to the yearning to be part of a crowd. The exhibition delves into the basic need for a human...

According to a Talmudic discussion, one day ends and the next begins “from when the sun sets, as long as the eastern face of the sky is reddened by the light of the sun.” The question regarding the beginning and ending of a day, which is crucial in the context of the beginning and ending of Shabbat, has acquired a new meaning in the past two years, when the elasticity of time seemed to have changed. The minutes and hours lost their assigned meaning and the days became one long twilight...

A spirit of deceptive presence inspires the exhibition “NonFinito 2021”; a sense of a reality that is difficult to grasp, of things that are here one moment, and a moment later are gone. To a large extent, this is the spirit of the whole period. Artport’s annual residency program began between lockdowns and continued into them; all the while trying to understand the possibilities and the difficulties, and to provide some stability in a world that was gradually losing it...

The exhibition cluster “Adhesion” consists of two solo shows presented side by side, connected by fine threads of color, matter, content, and a shared fate.

Orly Sever and Maria Saleh Mahameed worked at Artport in the summer of 2020 as part of the short-term Israeli Residency Program. The program, which replaced Artport’s International Residency Program canceled due to flight restrictions to Israel, provided a studio and accommodation for artists living more...

A residential apartment is being built inside Artport gallery. Front door, kitchen, bedroom, window, driveway. Its boundaries are fluid—the gallery’s interior and the apartment’s exterior blend; its identity is unclear—vacant but teeming with signs of life; its definition is blurred—a proposal for a dwelling within a gallery, inside a new white building, amid old garages, in a neighborhood undergoing transformation from a business to a residential zone, during a period in which people stay behind closed doors...

The summer of 2019 began with great excitement. After a long search, the new Artport building was opened and the studios were filled with the residency program artists. The safe room was converted into a print workshop, the conference table—into a ping-pong table, and the walls were covered with artworks. Shortly after the annual residency program began, the new participants displayed their work in the group exhibition “Ax Bear Crow.”...

“Welcome to Jaffa” brings together works by three artists who have been living and working in Jaffa for decades.

All working in sculpture, Uri Eliaz, Sophie Jungreis and Nachum Inbar recreate spirit out of matter, breathing life into statues made of wood and stone. With solid materials as their starting point, they create images that respond to matter, exploring and working with it to eventually bring out its true essence and...

In 1837 following a successful career as a painter, Samuel Morse took the wooden fixture that he used as a canvas stretcher and built the first telegraph device. His fame did not arrive, as he had expected prior to that, from his elegant brushstrokes and his precise giant paintings, but from a whole different set of lines and points. The electromagnetic signs – dots and dashes – were translated into letters and connected to words, enabling for the first time in the history of humankind to communicate remotely. No more drums, bonfires and wind instruments – Morse gave us the ability to deliver long distance...

In his early twenties, shortly after Gabi Kricheli finished his military service, he found himself in the United States. The 9/11 attacks pushed him out of New York, and he headed south. He ended up on a long dark drive through a tobacco field. On the nocturnal drive through the endless field, he realized the impossibility of true escape. Surrounded by the painfully beautiful giant flowers, he decided to go back to Israel and pursue art. Now in his early forties, Gabi Kricheli revisits this formative experience from his early twenties.
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NonFinito 2017 is not only the ending moment of Artport’s fifth year residency program, it is also the end of an era. It is the last exhibition at Artport’s gallery on 55 Ben Zvi Road. With its conclusion, Artport will leave the compound on the way to its new location, and the whole area will be destroyed as the first step in becoming a new neighborhood in south Tel Aviv...

The analog image has a place of honor in the hierarchy of images. Impressive and rich, it has depth and functions as a “guarantee of pristine visuality,” as maintained by artist and theorist Hito Steyerl. The privileged status of the image is closely linked to such notions as originality, idiosyncrasy, and quality. According to Steyerl, “Resolution was fetishized as if its lack amounted to castration of the author.”
The new technologies that have evolved in recent decades, however, have eroded the status of analog photography as well as its associated set of values...

The exhibition Motions for the Agenda activates existing and imagined reciprocal relations between art and law. As such, it cultivates a space in which a courageous and unexpected exchange between the two fields can be manifested. This exhibition originates from a series of meetings between jurists, curators, artists and cultural theorists that has been held for the past two years at Artport under the title Towards Legal Imagination...

After five years based on Ben Zvi Road in South Tel Aviv, and after nearly two years in search of a new venue, Artport’s residency program is reopening its doors in a new building on 8 Ha’amal St., Tel Aviv.

Marking the building’s inauguration, the program will host the exhibition “Back to Artport”, showcasing works by its Israeli alumni. The exhibition will span...

Between 2015-2016, 21 Israeli artists and writers stayed at the Curfew Tower, Cushendall, Northern ‎Ireland, a Catholic village with Republican roots.‎

The unusual small red sandstone Curfew Tower at the central crossroads was built in 1817, based on a ‎building the landowner had seen in China in his travels as a tea and opium trader. It was originally a ‎prison ‘for the confinement of idlers and rioters’.‎...

The Bureau of Authentication is inviting you to take part in its first authentication event, on Saturday, July 23, 7:30pm.

The BoA is a performance event in which the artists will examine the physical aspects and background stories of the objects that will be brought in front of them by the visitors of the exhibition. A unique and original certificate will be issued to the participant for their object while a second copy will be entered...

The exhibition Golden Hands is the outcome of a year of mutual work between David Adika and Hilla Toony Navok at Artport Tel Aviv, resulting in ideas on aesthetics, space, design and kitsch that developed into collaboration, where each side supports the other, disrupts his work and surprises him.
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A conversation between Vardit Gross, Hilla Toony Navok and David Adika...

The end of Artport’s residency program’s fourth year continues the tradition of “NonFinito”, an exhibition that takes place at the end of the year and presents new projects and ideas that emerged during the residency, yet refuses to be a final or concluding exhibition.

While originally referring to unfinished Renaissance sculptures, the term “non finito” is also used to describe a desire to represent ideas in different stages...

The exhibition Vanishing Point examines modes of constructing national narratives, while addressing questions of collective experiences and memories and the ways these are formed. Through the examination of different methods the artists turn their gaze inwards – exposing, examining, and playing with the production mechanisms which nations uses to establish and distinguish their identity, culture, and heroes...

Yair Perez’s solo exhibition was created following the artist’s personal encounter with the mentally ill as part of his work in recent years. The exhibition derives from the autobiographical aspect but offers at the same time an reflection and examination of the concepts of “madness” and “mental illness” in today’s society. The exhibition includes paintings and sculptures from the last three years and is accompanied by Menachem Goldberg’s text...

We are delighted to present a local and extended version for the Israeli Pavilion at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. At Artpoprt’s gallery we’ve broaden the scope of the exhibition so you can also find additional research materials and short stories that were written especially for it...

Since the early 2000’s scientists have been stating that we are living in a new geological era, the age of the Anthropocene. While previous changes in geological eras took place due to drastic alterations in the earth’s systems such as the fall of a meteor, the clash of tectonic plates, or massive volcanic eruptions, in the era of the Anthropocene, humanity has become a geological force...

The exhibition Decolonized Skies examines the possibility of expropriating the aerial view from those in power (the military, the state, and large corporations), so that the knowledge produced via aerial photography for instance, will serve for the benefit of the citizens rather than used against them. This process of democratizing the view from above is currently the focus of many artists, scholars and activists, particularly in light of the growing use of digital mapping systems on the one hand, and the intensive use of military drones for surveillance and attack on the other hand. This process carries a direct and...

Artport’s year-end show will occur in arbitrary moments in time. Moments before the residents program is over, however, not necessarily when their projects have been completed. For most of the artists’ in Artport third year… One year is not a long time to create projects. Since many of the projects only began in Artport this year, they will only continue to bloom. Nonfinito is not quite a year end show, it is more of an opportunity to familiarize ourselves with the artist’s process of creation before the projects are completely done, but while they are already prepared to be exposed to the public eye.
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A residency program is a place that is quintessentially in-between. Neither fully the polished venue of the gallery nor entirely the private enclave of the studio, it is a liminal place that is often open to the public but still rough around the edges. Often described as a laboratory, the residency program is a place where creative people are given free reign to experiment as they work side-by-side with likeminded individuals. Over the last twelve months, Boris Oicherman, Noa Gur, Leor Grady, Nevet Yitzhak, Guy Pitchon, and curator Rani Lavie met at Artport on a weekly basis, talking, debating, and cooking. All of them were...

With the show ‘Double Bind’, Artport presents the first solo exhibition of Berlin based Austrian artist Clemens Krauss in Israel.

The show combines a series of paintings with recent video works. Physical treatment of paint responds to biographically embedded identity, approached through a narration which follows free association...

Artport are pleased to present the local version of the New York-based exhibition Living as Form – exhibited in New York in 2011 by the art organization Creative Time and has since been shown in local versions around the world in collaboration with ICI.

“Living as Form” presents the wide variety of socially involved art and its various modes of operation around the world as well as in Israel. From a ship that...

Non Finito is neither a group show, nor an end-of-year exhibition. Instead, it is a celebration of twelve months of intellectual exchange and cohabitation between the first six Israeli residents of Artport: artists Einat Amir,
Rafram Chaddad, Ido Michaeli, Yair Perez, Ronit Porat, and curator Maayan Sheleff...