Exhibitions

Iris Kensmil's exhibition is part of a project that represented the Netherlands in 2019 at the Venice Biennale. In many senses the Biennale is an important arena for defining the place of art in the context of ideas of citizenship and nationality. The installation Kensmil presented there, called The Measurement of Presence, was created in collaboration with Remy Jungerman.

Artist Sharon Lockhart is a photographer and film director, known for the long-term projects she creates based on in-depth research, often in cooperation with communities. Her films are meticulously planned, characterized by freeze-frame shots or minimal camera movements. They present people, places, and events related to daily routine.

Multidisciplinary artist Rona Yefman often engages with issues of gender and feminine representation. Her art includes long-term collaborations with radical personalities who dictate the absurd and iconic images of our time. She is particularly interested in photography. According to Yefman, the camera allows things to happen.

When we try to imagine a world that is not based on Western gender conceptions we are in fact treading in the realm of science fiction; since we must imagine a society and a history entirely different from those we have known for centuries.

Bulgarian artist Boryana Rossa responds in her works to processes of globalization and the transition of post-Communist countries to a capitalist economy. She succeeds in reclaiming control of her body and positions herself as a woman along the shifting axes of gender, nationality, politics, and economy. Rossa defines herself as a heterosexual woman with a queer identity.

This exhibition explores the world of the hybrids as an alternative existence reflecting the fluid, unstable, and complex identity of woman in the contemporary cultural discourse, as described by prominent feminist thinkers such as Rosi Braidotti and Donna Haraway. In this context, the idea of the "nomad," used by Braidotti, is another name for the feminine.

In this exhibition, a common thread connects between miniscule, prehistoric clay figurines dating from 8,000 years ago, found at the Sha'ar HaGolan archeological site; medieval images of women inspired by Tarot cards; and the works of four contemporary Israeli women artists.

The trans-feminist movement addresses feminist issues from a transgender perspective. Similarly to other third-generation feminist movements, trans-feminism often examines the effect of body image and the oppressive and destructive power of the binary gender conception.

Much has been written on the subject of feminist solidarity, as a formative value that provides the political subject with a secure base from which to promote social struggles in various arenas. The concept of "solidarity," in its various meanings, has served in recent years as a framework for discussions in the feminist community. The call for solidarity is based upon the demand to dismantle supposedly competition in relations between women.

This exhibition seeks to examine the symbolic representations of women in the context of oppressive power mechanisms in the contemporary global age. These representations are often considered in contemporary feminist thought, which seeks to change fundamental structures in the relations between the sexes. This contemporary feminist approach is based on a radical critique arguing that the man/woman dichotomy legitimizes the socio-political disempowerment of women.