Exhibitions
Past Exhibitions
LABOUR IN A SINGLE SHOT Thursday 28 February 2013 Friday 25 May 2012 The exhibition presents the outcome of a video workshop project conducted by curator Antje Ehmann and filmmaker Harun Farocki Learn More
HARUN FAROCKI : IMAGINATION AT WORK Thursday 28 February 2013 Saturday 25 May 2013 The exhibition aligns three video installations by German artist and filmmaker Harun Farocki Learn More
ANGELICA SCHATZ Friday 04 January 2013 Saturday 01 June 2013 The exhibition unfolds her tragic character, her oeuvre and her fascinating correspondence with her father... Learn More
JOHN STEZAKER: ONE ON ONE Friday 18 January 2013 Saturday 18 May 2013 John Stezaker's collages are created by manual processes applied to ready-made media images... Learn More
Pinchas Cohen Gan Friday 07 December 2012 Sunday 19 May 2013 The exhibition presents his work from the early 1970s on, centering on his published books that incorporate thought and action. Learn More
CRISTÓBAL BALENCIAGA, collector of fashions Friday 21 December 2012 Sunday 28 April 2013 The exhibition presents the passion of Spanish couturier Cristóbal Balenciaga... Learn More
FASHIONING THE OBJECT: Wednesday 28 November 2012 Monday 01 April 2013 The exhibition raises a discussion about the methods and representations of fashion... Learn More
ROGER BALLEN: Friday 09 November 2012 Sunday 14 April 2013 An exhibition of about 40 photographs by Roger Ballen, whose work is internationally acclaimed for its harsh directness... Learn More
NAFTALI BEZEM: TOING AND FROING Saturday 29 December 2012 Wednesday 17 April 2013 Naftali Bezem has returned to Tel Aviv after 15 years in Europe, and seems never to have left. Learn More
FRIEDRICH ADLER: WAYS AND BYWAYS Friday 26 October 2012 Saturday 20 April 2013 First exhibition in Israel on Friedrich Adler (Laupheim, 1878–Auschwitz, 1942), a member of the pre-Bauhaus Deutscher Werkbund... Learn More
ENCOUNTERS IN EDVARD MUNCH'S SPACE Thursday 26 July 2012 Saturday 29 December 2012 The exhibition re-convenes an acquaintance with familiar images and associates them with versions by Munch's contemporaries... Learn More
ALL HIS SONS: THE BRUEGHEL DYNASTY Friday 24 August 2012 Saturday 01 December 2012 the exhibition—about 100 paintings, drawings and engravings—focuses mostly on his sons, grandsons, great-grandsons and sons-in-law, all painters... Learn More
THE CONSTANTINER PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD FOR AN ISRAELI ARTIST Saturday 08 September 2012 Saturday 09 February 2013 Assaf Shaham deals with photography and its mechanisms... Learn More
DAVID CLAERBOUT: THE TIME THAT REMAINS Saturday 22 September 2012 Monday 31 December 2012 HELENA RUBINSTEIN PAVILION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART Learn More
CABINET SECRETS: PRINTS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS Monday 24 September 2012 Saturday 09 February 2013 a collaboration between Hanoch Levin and Michael Druks Learn More
IZHAR PATKIN: THE WANDERING VEIL Friday 22 June 2012 Saturday 01 December 2012 A series of screen paintings, originating from a collaboration between Izhar Patkin Learn More
THE 2011 RAPPAPORT PRIZE FOR AN ESTABLISHED ISRAELI PAINTER ASAF BEN ZVI : FORGETTING ALMOST EVERYTHING Friday 16 March 2012 Sunday 14 October 2012 Disasters—ecological, personal and natural disasters—which were Asaf Ben Zvi's primal focus of attraction and repulsion... Learn More
THE 2011 RAPPAPORT PRIZE FOR A YOUNG ISRAELI PAINTER Friday 16 March 2012 Saturday 25 August 2012 The exhibition focuses on Michael Halak's series of portraits and landscape paintings... Learn More
UTOPIAS ON PAPER II Monday 12 March 2012 Saturday 14 July 2012 The second part of the exhibition focuses on the Expressionists' attitude to modernism and urban reality Learn More
GROUP PORTRAITS Wednesday 15 February 2012 Wednesday 08 August 2012 The display exhibits five group portraits from the 17th century to the present. Learn More
CRITICAL MASS Friday 01 June 2012 Saturday 08 December 2012 The exhibition, a first exposure for a dynamic, multi-faceted scene that has been raising worldwide interest... Learn More
SHIRLEY BAR-AMOTZ: HAPPY DAYS Friday 01 June 2012 Saturday 13 October 2012 Jewelry serves artist Shirley Bar-Amotz as a means for making socially relevant statements Learn More
ORIT AKTA HILDESHEIM Monday 25 June 2012 Saturday 22 September 2012 Orit Akta Hildesheim's work, a harmony of gentle, transparent hues on an almostmonochromatic scale... Learn More
CABINET SECRETS: PRINTS FROM THE Monday 21 May 2012 Saturday 22 September 2012 Alongside videos, installations and sculptures, Erez Israeli's work includes prints in various techniques Learn More
YAEL BARTANA Saturday 26 May 2012 Friday 31 August 2012 HELENA RUBINSTEIN PAVILION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART Learn More
SUPERPARTNERS: Friday 09 September 2011 Sunday 22 January 2012 Joint exhibition for painter Shai Azoulay and sculptor Reuven Israel. Learn More
ROUNDABOUT: FACE TO FACE Saturday 22 October 2011 Sunday 29 April 2012 The exhibition presents works mainly of artists from the Far East, Australia and New Zealand Learn More
GASTON ZVI ICKOWICZ: B.C. Saturday 12 November 2011 Sunday 29 April 2012 The photographs of Gaston Zvi Ickowicz. Learn More
THE CONSTANTINER PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD FOR AN ISRAELI ARTIST Saturday 12 November 2011 Saturday 28 January 2012 Ilit Azoulay; Liat Elbling Learn More
FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY Friday 04 November 2011 Sunday 09 October 2011 An interactive exhibition dealing with overt and covert links between portraits from the Museum's collection of Israeli art Learn More
PICASSO: BULLFIGHTING Friday 18 November 2011 Saturday 28 January 2012 The exhibition comprises one hundred works by Pablo Picasso Learn More
CHANAN DE LANGE: EX LIBRIS Wednesday 02 November 2011 Saturday 05 May 2012 Two circular structures, two centers with one circulation—these are the structures of the library holding 20,000 books. Learn More
YAACOV KAUFMAN: RUNNING IN CIRCLES Wednesday 02 November 2011 Saturday 05 May 2012 The exhibition examines circles, rings and circumferences. Learn More
UTOPIAS ON PAPER I Wednesday 02 November 2011 Friday 02 March 2012 This two-part exhibition presents a selection of works on paper by German Expressionists. Learn More
ANSELM KIEFER: SHEVIRAT HA-KELIM [Breaking of the Vessels] Wednesday 02 November 2011 Sunday 15 April 2012 The exhibition, prepared especially for the opening of the Herta and Paul Amir Building Learn More
FIVE MOMENTS: TRAJECTORIES IN THE Wednesday 02 November 2011 Saturday 17 November 2012 The architecture of the Museum's buildings throughout the years Learn More
MAKING ROOM: CONTEMPORARY ISRAELI PHOTOGRAPHY Wednesday 02 November 2011 Saturday 27 October 2012 New acquisitions reflecting a trend in contemporary photography dealing with places. Learn More
WALID ABU SHAKRA: MINTARAT ALBATTEN Friday 06 January 2012 Sunday 15 April 2012 A comprehensive selection of prints by Walid Abu Shakra Learn More
CABINET SECRETS: PRINTS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS Monday 20 February 2012 Twelve etchings by artist Tamara Rickman and twelve poems by Greek poet Katerina Anghelaki- Rooke. Learn More
I AM A BERLINER Saturday 21 January 2012 Saturday 24 March 2012 HELENA RUBINSTEIN PAVILION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART NEW EXHIBITION Learn More
YOAV EFRATI: DRAWINGS Saturday 09 July 2011 Saturday 05 November 2011 Drawing has been dominant in Yoav Efrati's work since the early 1990s, and since 1997 he defines himself as a draftsman. Learn More
TALI AMITAI-TABIB: WALLS AND SPIRIT Saturday 09 July 2011 Friday 07 October 2011 In "Walls and Spirit" Tali Amitai-Tabib continues her long-running dialogue with various forms of artistic expression in public spaces vacated of people... Learn More
YAKOV AGOR: PHOTOGRAPHER Friday 15 July 2011 Saturday 22 October 2011 Photographer Yakov Agor (1911–1996) worked for the weekly HaOlam HaZe magazine between 1960 and 1962 and for the Haaretz Weekend Supplement from 1963 to the 1980s. Learn More
CABINET SECRETS: PRINTS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS JAMES ABBOTT MCNEILL WHISTLER: PRINTS Monday 01 August 2011 Saturday 12 November 2011 The exhibition presents a selection of prints by painter and print master James Abbott McNeill Whistler Learn More |
HELENA RUBINSTEIN PAVILION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART NEW EXHIBITION INSIDE JOB: STREET ART IN TEL AVIV Friday 26 August 2011 Saturday 31 December 2011 The exhibition presents the major street artists active in Tel Aviv Learn More
ERAN RESHEF: PAINTINGS, 2000–2010 THE HAIM SHIFF PRIZE FOR FIGURATIVE-REALISTIC PAINTINGS, 2010 Monday 27 June 2011 Saturday 03 September 2011 Eran Reshef presents paintings that expose his interest in representational components and express the renewed appreciation of pictorial truth. Learn More
AVI GANOR: RealityTrauma Saturday 19 March 2011 Saturday 10 December 2011 The exhibition presents some 30 works from the series "RealityTrauma" (2003–2010) Learn More
SPECIAL EXHIBIT Wednesday 18 May 2011 Sixty new books—fiction and nonfiction, educational and children’s books, art books and paperbacks—all fine example of design, typography, composition and material. Learn More
CABINET SECRETS: PRINTS FROM THE DEPARTMENT PIERRE ALECHINSKY: THE TEST OF THE TITLE Monday 02 May 2011 Saturday 30 July 2011 Pierre Alechinsky (b. 1927, Brussels) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work has ranged through painting, drawing, printing, writing and filmmaking. Learn More
THE 2010 RAPPAPORT PRIZE FOR Tuesday 22 March 2011 Saturday 09 July 2011 The exhibition presents new works, all from the past year. Learn More
THE 2010 RAPPAPORT PRIZE FOR Tuesday 22 March 2011 Sunday 26 June 2011 The paintings featured in this exhibition by Oren Eliav, recipient of the 2010 Rappaport Prize for a Young Painter. Learn More
NATHAN GOTTESDIENER FOUNDATION Saturday 05 March 2011 Saturday 04 June 2011 Dor Guez: The Nation's Groves | Jan Tichy: Installation no. 13 | Shahar Yahalom: The Raspberry Land Learn More
NEW EXHIBITION Friday 15 April 2011 Saturday 16 July 2011 HELENA RUBINSTEIN PAVILION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART Learn More
MOSHE GERSHUNI
Wednesday 10 November 2010 Saturday 26 February 2011 The exhibition follows Gershuni from the political conceptual art of the 1970s, through the turning point, his rebirth as a painter in the 1980s, to this day. Learn More
NEO-EXPRESSIONIST PAINTING FROM BERLIN Wednesday 10 November 2010 Sunday 27 March 2011 The exhibition is held in honor of the generous gift of Susan and Martin Sanders, New York, to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Learn More
SAM HAVADTOY: BEAUTY IS MYSTERY
Saturday 06 November 2010 Sunday 20 February 2011 The exhibition presents portraits the artist made inspired by paintings by Alexej von Jawlensky in the collection of the museum. Learn More
CABINET SECRETS: PRINTS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS | JIM DINE, 18 OUT OF 55
Monday 01 November 2010 Saturday 29 January 2011 Learn More 
DOV KARMI, ARCHITECT-ENGINEER: PUBLIC DOMESTICA Wednesday 03 November 2010 Wednesday 02 February 2011 HELENA RUBINSTEIN PAVILION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART Learn More
YOSSI BREGER Thursday 24 February 2011 Saturday 11 June 2011 The exhibition presents 159 photos, all new, in various formats, taken since 2007 in various places around the world. Learn More
The Helene and Zygfryd Wolloch Collection of Modern Sculpture Friday 07 January 2011 Saturday 05 March 2011 The Collection encompasses over a century of sculpture, from Auguste Rodin of the late 19th century through Arnaldo Pomodoro of the 1980s. Learn More
CABINET SECRETS: PRINTS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS SPECIAL EXHIBITION Homage to Yosl Bergner: Tuesday 01 February 2011 Saturday 30 April 2011 The exhibition marks the 90th birthday of Yosl Bergner, master of realism and fantasy, and illustrates a unique facet in his rich, diverse painterly world. Learn More
AVIVIT BALLAS BARANES: TRANSITORY TERRAIN
Saturday 09 October 2010 Saturday 25 December 2010 Avivit Ballas Baranes' paintings spread out like a map with landmarks, entry and exit points, expressed in clues, puns, images and materiality. Learn More
MORE THAN CANVAS
Wednesday 27 October 2010 Sunday 02 October 2011 FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY On paper, canvas, wood, glass or even a computer screen: what one paints on is just as important as what and how one paints. Learn More
MEETING POINTS: RONIT AGASSI, GARY GOLDSTEIN
Wednesday 07 July 2010 Saturday 16 October 2010 The exhibition links together in one space the works on paper of Ronit Agassi and Gary Goldstein. Learn More
CATHEDRALS FOR THE MASSES | LENA LIV: MOSCOW METRO
Friday 09 July 2010 Saturday 09 October 2010 Lena Liv returned to her homeland after years in Israel and Italy, and followed, in the series of photographs exhibited here, one of its heroic tales: Moscow's metro stations. Learn More
YADID RUBIN: PLOWED COLOR
Friday 16 July 2010 Saturday 29 January 2011 Yadid Rubin's paintings offer a new syntax of landscape, which does not correspond with the concepts of subjectivity, intimacy and authenticity through which Israeli art has woven its identity. Learn More
LARRY ABRAMSON: PAINTINGS 1975–2010
Friday 23 July 2010 Saturday 09 October 2010 A comprehensive exhibition of paintings by leading Israeli artist Larry Abramson (b. 1954). Learn More
DAVID LACHAPELLE: POSTMODERN POP PHOTOGRAPHY
Friday 23 July 2010 Saturday 20 November 2010 A selection from the works of provocative photographer David LaChapelle is exhibited in Israel for the first time. Learn More
HOMAGE TO AVIGDOR ARIKHA: SELF-PORTRAITS | ILLUSTRATIONS TO "A STRAY DOG" BY S.Y. AGNON
Saturday 04 September 2010 Sunday 30 January 2011 Learn More 
THE ANDREA M. BRONFMAN PRIZE FOR THE ARTS, 2009 | TZURI GUETA
Friday 14 May 2010 Saturday 14 August 2010 The combination of sophisticated polymeric knowledge, textile traditions and the human element is the subject of the exhibition by textile designer Tzuri Gueta. Learn More
SCULPTURES ON WHEELS
Friday 04 June 2010 Saturday 28 August 2010 The exhibition includes sixteen cars designed by European and American designers, among them the BMW 320i painted by Roy Lichtenstein in 1977. Learn More
MAÏA ZER: PAINTINGS | THE HAIM SHIFF PRIZE FOR FIGURATIVE-REALISTIC PAINTING, 2009
Friday 25 June 2010 Saturday 02 October 2010 Maïa Zer’s paintings are based on observing nature and the temporal, the evasive and the ephemeral. Learn More
THE 2009 RAPPAPORT PRIZE FOR AN ESTABLISHED ISRAELI PAINTER | Tal Mazliach: The Concept Has Gone for a Walk
Friday 19 March 2010 Saturday 26 June 2010 Tal Mazliach’s paintings are constructed like a riddle which the viewer must decipher. Learn More
THE 2009 RAPPAPORT PRIZE FOR A YOUNG ISRAELI PAINTER | MELANIE DANIEL: EVERGREEN
Friday 19 March 2010 Saturday 12 June 2010 “Evergreen”, Melanie Daniel’s (b. 1972) new series of paintings. Learn More
ROBERT BASER (1908–1998) PAINTING AND SCULPTURE: A RETROSPECTIVE
Saturday 20 March 2010 Saturday 19 June 2010 The exhibition includes paintings and sculptures created over seventy years of work. Learn More
TAMAR GETTER: GO 2
Wednesday 24 March 2010 Saturday 03 July 2010 Tamar Getter’s comprehensive exhibition, “GO 2”, emphasizes her work’s combined, multi-voiced, exaggerated and grotesque utterance. Learn More
THE SCULPTURE OF EDGAR DEGAS
Friday 26 March 2010 Saturday 26 June 2010 The exhibition presents, for the first time in Israel, Edgar Degas’ (1834–1917) 74 sculptures in bronze. Learn More
NATHAN GOTTESDIENER FOUNDATION, THE ISRAELI ART PRIZE 2009 | SHORTLISTED ARTISTS
Saturday 13 March 2010 Saturday 14 August 2010 Prize Recipient: Nira Pereg Learn More
LIVING ROOM | סלון
Saturday 27 March 2010 Tuesday 07 September 2010 HELENA RUBINSTEIN PAVILION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART - NEW EXHIBITION Learn More
ZADOK BEN-DAVID: HUMAN NATURE
Friday 04 December 2009 Saturday 27 February 2010 The exhibition, extending over two halls, presents single sculptures and a sculpture installation – a selection of recent works by sculptor Zadok Ben-David. Learn More
ARAM GERSHUNI: PAINTINGS 2004-2009
Thursday 29 October 2009 Saturday 23 January 2010 Loyalty to the visual experience and the impulse to prevent it from slipping away are the moving force of Aram Gershuni’s artistic work. Learn More
JORAM ROZOV: LANDSCAPES AND MILESTONES
Friday 18 December 2009 Saturday 20 February 2010 The exhibition presents works from two series-in-progess: “Landscapes”, begun in 1983, and “Milestones”, begun in 2003. Learn More
MATTERS OF THE HEART: FROM THE AZRIELI COLLECTION
Wednesday 20 March 2013 The collection includes figurative works by 20th century Israeli artists as well as works by late 19th century Jewish artists. Israeli modernism, local landscapes and synagogues. Learn More
FRAGMENTED MIRROR, EXHIBITION OF JEWISH ARTISTS, BERLIN, 1907
Tuesday 16 June 2009 Saturday 10 October 2009 In 1907, an Exhibition of Jewish Artists opened in Berlin. Reflecting the Berlin Jewish community which sponsored it, it was replete with contradictions and paradoxes. Learn More
TSIBI GEVA: MOUND OF THINGS
Friday 14 November 2008 Sunday 15 February 2009 The exhibition presents paintings from different series created from the late 1980s to the present including those titled keffiyeh, terrazzo, windows, thorns, flowers, and birds. Learn More
THE 1970S IN ISRAELI ART: MY OWN BODY
Monday 21 July 2008 Saturday 03 January 2009 The exhibition consists of two main parts: self-portraits in which artists related primarily to the face as a means of transmitting a messsage; and the artist's body. Learn More
AYALA SERFATY: SOMA
Friday 14 November 2008 Saturday 14 February 2009 Ayala Serfaty created an atmospheric, brittle and fragile light installation - a tissue of light at once material and immaterial - entitled "Soma" (body in Greek). Learn More
MOODS AND MODES IN ISRAELI PHOTOGRAPHY: WORKS FROM THE COLLECTION, GIFT OF LEON AND MICHAELA CONSTANTINER
Friday 29 June 2007 Saturday 20 October 2007 The exhibition presents about thirty Israeli artists and over one hundred photographs from the Museum collection, gift of Leon and Michaela Constantiner. Learn More |