The Jerusalem Biennale will showcase the work of nearly 200 Israeli and international artists in 10 exhibitions in seven city-center venues, expanding the concept of Jewish Art to mediums of photography, video art, installation and performance.
he 2nd Jerusalem Biennale for Contemporary Jewish Art (September 24 – November 5) will showcase the work of nearly 200 Israeli and international professional artists in 10 exhibitions hosted in seven city-center venues. The Tower of David Museum will host the main Biennale2105 exhibition, Jerusalem.Passages, showcasing five large scale projects by five leading Israeli and international artists.
Following the success of the inaugural Jerusalem Biennale in 2013, Biennale2015 will continue to explore the places where contemporary art meets the Jewish world of content. Curators and artists with different approaches, who span the continuum of Jewish identity from secular to ultra-Orthodox and include non-Jewish artists, all come together within the Biennale framework to give their own interpretation of contemporary Jewish art. The Biennale explores the possibility of expanding the concept of Jewish Art beyond the field of Judaica to mediums such as photography, video art, installation and performance.
Six exhibitions are from Jerusalem-based groups and/or curators, including well-known Israeli artists such as, among others, Sigalit Landau, Motti Mizrahi, Dov Abramson, Maya Zack and Ynin Shillo exhibiting alongside Israeli-Anglo artists such as Andi Arnovitz, Ken Goldman and Ruth Schreiber. There is also a special tribute exhibition by Bezalel artists in memory of the late Zelig Segal. Biennale2015 will host the inaugural exhibition of a nine-year project, Women of the Book and the inaugural installation and performance Present=Presence by American-Israeli artist Alana Ruben-Free in collaboration with Israeli artist David Gerstein.
Four exhibitions showcase the work of Jewish and non-Jewish artists from New York (Jewish Art Salon members such as Siona Benjamin and Tobi Kahn), Los Angeles (the Jewish Artists Initiative of Southern California), Buenos Aires (22 Jewish and non-Jewish artists) and Barcelona (five Catalan artists from the Mozaika group).