Yearly Archives: 2026
What Remains When Beauty Fades. A Conversation with Edit Ben Gida
What happens when beauty becomes both a promise and a trap?In her solo exhibition Beauty is Deceptive at Corridor Gallery, artist Edit Ben Gida turns to feminine archetypes shaped by mythology, art history, cultural memory, and imagination. Her figures are not portraits, but images of women as culture has created them: adorned, idealized, feared, desired, and preserved.Through gold, flowers, insec...
Keeping Your Voice, Finding Your Place. DOR by ANU.
Moving to a new country means much more than learning a new language. For artists and creative professionals, it also means finding a new audience, understanding a different cultural context, and rebuilding a professional network from the ground up.We spoke with Dasha Ilyashenko and Anna Guterman, program coordinators of DOR, a professional accelerator developed by ANU – Museum of the Jewish Peopl...
Life Is Short Even When It Is Long: A Space to Pause
In a noisy and fast-paced world, where pressure and overload have become inseparable parts of everyday life, the longing for spaces of stillness, slowness, and reflection grows ever stronger. The way we look at our home and our surroundings has shifted, and we find ourselves searching for anchors of stability, comfort, and belonging.Life Is Short Even When It Is Long is a group exhibition presente...
Karina Lumiere. Interview with the Artist
Karina Lumiere is an intuitive abstract artist based in Tel Aviv, whose paintings are filled with color, energy and inner light. She touched a canvas for the first time at the age of forty and what began as a personal need for calm and self-expression became the beginning of a powerful artistic journey.In this interview, Karina speaks about finding her own voice through abstraction, entering the a...
Threads of Memory, Threads of Hope. A Conversation with Curator Yaara Keydar
A bra sewn from a coat lining inside a concentration camp. A wedding dress made from a military parachute. A thimble carried through unimaginable loss. The exhibition at Design Museum Holon tells the story of fashion not as luxury or aesthetics, but as a tool of survival, dignity, identity, and hope.We spoke with curator and a fashion historian Dr. Yaara Keydar about the exhibition's creation, the...
Salone del Mobile Milano 2026: A Space That Changes the Way We Feel
Recently, Milan hosted the annual Salone del Mobile — one of the key events in the world of design, which traditionally sets the direction for the industry for the year ahead. As always, the scale of the exhibition is truly overwhelming: dozens of pavilions, hundreds of brands, thousands of exhibits, and an endless variety of interpretations of what contemporary interiors can be.In this article, w...
Venice Biennale 2026: In Search of Authenticity
On May 9, the 61st Venice Biennale opened to the public — one of the most important global events in art and architecture, bringing together 99 participating countries and more than 110 artists across the main exhibition and national pavilions. This year, Israel is once again among the participants, continuing its presence within the international cultural dialogue.We spoke with independent art cu...
The Beauty of a Second Chance: Conversation with Esty Ahimeir
In a culture driven by the new, the polished, and the immediate, choosing something with a past can feel almost radical. Yet this is precisely where the quiet power of design begins: in objects that carry memory, texture, and time.DI Catalogue met with Esty Ahimeir, co-founder of Just a Second, a Tel Aviv-based NGO, working at the intersection of urban renewal, circular economy, and contemporary d...
The Impossibility of the Panorama: Image, Memory, and the Atlas in Space
As the exhibition “Panorama: The Sphere of the Atlas” is currently on view at the Bat Yam Museum of Art, we spoke with its curator, Orit Bulgaru (Ph.D), an independent curator and researcher of visual culture, about the ideas behind the project. In the interview, we touch on how images travel across time and cultures, how theory becomes a physical exhibition, and how contemporary artists engage wi...
