5 Exhibitions To Visit In July
Alexandra Levin, art historian, art guide and DI art expert prepared her list of local exhibitions and cultural events that she highly recommends to visit in July!
1. 20&20: A Lens of Her Own
ANU Museum of the Jewish People, Tel Aviv
The ehxibition features the works of 20 distinguished pioneering women photographers and 20 famous contemporary Jewish women photographers.
In photography’s formative years, women who had been sidelined from other established art forms emerged as trailblazers in the field. They made a living through photography, traveled the globe with their cameras, presented their work in international exhibitions, and essentially represented an early version of “the new woman.” Yet, the golden age of women in photography was short-lived. Following World War II, this field, too, became male-dominated, leading to the obscurity of many pioneering women’s names. 20&20 – A Lens of Her Own revisits that era and those women to rectify a historical injustice, finally acknowledging their significant contributions to the history of photography.
In addition to experiencing remarkable artworks, the curators created a dialogue between twenty groundbreaking Jewish women photographers from the interwar period (Aenne Biermann, Claude Cahun, Dorothy Bohm, Trude Fleischmann, Gerti Deutsch and others) and twenty contemporary Jewish women photographers, including Israelis, who are currently active worldwide (such as Elinor Carucci, Michal Chelbin, Deborah Feingold, Jill Greenberg, Vardi Kahana and others). This artistic discourse deepens our understanding of both contemporary work and its roots in the past century.
ANU Museum is located on the campus of Tel Aviv University, Klausner Street, in Ramat Aviv. Entrance through Gates 2 and 7. Show your I.D., passport or driving license at the campus gate.
ADDRESS: Klausner St. 15, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2. New Exhibition Season
MUSEUM ON THE SEAM, Jerusalem
A series of 3 new exhibitions at the Socio-Political Contemporary Art Museum in Jerusalem features the works of artists from Israel and abroad.
Einat Leader’s solo show “House of Measures” presents a miniature collection of jewelry, keepsakes, and architectural fragments that engage with the politics of memory and historical and contemporary themes of loss, repression, and blindness, through the intimate material language and the quiet resistance of handcrafted work.
David Goss’s painterly-sculptural installation”Geula” is inspired by the museum’s geographic and symbolic location, activates the exhibition space as a layered associative field where references to religion, politics, and artistic legacies converge and clash, critically examining the tensions between utopian visions and dystopian reality in a site burdened with historical and ideological weight.
The poetic work “Exchanging Lemons in Lefkosia and Lefkoşa” of the Europian artist Ovidiu Anton (born in Romania, lives and works in Vienna, Austria) employs the simple act of exchanging lemons across Nicosia’s longstanding dividing line to reflect on the absurdity of political separation, the weight of identity, and everyday life shaped by imposed borders.
THE EXHIBITION IS OPEN TILL 31.12.2025
ADDRESS: Heil Handassa St. 4, Jerusalem
3. Mai Daas: Revelation
Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv
First solo exhibition of the Palestinian artist Mai Daas. Her emotional realistic oil paintings explore themes of female body, domestic space, womanhood and memory. Daas creates scenes in which women gather in circles: kneeling, sitting, lying down, gazing at one another or closing their eyes together. These are gestures of closeness, of sisterhood, of a quiet yet persistent feminine movement. The circles she paints express community and solidarity within a social reality that dictates repression, modesty, and control.
The domestic space, which recurs in Daas’ work as a constant reference, becomes a site of ritual and resistance. It serves as a symbolic realm where a feminine identity is formed, one that does not conform to societal norms, but seeks to reemerge from the body, memory, and voice.
THE EXHIBITION IS OPEN TILL September 2025
ADDRESS: Eilat St. 33, Tel Aviv-Yafo
4. Things That Never Happened: The Return of Surrealism
Givon Art Forum, Tel Aviv
The final exhibition of the graduates of the Yona Fisher Program for Contemporary Curation and Museology of the Institute for Israeli Art presents a poignant interpretation of Israeli reality on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Surrealist movement.
The Institute for Israeli Art was founded in 2013 in the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yafo as a leading center for the study of Israeli art history and curating. It’s the only local institution focusing mainly on Israeli art, and its faculty includes Israel’s leading curators and art scholars.
The exhibition “Things That Never Happened: The Return of Surrealism”, curated and produced by the Institute’s graduates, offers local perspectives on surrealism and its relevance to contemporary Israeli reality, and addresses the question of how surrealist ideas, which emerged as a response to the tormenting contradictions of the period between the two world wars, resonate in today’s Israeli reality.
THE EXHIBITION IS OPEN TILL 25.07.25
ADDRESS: Elro’i St. 3, Tel Aviv-Yafo
www.israeliart.co.il/event/בארץ-להדם-סוריאליזם-עכשווי-i-פתיחת-תער
5. Studio KNOB – Adi Azar & Yotam Shifroni "Movables"
B.Y5 Gallery, Tel Aviv
Studio KNOB was created by the designers Adi Azar (Shenkar School of design and engineering graduate) and Yotam Shifroni (Holon Institute of Technology graduate). Since 2015 they have been creating out-of-the-box furniture, lighting and artifacts for interior design.
Current exhibition explores questions of belonging and migration, and investigates how movement, both physical and emotional, interweaves local identity, past, and future. Studio KNOB seeks to think of memory not only as something that looks to the past, but as an act that unfolds in the present. They believe that there are objects that carry us with them, even when it seems we are the ones carrying them. Those transportable items or Movables, that can be taken from place to place, become bridges: between times, between worlds, between people.
The works in the exhibition were created in collaboration with artist and illustrator Or Yogev and with animator and editor Stav Havivi, who created the animated video work presented in the show.
THE EXHIBITION IS OPEN TILL 26.07.25
ADDRESS: Bar Yochai St. 5, Tel Aviv-Yafo
I’m Alexandra Levin – an art historian, art tours guide and Israeli art lover. I have a Master Degree of Arts in Art History (Tel Aviv University), and for many years conduct art tours in Israeli museums, art galleries, artists’ studios and private collections, give lectures and promote Israeli art to a Russian-speaking audience.
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Stay tuned for the next recommendations of the local exhibitions and arts events!