6 Exhibitions To Visit In October-November
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 October-November!
1. Loving Art, Making Art Festival
Jaffa Port, Tel Aviv
The annual “Loving Art, Making Art” festival brings together art, environment, and the community. Held each year in different locations across the Tel Aviv city and supported by the Tel Aviv Municipality, the festival wishes to maintain the city’s unique enabling character towards local artists and their workspaces, while also facilitating a dialogue between the art world and the general public.
This event aims to kick off the fall art exhibition season, and sees many of the city’s galleries, museums, artist studios and general exhibition spaces open their doors to the public for free. In addition, art comes to the city streets with site specific art installations, murals, workshops and many more.
This year’s main exhibition, “A Docking Point,” will be held at Jaffa Port and in its surroundings, featuring over 20 works of art, displayed around the dock among fishing boats and nets, reflecting on such themes as connections between the lives of sailors and our lives, which navigate spaces of uncertainty.
In parallel, one-off and unique projects will take place in Jaffa in particular, and throughout the city in general. Alongside many special weekend events and activities (guided tours, performances, workshops, concerts, etc.), 160 artists across Tel Aviv will open their studios for the general public, 20 art galleries and 5 museums will offer free admission.
For one weekend only! 23.10 – 25.10 Thursday 19:00–23:00; Friday & Saturday 10:00–21:00
2. Sasha Okun: Corpus
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
New solo show of the renowned Israeli painter Sasha Okun presents a selection of works from recent years centered on the human condition, bodily desires, aging and decline.
Sasha Okun was born in 1949 in Leningrad, USSR. He studied at the Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design and was a member of the “Alef” group, part of the Soviet nonconformist underground art movement in Leningrad. In 1979, he immigrated to Israel, and for over 40 years, he has taught drawing at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem as a senior lecturer.
Okun’s artistic practice is anchored in the tradition of classical European painting—from the Italian Renaissance, through Baroque and Rococo, to Realism and early modernism. His enduring dialogue with the past opens a window to the present, intertwining mythical moments with the bureaucratic monotony of everyday life.
TILL 27.12.25
ADDRESS: Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Sderot Sha’ul HaMelech St. 27, Tel Aviv-Yafo
https://www.tamuseum.org.il/en/exhibition/sasha-okun-corpus/
3. Their Own: Fragments of Reclaimed History
Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art
The new exhibition cluster consists of five exhibitions, presenting a feminine handiwork and emotion. It includes 2 solo shows, 1 group show, Ita Gertner’s retrospective exhibition and a showcase of works from the Zila Yaron Art Collection.
In here solo show “Field Work” Israeli artist Meital Katz-Minerbo presents a multi-layered installation, entirely handwoven using a traditional rattan braiding technique. This work is inspired by the story of the Maidens’ Farm (Havat Ha’alamot) founded at Kinneret—a groundbreaking initiative by pioneering women of the Second Aliyah, who sought to integrate into agricultural labor and transcend the boundaries of traditional domestic roles. In her series of large-scale paintings inspired by early 20th-century garden plans, Katz-Minerbo also appropriates the historically male practice of botanical drawing to conjure up an imaginary feminine plant lexicon, challenging culture and gender boundaries.
In the exhibition “Olympic Village” Ruthi Helbitz Cohen interlaces historical events with a personal narrative tinged with fantasy, staging an encounter between two seemingly parallel axes. The exhibition centers on a series of monumental collages painted over vintage advertising banners documenting Olympic Village in Germany prior to World War II. Helbitz Cohen spins a new story—a narrative born of engagement with intergenerational trauma, unfolding into a succession of experiences shaped through a range of artistic languages.
The group show “Displaced” brings together three artists who never met: Alexandra Pregel (1907–1984), a painter raised and educated in Russia, who spent her life moving between countries before ultimately settling in the United States; Anne Ben-Or (b. 1965), a painter born in Belgium, who immigrated to Israel as an adult; and Alina Orlov (b. 1990), a video artist born in Moscow, who grew up in Israel, studied in the United States, and now lives and works in Montreal, Canada. A common thread weaves their works into a shared tapestry of allegorical representations, directly and indirectly touching on the ruptures and rifts underlying immigration—an experience of leaving one place and transitioning to another.
The exhibition “In Her Image: Works from the Zila Yaron Collection” offers a closer look at a remarkable private collection of Israeli art. Zila Yaron was a passionate lover of Israeli art, who filled every corner of her house with artworks and supported many young local talents, often serving as their gateway into the art world. One of the collection’s defining features is the integration of both established figures in the Israeli art scene and emerging voices, alongside artists working outside the mainstream. It moves freely between “high” art and design, craft, and ceramics, placing them side by side without hierarchy, in a visual and conceptual dialogue.
A retrospective exhibition of the late artist Ita Gertner unfolds a tapestry of works from across her life – from large-scale paintings to miniature works on canvas and paper. The multitude of female figures, both real and imagined, invites reflection on the human spirit and the delicate boundary between body and soul.
ADDRESS: Abba Hillel Silver Rd 146, Ramat Gan
4. Evgeny and Yakov Henkin: Images of Memory
Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
The first exhibition in Israel of brothers Evgeny and Yakov Henkin – Jewish photographers who worked in parallel in Berlin and Soviet Leningrad during the 1920s and 1930s.
Evgeny (1900–1938) and Yakov (1903–1941) Henkin used the recently developed small portable Leica cameras which allowed them to capture scenes from everyday life: a couple kissing by a canal, children playing in a boat made from sand, athletic or holiday parades, family meals, and countryside vacations.
In 1925, Evgeny left Russia for Berlin, where he nurtured his passion for the performing arts, particularly music, and even ventured into experimental art. His brother, Yakov, was active in Leningrad at a time when Socialist Realism dominated. Yakov’s intimate, personal images offered an alternative to the state-controlled public discourse, presenting an authentic, human view of life under the regime.
The striking black-and-white photographs of Henkin brothers were previously shown only at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia and at the Street Photo Milano Photogtaphy festival in Milan, Italy.
TILL: 07.02.2026
ADDRESS: Chaim Levanon St. 2, Tel Aviv-Yafo
https://www.eretzmuseum.org.il/en/exhibitions/evgeny-and-yakov-henkin/
5. Recent Works: Ofer Lellouche
Gordon Gallery Tel Aviv
Gordon Gallery presents a solo exhibition of recent works by acclaimed Israeli artist Ofer Lellouche.
Ofer Lellouche (born 1947, Tunisia) is a contemporary painter, sculptor, printmaker, and video artist who lives and works in Tel Aviv and Paris. For many years, the painted self-portrait was Lellouche’s central artistic pursuit. He later expanded his practice to include landscapes, still lifes, sculpture and the nude. His works have been exhibited in leading museums worldwide, including the Gulbenkian Museum of Modern Art in Lisbon, the CAFA Museum in Beijing, the Himalayas Museum in Shanghai, and in a major retrospective at the Albertina Museum in Vienna in 2023.
TILL 15.11.25
ADDRESS: Hazerem st. 5, Tel Aviv-Yafo
5. Hanoch Piven: reFORM
Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (The South Gallery)
This colorful, family-friendly exhibition explores the playful and distinctive style of Israeli mixed-media artist Hanoch Piven.
For over three decades, Hanoch Piven has been crafting iconic assemblage portraits from everyday objects, which encapsulate the story behind the represented figure and offer a multi-layered artistic, design, and psychological reading. The unique stylistic language, which has become synonymous with him, combines vibrant color and profound symbolism, blending whimsy and wry humor with a sharp critical eye and an open invitation to dialogue with the viewer.
Piven’s solo exhibition at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art invites viewers to an experience of observation, experimentation, playfulness, and self-exploration based on methods for cultivating creativity and freeing the imagination, developed by Piven in his workshops, combined with art therapy approaches.
Visiting the exhibition requires advance registration via the website.
ADDRESS: Sarah Malkin St. 13, Herzliya
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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