Exhibitions To Visit In August
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 August!
1. Graduate Exhibitions of the leading Israeli Art and Design Colleges
Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design, Shenkar College of Engineering, Design & Art, HIT School of Design, Minshar School of Art
In August graduates of the leading Israeli art and design colleges present their work throughout the campuses. Come visit the graduate exhibitions and discover the next generation of fine art and design innovators, from fashion, ceramics and textile to industrial design, film and visual communication.
Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design (Jerusalem)
Around five hundred graduates of the undergraduate programs and, for the first time, the Masters’ degree programs, are presenting their work throughout the Bezalel Academy campus, which, for a period of two weeks, has transformed from a space of academic learning into a colossal museum. The largest and most comprehensive graduate exhibition in Israel features a wide range of final projects that combine innovation, research and technology alongside traditional crafts and skills.
ADDRESS: Jack, Joseph & Morton Mandel Campus, Jerusalem
TILL 14.08.25
Shenkar College of Engineering, Design & Art (Ramat Gan)
This year’s works of the Shenkar College graduates seek to reexamine reality: what is the place of creativity in an era when we all live between screens and the street, between memory and survival, between despair and hope? Shenkar graduates return to painful places, but also dare to dream forward.
ADDRESS: Ramat Gan campus, Anne Frank St. 12, Ramat Gan
Till 16.08.25
https://www.shenkar.ac.il/he/news-events/exhibitions/endofyear2025/Â
Minshar School of Art
The 2025 Minshar’s graduate exhibition features personal and moving works by students from the Art, Animation, Photography, and Visual Communication Departments.
ADDRESS: David Khakhami St. 18, Tel Aviv-Yafo
TILL 16.08.25
https://www.minshar.org.il/art-studies/תערוכות-גמר-×ž× ×©×¨-2024/
HIT School of Design (Holon)
The exhibition at the Holon Institute of Technology’s Faculty of Design features hundreeds of diverse and inspiring design and technological products – from typographic images, interfaces, animations, products and installations to AR and VR experiences, space planning, futuristic design and projects with social, environmental and cultural impact.
ADDRESS: Holon Institute of Technology, Faculty of Design, Eli’ezer Hoffien St. 59, Holon
TILL 20.08.25
https://www.hit.ac.il/events/250630850/
2. Reuven Rubin: Be my Guest
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo
During the 12-day war between Israel and Iran, ballistic missiles struck across the country, wreaking havoc. The Rubin Museum, former home of Reuven Rubin, was damaged by the shockwave of a missile explosion on a nearby street, and Rubin’s paintings were evacuated to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art for safekeeping. Their hurried arrival at TAMA introduced a rare institutional moment: a selection of Rubin’s works from the Museum’s collection was reunited with those usually housed in the city’s historic center, resulting in a resonant encounter between a major collection of Israeli art and the singular legacy of a prominent, original painter.
THE EXHIBITION IS OPEN TILL 8.11.25
ADDRESS: Sderot Sha’ul HaMelech St. 27, Tel Aviv-Yafo
https://www.tamuseum.org.il/en/exhibition/reuven-rubin-be-my-guest/
3. Yossi Mark: Bona Nox Mater
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo
The painter Yossi Mark is the recipient of the 2024 Haim Shiff Prize for Figurative-Realistic Art. His dialogue with reality is informed by a penetrating gaze and rare intimacy. His personal exhibition showcases a comprehensive presentation of his work in its ongoing dialog with the classical art tradition and is even partly displayed in the 16th–19th century European art section of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
THE EXHIBITION IS OPEN TILL 22.12.25
ADDRESS: Sderot Sha’ul HaMelech St. 27, Tel Aviv-Yafo
https://www.tamuseum.org.il/en/exhibition/yossi-mark-bona-nox-mater/
4. New Exhibition Season
Petach-Tikva Museum of Art, Petach-Tikva
Petach-Tikva Museum of Art opens its next season with a series of 9 new exhibitions, featuring the works of the local artists in different media, including one group show “Saturn Syndrome” and 8 solo shows, exploring such themes as internal and external spaces, theatrical and cinematic language, migration, melancholy and war.
Pearl Schneider’s painting installation “Meanwhile Ages” challenges the boundaries of the medium, extending it to embrace sculptural forms, movement in space, and even video.
Ron Asulin’s “Amerika” extracts the story embedded in material and form in a calculated sculptural work, like a detective seeking to discover how things are composed. “Amerika” in the Yiddish spelling means a house that becomes a space of passages and tunnels, a labyrinth of optical illusions, a broken, deceptive domestic space, entered through a wardrobe.
In his solo show Sasha Okun establishes a personal pantheon, in which real and imaginary characters live side by side, infused with body, time, and memory.
Ella Amitai Sadovsky’s installation titled “Suddenly, just when you thought it was gone” is made using a new technique, combining sound and video-animation projection on the base of paintings.
Yael Harnik presents 8 textile objects she created indialogue with the geometric-abstract printmaking works of Michael Argov (1920-1982) held in the museum’s collection.
Nadav Weissman’s sculptural installation “A Rupture in Time” is made of structured layers that seem to live and breathe on their own, in a movement of discovery and concealment that has no beginning or end. It’s title points to the dialogue with Moshe Kupferman’s series of paintings “The Rift in Time” (1999) – one of Kupferman’s few direct references to the Holocaust theme.
Gabriella Klein’s solo show “Night Train” showcases a series of intimate paintings, depicting friends or family members.
In his spatial video installations and drawings Dan Robert Lahiani brings together mechanical and human movement, panoramic view and an archival object, the motionless and the moving, creating his own abstract language.
The group exhibition “Saturn Syndrome” features the works of such Israeli artists, as Yosl Bergner, Eitan Buganim, Chen Cohen, Cevdet Mehmet Kosemen, Lital Rubinstein, Yohanan Simon, Avi Yair and Yonatan Zofy, and explores cultural significance of the planet Saturn as a cosmic symbol of the evolving nature of melancholy.
THE EXHIBITION IS OPEN TILL 22.11.25
ADDRESS: Arlozorov St. 30, Petach-Tikva
5. Our Eternal Capital: Jerusalem in Israeli Art
The Moshe Castel Museum of Art, Maale Adumim
The exhibition presents 58 works corresponding to the number of years that the unified Jerusalem has been the capital of the State of Israel. The exhibition is divided into two parts: half of the pieces have been produced by the artists who passed away and have entered the pantheon of Israeli art (such as Ze’ev Raban, Ludwig Blum, Isaac-Alexandre Frenel, Jakob Eisenscher, David Rakia and others), while the other half consists of the works of our living contemporaries.
The second part of the exhibition showcases the creations of twenty artists who are still active, enriching the landscape of Israeli art. Their individual visions of Jerusalem differ widely; each of them focuses on different aspects of the city’s past and present, and their works reflect the traditions of different artistic schools and periods.
THE EXHIBITION IS OPEN TILL 20.08.25
ADDRESS: Kikar Hamuseon 1, Maale Adumim
https://castelmuseum.co.il/en/exhibitions/our-eternal-capital-jerusalem-in-israeli-art
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!