From September 11-15,
ART WORKS 2014 in Munich is displaying 1,000 works by 285 artists from Israel - more than half of them women - in
one of the biggest exhibitions of Israeli art, combined with Israeli cuisine, live music and discussions. Visitors are invited to enter into an open dialogue with Israel through these works.
Hardly any other country in the world has been so
marked in the last 50 years by the contrasts of different nationalities,
religions, ideologies and identities as Israel. That's why you meet
such a creative variety of artists in this small country. According to
curator Lee-More Kohen, ART WORKS is a statement of cultural change and a
new, hopeful generation between Orient and Occident. Many Israeli artists enter the international art scene through individual gallery exhibits. The Israeli booths in the art fairs around the world, such as the Venice Biennale, also draw much attention. Munich was selected as the first city of this worldwide tour of Young Israeli Art introducing the richness of the young Israeli art world to the international community. Through the universal language of art, the exhibition represents a different face of Israel to what people are used to seeing in the media.
The artists work in all mediums - figurative and abstract, painting, sculpture, and photography. The exhibition in Munich is being held under the auspices of the Bavarian State Minister of Education and Culture, Science and the Arts, Dr. Ludwig Spaenle, the City of Munich, represented by Mr Dieter Reiter, and the Consul General of the State of Israel, Dr. Dan Shaham.
Choosing randomly, among the artists whose work is displayed in the ART WORKS exhibition is
Ziv Koren, a professional photojournalist for 20 years, whose award-winning photographs have been widely published in the international media, including Time Magazine, Newsweek, The Sunday Times Magazine, Stern, Der Spiegel, Paris Match, Le Figaro, Corriere Della Sera Magazine and Wired Magazine. One of his impressive photographs shows a dolphin leaping out of the water in front of a German U-boat fittingly named Dolphin.
Copyright: Ziv Koren
Ilan Adar is a versatile figurative artist, distinguished by innovative and remarkable technology. His exhibited paintings are inspired by his time in Spain, here depicting a bull fight.
Copyright: Ilan Adar
Born in Tel-Aviv and raised in Jaffa, Israel,
Orit Ovadia Govezensky is a graduate of the Beit Berl School of Art. Using various techniques such as acrylic, aquarelle, gouache, oil pastel and collage, she creates encounters between the cultures which surround the Middle East and the world, folk tales, children’s drawings and figures taken from the artist’s family album.
Copyright: Orit Ovadia Govezensky
Born 1992, living and working in Tel Aviv,
Anabelle Tsitsin says: "Painting is an integral part of my life. My large scale paintings contain human characters in different life situations. The human body, its divine beauty on one hand and its decadence on the other, fascinates me." She touches "the fragile issues of human life such as illnesses, self-destruction, addictions, and sexual identity."
Copyright: Anabelle Tsitsin
Ora Nissim was born in 1978, one of 12 siblings into an Orthodox family in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem. From her early childhood it was clear that Ora was born with a special talent for everything related to art, with an original and unique outlook on the world. Ora’s paintings are powerful, colorful and full of life, drawing on Jewish motifs.
Copyright: Ora Nissim