Israel Travel

As part of the project "Sixty Years of Art in Israel", six major Israeli museums are each presenting artwork from one of the decades of the nation’s history. The Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art will stage an exhibition which will focus on the young art of the 1990s.

Entitled: Eventualy We'll Die: Young Art in Israel of The Nineties, the exhibition presents works from the 1990s by leading Israeli artists such as Arnon Ben-David, Michael Sgan-Cohen, Nir Hod, Hila Lulu Lin, Sigalit Landau, Miriam Cabessa and Guy Bar Amotz.

 
The 1990s in Israel were characterized by a cultural boom, fueled by the euphoria over the Oslo Accords and the dream of a New Middle East, and by an opening to and cultural simultaneity with the world at large.

The 1990s were also the decade in which Israeli art most distinctively assimilated the postmodern discourse, in the form of extensive preoccupation with the politics of identity, feminism, Mizrahi identity and Orientalism.

 
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The first Israeli Biennial of Contemporary Art will open in Herzliya on Sunday, September 23, 2007. Entitled "The Rear", the week-long exhibition will feature approximately 70 Israeli artists, whose works will be presented in some 15 venues in Herzliya's new city center, at the intersection of Sokolow and Ben Gurion streets.

The Biennial, curated by Joshua Simon, will span works in diverse media and techniques: from photography, painting, and video, to urban interventions, needlework, and acts of masquerading.

The fine art event will present works by contemporary Israeli artists who respond to the space in which they operate – "The rear" (Ha'Oref in Hebrew, which also denotes "home front," "hinterland," "nape"): the home front as opposed to the front line – civilian society in Israel versus the army. "The Rear" is a general term that surfaced repeatedly during the recent war in the summer of 2006, when a million Israeli citizens in the country's north sat in bomb shelters, and a million Lebanese became refugees, fleeing from their country's ravaged South.

The Herzliya Biennial of Contemporary Art is a joint initiative of the Herzliya Municipality and the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art. As part of the Biennial events, the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art will stage an exhibition which will also open on September 23 and will be on view until December 15, 2007.

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