Jerusaelm Art Guide - July

- by Jenna Romano

Visiting in Jerusalem in July? There are some great opportunities for art lovers this month to see new and exciting exhibitions in this city, you just need to know where to look! Here are some recommendations from yours truly. 
 
I.
Title: Stream of Consciousness
Artists: Itai Anker, Yishai Faran, Arik Futterman, Ilia Gorovitz, Shaul Kohan Adi Koom,Yair Moss, Adin Peskoff & Shlomit Yaakov.
Venue: New Gallery
Dates: Open until July 29th, 2017
 
Stream of Consciousness, curated by Itai Anker and Arik Futterman brings together video and sound artists in a joint site-specific installation exhibited at the New Gallery Teddy Stadium. The installation, comprising four different episodes is played on a surround sound system and projected by means of a video mapping technique on the faces of a giant concrete cube in the New Gallery. The Jerusalem based artists were invited by the exhibition curators to work together for the first time in order to create an all embracing, powerful experience of image and sound. Duration: 40 minutes.

Photo: Yishai Faran, Simmering with the Wizard of Loneliness
 

II.
Title: Barbur B&B
Artists: Various visiting Artists
Venue: Barbur Gallery
Dates: Until July 31s, 2017
 
Barbur B&B is here! For the month of July, Barbur will be hosting it’s 3rd annual residency program Barbur B&B, where 30 artists from all over Israel will take a turn residing in the gallery itself. Each artist spend 24 hours in the gallery, where they eat, sleep and install a piece of artwork, each day adding to what will be a final gallery group show. It’s a great chance to meet with local artists! 

Photo, Barbur B&B  calendar. 
 

III. 
Title: The Black List
Artists: Andi Arnovitz
Venue: Jerusalem Artists House
Dates: On view until August 26th, 2017
 
In Jerusalem based artist Andi Arnovitz’s solo show, The Black List, the artist uses her space to highlight events which she connects to the power and finance mechanisms of both ultra orthodox institutions and secular society. These events are critiqued, and Arnovitz perceives that they that have been added to the ‘blacklist’ of injustices against weaker members of society.  Arnovitz repeatedly engages with these layers of  burning issues in both the content of her works and the repetitive structure and density of the material and images. 

Photo: Cholmondeley Ladies Redux, 2016, etching and chine colle, 67x107 cm
 

Warsaw Art Guide - July

- Zuzanna Zasacka


I.
Exhibition title: A Room and a Half
Artist/s: Laura Lima
Venue: Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art
Dates: Until October 10 2017


A Room and a Half is an invitation to enter a situation that escapes rational logic, balancing on the edge of an understatement and a joke. The first solo exhibition in Poland of Laura Lima, one of the most recognizable Brazilian artists of her generation, tells about the margins of our perception, blurring the differences between reality and illusion. In works presented in Warsaw, the artist uses architecture to modify the feeling of the space.

II.
Exhibition title: HESTIA ARTISTIC JOURNEY
Exhibition of the 16th contest exhibition
Artist/s: Karolina Babińska, Jerzy Baranowski, Katarzyna Blajchert, Dorota Chodór, Aleksandra Cieślewicz, Kornelia Dzikowska, Józef Gałązka, Joanna Jamro-Nowińska, Natalia Janus-Malewska, Marcin Janusz, Kamila Kobierzyńska, Zuzanna Kojder, Mateusz Kokot, Marta Krześlak, Agnieszka Mastalerz, Horacy Muszyński, Gabriela Palicka, Wojciech Piotrowski, Maryna Sakowska, Katarzyna Szymkiewicz, Katarzyna Wąsowska, Marta Wódz, Barbara Wójcik, Wiktor Wolski, Weronika Wysocka, Paulina Żmuda
Venue: Museum on the Vistula
Dates: Until October 10, 2017
 
The event is a great opportunity to find out what's new in Polish art. It includes video works, photography, sculpture, painting, graphic art and installations by 26 young artists, finalists in the competition. 

III.
Exhibition title: Breaking Through Photography
Artist/s: Marek Piasecki, Józef Robakowski
Venue: The Asymetria Gallery
Dates: Until July 15, 2017


Marek Piasecki and Józef Robakowski belong to a generation of artists affected by the catastrophe of World War II. The former moves to Kraków after the fall of the Warsaw Uprising, when his family home is destroyed; the latter, following the death of his cavalryman father (in the Battle of Bzura), grows up in an orphanage where his  mother is employed. Both biographical orders intersect somehow.
Are the two artists’ non-camera yet photographic gestures not an attempt to regain the lost language which constitutes not only abstract chemical painting, but also produces non-normative contents, the image of which reinstates in art the meaning of what, to paraphrase Agamben, historically has slipped through mankind’s fingers.

Header Image by Piotr Litwic

TLV Urban Art Guide - July

- by Cobi Krieger (Alternative TLV)

July in Tel Aviv means summer, and summer, in Israel more than anywhere - means vacation. Pack your bags and follow us to the top urban art events in the world this month.


Exhibition title: Love is Blind, TVBOY
Venue: Imaginart, Barcelona
Dates: until August 31st


Tvboy is an Italian artist active since the mid nineties. A few years ago he relocated to Barcelona. He is Famous for his cheerful, critical and kicking pop styled images. With pride festivities still in the air, this exhibition will give you a fresh dose of colorful activism.

Coco Capitan and Gucci Collaboration
Venue: Soho, New York City


Gucci, who’s unmatched trajectory since the arrival of its creative director Alessandro Michele, has been incorporating street style in an oh so exciting way. Now expanding to street art, they have sent the textual pieces of Coco Capitan, a young artist who collaborated in the past with Drake, from their T-shirts and all over a wall in Soho.

Event: Upfest Festival
Venue: Bristol
Dates: July 29th - 31st, 2017


Being Europe’s largest live street art festival, spreading over 30 venues in Bristol, the Upfest festival is definitely any street art lovers way to end the month with a bang. Participating this year are over 300 artists from over 30 countries, no doubt there will be lots to see. 

London Art Guide - July

I.
Exhibition: Royal Academy Summer Show
Artist: Scarlett Bowman
Venue: Royal Academy
Dates: Until August 20, 2017 

It's that time of year again! I love the Royal Academy Summer Show, as it is one of the nicest ways to enter summer time in England. It's massive, has so many works (1200 artworks +) and it is so much fun! This year is very special to us as our artist Scarlett Bowman was one of the artist selected with the works below. Scarlett Bowman’s work addresses material culture and modern craft.

II.
Exhibition: Still unresolved and very much ongoing 
Artist: Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix
Dates: Until August 5, 2017

The relationship between socio-political matters and the arts has always been a tricky one. Should we speak about political facts or should we not? Can aesthetics be relevant to these contexts? Go to the exhibition and build your own point of view with the art on display. 

III.
Exhibition: Partition - Art Night x MTArt
Artist: Marine Hardeman
Dates: July 1 - 6, 2017 

Sewer drains are everyday elements that exist in urban spaces that we barely notice. The project of artist Marine Hardeman literally highlights what exists under our feet in the underground of the city. Hardeman does so by playing with the contrast of light and dark through a graphic play of light bursting through several horizontal and vertical installations from the sewer drains below. Sewer spotlights are central to the piece, which ignite independently to create a spatial performance. Hardeman’s innovative use of alternative spaces both enhances and responds to the urban environment we live in.

- by Marine Tanguy

Tel Aviv Art Guide - July

July is not the peak of our Israeli summer but temperatures can get quite high and so this month’s recommendations are all about museums. Chilled and quiet, they might be the best way to pass your days. 
 
  
Exhibition title: Woven and Untangled - New Video Works in the Museum Collection
Artist/s: Group exhibition
Venue: Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Helena Rubinstein Pavillon
Dates: Until 28 October 2017 

The Helena Rubinstein Pavilion is one of the most beautiful Modern buildings in Tel Aviv, having the ability to change itself completely for each exhibition. This time it has been turned into a cinema hall for presenting a Video Art only show. This exhibition is a great way of get acquainted with young Israeli Video Art, dealing with various political issues such as gender, immigration tensioned histories and more. 
 

Mika Hazan Bloom at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Exhibition title: The Kids Want Communism 
Artist/s: Max Epstein, Toy Boy, Jonathan Gold, Tal Gafni, Matti Lahat
Venue: Moby Museum of Bat Yam
Dates: From 22 June, 2017  

This is part three of a trilogy dedicated to the communist manifest published 99 years ago. Socialist questions are rising up again due to difficult economic atmosphere in Israel and around the globe. It is fascinating to see how young multi-disciplinary artists react to this situation.    

Tamar Nissim at MoBY

Exhibition title: Escape Room
Artists: Shahar Afek, Dorian Gottlieb, Eden Hevroni, Efrat Hakimi, Niv Cohen, Gili Lavy, Dor Zlekha Levy, Guy Nissenhaus, Chen Serfaty, Tal Rosen, Iris Chetritt
Venue: Nahum Gutman Museum
Dates: Until 2 September, 2017


This great exhibition portrays the works of some of Israel art scene’s intriguing new voices. Inspired by popular Escape Room games every work in the show functions as a clue and the whole exhibition is a quest to be solved by the viewers. If you get to the museum, don’t skip Gutman’s paintings exhibited in the second floor.   

Tal Rosen, 'When we strike roots', Nahum Gutman Museum


Header Image: The Kids Want Communism - MoBY, Bat Yam

- by Shani Werner (Talking Art)