What’s opening: Loving Art, Making Art 2013

By SarahPeguine, October 31, 2013

This weekend will take place the annual Art event “Loving Art, Making Art”. The event will be spread for the first time between two different weekends, October 31 – November 2nd and November 15th- 16th (I’ll write more on the festival’s second part in an upcoming post).

Much controversy arose over the event and 30 galleries have decided to ban it. This is due to an ongoing tension between the municipality and the galleries, who are asking to receive property tax (arnona) reductions, as they consider themselves as key players in the city’s so called efforts to promote culture. These galleries are for now seen by the municipality as regular commerces and therefore end up paying the regular (high) tax which is assigned to such venues.

So Loving Art Making art is not that loved by everyone, but offers a nice introduction and celebration of our Art scene (although, as mentioned above not a complete one, with many established galleries missing from the list).

Loving Art, Making Art Events:

1. Special exhibitions opening around the city & Outdoor installations

These outdoor works are part of a project curated by Sally Haftel Naveh, where artists were invited to create a site specific work for the galleries’ exterior area.

Recommended openings & venues taking part in the outdoor project:

Double Opening at Z I Z

Exhibitions: “Duty Free” (Exterior Project by Adi Dulza)

& “Fwd”, solo show by Nogah Davidson at the interior space of the gallery

Opening: October 31st, 8 pm

Venue: Z I Z, 6 Shvil Ha’Meretz

Adi Dulza’s “Duty Free” at the corridor in front of Z I Z

Nogah Davidson’s solo show in the exhibition space at Z I Z

Special Events at Artport

Exhibition: Boris Oicherman’s outdoor installation & spoken word show by Poetry Slam Israel

Opening: Thursday October 31st, 9 pm & Saturday November 2nd, 12:00

Venue: Artport, 55 Ben Zvi Road

Maquette for Boris Oicherman’s installation at Artport

Double Opening at Tempo Rubato

Exhibitions: “Tempo Rubata” (Yariv Spivak’s outdoor installation)

& “φ32”, Lital Lev Cohen’s solo show at the gallery’s interior space

Opening: October 31st, 8 pm

Venue: Tempo Rubato, 9 Sgula st.

Yariv Spivak’s “Tempo Rubata”, outdoor installation in front of Tempo Rubato

Lital Lev Cohen’s “φ32” at the exhibition space at Tempo Rubato

Double Opening at Braverman Gallery

Exhibitions: Inauguration of Reuven Israel’s facade sculpture

& Noa Gur’s solo show at the gallery’s interior space

Opening: October 31st, 8 pm

Venue: Braverman Gallery, 12b Hasharon st.

Inauguration of Braverman Gallery’s facade sculpture exhibition space with Reuven Israel’s new work

Noa Gur’s solo show at Braverman

Opening of a new show at STA

Exhibition: 100 Meter Radius, group show

Opening: October 31st, 8 pm

Venue: South Tel Aviv Gallery, 25 Haaliya st.

Group Show at STA

exhibition & Performance at P8

Exhibitions: Amanda Who? by Rinat Schnadower

& Group Show, Loving Art, Buying Art

Venue: P8 Gallery, 79 Yeudah Halevi st.

Amanda Who?, P8 Gallery

2. Free entrances to museums, October 31st , 14:00 – 22:00

Venues taking part: Beit Ha’ir, Tel Aviv Museum, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Nachum Gutman Museum, Rubin Museum.

3. “A Wall in The City #2”: a wall piece by Gal Weinstein, entitled “840 cups of coffee” and presented on the southern wall of the city council building, 69 Ibn Gvirol st.

Gal Weinstein at the City Hall

4. 100 Artists: Art: 21 screening marathon at Beit Ha’ir, Bialik Sq., 14:00 – 22:00

Beit Ha’ir presents a screening marathon of selected episodes from the award-winning documentary series Art21, highlighting the work method and creative process of leading contemporary artists.