What’s opening: Loving Art, Making Art 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.
ART:21 screening marathon at Beit Ha’ir
5. Additional openings (not officially part of the festival but recommended)
Exhibition: White Sun of the Desert
Artist: Klone
Venue: Zimmer Projects, 5 Hagdud Haivri st.
Opening: October 31st, 8 pm
Klone at Zimmer
Exhibition: Du stehst im Licht, du stehst im Schatten
Artist: Gregor Hildebrandt
& Lihi Turgeman at the gallery’s project space
Opening: October 31st, 8 pm
Venue: Sommer Gallery, 13 Rothschild Blvd.
Gregor Hildebrandt at Sommer
Exhibition: Origins
Artist: Hila Toony Navok
Opening: October 31st, 8 pm
Venue: Noga Gallery, 60 Echad Ha’am st.
Hila Toony Navok at Noga