Sand & Grace

Sand & Grace

Katrin Tolkovsky

Opening Event: September 18, 2025, 19:00–22:00

Curator: Adi Gura

Sand & Grace, Katrin Tolkovsky’s solo exhibition at Braverman Gallery, presents a new body of work created over the past year. These works emerge from a deep attentiveness to the tension between the political sphere and the artist’s personal reality, weaving together fragile inner experience with broader social and historical contexts.

The exhibition’s title reflects the dialogue between impermanence and constant change on the one hand, and the act of grace as an expression of compassion and generosity on the other. It offers a gaze into the fleeting everyday, where moments of grace may arise, inviting viewers to contemplate the possibility of new meaning emerging precisely within states of fragility and uncertainty.

Over the years, Tolkovsky has developed a distinctive technique based on the classical method of sgraffito. Through processes of scratching, carving, and revealing layered paint and plaster, she creates images in which the surface itself becomes a carrier of memory. Her painting practice simultaneously embodies construction and erosion, revelation and concealment, opening a window into the movements of time, memory, and unfolding history.

Katrin Tolkovsky was born in Jerusalem and lives and works in Tel Aviv. She holds a BFA and MFA from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. To date, she has held one solo exhibition and participated in numerous group exhibitions in Israel and abroad. Her works are included in both public and private collections.