Nira Pereg and Anna Yam, group show, ‘We Hereby Declare’ at Museums of Bat Yam
The exhibition’s title is quote from the most famous event to ever take place in an Israeli museum – the Declaration of Independence of the State of Israel at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 1948. As an awards exhibition, We Hereby Declare celebrates the achievements of contemporary artists working in Israel and whose artistic practices have been awarded prizes by the Ministry of Culture and Sport: Creative Encouragement Award, Young Artist Award, Design Award, Video Art Award, and Lifetime Achievement Award.
The title of the exhibition proposes to look at the artworks featured in it, on their diversity and differences, through the lens of the relationship between art and state in Israel. Thus, while this is not a thematic exhibition, as an exhibition that presents a certain section of visual art created in Israel in recent years, We Hereby Declare not only presents works by artists who have been recognized and awarded prizes, but also addresses the contemporary cultural climate and the conditions in which the exhibition takes place.
The power of art is in its weakness, in the fact that it requires care, mediation, learning, support. Through its weakness, art can set in motion much stronger mechanisms. Despite, and perhaps because of its weakness, art can have the last word, claims philosopher Noam Yuran. From and beyond the context in which it was made, from and beyond the meaning ascribed to it at different moments in history, from and beyond the limitations of its makers, those who display it, consume it, interpret it, censor it, exile it, cherish, or denounce it, it has the last word.
Lifetime Achievement Award:
Arik Kilemnik
Creative Encouragement Award:
Aya Ben Ron
Inga Fonar Cocos
Eldad Menuchin
Alexander Mendelevich
Anna Yam
Boaz Aharonovitch
Gustavo Sagorsky
Dvora Morag
Hadar Gad
Helly Mizrai
Jonathan Hirschfeld
Tanya Preminger
Michal Chelbin
Natasha Kuznetsova (Volkovic)
Irit Tamari
Ruven Kuperman
Ronit Baranga
Sergey Bunkov
Ronen Siman Tov
Sharon Fadida
Young Artist Award:
Vera Vladimirsky
Halil Balabin
Yuval Atzili
Mahmood Kaiss
Meydad Eliyahu
Ido Bercovier
Fatma Shanan
Porat Salomon
Tzfa Dgani
Ruti De Vries
Video Art Award:
Hilla Ben Ari
Yasmin Davis
Nir Evron
Nira Pereg
Tamar Hirschfeld
Design Award:
Dafna Kaffeman
Hadas Rosenberg Nir
Naama Benziman
Omer Polak
Koby Levy
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03-01-2017Anna Yam is the winner of the minister of culture award for encourage creativity, 2016---
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24-01-2017Ilit Azoulay, Nira Pereg, Bracha Ettinger, Anna Yam, Oren Eliav, Jacob Misohri, David Adika, Reuven Israel, Art Book Fair TLV, ArtPort Tel-Aviv---
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20-02-2017Group exhibitions, "The Wax Museum: Approaching Celebrities", featuring Dana Levy, "A Private Moment in Public", featuring Anna Yam, and "The Path to Glory", featuring Ohad Matalon, at the Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa---
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26-06-2017Anna Yam, solo show, '43 209 02' at Lexus Gallery, Tel Aviv---
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27-12-2017Anna Yam, dual exhibition, External and Familiar until Zerah, David Yellin College Gallery, Jerusalem---
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03-01-2017Nira Pereg is the winner of the minister of culture award for best established video artist, 2016---
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24-01-2017Ilit Azoulay, Nira Pereg, Bracha Ettinger, Anna Yam, Oren Eliav, Jacob Misohri, David Adika, Reuven Israel, Art Book Fair TLV, ArtPort Tel-Aviv---
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03-04-2017Nira Pereg, screening of "Abraham Abraham Sarah Sarah", as part of the Colloquium of Jewish Intellectuals of French Language in Paris---
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05-04-2017Nira Pereg, group show, 'Woven and Untangled' at Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv---
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28-04-2017Nira Pereg participates in Videobox Festival at Le Carreau du Temple, Paris---
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14-06-2017Nira Pereg & Dana Levy (among others), group show, '(De)constructing Borders' at Kultura Medialna, Dnepr---
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26-06-2017Nira Pereg, artist event, 'Topology of Holiness' at Jerusalem Cinematheque Israel Film Archive, Jerusalem---
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11-07-2017Nira Pereg, solo show, 'This Red Red Stuff' at Kunsthalle Darmstadt in Darmstadt---
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09-09-2017Nira Pereg, group show, 'Staring Back at the Sun: Video Art from Israel, 1970-2012' at the Koffler Centre of the Arts, Toronto---
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30-10-2017BRAVERMAN GALLERY at ARTISSIMA 2017