300 artists, 150 foreign visitors, 10 exhibition halls and 1 major art event: Tel Aviv-Yafo will see its first international art biennial this weekend under the auspice of the ARTLV group. The biennial will introduce major Israeli and international artists in what is considered the flagship of the dozens of events that will take place in September – the Month of Art of the Tel Aviv-Yafo Centennial Year.


September is the Centennial Year’s Month of Art!
Come be inspired by the city’s creative energy at dozens of artistic events throughout September. 

The Exhibitions:
 
1. Universal Circus: This exhibition deals with visual representations of the modern city and with the perceptions of it from different and changing perspectives, while relating to the modern city’s myths, concepts and materials. Actions that take place in the public space, with all their entailed social and political meanings, are being translated in the exhibition into actions in an artistic space. Curators: Edna Moshenson, Maayan Sheleff. The exhibition is shown in three historical Templers Buildings at the Neve Tzedek Tower Compound, 61 Eilat st.
 
Participating artists: Miri Segal, Su-Mei Tse, Aharon Ozery, David Reeb, Sigalit Landau, Francis Alys, Ann Lislegaard, Liron Rotman, Micha Ullman, Michal Na'aman, Jan Tichy, Yochai Avrahami, Maya Zack and Raya Bruckenthal, Tom Pnini, Assaf Evron, Adi Brande, Yael Efrati, Efrat Gal-Nur, Rui Calçada Bastos, Lawrence Weiner, Ohad Matalon, Oz Malul, Meir Tati, Efrat Kedem, Rafi Lavie, Shai Yehezkelli, Nira Pereg, Sharon Ya'ari, Francis Alys, Carlos Garaicoa, Ann Lislegaard, Smadar Dreyfus & Lennart van  Oldenborgh , Olivo Barbieri, Cyprien Gaillard, Yaron Lapid, Leigh Orpaz, Dina Shenhav, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Grazia Toderi, Ariel Caine, Dror Daum, Lawrence Weiner, Kader Attia, Mounir Fatmi, Fikret Atay, Toony Navok, Gili Avissar, Shahar Yahalom, Shay Id Alony.
 
2. Side Shows reaches into the city, exploring issues related to activism and street art, and mapping various territories of the city physically and mentally, concretely and metaphorically. The act of mapping enables the works to raise questions regarding memory, history and the hierarchies of space. Curators: Michael Kessus Gedalyovich, Maayan Sheleff. The exhibition will be shown at the Avni Institute compound, 23 Eilat st.; the Neve Tzedek Tower plaza; and throughout the city.
 
Participating artists:
* In the Neve Tzedek Tower plaza: Shelly Federman, Eifo Dana Company with the Centrala Group from Poland Performing daily 18:00–22:00, Friday 10:00–14:00. Special performance on opening night, Thursday, 10.9, 18:00–22:00.
* Throughout the city (information and departure point at the Neve Tzedek Tower plaza): Adina Bar-On. Tours leave on Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday at 17:00, early registration required.
* Mushon Zer-Aviv and Laila El-Haddad
* Gilgul: Media Bike. Gilgul is a tricycle which will roll around town, projecting works of video art and cinema onto walls in the public space. Each screening is curated by artists especially for the project. Curating artists: Einat Amir, Eitan Buganim, Eden Bannet and Adam Aboulafia, Dor Guez, Buky Grinberg, Michal Heiman, Shahar Marcus and Meirav Heiman, Roy Chicky Arad and Nimrod Kamer, Chen Sheinberg. 
In the Avni Institue compound: Muntean/Rosenblum, Ilan Green Homonym, a project curated by Maayan Amir. Participating artists: Ruti Sela, Boaz Arad, Doron Rabina, and Guy Ben-Ner.
*Open Endings, an exhibition curated by Trash/Treasure. Participating artists: Trash/Treasure, Rita Rohlfing, and Stephan Brenn (Cologne, Germany). 6 Nahum Goldman St.: Eran Shakine.

3. A Place of Memory presents works by three artists who touch on the history, heritage and landscapes of Umm al-Fahm. It is a mutual attempt to connect instances of time and memory.  Curator: Said Abu Shakra. The Avni Institue compound, 23 Eilat St.

Participating artists: Walid Abu Shakra, Guy Raz, and Shai Aloni < Joao Onofre
Box Sized DIE featuring Rockveiler, 2007–2009
Box Sized Die appropriates the form of Tony Smith’s seminal Die sculpture of 1962, turning the refined, minimal, generic shape into performance space for a Death Metal band. In this conceptual synthesis of two tightly-defined genres – sculptural and musical - the six foot cube now becomes home to a performance by a band that is always local to the place in which the cube is sited.
The project is presented by Andrew Renton as a final moment of his curatorial project for last year’s Art TLV, Open Plan Living, and as a gesture of continuity to engage with this year’s projects.

4. Second Show:  Contemporary Art from the Israel Museum, Jerusalem

Curators: Suzanne Landau, Amitai Mendelsohn. Mani House, Tel Aviv, 36 Yehuda Halevi st. For details: 03-5149705 A selection of works by some of the most prominent artists active in Israel and abroad.  The works deal with such subjects as introspection, fantasy worlds, myths and reflections about the history of art and culture. The show features, among others, works by Erez Israeli, Pipilotti Rist, Ugo Rondinone, Mika Rottenberg, Shai Zurim, Ori Gersht, Efrat Natan, Gil Marco Shani and Pierre Bismuth.
 
 
5. Zulu: Hunters and Other Fantasies
Curator: Tali Tamir. Nachum Gutman Museum of Art, 21 Rokach st., Neve-Tzedek. For details: 03-5161970

The exhibition marks the seventieth anniversary of Nachum Gutman’s first book, “Lobengulu King of Zulu”, as well as the opening of a new wing in the museum. Participating artists: Nachum Gutman, Uriel Orlow, Tal Arbel, Rima Arselanov, Ziv Ben-Dov, Guy Ben-Ner, Ben Ben-Ron, Gil & Moti, Dorit Figovich-Godard, Drora Domini, Orit Hasson, Meir Tati, Liat Yaniv, Liav Mizrahi, Anat Michaelis-Levy, Roy Mordechai, Shalom Sebba, Doron Solomons, Nir Evron, Ada Ovadia, Tzur Kotzer, Talia Kenan, Gabi Kricheli, Jossef Krispel, Merav Raviv, Ruti Raviv, Dan Reisner, Philip Rantzer, Yuval Shaul, Sarit Shani-Hay, Keren Shpilsher.
 
 
6. Made Public – Palestinian Photographs in Military Archives in Israel
Curator: Rona Sela. Minshar School of Art, 18 David Hachmi st.. For details: 03-6887090
 
Made Public, an exhibition accompanied by a book, deals with two main subjects: the way in which the Israeli military system collected and preserved photographic information about the Palestinians throughout the 20th century, and the missing Palestinian visual historiography. 

7. Four Openings in Israeli Art

 Curator: Ruti Director. Bezalel Gallery, 60 Salame st. For details: 03-6824082

One exhibition and four “openings”: an “open invitation” for the various
participants to take their places around the table, a “page opening” and a “wound opening”, indicating deep-seated characteristics of Israeli art and lastly – “to open with a song” an obvious ending to a mutual gathering. Through the four “openings”, the exhibition wishes to points at the links, ties and influences within Israeli art. Participating artists: Bianca Eshel-Gershuni, Guy Ben-Ner, Itzhak Golombek, Uri Gershuni, Moshe Gershuni, Drora Dominey, Shai yeazkelly, Erez Israeli, Pinhas Cohen Gan, Michal Na'aman, David Adika, Eli Petel, Ariela Plotkin, Barak Ravitz, Meira Shemesh, Tal Shochat, Gal Weinstein 
 

OPENING HOURS:

The Tel Aviv-Yafo Biennial of Contemporary Art – ARTLV 09
September 10 - 23
Thursday, 10.9, 16:00–22:00, admission free
Sunday–Thursday, 16:00–22:00 
Friday 10:00–14:00
Saturday 11:0–22:00
On Rosh Hashana Holiday, 18-19-20/09, exhibition closed
 
Admission fee: 30 NIS
Reduced fee: 20 NIS, for Tel Aviv residents, seniors, soldiers and students
Free admission for children under 12

For more information: Click here to download the full program