Edward Levin

Still Life

Opening: Saturday, 21.01.2012. Closing: Saturday, 03.03.2012

Curator: Jan Raucwerger

The encounter with Edward Levin's exhibition introduces the viewer to an intellectual and persuasive painter. The occupation of contemporary art with "Still life" is a daily practice though nonetheless traditional and professional. Difficult as it is to be innovative in such a genre, Levin makes still life live through his powerful use of color, brushstrokes and intense emotions.
Born in 1934, Edward Levin immigrated to Israel in 1976 from Minsk (the former Soviet Union). During the early 80's he exhibited solo exhibitions in Paris, London and the Jerusalem Artists' House. He has not shown a solo exhibition since.
In this current exhibition Levin presents some 40 oil paintings and encaustics, mostly produced in the recent decade.

Additional oppening and gallery talk - Wed. 25.1.2012 at 17:00

Margot Gran

Project Runway 2: Pack & go

Opening: Saturday, 21.01.2012. Closing: Saturday, 03.03.2012

Curator: Sorana Schneider

Margot Gran's exhibition "Project Runway 2: Pack & Go" offers a "user's guide" for a journey towards changing and yet to be discovered worlds, where we all have the opportunity to grow anew and to climb to mountain tops – both real and metaphoric.
Gran's attitude towards life is pragmatic and she tries to live her life as an autarkic unit; she creates a prehistory with private archeology and prepares for future times when she sets out on journeys of survival.

Gallery talk with the curator and the artist: Sat. 18.2.2012 at 12:00

Miriam Smaller

Living Seeds

Opening: Saturday, 21.01.2012. Closing: Saturday, 03.03.2012

Curator: Irena Gordon

Miriam Smaller's exhibition presents a new group of works she has created in the last three years dealing with pregnancy as an aesthetic, symbolic and emotional subject matter. Smaller examines the woman's pregnant body in its various stages. She chooses it as a point of departure for metamorphoses which constantly oscillate between the figurative and the abstract.


The works in the exhibition touch the tension between intimacy and exposure and between the inside and the outside which are at the heart of the pregnancy process. It suggests and probes the similarity between pregnancy and the work of art. The works unveil, in a variety of material and conceptual manners, the worlds between "self" and "other", between life and death and between personal creation and cosmological formation.


Gallery talk with the curator and the artist: Thurs. 23.2.2012 at 18:00

Or Tesema - Stain

3rd Exhibition of Nidbach 17

Opening: Saturday, 21.01.2012. Closing: Saturday, 03.03.2012

Curator: Eyal Pery

Or Tesema's first exhibition, "Stain" ("Ketem" in Hebrew), deals with the timeline of her life from adolescence to this day. Her photographic view of her young nieces presents adolescence as the beginning of her personal journey. Her current status as a woman and artist is reflected in a series of self portraits in photographs and video, an analogy to time, where she investigates and maps the stains, bruises and scars, carrying the memory of her childhood. The woman she is today is presented in works that shake off conventions which deny the physical and the sexual, confront the anxiety of motherhood and protests against the cultural programming of our lives.

Gallery talk with the curator and the artist: Sat. 04.02.2012 12:00 pm.

Opening: Tuesday, 15.11.2011. Closing: Wednesday, 28.03.2012

Opening: Monday, 06.02.2012. Closing: Monday, 06.02.2012