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A Research Trip to Israel

Israel, November 2013
Planning and guiding the research trip for:
Jelle Bouwhuis ,director, SMBA (the project space of Stedelijk Museum) Amsterdam
Saskia van Kampen-Prein, curator for modern and contemporary art ,Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Wilma Sütö, curator for modern and contemporary art, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
Esther Deen, independent curator public programming and art historian
Hilde de Bruijn, curator in contemporary and modern art at the Cobra Museum, Amstelveen and a freelance curator in contemporary art

Reactions museum curators after trip

Netali Shloser - a studio visit

Netali Shloser - a studio visit
  • Netali Shloser - a studio visit
  • Oran Hoffman - a studio visit
  • Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi - a studio visit
  • Maric Lichner - a studio visit
  • Meeting Dr. Raphael Zaguri-Orly Head of Master of Fine Arts program (M.F.A.), Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
  • Presentation by Hilde de Bruijn at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
  • Meeting curator Irena Gordon at The Jerusalem Print Workshop and art center
  • Meeting Aric Kilemnik, director of The Jerusalem Print Workshop and art center
  • Meeting Mira Lapidot, chief curator of Fine Arts Wing, Israel museum, Jerusalem
  • Meeting Amitay Mendelson, Curator of Israeli Art Wing, Israel museum, Jerusalem
  • Einat Amir - a studio visit
  • Ayelet Lerman - a studio visit
  • Nevet Yitshak - a studio visit
  • Tal Frank - a studio visit
  • Meeting Ellen Ginton senior curator of Israeli Art, Tel Aviv museum of art
  • Meeting Galia Bar-or director of Ein Harod Museum of Art
  • Meeting Said Abu Shakra director The Umm el-Fahem Art Gallery
  • Meeting Dalia Levin director of Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art
  • Abir Attalla - a studio visit
  • Raida Adon - a studio visit
  • Gili Avisar - a studio visit
  • Avi Sabah - a studio visit
  • Meeting curators at The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon
  • Ameera Kasim Ziyan - a studio visit
  • Presentation by Wilma Sütö at The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon

“Looking back at the trip I can only conclude that I have never visited a country that is so many places at once. This confusing situation also informed the practice of some of the artists and curators we met.”

“Tel Aviv, where the majority of Israeli artists live was our basis and the place we explored most but we also went to Jerusalem, including a trip to the Old City. We also went to other places such as Herzliya, and a full day up north to Arabic villages (Umm-el-Fahem), Israel’s oldest museum at the Ein Harod kibbutz, and a Druze village. Over the days we met with painters, video artists, performers, photographers, as well as curators in institutions big and small. Some had taken internationally oriented educations at de Appel Curatorial Programme or the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, or institutions in London or the United States. Many of them studied at the Bezalel Academy, or sometimes also other Israeli academies. The cultural and religious backgrounds of the people we met reflected the kaleidoscopic nature of Israel’s population and the dispersion of Jewish people in the past, something that I knew about without realizing the scope, or actual reality of it nowadays.”

Hilde de Bruijn, curator in contemporary and modern art at the Cobra Museum, Amstelveen and a freelance curator in contemporary art

Supported by KUNSTENISRAEL, Amsterdam