The dance show "Vantana Hafet" and the exhibition "Name and Address" • New projects in Haifa museums

The Haifa Museums present: two new projects as part of the Place Art Incubator: the dance performance "Vantana Hafit" and the exhibition "Name and Address".

This coming Saturday, 25.5.24/XNUMX/XNUMX, two art projects will be opened as part of the Haifa Museums "Space Art Incubator" project. The first is the dance piece called "Vantana Hafet", created by choreographer Alik Niv with the Matura troupe; And the second is a sculpture exhibition, called "Name and Address" by the artist couple Veronica and Daniel Bernard.

Adina Perlman Vardi, the education director of the Haifa museums, says:

The Place Art Incubator Project is a platform that supports art and local artists and allows them to delve into community-based art. The program seeks to create a connection with the local communities, as a necessary part of the creative process. We recently opened the solo exhibition of Odin Shadmi - 'Derech Nahal I saw a world' at the Haifa City Museum, and we are going to present 5 more projects as part of the Space Art Incubator until the end of the year. The artists participating in the program receive participation in a unique training program, training sessions with a mentor from the Israeli art field, curatorial and production support, a marketing system for the work, as well as unique scholarships with the assistance of the Edmond de Rothschild Center and the Haifa-Boston Partnership.

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The debut performance of the dance piece 'Vantana Hafet' will take place on Saturday, 25.5.24/12/00, at 5:15 at the Haifa Museum of Art. The show features XNUMX dancers from the Matura dance troupe - a Haifa dance troupe for mature women, which was founded XNUMX years ago by Ella Bar David Shahar. The women of the band created the show according to the concept and choreography created by Alik Niv.

Alik Niv tells about the creation of the dance:

Local life stories intermingle in an original dance show that takes place in the museum spaces. The dancers - creators raise memories burned in the body, which are revealed in movement and material, raise voices from the past and whispers from the future, search for self-definition for the city, the Israeli place and themselves. The performance acts as a ritual, with echoes of memories from the psychiatric hospital at the top of Carmel, collecting pine cones inside the fabric of a dress, mirrors emerging from a forest at the end of the street, boots soaked in muddy ground, dancing a dance with the living and the dead.

Name and address

Veronika and Daniel Bernard, a couple of artists, who immigrated from Russia to Israel about two years ago as a response to the Russia-Ukraine war. The artists chose to touch on a complex and painful human experience - refugees and migration. They chose to leave and move to a country where they would not have to fear for their freedom, and in Haifa they met a community of immigrants - refugees, with whom they worked in this process. The exhibition features sculptures made of white plasticine that accurately copy the homes of the members of the immigrant community with whom the Barnards worked.

Oz Zalof, the curator of the Art Gallery, who curated this exhibition, says:

Sculptural structures are placed in the space of the space art incubator building, which present models of the houses of the participants in the project, as they were in their homeland, before they immigrated to Israel. The buildings are also sounding boards, containing family archive photographs of their residents who fled. The sculptures stand on lighted cardboard boxes that allow a peek inside. Each of the houses is a tangible house that specific people have left.

"In their work, the artists give space to a quiet, ashamed voice - the voice of those who left their home and found themselves in a social political reality where they are associated with the strong side, the "wrong" side of the political map. The image of the houses was born from conversations and interviews they had with those who had similar experiences to them and shared And they still share their fate together."

The exhibition combines three video works by Israeli artists from the collection of the Haifa Art Museum: Michael Drucks, Doron Solomons and Han Shinberg, presenting poetic actions and situations about place, locality and status. All of them deal with the Israeli "living space". In each of the works there is a criticism of social gaps and questions about belonging - whose space is it? Who and what is beyond him? How many are "ours"? And what is their right in this place?

Details about the exhibition:

The exhibition 'Name and Address' will open on Saturday, 25.5.24/10/00, at 24:XNUMX a.m. in the Art Conservatory building next to the Haifa Art Museum. Address: XNUMX Shabtai Levy, Haifa.

שעות פתיחה:

Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday - 10:00-16:00
Thursday – 10:00-18:00
Friday - 10:00-14:00