On August 1, 2026, a new, rich and diverse exhibition season will open at the Haifa Museum of Art, which will include: Four new exhibitions alongside the permanent exhibition "The Surface: Art of the Land from the Museum Collection""Visitors will enjoy an audio guide in four languages – Hebrew, Arabic, English and Russian, which will accompany the museum experience. The new season presents a fascinating encounter between contemporary art, cultural memory, personal journey and material exploration.
Cross the lines – from line to line
curator: Dr. Etty Glass Gisis Assistant Curator: Adi Lam
The main exhibition of the season unfolds across the museum’s upper and lower floors, a visual journey around the action of the line – physical and imaginary, drawn or drawn like a thread. 44 Israeli and international artists present works in which the line becomes language, memory, body and story.
The line appears as a basic human action: drawing, gesture, movement. The exhibition is divided into metaphors of lines and threads, a time line, a horizon line, the thread of memory, body lines, and more, creating a multilayered web of meanings.
Dr. Glass Gysis explains: "The uniqueness of the exhibition lies in the dialogue between line and thread through artistic actions of drawing, writing, painting, embroidery and knitting. The line separates from the substrate and becomes thread, and the thread applied to the substrate becomes a line."
In the gallery for the whole family, visitors will be invited to create their own: add fabric lines to a large grid and build a shared landscape image, or create images using colored rubber bands on nails.
The exhibition was produced with the support of the Shusterman Israel Foundation and the Taiwan Mission in Israel.
Mana Katz: Music after the War
curator: Ran Hillel, Director of Haifa Museum Collections
Mane Katz, a Parisian School artist who lived and worked in Haifa, repeatedly returned to the world of music in his work: klezmer players, weddings, portraits of musicians, and biblical scenes. The exhibition presents works from the Mane Katz Museum collection, approximately 1,300 works received by the city from part of his estate.
Most of the works were created after World War II and express the artist's desire to preserve the world of music and communities that have disappeared. They emphasize the role of music in Jewish cultural memory.
Ran Hillel Indicates: "The museum is closed due to lack of accessibility, but we continue to preserve the collection. The works in the exhibition have undergone extensive restoration thanks to a generous donation from the Shusterman Israel Foundation. We hope to find a solution that will allow the museum to reopen."
Eti Levi: A feat
curator: Adi Lam
Etty Levy's first solo museum exhibition explores the Hebrew language in its original state and the concept of transcendence in Jewish mystical texts. The exhibition space becomes a transitional space between physical movement and conscious change.
A central starting point is a series "Dreams" (1896) by Odilon Redon, which is in the museum's collection. Levy combines writing, drawing, erasing and engraving alongside the use of voice. At the center of the exhibition is a monochord – an ancient musical instrument built to the dimensions of her body, with which she plays the words "My lips shall be opened, and my mouth shall speak".
The exhibition invites visitors to let go of the need for immediate interpretation and experience the material and sound before they become meaning.
Produced with the assistance of the Lottery Council for Culture and the Arts.
Liane Sharkia: Theta
curator: Adi Lam
A personal and moving exhibition that explores Liane Sharkia's journey into the memories of her grandmother Samia, a Haifa native who left for the village of Jat following her marriage. Sharkia uses photography, cutting, and assembly techniques to reconstruct fragmented memories and transform them into a multi-layered installation.
The works range from longing to nostalgia, and raise questions about identity, belonging, and fate: What life would Samia have had if she had stayed in Haifa? What life would Sharqiya herself have had if she had grown up in the city?
Sharkia is an artist of the "Incubator for Art Place", the flagship project of the Haifa Museums. The exhibition was made possible thanks to the support of the Daniel Howard Foundation and the Edmond de Rothschild Center.
Exhibition closing: January 2, 2027
The new exhibition season at the Haifa Museum of Art offers a rich, multicultural, and multisensory experience, combining contemporary art, personal and collective memory, and an encounter with rare works from the museum's collections. It is an opportunity to dive into different worlds of creation and rediscover the connection between art, place, and identity.