Heichal Shlomo Cultural Center

Opening Events

Address: King George St. 58

Saturday 16.03.2024 at 20:15

Closing Date: Tuesday 30.04.2024 (time will be announced)

Jewish on Paper

Curator: Hillel Smith

Artists: Dov Abramson, Avrum Ashery, Ezra Baderman, Elhanan Ben Uri, Heather Bronson, Isaac Brynjegard-Bialik, Jessica Tamar Deutsch, Shimon Engel, Yuval Gazuli, Rinat Gilboa, David Goldstein, Zan Goodman, Eitan Gutenmacher, Yehoshua Hooper, Rachel Jackson (with Jackson Mercer), Anshie Kagan, Chaya Mushka Kanner, Eli Kaplan Wildmann, Shana Koppel, Elad Lifshitz, Steve Marcus, David Moss, Yitzchok Moully, Dorielle Parker, Christopher Orev Reiger, Breini Rosenbloom, Eliav Sa’adia, Chaya Ita Singer, Lizzie Sivitz, Hillel Smith, Jay Smith, Eleyor Snir, Annita Soble, Emily Theodore, Suzy Ultman, Heather Vidmar-McEwen, Sandy Weberman, Menachem Weinreb, Ofer Winter, Mike Wirth, Alex Woz, Neriya Zur

Printed posters have been the most accessible form of visual media since their introduction in the West nearly six centuries ago. 

Contemporary posters featuring Jewish texts, holidays, and rituals bring Jewish content to the fore in ways that feel rooted in both Jewish tradition and modern society.

These everyday products that we use to decorate our lives—the drawings we hang on our walls, the cards we send to friends, the jokes we share, and the posts and memes we like—speak deeply about what we think matters.

A Palace in Time :Contemporary Religious Buildings Facing Jewish History

Curator: Dr. Arch. Naomi Simhony

Artists OMA New York / Shohei Shigematsu, Manuel Herz Architects; Switzerland, Wandel Hoefer Lorch and Hirsch Architects; Germany, Safdie Architects; Jerusalem / Singapore / Boston / Shanghai, Uri Padan Architects; Tel Aviv-Yafo, Dana Arieli; Jerusalem, Amir Tomashov; Afula, Dor Zlekha Levy; Tel Aviv-Yafo

The first ever architecture exhibition at the Jerusalem Biennale documents a trend of returning to history and heritage in the design of contemporary religious Jewish buildings around the world. The projects highlight different layers of the Jewish past, and signify their importance in shaping Jewish architectural identity. The exhibition examines the material consequences that the destruction of Jewish monuments during Kristallnacht and World War II had in shaping the Jewish architectural styles that followed. 

The design of Jewish religious buildings in the postbellum period was characterized by the adoption of generic modern exteriors, untethered to any particular tradition. Now, at the turn of the twenty-first century, a new architectural form is developing, characterized by direct engagement with Jewish historical heritage, reframed in contemporary style. 

Alongside the projects, works by three Israeli artists are presented, dealing with related themes including authenticity, trauma, and memory in their broad contexts.

Hallelujah

Curator: Udi Urman

Artists: Noa Charuvi, Hirut Yosef , Yehudit Feinstein, Yuli Aloni Primor, Gal Cohen, Ken Goshen, Gabriela Vainsencher, Maya Baran, Udi Urman

Hallelujah showcases Israeli artists who work and live in New York and seek to explore their own cultural heritage. As immigrants to the United States, these artists found different ways of integrating their longings, fears, and memories into their work. The exhibition underscores the unique ways in which artists can transform individual experiences into resonant and universal truths related to belonging. 

Hallelujah is a collaboration between The Jerusalem Biennale and the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan. 

Tzimtzum

Curators: Eitan Gutenmacher, Lindsay Leboyer, Daniella Messer

Artists Ken Goshen, Tzvi Hecht, Jacqueline Kott-Wolle, Jackson Krule, Hana Mendel, Hannah Eve Rothbard, Annita Soble

Tzimtzum is a multimedia group exhibition presented by Havurah, a Jewish art collective founded in 2022 in New York City. Taking its title from a Kabbalistic metaphor for creation, Tzimtzum explores the artistic potential of divine concealment. The seven participating artists use their work as a “kli,” Hebrew for vessel or tool, to draw out the spiritual dimensions of commonplace diaspora scenes. Featuring new and recent works of painting, sculpture, illustration and photography, Tzimtzum offers a window into one of North America’s few artist communities built explicitly by and for Jews.

Mix and Match: Contemporary Dialogues with Yente’s Works
Curators: Tamara Kohn, Florencia Magaril, and Paloma Braverman

Artists: Yente (Eugenia Crenovich) Sofia Ungar Lucía Harari Lucas Jalowski Sara Goldman Karina Kipershmit

Mix and Match: Contemporary Dialogues with Yente’s Works suggests a visual dialogue between Yente’s cultural legacy and new generations of contemporary Argentine artists. 

For the first time, we have juxtaposed Yente’s original Jewish oeuvre with the works of contemporary artists, who, inspired by one of the mothers of the Argentine avant-garde, explore their own Jewish and artistic experience. 

Yente worked with various media, from painting to sculpture, and with different techniques, from figurative to abstract. The artists selected for this exhibition, similarly, bring diverse artistic languages and materials to their investigations of the legacy of an artist so important to the history of Argentine and Jewish art.