The Jerusalem Theatre

Opening Events

Address: David Marcus St. 20

Monday 18.03.2024 at 20:00

Closing Date: Tuesday 30.04.2024 (time will be announced)

Derekh Eretz: Between Yavne, Zippori, and Jerusalem 

Curator  Liora Levi, Roni Reuven

Artists Rachel Aharon, Yair Garbuz, Jack Jano, Ruth Kestenbaum Ben-Dov, Aharon Kritzer, Arie Lamdan, Liora Levi, Vered Linenberg, Sigal Maor, Gila Miller, Israel Rabinovitz, Hedva Reuven, Roni Reuven, Deborah Spinner, Drora Vaizman, Sharon Webber-Zvik, Doron Zeevi

The Hebrew term Derech Eretz can be translated in two ways. Literally, it denotes a physical path connecting two or more places. It is also used to describe Jewish values, indicating a set of norms and behaviors that enable coexistence, connection, and community.

In this exhibition, the artists have chosen to give multidimensional expression to the ways man chooses to walk in the world, to the literal and figurative ways the Sages of the Mishnah use this phrase, and to the places in the soul and in the world in which one may wander. The exhibition itself has traveled to galleries in Yavne, Hoshe’a, and Zippori, and now, to Jerusalem.

Using drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, and printmaking, the artists show that the ways we treat each other are our inalienable assets, the connective elements that can repair a polarized and fractured Israeli society.

From Thee To Thyself I Shall Flee

Curator Dr. Batsheva Ida

Artist Yedidya Ish Shalom 

From Thee To Thyself I Shall Flee shines a special light on the street corners and old neighborhoods of the rapidly changing Hebrew city. The exhibition presents this accelerated gentrification process via sensitive and colorful realistic paintings.

Residents are moving out, and the skyscrapers taking over the horizon are conducting a charged dialogue with the simple old houses of the city. If not selected for preservation, they will soon  be demolished. Against the backdrop of the new towers, yesterday’s buildings are seen emblazoned with graffiti tags through which the artist corresponds in an implied critical manner with the current local social reality. 

Yedidya Ish Shalom is an artist, painter, and designer whose paintings have been exhibited in museums and galleries in Israel and around the world. He was born and raised in Jerusalem and studied at the Israel Museum's Triptychon program and with various artists along the way. He graduated with honors from the faculty of design at Holon Institute of Technology and lives and works in the Neve Tzedek neighborhood of Tel Aviv-Jaffa. The exhibition is supported by The Jerusalem Foundation.