American Friends of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art 2017
The generosity of our international family of friends helps us to provide the rich programme of exhibitions, publications, and special events that accept become the State of israel Museum'south hallmark, and which ensure our continued standing as i of the earth's leading museums. Contributions to the Israel Museum are tax-deductible in Israel. If you lot require a receipt for tax deduction in a land other than Israel, delight consider directing your gift through one of our International Friends associations.
Friends of the Israel Museum: Annual Gifts
State of israel MUSEUM INTERNATIONALS (IMJIs) brand up the Israel Museum'due south global network of young leaders, with active capacity in the United states, Brazil, Canada, and England. IMJIs are invited to exclusive art weekends and events around the world. To bring together, please contact your local Friends chapters.
DONORS ($2,000) are listed in the Israel Museum Periodical, and are invited to events with their local Friends chapters.
INTERNATIONAL PATRONS ($3,000) are listed in the Israel Museum Periodical and receive invitations to international events around the earth, as well as an International Fine art Pass entitling free entry to North American and European museums.
GUARDIANS ($7,500) sponsor a calendar week in honor of a person or occasion of your choice, subsidizing entrance fees for children, students, soldiers, disabled persons, and senior citizens. Guardians also receive all benefits of Patrons.
Friends of the State of israel Museum: Cumulative Gifts
Cumulative gifts totaling $100,000 or more are recognized in the three special categories:
Sponsors ($100,000 - $249,999)
Benefactors ($250,000 - $999,000)
Founders ($1,000,000 upwards)
Contributors' receive all donor benefits and their names are permanently inscribed in the Museum's Donor Court and are listed in each edition of the State of israel Museum Journal.
If you lot are interested in pursuing possible avenues of involvement, delight contact the Department for for International Relations and Development, at susan@imj.org.il or +972-2-6708827.
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The amazing success story of the Israel Museum can be attributed to our ever-growing network of International Friends who support our activities in a number of ways. Here are some highlights of Friends events around the world.
South African Friends (SAFIM )
This year's SAFIM gala was held in Cape Boondocks at the Moondance Villa on November thirteenth. The diverse selection of fine art, expertly auctioned by Strauss & Co, piqued the guests' interest. Over one hundred guests attended, including honored guests Prof. Ido Bruno and James Snyder. Gain from the consequence support worthy fine art initiatives both in South Africa and in the Israel Museum'south Youth Wing.
During the SAFIM VIP Program at Investec Cape Town Fine art Off-white, 2018, friends were welcomed to a tailor-made, gratis experience that culminated in SAFIM's annual VIP Opening Day Tour of the Off-white, expertly led by Gordon Radowsky. SAFIM'due south VIP Members' Plan at the FNB Joburg Fine art Fair featured a curated walkabout of stand-out booths with art-specialist, Phillippa Duncan. Members enjoyed exclusive talks by artists and the chance to meet gallerists and boyfriend collectors. In add-on, SAFIM Johannesburg launched its Collaboration series at The Social Kitchen & Bar, Hyde Park. Office i of this serial of artistic collaborations featured Jonathan Freemantle; artist and co-founder of Hazard Gallery, Artist, and two young emerging artists, Jake Vocalizer and Pebofatso Moekena.
American Friends (AFIM)
The American Friends of the Israel Museum Gala took place at the Plaza Hotel on October 29, 2018 in New York City.
Photograph by Sylvain Gaboury/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images
AFIM's annual Gala, chaired past Pamela Sanders and Orna Stern, took place on October 29th at The Plaza, and raised over $one.7. The evening featured remarks by creative person Thomas Demand as well equally a special performance past Tony Award winner Ari'el Stachel from The Band's Visit and surprise guest appearance by award winning Israeli actor Sasson Gabay.
Canadian Friends (CFIM)
Pictured left to right: James Snyder, Director Emeritus of the Israel Museum; Elliot and Wendy Eisen, CFIM National Co-Chairs; and Prof. Ido Bruno, Director of the Israel Museum.
On August 21, the Canadian Friends of the Israel Museum held their iiird "1 night merely" Pop-Upwards Museum. Over 250 people attended the upshot, held for the first time at Toronto'southward pre-eminent luxury blueprint shop, ELTE. The outcome, curated past David Moos, featured 30 artworks– including works past Rodney Graham, Henri Matisse, and Robert Motherwell – on loan from more than than xx of Toronto'southward finest art collections. Renee and Ken Metrick generously hosted the event, which brought together fellow lovers of fine art and Israel. The event raised funds for gratuitous entrance to the Israel Museum for Israeli children.
On Sunday, October 28, CFIM hosted 60 people for a private breakfast and behind-the-scenes bout of Art Toronto, Canada's largest international fair for modern and contemporary art. Guests were treated to presentations by iv galleries and the tour was expertly led by Toronto art consultant and CFIM Associate, Jessica Yakubowicz Herzig.
Italian Friends (AIMIG)
The Italian Friends of the Israel Museum organized a weeklong tour in Israel, led past Davide Blei, AIMIG President; and Myriam Volterra, AIMIG Council member. On Sunday, November 4, 2018, the group visited the Israel Museum. They enjoyed curator led tours of the Shrine of the Book with Lizbeth and George Krupp Curator of the Expressionless Sea Scrolls and Caput of the Shrine of the Volume, Dr. Adolfo Roitman; the Billy Rose Art Garden with Shua Ben Ari, the Jewish Art and Life Wing with Storage and Drove Manager, Gioia Perugia; exhibition bout of Mode Statements: Decoding Israeli Dress with Associate Curator, Stella Fischbach Section of Modernistic Fine art , Noga Eliash-Zalmanovich; and a tour of the Israeli Art Gallery with Aya Miron, Curator, The David Orgler Israeli Art Department.
During their visit to Israel, the AIMIG'southward group was graciously hosted past members of the Association of Israeli Friends of the State of israel Museum.
During October, AIMIG organized a trip for the 16th Compages Biennale in Venice . 19 people attended from half-dozen unlike countries. Highlights included tours of the 10 Chaples in the Wood, commissioned by the Vatican, on San Giorgio Island; the great glass exhibition of M.5.M Cappellin Glassworks and the Young Carlo Scarpa 1925-1931; tours of the Jewish Museum, Venice Ghetto, and Synagogues by the curator of the Jewish Museum of Venice; a guided bout by Riccardo Calimani, the well-nigh of import writer of the history of Italian Jews; the Tintoretto exhibition, both at Palazzo Ducale and Gallerie dell'Accademia; and prestigious dinners hosted past Museum friends in their exquisite Venetian residences, surrounded by the wondrous view of the Canal Grande.
French Friends (Les Amis)
The French Friends hosted a three 24-hour interval trip to Paris in November, which included the Les Amis annual Gala, private visits to galleries and collections, equally well every bit exclusive tours. Israel Museum friends came from France, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, Israel and the United States.
Over ii hundred guests attended the Gala Dinner and live sale which was held at the renewed Pavillon Gabriel. Dinners were hosted by collectors Hélène Nguyen-Ban and Frédéric and Véronique Chiche. Among the locations visited by the Museum's friends during the trip: The Industry de Sèvres, Centre Pompidou, VNH Gallery, Grand Palais, Fondation Louis Vuitton, and the Musée d'Fine art moderne. The group enjoyed a visit with artist Adel Abdessemed, and was honored by the special opening of Gallery Gerard Levy past Gérard Lévy's family unit. The visit was very moving, equally Gérard Lévy was a longtime and shut supporter of the Israel Museum.
German Friends
From left to right: Shimon Stein, Dr. Gisela Dachs, Daniel Kühnel, Melody Sucharewicz and Dr. h.c. Sonja Lahnstein
The German Friends of the Israel Museum held its 18th "Bridging the Gap" dialogue event. Dedicated to major problems of the 21st century, the successful "Bridging the Gap" dialogue series is based on values of the enlightenment, and stands for the possibility of an agreement across borders and opposites. The serial aims to build bridges, reduce prejudices, and help counteract conflicts.
This year'south issue, titled "Who owns Jerusalem? A place of longing and a identify of explosion. Where is the time to come?" was held on October 23, 2018, in Hamburg. Over 400 people attended. The evening was moderated by Dr. h.c. Sonja Lahnstein-Kandel, Chairman of the German Friends of the State of israel Museum. Prof. Dr. Michael Göring, Chairman of the ZEIT Foundation Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius, introduced the upshot. Guests included Dr. Gisela Dachs, journalist and longtime ZEIT correspondent in State of israel; Daniel Kühnel, art historian and artistic manager of the Symphoniker Hamburg; Shimon Stein, former Israeli Ambassador in Germany; and Melody Sucharewicz, International Relations Advisor to political and private institutions in Germany and State of israel.
The High german Friends and the ZEIT Foundation Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius will go along the successful dialogue serial in 2019.
Israeli Friends (IFIM)
Left to right: Managing director Ido Bruno; Tamara Yovel-Jones, Alber Elbaz, Lea Rotstein
Photo: Eli Posner
The Israeli Friends of the Israel Museum held their annual Artishuk Gala effect on Oct xv, 2018. This twelvemonth's theme was inspired by the Museum's Style Statements: Decoding Israeli Clothes , an exhibition initiated by Tamara Yovel-Jones. The Gala program included brusque TED-manner talks in the auditorium and behind-the-scenes tours of the Museum galleries with curators. Over 450 guests from State of israel and away attended the vibrant event.
Gain from the evening were donated to the Museum'southward educational activities for IDF soldiers and youth.
British Friends of the Fine art Museums of Israel ( BFAMI)
London Design Biennale
The British Friends visited the Israeli Pavilion at the London Design Biennale – a co-production of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem and Shankar College of engineering science. The Viewing included a Curator led tour of the ExhibitionExposed Nerves followed by a Q&A with Israeli Designers and chastened by Maïa Morgensztern.
Swiss Friends
The Swiss Friends of the State of israel Museum held an auction and Gala dinner on the 26th of Nov.
185 guests enjoyed the effect, where an Israeli chef prepared a fantastic Heart Eastern/North African themed carte du jour, the Afro-crush jazz group Quarter to Africa (direct from Tel Aviv) performed with guests dancing until virtually midnight, the auction was a great success, raising big sums for the Museum, including 36 scholarships sold to send under-privileged kids to yearlong art classes at the Museum.
In omnipresence were His Excellency the Ambassador of Israel to Switzerland, Mr. Jacob Keidar and Dr. Keidar. As well as Honorary President Werner Merzbacher, and the past Presidents of the Swiss Friends – Vera and Didier Bollag, Dr. David Jeselsohn, and Dr. Ellen Ringier. Director of the Israel Museum, Prof. Ido Bruno; Manager Emeritus, James Snyder; Council Co-Chair, Marion Naggar; President of the Italian Friends, Davide Blei; and High german Friends Chairman, Sonja Lahnstein Kandel also attended.
Brazilian Friends (AABIM)
On November 13th, the Museum's Brazilian Friends were visited in San Paulo past Dr. Adolfo Roitman of the Israel Museum. Dr. Roitman, Lizbeth and George Krupp Curator of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Head of the Shrine of the Book, gave a lecture on The Israel Museum as a Secular National Temple.
Limited Editions Commissioned by the Israel Museum
At the time of the State of israel Museum's 40th Anniversary in 2005, International Council Co-Chair Marion Naggar looked for a way of honoring and supporting the Museum while strengthening its connections with contemporary artists. This resulted in the cosmos of signed express edition works by internationally known contemporary artists which were sold for the benefit of the Museum – helping it maintain its prestigious status as ane of the world'due south leading encyclopaedic museums.
The first artist to generously concur to participate was Damien Hirst followed by Yinka Shonibare, Ron Arad, Liza Lou, William Kentridge, Arik Lévy and Jeff Koons, all of whom are represented in the Museum'south collection. Nearly recently, in celebration of his acclaimed 2017 exhibition at the Israel Museum Peradventure, Perhaps Not, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei created Hands without Bodies – the ninth sculpture in this sectional limited edition series.
To purchase a limited edition of any of the works below, delight contact Carina Auerbach at carinaue@imj.org.il, +972-2-670-8890
Easily without Bodies, 2017, Ai Weiwei
Porcelain, life-sized (approx. 50 x xx cm), edition of 50.
Price: $fifty,000
Celebrating his acclaimed 2017 exhibition at the Israel Museum Maybe, Maybe Not, Ai Weiwei has created Easily without Bodies, the ninth in a series of limited edition artworks initiated in 2005 past International Council Co-Chair Marion Naggar.
This life-sized piece of work, in celadon-glazed porcelain, reflects the artist'southward deep conventionalities that the future of humanity relies on the strength of connections between people. This ideal is something which very much resonates with the philosophy and mandate of our Museum which welcomes all sectors of the population regardless of age, background, religion, ethnicity, or special needs.
Illusion, 2014, Arik Levy
Series of unique, mouth-blown sculptured vases in silvered and colored fine art glass (40 x 20 cm).
- The silvery vase is an edition of 40 + ii APs, priced at $10,000
- The colored vase is part of an edition of twenty + 2 APs, priced at $xv,000 (excluding VAT and aircraft).
All pieces will be signed past the artist and issued a certificate of authenticity.
Illusion, the sixth in the Israel Museum'southward exclusive commissions of express editions by leading contemporary artists to benefit the Museum, investigates the human relationship betwixt solid and liquid, existence and absence, clarity and deformation. Its advent forever evolving, this sculpture never looks the aforementioned twice. Perpetual interaction with the low-cal and space outcome in a unique sculpture – in the artist's view, a unique spirit like every person.
Multi-disciplinary artist, technician, photographer, designer, and video artist Arik Levy was born in Israel in 1963 and moved to Europe after participating in his offset group exhibition in Tel Aviv in 1986. He graduated from the Art Middle Europe in Switzerland and, after a producing products and pieces for exhibitions in Japan, return to work in stage installations in Europe.
The creation of his electric current studio in Paris led him back to art and industrial blueprint, and his piece of work can be seen in galleries and museums worldwide. Best known for his sculptures – such as his signature Rock pieces, his installations, artworks, editions, and design works – Levy still feels that "the earth is about people, non objects." His work includes public sculpture, as well equally complete environments that can be adjusted for multi use. "Life is a system of signs and symbols," he says, "where nothing is quite every bit it seems."
Levy's work is in the collections of museums worldwide, including the Art Institute of Chicago; the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; the Museum of Modernistic Art, New York; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; and the State of israel Museum.
Gather Xl, 2010, Liza Lou
Series comprised of 40 individual sculptures featuring gold-plated beads threaded onto 400 individual strands of stainless steel wire and bound into a unmarried sheaf (25 x 12 cm) to create a circular field.
The sculpture is bachelor for $22,500 (excluding VAT and shipping) and is accompanied by a signed certificate of authenticity from the creative person.
Get together Forty, 2010, is the fourth in the Israel Museum's exclusive commissions of limited editions past leading contemporary artists to benefit the Museum.
Built-in in New York City, Liza Lou emerged in 1996 when her room-size sculpture Kitchen was shown at the New Museum in New York. Representing five years of solo labor, this groundbreaking work, now in the Whitney Museum's permanent collection, utilized glass beads every bit an index of intensive labor and information technology engaged the materiality and social consciousness that continues to underscore her practice today.
Lou has exhibited at The Metropolitan Museum of Fine art, New York; Five&A, London; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Museum of Gimmicky Fine art, Tokyo; Fondation Cartier, France, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Fine art. In addition, her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf; Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Norway; Fundacio Joan Miró, Barcelona; SCAD Museum of Art, Georgia; Aspen Art Museum, Colorado; the Bass Museum of Fine art, Miami and the Neuberger Museum of Fine art, New York, and she has participated in the 5th Biennale de Lyon d'fine art Contemporain, France; Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan and ARS 01, KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki.
In 2005, Lou moved to Due south Africa, where she established a studio with Zulu beadworkers. Lou currently lives and works in Los Angeles. She is a 2002 MacArthur Beau and the recipient of a 2013 Anonymous was a Woman Award.
Culture Flower, 2007, Yinka Shonibare, MBE
Image courtesy the creative person and Stephen Friedman Gallery
A fragile bouquet of hand-made fabric flowers arranged in a hand-blown opaque black glass vase. (30 x 27 cm). The exuberant bouquet of gardenias, camellias, peonies and roses is fabricated from the artist's signature African textile. Each bloom has been hand selected by the artist from a different batik fabric, and in each organisation in this edition of 40, the choice of textile flowers is varied, making each piece unique.
The piece of work is priced at $30,000 (excluding shipping and VAT) and includes a signed document of authenticity past the artist.
Questions of identity and the concept of cultural hybridity play a key role in Yinka Shonibare's sculptures, paintings, installations, photographs, and videos. His art deals with race, class, colonialism, exploitation, and the complex relationship between "Beginning" and "3rd" Worlds. In spite of this serious subject field thing, Shonibare's works – ofttimes featuring his trademark "African" batik fabric – entreatment to the viewer's sense of sense of humor and of beauty.
Yinka Shonibare was born in London in 1962, spent his youth in Nigeria, and returned to the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland to report art, receiving his MFA from Goldsmiths College. He continues to alive and work in London. Shonibare has participated in seminal group exhibitions worldwide, and his many solo shows include Double Dress at the Israel Museum in 2002 and a 2008 retrospective that traveled from Sydney, Australia, to New York and Washington, DC. His Nelson's Transport in a Bottle was mounted on the 4th plinth in Trafalgar Square in 2010 and is at present installed at the entrance to the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. A recent commissioned outdoor work, Wind Sculpture (SG) I, was on display in Primal Park in 2018.
Shonibare was awarded the decorations MBE in 2005 and CBE in 2019; in 2013 he was elected to the Royal University. His works are included in prominent collections internationally, amongst them Tate, London; V&A, London; National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
PizzaKobra Lite , 2014, designer and architect Ron Arad
Small masterpiece of art engineering science that can be transformed from a flat curl into a unique object of fluid design and can be positioned into a multifariousness of configurations.
PizzaKobra is part of an edition of 40, available at $15,000 (excluding VAT and shipping). Each slice is signed by the artist and numbered.
Ron Arad'south abiding experimentation with the possibilities of materials and his radical re-conception of the form and structure of objects and buildings has put him at the forefront of contemporary design and architecture. PizzaKobra Light, a pocket-sized masterpiece of art and engineering science, is a apartment coil when at rest. In action, it becomes a unique object of fluid design, the hello-tech soft articulations that connect the circular sectors of the screw creating any number of dynamic configurations over the same simple line.
Born in Tel Aviv in 1951 and educated at the Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem, and the Architectural Clan in London, Ron Arad co-founded the London blueprint and product studio One Off in 1981. In 1989, Ron Arad Associates was established, with Ron Arad Architects formed alongside in 2008 to concentrate on larger architectural commissions. Arad was awarded the Majestic Designer for Industry (RDI) in 2002 and in 2011 was awarded the London Blueprint Calendar week Medal for design excellence. A Professor at the Royal Higher of Art in London from 1997 until 2009, he was elected to the Regal Academy in 2013.
Notable among Ron Arad'due south installations and exhibitions isPall Call, which opened at the Roundhouse London in 2011 and traveled in 720° form to The Israel Museum, Jerusalem in 2012. His public sculptures includeBig Blueish in Canary Wharf (2000),Evergreen! in Roppongi Hills, Tokyo (2003), andVortext in Seoul, South Korea (2011). Architectural projects include the foyer at the Tel Aviv Opera House (1994), Hotel Duomo, Rimini (2006), and the Design Museum Holon, Israel (2010). His works are constitute in museum collections worldwide, amidst them the Centre Pompidou, Paris, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the V&A, London.
Traveling Loans and Exhibitions
Traveling Exhibitions
Bologna, Italy: October fifteen, 2017-February 11, 2018 and Madrid, Kingdom of spain: March 22-July 15, 2018 –
Duchamp, Magritte, Dalí: The Revolutionaries of the XX Century: Masterpieces from The Israel Museum, Jerusalem is on display at the Palazzo Albergati in Bologna, Italyuntil February xi, 2018 . The exhibition will then travel to Palacio Gaviria in Madrid.
NYC, USA: Nov three-March eighteen, 2018 and San Francisco, USA: August 30, 2018-January 6, 2019–Veiled Meanings: Fashioning Jewish Dress , currently on display at the Jewish Museum, New York, volition travel to the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. In the Press>>
Lisbon, Portugal: Feb 28-May 27, 2018 –No Place Similar Domicile volition be on brandish at Museu Colecção Berardo.
Tokyo, Japan: June 6-July 29, 2018–The Miracle of M.C Escher: Prints from The Israel Museum, Jerusalem will be on display at the Ueno Royal Museum.
Paris, France: September 15-Dec 20, 2018 –Doing Time in Holotwill exist on brandish at the Musée d'Art Moderne, accompanied by a special French/English edition of the exhibition catalogue.
Loans
Munich, Germany: October thirty, 2017-April 4, 2018; Humlebæk, Denmark: May-August 2018; Cologne, Germany October 2018-Jan 2019–Kandinsky at Teais on loan as part of theGabriele Münter– Creative Visionexhibition at Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau München in Munich, the Louisiana Museum of Modernistic Fine art in Humlebæk, and Museum Ludwig Köln in Cologne.
Berlin, Germany: December 10, 2017-April 30, 2019– Rosh Hashanah Greeting Cards and replicas from the Archaeology Wing are on brandish inWelcome to Jerusalem, an exhibition at the Jewish Museum Berlin.
Augsburg, Germany: January 29-June 30, 2018– A Torah ark curtain from Kriegshaber, Germany circa 1724 will be part of an exhibition on the Kriegshaber Jewish Community at the Jewish Culture Museum.
Frankfurt, Germany: February eight-May 21, 2018 – Peter Paul Rubens'The Expiry of Adonis is on loan equally role of theRubens: The Power of Transformation exhibition at the Stadel Museum.
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