Micha Ullman: First Watch

The Negev Museum of Art is honored to present Micha Ullman’s solo exhibition, First Watch. Ullman (b. 1939) is one of the prominent artists in the history of Israeli art and recipient of the Israel Prize for Sculpture. His sculptures, found in many public sites in Israel and worldwide, have awarded him far-reaching international recognition. This mature exhibition also has an undertone of a beginning, both in the return to the artist’s early works and in the invitation to exhibit Ullman’s first-ever solo exhibition at the Negev Museum of Art.

Curator: Ron Bartos

’73–’23: Video Salon Between Two Wars

The Negev Museum of Art is proud to host ZUMU – Museum on the Move, and launch the video anthology ’73–’23: Video Salon Between Two Wars in the Negev. The exhibition features compilations of video works that look at the Israeli society and the reality of life in this place between two traumas – 6 October 1973 and 7 October 2023. Along the connecting threads that stretch between one debacle and another, the anthology comprises fifty video works created in Israel during, between, and in light of the two wars. The selected works bravely, bluntly, and poetically touch on the fraught and challenging Israeli reality over the past fifty years and the unnerving feeling that history is simply repeating itself.

Featuring: Laila Abd Elrazaq, Yossi Atia and Itamar Rose, Officer Az-Oolay (Maybe-Then), Yael Bartana, Doaa Bsis, Faina Feigin and Noga Or-Yam, Leor Grady, Raafat Hattab, Ala Haytham, Thalia Hoffman, Orit Ishay, Michael Jacob, Sharon Ken-Dor, Meshy Koplevitch, Shahar Marcus, Ohad Milstein, Lee Nevo and Amir Mayer, Tamar Nissim, Dov Or Ner, Ada Rimon and Ofeq Shemer, Itamar Rose, Omer Rosenberg, Lior Shvil, Naama Shohet, Micha Ullman, Rona Yefman and Tanja Schlander, Tamir Zadok

Curators: Milana Gitzin-Adiram, Dr. Maayan Sheleff, Shahar Ben-Nun