About the Gallery

The Musrara School Art Gallery has been actively exhibiting for over three decades local and international art exhibitions, including solo exhibitions of veteran and emerging artists, group exhibitions founded upon art and cultural research, experimental projects pertaining to society and community, and collaborations with other art centers and galleries in Israel and around the world. Among the artists who have exhibited at the galleries are Loretta Lux, Andres Serrano, Marina Abramović, Joel Kantor, Elinor Carruci, Michal Rubner, Sasha Dotan, Larry Abramson, Ilit Azouay, Karam Natour, Pesi Girsch, Kohei Yoshiyuki, Hilla Ben Ari, Shay Zilberman, Boaz Aharonovich, Nurit Yarden, Tomer Kep, Rona Sela, Uri Gershuni, Noa Sadka, Ron Amir, Deganit Berest, Liat Elbing, Tamara Mesel, Michal Chelbin, and many others. The Musrara School Art Gallery is open Sun-Thurs, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm. The gallery hosts gallery talks that are open to the public, as well as a variety events, which appear on the website. In the course of the past few years, tens of thousands of art lovers, students and organized groups from across the country have visited the gallery. Tours can be booked at the gallery, which include a guided tour in the current exhibition, and photography workshops combining a tour of the Musrara neighborhood. Chief curator: Asaf Sabag Gallery curators: Michal BarOr, Tali Ben Nun, Irena Gordon, Ori Drumer, Sharon Horodi, Keren Zaltz, Bar Yerushalmi, Ayelet HaShachar Cohen, Irit Carmon Popper, Avi Sabag, Shira Friedman, Vera Korman, Galit Rauchwarger. Gallery administration and exhibition production: Ayelet HaShachar Cohen Gallery tours: Sabina Romanovsky

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Current Exhibition

Migratory Schooling Education in Wartime

Curators of the exhibition: Ayelet Hashahar Cohen, Avi Sabag Sharvit | Assistant to the curators: Tali Romem | Project coordinator: Dana Shahar

Following the October 7 tragedy, communities from the country’s south and north were evacuated to various locations throughout Israel at an unprecedented scale. This complex situation required the construction of alternative education systems for schoolchildren who study far from home.

At the initiative of the Musrara School and the Trump Foundation, the exhibition “Migratory Schooling” features ten projects by artists who documented the children, faculty, and the spaces which were transformed into temporary classrooms for the evacuees, using photography, video, text, and sound. The exhibition explores the architecture of the makeshift learning spaces as well as the teachers and students, who migrate between geographical locations. It seeks to make the voices of these communities heard and draw attention to different aspects related to education in wartime.

Participating communities: Kiryat Shmona • Metula • Shlomi • Upper Galilee Regional Council: Kibbutz Dan, Kibbutz Dafna, Kibbutz Kfar Giladi • Mateh Asher Regional Council: Arab al-Aramshe, Liman • Ma’ale Yosef Regional Council • settlements in the Upper Galilee and Western Galilee • Sderot • Ashkelon • Eshkol Regional Council: Kibbutz Kfar Aza, Kibbutz Kissufim, Kibbutz Magen, Kibbutz Yevul, Kibbutz Be’eri, Kibbutz Holit • Sha’ar HaNegev Regional Council: Kibbutz Gevim, Kibbutz Or HaNer

Locations: Lake House Kinneret Hotel, Tiberias • GeviMizra, Kibbutz Mizra • Ramot Primary School, Haifa • Kibbutz Shefayim • NYX Hotel Tel Aviv • Solarium Dead Sea • Shibli Agricultural Farm, Umm al-Ghanam • Abraham Hostel, Tel Aviv • Enjoy Dead Sea Hotel • Mashiv HaRuach School, Bnei Akiva Ulpanit, Tel Aviv • Schools around the Sea of Galilee • Hotel Yehuda, Jerusalem • Orient Hotel, Jerusalem • The Kerem Institute for Humanistic Jewish Education, Jerusalem

We would like to thank the Trump Foundation; the Ministry of Education’s spokesperson’s office; the heads and faculties of the various spaces, who generously allowed the artists to enter their communities and enabled them to document the activity in the learning spaces. Thanks to all the individuals who were involved in the project and the many students who cooperated, told their stories, took pictures, and were photographed

Read about the exhibition on Portfolio Magazine

Past Exhibitions

All Years|2023

STATE OF AFFAIRS

2023

In Morel Derfler’s photograms, one may discern a line marking the ground. There is little terrain above it, and multiple depth layers below, teeming with action, containing an element of reality with conspicuous signs of conflict.
Derfler, an artist and a lecturer at the Musrara School, was killed in a suicide bombing at the Nahariya train station in 2001. The exhibition was constructed as a dialogue with his oeuvre. The featured works examine the way we observe the local space and formulate a narrative for ourselves, characterized by slow, gradual refinement of the gaze at the geopolitical sphere in Israel.

Graduates exhibition 2023

2023

The Musrara Art Gallery is due to present this month a part of the 2023 Graduates Exhibition.

V-MUMU

Musrara’s Virtual Museum is a shared initiative of the Naggar Musrara School of Art and Society and the Musrara Galleries, attempting to create an additional display space inside the school’s historical building. The museum is a unique platform for contemporary exhibitions displayed in an architectonic and virtual space based on the blueprint of the historical building. The museum offers an interactive experience of wandering and independent movement of the visitors.