2023
Artist grants
39 artist grants were awarded in 2023, to the following artists:
Alexandra Zuckerman ● Amir Yatziv ● Asaf Einy ● David Duchi Cohen ● Dor Zlekha Levy ● Elham Rokni ● Ella Littwitz ● Eran Webber ● Hadas Duchan ● Hadas Hassid ● Hilla Ben Ari ● Hilla Sali ● Joanna Jones ● Kineret Haya Max ● Lali Fruheling ● Manar Zuabi ● Matan Golan ● Maya Dikstein ● Meidad Eliyahu ● Michael Liani ● Moshe Tarka ● Nir Harel ● Orly Sever ● Penny Yassour ● Raanan Harlap ● Raida Adon ● Tal Yerushalmi ● Tamar Raban ● Tzion Abraham Hazan ● Vardi Bobrow ● Yael Efrati ● Yael Serlin ● Yotam Manda Levy ● Yuval Ya’iri ● Zohar Tal Inbar
Four artists have requested to remain anonymous.
Members of the evaluation team:
Avi Lubin ● Avshalom Suliman ● Or Tshuva ● Ori Drumer ● Ilanit Konopny ● Ashraf Puachri ● Dr. Galia Bar Or ● Dafna Karon ● Dor Guez ● Dr. Dalia Manor ● Hadas Ophrat ● Dr. Hadara Sheflan Katzav ● Hila Cohen Schneiderman ● Zaudito Yosef Seri ● Dr. Housni Alkhateeb Shehada ● Prof. Haim Maor ● Haneen Abed ● Tali Tamir ● Jonathan Hirschfeld ● Prof. Yael Guilat ● Dr. Noa Leah Cohn ● Smadar Keren ● Said Abu Shakra ● Rula Khoury ● Ron Bartush ● Shlomit Breuer
Altogether, 1,400,000 NIS have been awarded as grants.
POLICY AND RIGHTS
During 2023, we continued our collaboration with the Association of Plastic Artists in its struggle to anchor artists’ wages in public support programs.
Project team: Revital Ben Asher Peretz, Anna Wild
The booklet “The Association’s Recommendations for Changes to Support Criteria for Public Galleries” was published last September.
FIELD RESEARCH
Researcher: Albert Swissa
The following seven artists participated in the research project “Creation – Beyond all Objects” in 2022- 2023:
Aharon Pinchas Grundman ● Yitzhak Yerushalmi ● Nurit Agur ● Nidal Gabarin ● Miri Nishri ● Akiva Alon Torobetzki ● Roger Ishai Benichou (RIP)
Yitzhak Yerushalmi’s exhibition Fête Naïve opened in October 2023 at the Musrara School gallery.
BASIC RESEARCH
IN 2023, we began a collaboration with the Marcel Art Projects association to develop the “Point of View” project – an online database of conversations with artists and accompanying activities.
The “Point of View” project has been established to provide a platform for artists who are or have been active in Israel in the past, to hear directly from them about their artistic activity and the broad contexts in which they work by publishing their opinions, thoughts, world-views, and things they had said in conversations with them via various media over the years.
The database is intended for researchers in the fields of art, history, and sociology, as well as students, teachers, journalists and communication people, and art and culture lovers in the general public.
Co-editors and project managers: Itai Shabtay, Adi Engelman.
Advisory board: Dr. Maayan Amir, Keren Goldberg, Rula Khoury, Omer Krieger, Dr. Orly Shevi, Tali Tamir.
ART IN COMMUNITY SPACES
The collaboration with “Zumu – the Museum on the Road” continued with the development of the “Creating a Place” project – groups of local activists for the advancement of plastic art in the community and developing educational programs for the schools.
“Creating a Place” took place with two groups : Naharia – Mate Asher (Zumu’s sixth stop) and Yafo D. (the seventh stop).
Details of the 2023 activity will be published soon.
Zumu’s eighth stop opened in June 2023 at Orhan Zifzif in Acre.
