I Don’t Want to Forget from the Mareva and Arthur Essebag collection.
The exhibition captures the evolving memory of the events of October 7. From utter shock, devastation, and pain, a resurgent question arises: What power does art have in times of crisis?
Curator: Marie Shek
Assistant Curator: Anat Peled
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Making of a Dream, Miriam Cabessa in NYC
After winning the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Ministry of Culture, Cabessa will be coming to NY to attend an event in honor of her work and talk about moral obligation of creating art and beauty in such unthinkable times.
AMR Art DUMBO will be hosting, a filmed artist talk will be led by author & journalist Anya Kamenetz.
The Show will be up until August 8th.
Common Ground
Israeli Art meets Archeology.
The exhibition “Common Ground” dissolves the barrier between archaeology and fine arts, as recent Museum acquisitions of Israeli art are interwoven with ancient artifacts from the collection – most displayed for the first time.
Cabessa’s iconic “Mummy” from 1997 is presented by 3rd-1st century BCE, Ptolemaic figurine of the deity Ptah-Sokar-Osiris, used to accompany the deceased to the afterlife.
Curators: Amitai Mendelsohn, Tanya Sirakovich, Ahiad Ovadia, Pirchia Eyall
“An Asana Moment” at the MUZA Museum
Cabessa presents a new video work “Wonderful and Gone” at the exhibition “An Asana Moment“, curated by Raz Samira at the MUZA Museum.
The exhibition emerged from the current reality in Israel to answer a basic mental need for respite, for some distance from the painful, frightening events, and to address some amorphic, abstract, calm healing for the soul. The exhibition presents video works and photographs created by 23 international contemporary artists, merging into a unique mixture of sound, color and form.
The exhibition’s title comes from yoga asanas, postures that align the body during practice and meditation. Asanas help harmonize and quieten the mind and focus awareness. They are known to release pain and to heal; when performed mindfully, with attention to the breath, they can break down stress and mental obstacles. Asanas bring relief and a sense of satisfaction and tranquility. In this exhibition, we wish to introduce some of the qualities of yoga asanas into our reality, if only for a moment.
“October Seventh” Exhibition at ANU Museum
Two of Cabessa’s paintings: “Radical Hope” and “The Heavens Matter” are featured at this exhibition “October Seventh” that curates works by 25 artists whose creative activity reflects the atrocious times Israeli society is facing since October 7th. Some of them are living artists, some deceased – either murdered on October 7th or died during the ongoing war. The new exhibition wishes to frame a current situation and to record the unique creative burst that is well felt among Israelis since the war began.
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD by the MINISTRY OF CULTURE
Miriam Cabessa has won the Israeli Ministry of Culture 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award.
“Cabessa proposes the movement of her body as the last place the world could overpower, the ultimate barricade of the self. It is not cogito, nor a critical approach in the conventional sense; but it is a very strong and principled point of resistance to control and surveillance. It is the body that knows, the inner rhythm, the eroticism, the libido – and they cannot be dominated or appropriated by the coercive systems of the state or cultural institutions. The mere existence of this place extends hope as to the feasibility of resistance and rebellion. The manifestations of these personal proficiencies are, in Cabessa’s case, outstanding in their peculiarity, and consequently highly credible in the contention they propose; rebellion is launched from the specific erotica of the body.”
Miriam Cabessa: Replicated Intimacy, Venice Biennale 1997, Israeli Pavilion
Curator and text: Sarah Breitberg-Semel
“BREATHING SONG”, SPACE WORK
Vital Signs: Pulse and Breathing Rhythm in Contemporary Art.
Participating artists: Absalon, Sharon Azagi, Christian Boltanski, Louise Bourgeois, Miriam Cabessa, Lilach Chitayat, Sophie Dupont, Regina José Galindo, Gideon Gechtman, Douglas Gordon, Inbal Hoffman, Dikla Moskovich, Avi Sabah, Alma Shneor, Dor Zlekha Levy
Curated by: Dr. Kobi Ben-Meir
https://www.jpost.com/israeli-women/article-731485
Ending June 25th, 2023 at Haifa Museum.
CURRENTLY SHOWING at the TEL AVIV MUSEUM OF ART
“Material Imagination” curated by Dalit Matatyahu, Senior Curator of Israeli Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
Two of Miriam Cabessa’s paintings are currently showing at the new permanent display of the Israeli art collection: “Material Imagination”, which includes works by Israel’s leading artists.
Material Imagination is a model of thinking conceived by philosopher Gaston Bachelard during years of delving into the four elements—earth, air, water, and fire—and their incarnations in the imagination and in art.