Exhibitions

Born in Germany, 1953 / Lives and works in Israel

Thomas Israël creates interactive works, video installations, sculptures, and performance. Having begun his career in theater, his atypical approach to digital arts revolves around the themes of the body, time, and the subconscious.

The exhibition focuses on works of art that correspond with wax museums featuring historical and celebrity figures that reflect our interest in watching famous characters. Visitors can pose next to a famous character and “meet” the subjects of admiration, which are unapproachable, in terms of place and time.

From modernism and the metaphysical ideal, through postmodern dystopia, contemporary art seems to be returning to a utopian vision of the future. The new cluster of exhibitions explores the construction of the utopian space as a fortress of hope for socio-political change and its promotion in contemporary art. Its aim is to examine the phenomenon of post-postmodernism, gaining strength in recent years and expressing the present generation's attempt to overcome the postmodernism of the late twentieth century, as a generalized reaction to the present, crisis-ridden moment.