Last night’s launching of the Chelouche Gallery’s new Campus for Contemporary Art & Culture was a Tel Aviv style block party with hundreds of people spilling out onto the surrounding sidewalk and streets, hanging out, talking and chilling to the music.
The Chelouche Gallery was founded by Nira Itzhaki in Neve Tzedek in 1985, and has occupied its previous home on Hissin Street since 1989. The new space will extend the conceptual dimensions of the gallery as well as the physical. Located in the meticulously renovated historic “Twin House” on 7 Mazeh Street, designed and built in the 1920s by Joseph Berlin, the roof salon will become a cultural venue for hosting events. The beloved Bookworm, always a wonderful place for reading and conversation, joins the Chelouche Gallery in the new complex, opening a new branch of the bookstore café on the ground floor.
Inside the gallery, the first visitors could see the inaugural exhibit “Re-Location” featuring the works of Israeli and international artists relating in different ways to the concept. Relating, according to the gallery, to the re-placement of something shifted from its original location, while relating to physical, mental, social and philosophical contexts and exploring questions of movement, uprooting, transference, disconnection, shifting, and displacement.
The exhibiting artists: Tal Amitai Lavi, Zigi Ben-Haim, Gideon Gechtman, Uri Gershuni, Guy Goldstein, Christoph Keller, William Kentridge, Miki Kratsman, Tova Lotan, Volker Maerz, Melanie Manchot, Yossi Mark, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Assaf Rahat, Michal Rovner, Yadid Rubin, Tomer Sapir, Michal Shamir, Nari Ward, Gal Weinstein, Nadav Weissman, Nurit Yarden.
