‘Digging Down – Art of the Pre-Future’ is a group exhibition of Israeli artists whose main subject is archaeology.
It is on display in the galleries amongst the items exhibited in the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem, intermingled with the historical flow of the permanent exhibition, enabling a dialogue between distant periods of time throughout the museum alongside an inter-generational conversation within Israeli art.
The works presented in the exhibition engage in an in-depth study of the relations between the archaeology of the Ancient Near East and the civilizations of Egypt, Greece and Rome, on the one hand, and contemporary Israel art, on the other.
Participant Artists:
Uri Gershuni, Iris Cintra, Ella Littwitz, Alima Rita and Menashe Kadishman, Elad Rosen,
Assi Meshullam and Talia Yona Kliger, Ariel Hacohen, Gilad Efrat, Gaston Zvi Ickowicz,
Dganit Brest, David Adika, David Fine, Dina Shenhav, Vardi Bobrow, Zohar Gotesman, Hava Mehutan,
Haimi Fenichel, Khen Shish, Tal Shochat, Jonathan Ofek, Jonathan Hirschfeld, Yechiel Shemi, Lihi Turjeman,
Mark Yashaev, Michal Baror, Maayan Elyakim, Merav Kamel and Halil Balabin,
Mordechai Gompel, Miryam Gompel, Moshe Shek, Sigalit Landau, Amos Kenan, Rudolf (Rudi) Lehmann, Ruthi Helbitz-Cohen,
Ruth Patir, Shahar Marcus, Tomer Azulay, Tomer Sapir, Tamir Tzadok.
Closing: April 2022
Curator: Shira Friedman
In the cover: Mark Yashaev, Revelation, 2021.
