Visit to the Exhibition

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Guided tours of four exhibitions at the two museums:

At the Negev Museum of Art

“Sudden Landscapes” is dedicated to the desert paintings of artist Zvi Meirovitz (1911–1974), a member of the New Horizons group and one of the pioneers of abstraction in Israeli painting. Meirovitz’s desert paintings are considered one of the peaks of his artistic career. The paintings were created in the early 1960s, during the artist’s visits to the desert—primarily in the Mitzpe Ramon area and around the Dead Sea—and were inspired by these experiences.

“The Nature Theater of Avishai Paltak” is Avishai Paltak’s first museum exhibition, offering a comprehensive view of the local landscape as a theatrical, living space in his work. In his generous and stylized paintings, Paltak transforms nature’s poses into human qualities: gestures, exchanges of glances, and emotional expressions. The blending of the energy of the animal world with the plant kingdom creates an intimate relationship between humans and nature, from which a drama unfolds—something akin to a “theater of nature.”

“The Wishing Well” by Anna Fromchenko is an installation combining video, sound, and sculpture, centered on the image of a well. The video work, integrated with the stones of the well, creates the illusion of water slowly rising and falling at a rhythm reminiscent of breathing. The well invites visitors to slow down and linger in the experience.

At the Museum of Islamic and Middle Eastern Cultures

“Living Water” explores the unique place of water in Muslim culture—from an everyday substance essential to life to a powerful symbol of purity, fertility, abundance, and knowledge. Through 14 rare elite objects, the exhibition offers a broad perspective on how water interweaves the sacred and the mundane, body and soul, daily life and court culture, and serves as a starting point for discussion of identity, space, resources, and coexistence.