Sukkot at the Museums - Guided Tours of the Exhibitions
Guided tours of four exhibitions at museums in Beersheba during Sukkot. The activity takes place at the Negev Museum of Art and the Museum of Islamic and Middle Eastern Cultures.
Guided tours of four exhibitions at museums in Beersheba during Sukkot. The activity takes place at the Negev Museum of Art and the Museum of Islamic and Middle Eastern Cultures.
Further Details
This is no ordinary sukkah in the Museums Complex!
The Museums Complex invites children, parents, grandparents, and grandparents to participate in 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 Mairovitch (1911–1974), a member of the New Horizons group and one of the pioneers of abstraction in Israeli painting. Mairovitch’s desert paintings are a body of work considered one of the peaks of his art. The paintings were created in the early 1960s, during the artist’s visits to the desert—mainly the Mitzpe Ramon area and the Dead Sea region—and were inspired by it.
“Avishai Faltak’s Theatre of Nature” is the first museum exhibition devoted to Avishai Faltak. It offers a comprehensive perspective on the local landscape in his work as a theatrical, living space. In his generous and stylized paintings, Faltak 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 “theatre 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, combined 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 raw material 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 the ways water weaves together the sacred and the mundane, body and soul, daily life and court culture, serving as a starting point for discussion of identity, space, resources, and shared existence.
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