Visit to the Exhibition

Tours of four exhibitions at the two museums:

At the Negev Museum of Art:

The exhibition “Sudden Landscapes” is devoted to the desert paintings of the artist Zvi Mairovitch (1911–1974), a member of the New Horizons group and one of the founders of abstraction in Israeli painting. Mairovitch’s desert paintings constitute 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 in the Mitzpe Ramon area and around the Dead Sea, and inspired by it.

“Avishai Paltak’s Theater of Nature” — the first museum exhibition devoted to Avishai Paltak, offering a comprehensive view of the local landscape in his work as a theatrical and living space. 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 realm of plants creates an intimate relationship between humans and nature, from which a drama unfolds — a kind of “theater of nature.”

The exhibition “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 Culture and the Peoples of the East:

The exhibition “Living Water” explores the unique place of water in Muslim culture — from an everyday raw material essential to existence 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.