Guided Tour for Adults at the 2026 Biennale

The third Biennale, taking place at MoMA, is presented this year under the theme “Works and Days,” featuring more than 200 works and projects by female and male creators. Alongside the main exhibition at the Rothschild Center, the Biennale will host academic incubators, tours and gallery talks for the general public, as well as activities for the whole family.

Alongside the main exhibition at the Rothschild Center, the Biennale will extend throughout the permanent pavilions and museum spaces, host academic incubators, and offer tours, gallery talks for a broad audience, and activities for the whole family.

The Tel Aviv Biennale of Arts and Design first opened in 2020 at MoMA, the Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv. Since then, it has offered a contemporary perspective on Israel’s craft and design scene, drawing on the museum’s longstanding commitment to local material culture.

Since the previous Biennale, Israeli society has experienced one of the most dramatic upheavals in its history. The current Biennale responds to this reality through works examining the place of creation in times of crisis and expressing feelings of urgency, resilience, and impermanence. The fields of craft and design, in their various aspects, emerge not only as artistic expression, but also as a life force that is creative and generative, communal and social. Here, creation takes shape as an act of responsibility toward people, the community, and the environment—as a realm of material, technological, scholarly, and practical knowledge that continues to change, develop, and be reformulated.

The Biennale’s theme for 2026 draws inspiration from Hesiod’s epic poem Works and Days from the eighth century BCE—one of the earliest reflections on “work,” understood not merely as toil or craftsmanship, but as both an existential and moral act. The poem, written as practical guidance for a worthy and just life, takes on renewed meaning today, as the act of creation is revealed as a conscious, ongoing practice of resilience, and sometimes also of resistance, arising from the desire to warn, protect, and heal.

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