The project "Six Decades, Six Museums" is the result of cooperation between the 60's headquarters, The Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport, the Culture Administration, the Department of Museums and Plastic Art and participating museums supported by private and governmental bodies.

The project will lead to cooperation, for the first time, between the six leading museums in Israel: each and every one of them will show an exhibition that will be dedicated to another decade in Israel's history. The exhibitions will present a comprehensive report and new insight about art in Israel during the last sixty years. Top Israeli curators - senior, young, independent and those working on behalf of public institutions are in charge of accumulating the art pieces shown. Some chose to depict a broad perspective of the period they portray; others focused on a certain subject or generation of artists who they perceive expresses that particular period in time in the best way.

The participating museums and the decades they portray:

The Museum of Art Ein Harod - the fifties: the first decade "Hegemony plurality"

Opening Date: 26.7.08, Closing Date: 25.10.08

Curators: Gideon Ofrat & Galia Bar Or.

 

Ashdod Museum of Art, Monart Center - the birth of the "present"- the sixties in Israeli art.

Opening Date: 26.7.08 Closing Date: 25.10.08

Curators: Yona Fisher & Tamar Manor-Friedman

 

Tel Aviv Museum of Art - My body, My Self: the seventies in Israeli art.

Opening Date: 26.6.2008 Closing Date: 13.9.2008

Curator: Professor Mordechai Omer

Haifa Museum of Art, Check Post - the eighties in Israeli art.

Opening Date: 12.7.2008 Closing Date:  28.12.2008

Curator: Ilana Tenenbaum

Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art - the nineties: "In the end we will die: young Israeli art in the nineties".  

Opening Date: 3.5.2008 Closing Date:  9.8.2008

Curator: Doron Rabina  

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem - Real Time: Art in Israel 1998-2008

Opening Date: 17.4.2008  Closing Date:  30.8.2008

Curator: Amitai Mendelson & Efrat Natan

 

Each one of the exhibitions will be accompanied by a comprehensive catalogue that will include a textual report and or photographs of the main art events, reference by experts of that period from a sociological and historic point of view and personal interpretation provided by the curator/s regarding art during that particular decade.

The project will be displayed across Israel and will deal with the history of Israeli art, its main aspiration is to bring the general public closer to art created in Israel, to the story it tells, to its quality and uniqueness.

 

 

 

 

 

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