SALON 1 WITH ALMA LUXEMBOURG

On August 11 we will hold our first salon (the gallerist) with Alma Luxembourg at her home and at the Bauhaus Foundation both located in the same building in Tel Aviv. A second generation leader in the art market (her mother Daniella is a veteran in the field) Alma worked for dealers, auction houses and now co-owns and co-directs Luxembourg + Co., a gallery with spaces in London and New York.

WALKTALK LISBON AND LOS ANGELES

We launched WalkTalk Los Angeles, the dates are November 12-15. With the motto “Larger than Life,” this is our most ambitious destination, after Milan, New York, Athens, Copenhagen, Vienna, Madrid, Cologne-Düsseldorf, and Lisbon (in September). If you are interested, contact us. Speaking of Lisbon, we are scheduling two events for you: a zoom lecture on August 19 at 19:00 about acclaimed artists Joana Vasconcelos, Leonor Antunes and Ernesto Neto, whose work you might have seen at the Pinault Collection at Palazzo Grassi in Venice, at Tel Aviv Museum of Art or at MUZA, Eretz Israel Museum; on September 2 at 19:00 a studio visit with artist Liora Kaplan (we showed her in 2022) who produced her latest body of work – one of them part of the outdoor sculpture program promoted by the Municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo – with marble in Portugal.

SALON 2 WITH RIVKA SAKER

On September 10 we will hold our second Salon (the auctioneer) with Rivka Saker, who is a long-time board member at CCA Tel Aviv-Yafo, the founder and chair at Artis – a philanthropic organization supporting artists from Israel –, a board member at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin and at the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in Tel Aviv; last but not least she co-founded Sotheby’s Israel of which she is Chairman. Rivka will host us on the rooftop of her apartment in Tel Aviv – she divides her time between Tel Aviv and New York – and she will share her vision on art, on the state of Israeli art in these turbulent times, on the market and on philanthropy from a global perspective.

AT CCA TEL AVIV-YAFO

In the meantime at CCA Tel Aviv-Yafo we have two projects especially conceived for and produced by CCA Tel Aviv-Yafo; in the Ground Floor Gallery Italian artist Margherita Moscardini created works ruminating on the notion and etymology of abstraction and related to sites in Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Hebron governed by the status quo; in the First Floor Gallery, and in a private apartment in front of the Center, Israeli artist Tal Engelstein created a unique installation featuring Israeli “crafted coins,” voices broadcasted live from site all over Israel and the West Bank as well as smells from kitchens of restaurants and food stalls inside the Carmel Market. Both projects are so unique and if you want to come and have a private tour you should write to us; they will run until August 31.

RECOMMENDATIONS WHILE TRAVELING

As the summer approaches we have a few recommendations for you: the first one is an exhibition of works by Israeli artist Naama Tsabar (we showed her in 2018) juxtaposed to works by post-war art giant Joseph Beuys at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin; the second one is “If Women Rule the World” a presentation of female artists at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens (the title is taken from a work by Yael Bartana); the third one is the inaugural exhibition at the Campus, a collaborative space by New York galleries Bortolami, James Cohan, kaufmann repetto, Anton Kern, Andrew Kreps, and kurimanzutto in Hudson NY, a few hours from New York.

READING AND WATCHING RECOMMENDATIONS

As many of you are going, or went, to the Venice Biennale, we would like to recommend two videos and one interview related to Claire Fontaine the “collective artist” (if you read and watch you will discover why we put quotation marks!) whose iconic work Foreigners Everywhere gives the title to the entire Biennale. One video (click HERE) is an old interview at Art Basel Miami Beach; the other is a recent video (click HERE) about Claire Fontaine’s collaboration with the fashion house Dior for one of their runaways. Then, if you want to discover more, you can read an interview (click HERE) and you can ask Nicola, who has worked with them on several occasions and he is very familiar with their practice. He will be happy to share his knowledge with you.

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The building on Bialik Street hosting Alma Luxembourg’s home and the Bauhaus Foundation

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A work by Norwegian Los Angeles-based artist and photographer Torbjørn Rødland

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Rivka Saker being honored with Artis at the Jewish Museum’s 34th Annual Purim Ball in 2020

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A view of Naama Tsabar’s exhibition at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin

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A view of Claire Fonteine’s work Foreigners Everywhere at the Venice Biennale