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The Arab Museum Of Contemporary Art (Sakhnin)
The Arab Museum of Contemporary Art and Heritage (AMOCAH or AMOCA) is a Contemporary Art Museum in Arab city Sakhnin in Israel. History The Arab Museum of Contemporary Art and Heritage is the first Arab museum of contemporary art established in Israel. It was founded by two Israeli artists Belu-Simion Fainaru and Avital Bar-Shay. After curating several Mediterranean Biennales they decided that exhibiting Arab, Jewish and Mediterranean artists together in one museum was a worthy endeavor. The museum was inaugurated in June 2015 by Sakhnin Mayor Mazen Gnaim and President's Reuven Rivlin wife Nechamia Rivlin. It was decided that the museum would continue to host the Mediterranean Biennale as part of its program. Until it was officially recognized by the Israeli Ministry of Culture it operated as a private museum. Sayid Abu Shaqra, the owner of Umm al-Fahm Art Gallery was disappointed that AMOCA was declared the first modern Arab art museum in Israel. The plan was to turn his gal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sakhnin
Sakhnin ( ar, سخنين; he, סַחְ'נִין or ''Sikhnin'') is an Arab city in Israel's Northern District. It is located in the Lower Galilee, about east of Acre. Sakhnin was declared a city in 1995. In its population was , mostly Muslim with a sizable Christian minority. Sakhnin is home to the largest population of Sufi Muslims within Israel, with approximately 80 members. Geography Sakhnin is built over three hills and is located in a valley surrounded by mountains, the highest one being 602 meters high. Its rural landscape is almost entirely covered by olive and fig groves as well as oregano and sesame shrubs. History Settlement at Sakhnin dates back 3,500 years to its first mention in 1479 BCE by Thutmose II, whose ancient Egyptian records mention it as a centre for production of indigo dye. Sakhnin is situated on an ancient site, where remains from columns and cisterns have been found. It was mentioned as Sogane, a town fortified in 66, by Josephus.Tsafrir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raed Bawayah
Raed (; Arabic: , ') is an Arabic male name, meaning ''leader or pioneer''. People * Raed Arafat (born 1964), Syrian-born physician of Palestinian descent and Romanian citizenship * Raed Elhamali, Libyan-American basketball player *Raed Fares, Syrian journalist, activist and civil society leader from Kafr Nabl, Syria * Raed Jarrar, Iraqi-born architect, blogger, and political advocate * Raed Melki, Australian rapper of Palestinian descent * Ra'ed Al-Nawateer, Jordanian footballer * Raed Salah, Palestinian politician *Raed al-Saleh, founder and director of the Syria Civil Defense, known as the White Helmets * Raed Zidan Raed Zidan is the first Palestinian man to summit Mount Everest and the first Palestinian man to reach all Seven Summits Early life Zidan was born in Kuwait to Palestinian emigrants. His parents emigrated from Kufr Lakef, Palestine, near Qalqily ..., first Palestinian man to Summit Mount Everest, first Palestinian man to complete the Seven Summits {{given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johannes Vogl
Johannes is a Medieval Latin form of the personal name that usually appears as " John" in English language contexts. It is a variant of the Greek and Classical Latin variants (Ιωάννης, '' Ioannes''), itself derived from the Hebrew name '' Yehochanan'', meaning "Yahweh is gracious". The name became popular in Northern Europe, especially in Germany because of Christianity. Common German variants for Johannes are ''Johann'', ''Hannes'', ''Hans'' (diminutized to ''Hänschen'' or ''Hänsel'', as known from "'' Hansel and Gretel''", a fairy tale by the Grimm brothers), '' Jens'' (from Danish) and ''Jan'' (from Dutch, and found in many countries). In the Netherlands, Johannes was without interruption the most common masculine birth name until 1989. The English equivalent for Johannes is John. In other languages *Joan, Jan, Gjon, Gjin and Gjovalin in Albanian *'' Yoe'' or '' Yohe'', uncommon American form''Dictionary of American Family Names'', Oxford University Press, 2013. *Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelika Sher
Angelika Sher (born 1969) is a Lithuanian-born Israeli photographer. Biography Angelika Sher was born in Vilna, Lithuania. She immigrated to Israel in 1990. She has earned a BA degree in radiography and natural science from Bar-Ilan University, where she has studied from 1991 to 1995. In 2002–2005 Sher studied at the College of Photography in Kiryat Ono, followed by a two-year program at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem (2007–2008). Angelika Sher is married to Vladimir Lumberg, a musician and a producer of the music band "Jewrhythmics", and a mother of three. She lives and works in Israel. Art career Soon after graduation from the College of Photography in Kiryat Ono, where she met Pesi Girsch, her teacher and mentor, Sher had her first solo exhibition at the Ramat Gan Museum. Sher has exhibited her photography in Israel, Italy and Denmark, at the Moscow Biennale, and in Czech Republic. A solo exhibition of her work opened in New York in January 2015. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anahita Razmi
Anahita Razmi (b.1981; Persian: آناهیتا رزمی) is a German-born contemporary artist, of Iranian and German descent. She works with installation, sculpture, video art, and performance. Razmi’s work deploys an art processes of appropriation, in which the meaning(s) of existing images are altered by situating them in another temporal context. Her work often deals with both political and social issues, ones in fact that are often related to Iran, the homeland of Razmi's father. She lives in Berlin, and London. Early life and education Anahita Razmi was born in 1981 in Hamburg, Germany. Her mother is German, and her father is Iranian. She studied media art at Bauhaus University, Weimar; followed by classes at Pratt Institute in New York City; and continued her studies in fine art and sculpture at State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. Career Razmi's works have been exhibited at international institutions, such as the 55th Venice Biennale (2013), Venice; Halle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shirin Neshat
Shirin Neshat ( fa, شیرین نشاط; born March 26, 1957 in Qazvin) is an Iranian visual artist who lives in New York City, known primarily for her work in film, video and photography. Her artwork centers on the contrasts between Islam and the West, femininity and masculinity, public life and private life, antiquity and modernity, and bridging the spaces between these subjects. Since Iran has undermined basic human rights, particularly since the Islamic Revolution she has said that she has "gravitated toward making art that is concerned with tyranny, dictatorship, oppression and political injustice. Although I don’t consider myself an activist, I believe my art – regardless of its nature – is an expression of protest, a cry for humanity.” Neshat has been recognized for winning the International Award of the XLVIII Venice Biennale in 1999, and the Silver Lion as the best director at the 66th Venice Film Festival in 2009, to being named Artist of the Decade by ''Huffin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dani Karavan
Daniel "Dani" Karavan ( he, דני קרוון, 7 December 1930 – 29 May 2021) was an Israeli sculptor best known for site specific memorials and monuments which merge into the environment. Biography Daniel (Dani) Karavan was born in Tel Aviv. His father Abraham was the chief landscape architect of Tel Aviv from the 1940s to the 1960s.Pixel-Delight Dani Karavan website accessed 4 January 2007. At the age of 13, he began studying painting. In 1943, he studied with in Tel Aviv and from 1943 to 1949 at the Bezalel School of Art in . After living on a |
Moshe Gershuni
Moshe Gershuni (11 September 1936 – 22 January 2017) was an Israelis, Israeli painter and sculptor. In his works, particularly in his paintings from the 1980s, he expressed a position different from the norm, commemorating The Holocaust in Israeli art. In addition, he created in his works a connection between bereavement and homoerotic sexuality, in the way he criticized society and Israeli Zionism-nationalism. He was awarded the Israel Prize for Painting for his work in 2003, but in the end it was revoked and he was deprived of receiving the prize. Biography Moshe Gershuni was born in 1936 to Yona and Zvi Kutner, who had migrated to Mandatory Palestine, British Mandate Palestine from Poland. Zvi, the head of the family, who was an agronomist and farmer, "hebraicized" the family name from Kutner to Gershuni, after his father. His mother Yona, née Senior, acted in community theater in Poland and made hats in Tel Aviv. The family lived in Tel Aviv on Hahashmal Street, and in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mounir Fatmi
; Mounir Fatmi (born 1970 in Tangier, Morocco) is an artist of Moroccan heritage. Born in the city of Tangiers, he spent a majority of his time the neighborhood of Casabarata. This neighborhood was known as one of the poorest in the city. He would often spend his time in the flea market, where his mother made a living by selling children's clothing. It was in this very environment that he found himself surrounded by commonly used objects and waste products. As a young boy, he traveled to Rome where he studied at the free school of nude drawing and engraving at the Academy of Arts, and then later at the School of Fine Arts in Casablanca, Morocco (1989), School of Fine Arts, Rome, Italy (1991), and finally studied at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. His multimedia practice encompasses video, installation, drawing, painting and sculpture, and he works with obsolete materials. In 2006, he won the Uriöt prize, the grand prize of the Dakar Biennial and the Cairo Biennial Award in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Buren
Daniel Buren (born 25 March 1938, in Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French conceptual artist, painter, and sculptor. He has won numerous awards including the Golden Lion for best pavilion at the Venice Biennale (1986), the International Award for best artist in Stuttgart (1991) and the prestigious Premium Imperiale for painting in Tokyo in 2007. He has created several world-famous installations, including "Les Deux Plateaux"(1985) in the Cour d'honneur of the Palais-Royal, and the Observatory of the Light in Fondation Louis Vuitton. He is one of the most active and recognised artists on the international scene, and his work has been welcomed by the most important institutions and sites around the world. Work Sometimes classified as a Minimalist, Buren is known best for using regular, contrasting colored stripes in an effort to integrate visual surface and architectural space, notably on historical, landmark architecture. Among his primary concerns is the "scene of production" as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Abramson
Larry Abramson ( he, לארי אברמסון; born 1954) is a South African-born Israeli artist. Biography Larry Abramson was born in 1954 in South Africa. In 1961, his family immigrated to Israel and settled in Jerusalem. In 1970, as a high school senior, he was one of the signators of a conscientious objectors to Israeli rejection of Egyptian President Nasser's peace initiative. In 1973 Abramson studied a Foundation Course at the Chelsea College of Art and Design, London. Upon his return to Israel he took a position as printer and curator of exhibitions at the Jerusalem Print Workshop, where he worked for nine years, until 1986. Art career Abramson's first solo exhibition was in 1975. His work during the 1980s dealt with a variety of iconic symbols from modernist European art, particularly the "Black Square" by Kazimir Malevich, which he used to create dynamic situations combining abstraction and a figurative art idiom. During 1993 and 1994 Abramson created the series of w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea, and shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east, and Egypt to the southwest. Israel also is bordered by the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to the east and west, respectively. Tel Aviv is the economic and technological center of the country, while its seat of government is in its proclaimed capital of Jerusalem, although Israeli sovereignty over East Jerusalem is unrecognized internationally. The land held by present-day Israel witnessed some of the earliest human occupations outside Africa and was among the earliest known sites of agriculture. It was inhabited by the Canaanites ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
