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About Us
MoBY [Museums of Bat Yam] is a young and active center for contemporary art. Over the last year, the new managing staff has set up a unique outline composed of exhibitions dealing with local issues and large-scale international exhibitions. The emphasis is set on creating a wide platform for cultural research, theory and criticism, while engaging in dialogue with the local community through dealing with relevant issues and many educational activities.
Ben Ari Museum of Contemporary Art:
This unique building, 935 square meters of round 60s architecture, hosts international and local contemporary art exhibitions and the museum's sculpture collection.
Ryback House:
Named after the Russian-French artist, Issachar Ryback, whose prominent works can be found in MoBY's collection, this one-floor wide building serves as a center for the museums' many educational and community activities.
Sholem Asch's Home:
The original home of acclaimed Yiddish writer Sholem Asch contains a unique collection of manuscripts, documentations, photographs, paintings and Judaica, and serves the literary community for gatherings and cultural events.
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מובי [מוזיאוני בת ים] הוא מערך אמנות ותרבות חדש ופעיל, שבמרכזו מוזיאון בת-ים לאמנות עכשווית על שם בן ארי. המוזיאון מציג אמנות עכשווית איכותית מהארץ ומהעולם, תוך עיסוק בתכנים המשפיעים והמושפעים מהנעשה בקהילה המקומית. במהלך השנה האחרונה הציג המוזיאון תערוכות שעסקו בנושאים מקומיים כמו גם תערוכות קבוצתיות בינלאומיות. המוזיאון משמש פלטפורמה למחקר אוצרותי ואמנותי, תוך קידומן של גישות ניסיוניות, וכן מייצר פעילויות חינוך מגוונות לכל סוגי הקהלים.
מוזיאון לאמנות עכשווית על שם בן ארי:
מבנה עגול ייחודי זה, שנבנה בשנות השישים על שטח של 935 מ"ר מארח תערוכות מקומיות ובינלאומיות של אמנות עכשווית, כמו גם את אוסף הפיסול של המוזיאונים.
בית ריבק:
ביתו של האמן הרוסי-צרפתי המוערך יששכר ריבק, אשר עבודותיו הבולטות נמצאות באוסף המוזיאונים, כיום משמש מרכז לפעילויות החינוכיות והקהילתיות של מוזיאוני בת ים.
בית שלום אש:
ביתו המקורי של סופר ומחזאי היידיש הידוע שלום אש, מכיל כיום אוספים ייחודיים של כתבי יד, מסמכים, תצלומים, ציורים ויודאיקה, ומשמש את הקהילה הספרותית למפגשים ואירועים תרבותיים.
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previous exhibitions:
Laptopia [#5]
Sound Exhibition
Jan 15th - Apr 18th 2009
Amnon Wolman (IL), Carsten Goertz (DE), Duprass: Ido Govrin and Liora Belford (IL),
Gilles Aubry (CH), hans w. koch (DE), Karl Kleim (DE), Marcus Schmickler (DE),
Mark and Laura Cetilia (USA), Yaron Lapid (IL), Yossi Mar-Chaim (IL)
Guest Curators: Ido Govrin, Liora Belford and Eyal Vexler
MoBY is proud to present Laptopia, an international sound exhibition originating from a yearly festival for experimental art by the same name, organized by the label 'Interval Recordings'. Laptopia exhibition will show sound installations, created specifically for the museum's space, while using a laptop as a platform for digital/utopian creation. The participating artists will create their works in the space itself, in a joined process – individual and collective at the same time. This process will generate an overall plastic contraction, composed of independent sound entities. These sound units will function as components of a more comprehensive structure, while communicating both with the space and with each other. The physical and conceptual connections formed throughout the exhibition will transform it to one elaborated and multilayered work in space, directly relating to the possibility of utopian creation in society.
Events:
:::Opening Night The main opening event in the Bat Yam Museum of Contemporary Art will be followed by another event, in the spirit of previous Laptopia festivals, held at 'Levontin 7' club in Tel Aviv. This event will feature live performances by the participating artists and other sound and experimental artists. The people attending the opening will be offered a special transportation service between the two venues.
:::A critical symposium for contemporary art
:::A screening of an experimental video program
:::Artist talks and guided tours
[Catalogue: Hebrew+English]
Links:
pics from opening night 15.1.09
Wednesday 25.3.09, 16:00 to 20:45
Beit Rybak, 6 Hadadi st. Bat Yam
Exhibitions, festivals, experimental events, institutional organizations and alternative spaces – in all of these, and all over the cultural map, sound has become a vital presence.
Facing Sound is a unique conference in the local context, dedicated to forming an elaborate and intriguing discourse around the position of sound in the contemporary art field. Artists, musicians, curators and scholars will approach the subject from practical and theoretical standpoints, exploring it from specific and personal points of view.
The conference outline contains three panels. A specially curated video program will be screened between each panel, featuring video works by Israeli and International artists whose work rely mainly on the element of sound.
כנס חזות הקול
יום רביעי 25.3.09, בין השעות 16:00-20:45
בית ריבק, רחוב הדדי 6, בת ים
(סמוך למוזיאון בת ים לאמנות עכשווית)
תערוכות, פסטיבלים, אירועים אקספרימנטאליים, מרחבים ממוסדים וחללים אלטרנטיביים – בכל רחבי המפה התרבותית מורגשת הנוכחות המתגברת של אמנות הסאונד.
חזות הקול הוא כנס ראשון מסוגו בארץ, אשר מבקש לייצר שיח מורכב ומרתק סביב את מקומו של הסאונד בשדה האמנות העכשווית. אמנים, מוזיקאים, אוצרים ואנשי אקדמיה ידברו על הנושא מהיבטים פרקטיים ותיאורטיים, כשכל אחד ואחת מהם יציעו זווית אישית ומסוימת על התחום.
מהם היחסים בין סאונד לדימוי? מהי מידת העצמאות של הסאונד כמדיום אמנותי? מהם הקשרים בין אמנות הסאונד למדיה חדשה ולהתפתחויות טכנולוגיות? מהם הקשרים בין מהלכים וחקירות ניסיונות בסאונד לבין ממדים אסתטיים וחברתיים? כיצד מתפקד הסאונד בחלל, ובאופן ספציפי בתוך הממסד האמנותי? האם הוא דורש חשיבה מחודשת על גבולותיו, על יכולת הקיבול שלו ועל קהל המבקרים בו?
לכנס שלושה מושבים. בין מושב למושב יוקרנו שתי אסופות עבודות וידאו מיוחדת של אמנים מהארץ ומהעולם, אשר הסאונד הוא אלמנט מרכזי בעבודתם.
תכניה/הזמנה לכנס חזות הקול - עברית
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Demons
Polish and Israeli Contemporary Art and the Spirits of Time
Sept 13th - Dec 20th 2008
Oren Eliav (IL), Tamar Getter (IL), Guy Goldstein (IL), Aneta Grzeszykowska (PL),
Shai Ignatz (IL), Tomasz Kozak (PL), Zbigniew Libera (PL), Sigal Primor (IL),
Zbigniew Rogalski (PL), Roee Rosen (IL), Karen Russo (IL, GB), Josef Sprinzak (IL)
Curators: Naomi Aviv, Leah Abir
Who am I?... If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything would amount to whom I 'haunt'." (André Breton, Nadja, 11)
DEMONS exhibition will show the works of Israeli and Polish artists, while functioning as a platform for artistic dialogue. The theme of demons, which is both direct and elusive, confronts mutual fears, impulses, ghosts and shadows, dealing through them with contemporary concepts of history and creativity.
This exhibition doesn't aspire to deal with demonology or the dark side of theology, but to reflect on demons as a metaphor. Trying to speak about demons is like attempting to convert the punctum into studium. Impossible as it may be, we find this task essential, for “they are there, specters, even if they do not exist, even if they are no longer, even if they are not yet. They give us to rethink the 'there'…" (Derrida, Specters of Marx, 176). Through the medium(s) of art, we explore the common "there" of several simultaneous spaces, swarming with demons and apparitions – those of history, culture and the self. It is because in these haunted times, the constant stare of the demon is fundamental to our own consciousness and self-reflection.
[Catalogue: Hebrew+Polish+English]
In preparation for the exhibition, the museum is organizing gatherings and conversations between the artists as well as mutual visits to both countries.
Around the opening of the exhibition, the museum will organize special events, introducing the curators and all the participating artists.
The exhibition is part of 
The exhibition is co-organized by
Links:
Pics from Screening in the Park - LIVING VIDEO [curator: Michał Brzeziński]
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MoBY Hosting
April 17th-Aug 2nd 2008
Alina and Jeff Bliumis (NY), Escape Program (Moscow), Incas of Emergency (Santiago), Jazzstylecorner (Berlin), Société Réaliste (Paris), Alfred Gallery, Ma’an Association / Etgar Magazine / Video 48, Public Movement, This is limbo, Group Zero, DAKA, ARTPOKER (Daniel Yahel), The Tel Aviv Group, Dotan & Perry
Curators: Milana Gitzin Adiram, Leah Abir
The Bat-Yam Museum of Contemporary Art is hosting groups and collaborations from around the world. The guest groups manifest different modes of cooperation – from permanent associations created around a common ideology, through temporary gatherings and fictitious unions.
Collective action is aimed more towards process and action than towards the production of a finite artistic object, and its sphere of activity is mostly ex-territorial in relation to the establishment. All these constitute it as an action foreign to the museal institution. When entering into the museum, group action questions and undermines the museum’s modus operandi and its traditional standards.
Following these new conditions, we would like to suggest the gesture of hospitality as an alternative curatorial practice to the traditional act of representation. Within the museal context, the liminal, social and temporary action of hospitality seeks to create a space of participation and interaction.
The groups who take part in the show were chosen (following an open invitation – a call for proposals) with awareness that we do not choose only guests but also hosts: with their entry into the museum the guest groups become hosts of the third side of the triangle that constitutes the artistic relations – the public of visitors.
The attempt to sustain the gesture of hospitality within the museum space invokes various questions – Can a museum host? Can works of art host? Does hospitality within the museum space necessitate setting up rules? If so, what are those rules? Who determines them? Beyond these question, which remain open, hospitality grants us the ability to look afresh at the borderlines and fundamental contours of the museum’s space, and to examine closely its capacities, the human relations and different forms of communication that are woven within it
[Catalogue: Hebrew+English]
Links:
הרצאות נבחרות מכנס אוצרות 27.5.08
Biennale website: pics, texts and more
אתר המקהלה הפוסטמודרנית - קבוצת אפס
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Displacements
Immigration at a Young Age
Dec 2007 - Mar 2008
Gaston Zvi Ickowicz, Moti Brecher, Pavel Wolberg, Masha Yozefpolsky, Miriam Cabessa,
Peter Jacob Maltz, Doron Solomons, David Behar-Perahia, Olaf Kuhneman,
Sally Krysztal-Kramberg, Elham Rokni, Alicia Shahaf
Curators: Milana Gitzin Adiram, Leah Abir
The exhibition "Displacements" is concerned with childhood experiences of immigration. The artists participating in this exhibition all immigrated to Israel at a young age, or experienced the decisive influence of immigration early on in their lives.
Childhood experiences of immigration open up onto an entire sphere of tensions and conflicts that are unique to the situation in which an individual is relocated from one house to another, from one culture to another, without being given any choice. As these elements become clearer, so does their significant influence on contemporary culture and society.
The crisis of immigration produces numerous tensions – another language, feelings of estrangement and belonging, assimilation and difference, wandering and a sense of place, place and home. All these cast into doubt concepts of identity and culture, while simultaneously also producing the insistent urge to search for them and define them. This unrelenting quest is the code, or motor, of the works included in this exhibition.
Most of the artworks were especially made for this exhibition. Like the exhibition itself, these works evolved out of individual, personal and biographical experiences. It is from this subjective perspective that they attempt to reach out, to expand and to touch upon the open expanses of more general, social and artistic concerns.
[Catalogue: Hebrew+English]
"Immigration – A Cinematic Gaze" – a weekly anthology of films and video works (curator: Smadar Keren). One part of this four-part anthology was screened every Thursday at 18:00.
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Video Marina
Video Art on the Water-Front, Bat Yam
Aug 25 - Sept 1 2007
Sigalit Landau, Shahar Marcus, Talia Keinan, Jan Tichy, Ran Slavin, Guy Goldstein,
Lee Yanor, Lior Shvil, David Behar, Shy id Alony, Meir Tati, Nira Pereg,
Sharon Glazberg, Boaz Aharonovitz, Gilad Ratman
Curator: Milana Gitzin Adiram
The promenade is an artificial no man's land between the city by the sea and the infinite wilderness that surrounds it. This narrow and seemingly serene border is in fact a battlefield, where a fearsome struggle takes place between the urban city, which aims to gain control of any available piece of land, and nature, which is constantly being civilized and transformed.
The fifteen works in the Video Marina exhibition displayed at the north end of the Bat Yam promenade attempt to examine the human desire to take control of the environment. They portray the cold urban landscape, describe the process of crushing the individual's feelings, examine the cynical use of the animal kingdom by modern man and critique the aggressive encroachment of the wealthy and powerful over the natural resources that belong to us all. Projected on giant screens along the promenade and inside existing structures, the video works themselves invade, obscure, converse with and intensify the natural resource along which they are shown.
The exhibition's name refers both to the English word "marina", a place where the world's wealthy enjoy exclusive private beaches, and to the common first name "Marina", which connotes the immigrant culture of the Former Soviet Union. With its name alone, the exhibition insinuates that it comes to examine the complicated situation where the powerful gain control and ownership of the collective natural resources that should be in the public domain. Furthermore, this name attempts to point to the complex social fabric of the city of Bat Yam and of Israel as a whole.
[Brochure: Hebrew+English]
Links: