Traces IX – Slough

The 9th Biennale for Drawing in Israel

Traces IX – Slough

8 November 25 – 7 February 26

Chief Curator: Tali Ben-Nun

The Jerusalem Artists’ House – Opening: Saturday, 8 Nov. 2025, at 6:30 pm
Ticho House, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Koresh 14 Gallery – Opening: Saturday, 8 Nov. 2025, at 7:30 pm

The Biennale for Drawing in Israel, sponsored and produced by the Jerusalem Artists’ House since 2001, has cemented its status as a comprehensive, unique artistic enterprise. Like previous editions, the 9th Biennale is held at the Jerusalem Artists’ House and in other venues in the city center, 3 this year (Koresh 14 Gallery, Jerusalem Print Workshop and Ticho House). The 77 artists exhibiting in the different venues were selected from over 600 Israeli artists who responded to the open call.

Slough, the Ninth Biennale for Drawing, explores the genre of drawing in relation to sloughing—one of the most fascinating and mysterious phenomena in the animal kingdom, largely hidden from view. Drawing is the heart and origin of many works of art. At times, it allows us to search for what existed before something came into being—in the raw, prior to form and name. For one, this may be an end point, for another—a beginning that signifies continuation.

Slough is both end and beginning, the dead sign of the living body. Only recently it was an inseparable part of a body, and now it resides between inside and outside, on the threshold between history and that which has not yet been fixed in language. Much like sloughing and the material surplus it produces, drawing and its substrate embody, at once, potential and its realization, body and remnant, the literal and the interpretive.

The exhibitions at Ticho House, the Jerusalem Print Workshop, and Koresh 14 Gallery, are also underpinned by the idea of the slough as a model for metaphorical or concrete thought, whereby they seek to characterize visual images with spiritual, political, human, and current baggage.

Gallery talks and related events will be held in all venues during the three-month run of the Biennale.

Biennale Artists:

Jerusalem Artists’ House Nivi Alroy, Gilad Ashery, Maya Attoun, Lea Avital, Yochai Avrahami, Eden Bannet, Eitan Ben Moshe, Nitsan Ben Zimra, Ori Carmely, Shiri Cnaani, Chen Cohen, Yosef Joseph Yaakov Dadoune, Omri Danino, Flora Deborah, Drora Dominey, Yaacov Dorchin, Sharon Etgar, Eliyahu Fatal, Dorit Figovich Goddard, Yitzhak Golombek, Noa Glazer, Naama Amar Hadany,  Hadas Hassid, Shams Hawwari Zoabi, Reuven Israel, Talia Keinan, Edith Kofsky, Gabi Kricheli, Jossef Krispel, Dana Lev Levnat, Kineret Haya Max, More’Sun Nahndaji, Hilla Toony Navok, Inbal Nissim, Gilad Ratman, Zamir Shatz, Pesach Slabosky, Shay-Lee Uziel, Shahar Yahalom, Shai Yehezkelli, Reut Yeshayahu, Yaara Zach, Shahd Zoubi, Masha Zusman  Ticho House Yael Atzmony  Jerusalem Print Workshop Yael Burstein, Tamir Chen, Ayelet Hashahar Cohen, Eliya Cohen, Nirvana Dabbah, Rachel Frumkin, Carmit Hassine, Mosh Kashi, Meital Katz Minerbo, Tamar Lewinsohn, Michaela Mor, Reyzl Perchonok, Yoav Raban, Tamar Roded Shabtay, Yasha Joseph Rozov, Yael Ruhman, Dafna Sartiel, Wanja Schaub, Alma Shneor, Shade Twafra, Yonatan Zofy  Koresh 14 Gallery Ron Asulin, Elia Ben Ner, Boaz Barkani, Doaa Bsis, Miriam Cabessa, Meydad Eliyahu, Revital Lessick, Tamir Lichtenberg, Galia Hili Pasternak, Yael Yudkovik, Noga Shatz

Events at the Jerusalem Artist’s House:

Saturday 8.11.25, 18:30, during the opening event

Performance by Kineret Haya Max – “I Stroked Gaza”

Monday, 24.11.25, at 12:00–18:00

The event has been postponed. A new date will be announced later.

Itzik Gil Avizohar – Electro-acoustic sound installation examining the medium of drawing through the prism of sound, using “Slough – Sound”

Monday, 8.12.25

Tracing Impressions – Curatorial Explorations

13:00–13:45 Meeting with Tali Ben-Nun, Chief Curator, Jerusalem Artists’ House

14:15–15:00 Meeting with Timna Seligman, Ticho House

B r e a k

15:30–16:15 Meeting with Tamar Gispan-Greenberg, Jerusalem Print Workshop

16:30–17:15 Meeting with Dveer Shaked & Vered Hadad, Koresh 14 Gallery

Tuesday, 30.12.25, at 17:30

Performative Tour through Star Maps.

with the artist More’Sun Nahndaji, tracing historical events and milestones in the biography of the Jerusalem Artists’ House building.

Tuesday, 13.1.26, at 18:30

Drawing Films – Screening and discussion presenting a selection of video works reflecting on drawing as an artistic medium.

The films trace the act of drawing and the gestures of the drawing hand. Through the camera’s gaze, the material quality of drawing is emphasized, revealing a medium often perceived as fragile, as a dramatic, profound, and transformative creative force.

Curator: Maya Zack

Gallery talks:

With the curator Tali Ben-Nun, and two of the participating artists

• Saturday, 29.11.25 at 12:00

• Saturday, 20.12.25 at 12:00

• Monday, 12.1.26 at 17:00