Traces VIII – More Than One

The 8th Biennale for Drawing in Israel

Traces VIII – More than One

26 November 22 – 25 February 23

Chief Curator: Irith Hadar

The Jerusalem Artists’ House – Opening: Saturday, 26 Nov. 22, at 6:30 pm
Ticho House, Jerusalem Print Workshop, Barbur Gallery, Koresh 14 Gallery, HaMiffal – Opening: Saturday, 26 Nov. 22, 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, an ongoing celebration of the medium of drawing and its many and diverse manifestations. Like previous editions, the 8th Biennale is held at the Jerusalem Artists’ House and in other venues in the city center, five this year (Koresh 14 Gallery, HaMiffal, Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem Print Workshop, and Ticho House). The 71 artists exhibiting in the different venues were selected from over 600 Israeli artists who responded to the open call. The selection and scope of the exhibited works guarantee a broad, diverse and intriguing display of contemporary practice in the old but frequently renewed medium of drawing.

As suggested by its title, “More Than One”, Traces VIII focuses on instances of drawing which span more than one sheet. It presents series and clusters of independent drawings, whose conjunction and juxtaposition constitute a whole greater than the sum of its parts, and yet—a whole that is neither absolute nor strives for the monumental, but rather one that attests to the relativity of things, and to the relativity and transience of their interrelations. The structuring modes of drawings in multi-sheet formats, as series and clusters, is the common denominator of all the biennale exhibitions this year. At the same time, each individual show offers a unique insight into the impulse or necessity inherent in an expression which extends over more than one sheet, introducing different contexts for the various manifestations of multiplicity, presented in these formats.

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

Biennale Artists:

Jerusalem Artists’ House Adi Argov, Yael Azoulay, Ronit Citri, Karen Dolev, David Duvshani, Yoav Efrati, Assaf Evron, Ofra Eyal, Inga Fonar Cocos, Hili Greenfeld, Omer Halperin, Eshchar Hanoch Kliengbiel, Hadas Hassid, Haviv Kaptzon, Moran Kliger,  Efrat Klipshtein, Eli Koplevitch,  Abraham Kritzman, Eti Levi, Tamar Lev-On, Noga Linchevsky, Liav Mizrahi, Pnina Reichman, Tomer Rosenthal, Lezli Rubin-Kunda, Avi Sabah, Yehudit Sasportas, Emi Sfard, Malachi Sgan-Cohen, Ira Shalit, Alma Shneor, Shahaf Shua,  Hilla Spitzer, Michal Sophia Tobias,  Amir Tomashov, Yoav Weinfeld, Alma Yitzhaki,  Shay Zilberman, Yonatan Zofy, Ayelet Zohar, Alexandra Zuckerman  Ticho House Munio Gitai Weinraub Jerusalem Print Workshop Michal Bachi, Maya Bloch, Yael Boverman-Attas, Efrat Galnoor, Noa Hagiladi, Jonathan Hirschfeld, David Isaacs, Michael Rorberger, Atalia Shachar, Ruti de Vries Barbur Gallery Ron Chen, Tamir Chen, Talia Israeli, Gabriella Klein, Rachel Rabinovitch Koresh 14 Gallery Tali Benbassat, Avital Cnaani, Noga Farhi, Andres Gurwicz, Irit Hemmo, Joshua Neustein, , Avner Pinchover, Elinor Sahm, Nomi Tannhauser HaMiffal Orit Adar Bechar, Raya Bruckenthal, Ilana Hamawi,  Ruven Kuperman, Netta Lieber Sheffer, Michal Lazarovitz