New Exhibitions at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Guided tours and meetings with curators of the new exhibitions “Tom Wesselmann: In the Big Picture / From the Mary and Jose Mugrabi Collection” and “The Vision of New Bones: Jewish Imaginations and Visions after 1940.”

Alongside these, guided sessions will continue to take place in the exhibitions “Tiny Worlds / Miniatures in Contemporary Art,” “Ilana Dotan: Shelf Life,” and more.

Guided tour of the exhibition “Tom Wesselmann: In the Big Picture / From the Mary and Jose Mugrabi Collection,” led by a guide

Tom Wesselmann (1931–2004), one of the key figures of American Pop Art in the 1960s, created bold and direct images, much like the culture they reflected. Through depictions of still lifes and nudes—fragmented, flat, and monumental—he reimagined the tradition of painting in an era saturated with advertising, consumerism, and media spectacles. His work moves along the boundary between intimacy and exposure, between attraction and discomfort.

A session in the exhibition “The Vision of New Bones: Jewish Imaginations and Visions after 1940,” led by the exhibition’s curator, Uri Drumer

A group exhibition presenting works by Jewish artists, both local and international, created in the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust. The exhibition offers a new perspective on postwar art, focusing on engagement with visionary and fantastic worlds as a way of processing trauma. This is a multidisciplinary exhibition featuring visual art, cinema, music, and more.

A session in the exhibition “Ilana Dotan: Shelf Life,” led by the exhibition’s curator, Emanuela Kalo, with the participation of the artist

Winner of the 2024 Haim Shiff Prize for Figurative-Realist Art, Ilana Dotan’s (b. 1967) stunning charcoal and graphite drawings are rendered in magical realism, like photographs. With perfect technical control, she conveys the texture, materiality, and transparency of industrial and inexpensive objects from the domestic environment. Dotan transforms the tradition of the 17th-century “still life” through her engagement with contemporary packaging materials, whose marginal status makes them symbols of a fast-paced, distracted consumer culture.

Noma Bar: On the Other Hand

Every day, an illustration by Noma Bar is published somewhere around the globe. Bar (b. 1973, Afula; lives and works in London) is one of the world’s leading illustrators.

His works appear in countless periodicals and shape the image of international cultural institutions and brands. His minimalist and sophisticated style moves between positive and negative space and is characterized by bold colors. The exhibition offers an in-depth look into his creative world, in which every image invites renewed discovery.

Changes in Consumption Habits / Tom Wesselmann: In the Big Picture, Ilana Dotan: Shelf Life, Noma Bar: On the Other Hand

A special tour moving between three exhibitions that engage with consumer products and the images associated with them. In his exhibition On the Other Hand, Noma Bar reveals the power of the image of a consumer product through the way we look at brands and the world around us. In the exhibition Tom Wesselmann: In the Big Picture, we will see how the culture of abundance and American brands were presented by Pop artists, and how every image can become marketable. Ilana Dotan collects traces of consumption through packaging and everyday objects, and in her exhibition Shelf Life presents viewers with what remains after consumption: the packaging, the remnant, the memory.

In a session featuring selected works from the three exhibitions, we will examine the life cycle of abundance culture and try to understand how our consumption habits have changed—and, above all, what they can teach us about society, culture, and everyday life.

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