TEL AVIV.- The Tel Aviv Museum of Art will present new solo exhibitions by Israeli artists and to announce that in light of public demand, the exhibition of Jeff Koons has been extended until January 2021. It invites the Israeli public, at a time when all the major museums in the world are closed, to take special tours among the masterpieces of the greatest masters of all time: Vincent van Gogh, Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso, Edgar Degas, Amedeo Modigliani, Claude Monet, Wassily Kandinsky, Gustav Klimt, Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein and more that are waiting for visitors to the museum, in the heart of Tel Aviv.

The Tel Aviv Museum of Art will reopen to the public on Tuesday, December 1, 2020 at 12:00. The museum, offers the public a safe and enjoyable experience in a variety of temporary exhibitions and in its Israeli and international collections, in the various galleries and in the sculpture garden.

Tania Coen Uzzielli, Director of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art: "We are pleased and excited to reopen the museum's gates to the general public and hope that all museums and cultural institutions in Israel will join us and reopen soon. I would like to thank the Minister of Culture and Sport, Hili Tropper, who works constantly for the reopening of all museums and culture in Israel. The museum is one of the safest spaces to visit as we strictly adhere to all Ministry of Health guidelines. A mix of wonderful and new exhibitions of Israeli and international art awaits visitors here, along with classics and masterpieces by the great masters."




Jeff Koons remains in Tel Aviv
In light of the public demand, the museum is pleased to announce that the exhibition "Jeff Koons: Absolute Value, Works from the Jose and Marie Mugrabi Collection" will be extended until January 2021. The first solo exhibition in Israel by the world-famous American artist that opened in March 2020 resounded with the public and large numbers of visitors flocked to it as it reopened to visitors, after the first closure. Now with its reopening, the museum has managed to extend the exhibition again.

Israeli art - new exhibitions
The museum is proud to open two new solo exhibitions that have not yet been revealed to the public, by Israeli artists from different generations. A photography exhibition focusing on modern architecture in the urban space by the artist Eli Singalovski, recipient of the Lauren and Mitchell Presser Prize for a young Israeli photographer and a first museum exhibition for Melech Berger, a 94-year-old artist who worked for decades outside the central circles of the art world. An idealistic and ecological artist, who mobilizes art in the service values, ideals and morals and is driven by an urgent sense of mission. These exhibitions open alongside solo exhibitions by the artists Tigist Yoseph Ron, recipient of the Shiff Prize for Figurative Realist-Art, Michal Helfman and Karen Russo and the group exhibition at the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Family Experiential Center, "It Must Be Love" featuring personal and captivating works by twenty artists, created especially for their children.

Masterpieces by the great masters
At a time when all the major museums in the world have been closed for months and the Israeli public does not dare to dream at all of a "museum tour" in New York, Paris, the Netherlands, Tokyo or London, the museum invites visitors to an unmediated encounter with masterpieces of the greatest masters of all time, displayed in our international collections. Van Gogh, Chagall, Picasso, Modigliani, Monet, Kandinsky, and many more are waiting for visitors to the museum, right here in the center of Tel Aviv.

Contemporary International art
In the spirit of the period, the museum presents relevant contemporary international art exhibitions, including the installation of the work of “The Future”, created by the Scandinavian artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset, consisting of an emergency staircase, on which sits a self-contained boy that treasures the vulnerability of his young age. “Democracies”, the video work of the Polish artist Artur Zmijewski, is presented against the background of the large number of civil and political protests in Israel and around the world and the establishment of the Tel Aviv Museum plaza as a site for demonstrations and public gatherings. The “Black Square” print display was inspired by the renewed power that the social network has instilled in the abstract image. This was when it was flooded with millions of black squares, to express support for the struggle of African-American citizens, against racism and violence. The group exhibition “If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler“ also raises issues of inequality, featuring works by artists such as Adam Pendleton, Henry Taylor, Jean-Michel Basquiat and others.