Israel

Room in shades of blue with wave-shaped seating and recessed TV screens

After 1945

This tour through our core exhibition comprises the triangular relationship between Germany, Israel, and Jews in Germany

Guided Tour
By appointment

Crumpled printed piece of paper formed into a ball, against a background with yellow-blue-green-purple gradient.

Inside Out – Etgar Keret

You can still listen to and read the short stories of the Israeli author from the past exhibition online

Exhibition
21 Oct 2022 to 19 Mar 2023

The drawing in comic style shows an androgynous figure in profile on magenta background. She wears a bright frock, her left hand is raised. An eagle has just flown out of her hand

Yael Bartana – Redemption Now

An expansive presentation of works by the contemporary Israeli artist

Exhibition
4 Jun to 21 Nov 2021

White pillow with blue script

Decorated Cushion

“ISRAELI, JEW, and now SEVERELY DISABLED—there’s got to be a way to capitalize on that in GERMANY,” Daniel Josefsohn, Berlin, 2014/15

Object from Our Core Exhibition
2020

Illustration of a child in a nightgown among lots of falling stars, which the child is grasping in its hands; next to the child there’s a squirrel and a small bird

Tom Seidmann-Freud, Eser sihot li-yeladim

Kleine Märchen (Little Fairy Tales) with artworks for kids, Jerusalem 1923

From Our Holdings
(with digital copy)

Christmas tree on Pariser Platz with the illuminated Brandenburg Gate in the background

A Berlin Israeli as “Advent Hero”

A somewhat peculiar honor for the Shalom Rollberg initiative

Gloss
Dec 2020

Drawing: A group of people, dressed in colorful clothes, crosses the image from right to left with long, sweeping strides.

On the Way to a Poetic-Political Utopia

Else Lasker-Schüler, Durch die Wüste Sinai (Through the Desert of Sinai), about 1935

From Our Holdings

A middle-aged man and woman and two younger men and a younger woman on the beach. The young woman is in uniform, all the others are wearing summer clothes.

This Place

This photo exhibition explores the complexity of Israel and the West Bank

Exhibition
7 Jun 2019 to 19 Apr 2020

View of Jerusalem, you can see the Dome of the Rock with its golden dome

Welcome to Jerusalem

Exhibition
11 Dec 2017 to 1 May 2019

Portrait of a man in a black suit with glasses.

The Jerusalem Dispute. The Fight for Human Rights in Israeli Courts

Lecture by Michael Sfard, one of Israel’s leading human rights lawyers

Video Recording
6 Sep 2018

A camera mounted on a steel cable hovers before a blue sky over the rooftops of Jerusalem.

Stories from Jerusalem: Faith·Love·Hope·Fear

The first fictional VR series by Dani Levy in 360°/VR

Exhibition
3 May to 17 Jun 2018

Book cover by Thomas Sparr: Grunewald im Orient - Das deutsch-jüdische Jerusalem. The photo on the book cover shows a street corner in Rechavia with a house, trees and passers-by.

Rechavia – Grunewald in the Orient

Reading with Thomas Sparr on German-Jewish Jerusalem, in German

Audio Recording
28 Feb 2018

Four portrait photos.

Between the Lines

An evening with Israeli and German poets, in Hebrew and German

Video Recording
9 Sep 2017

A man laughs into the camera.

Israelis in Germany

Ideological Debates and Changing Identities, in German

Audio Recording
4 May 2017

Israelis in Berlin: Between Hype and Reality

Why an Israeli couple decided to move to Berlin

Blog
May 2015

Trees made from colored paper.

Tu bi-Shevat Traditions in Israel

Avner Ofrath on trees, fruit, and a breath of New Age

Essay
2013

In the foreground the detail of a bicycle, behind it is a person.

Cycling Holiday

Avner Ofrath on Yom Kippur in Israel

Gloss
2012

A small wooden building next to the beach, the building is flying the flag of Israel and is surrounded by stacks of beach chairs.

Dateline Israel

New Photography and Video Art

Exhibition Website
2007

A small wooden building next to the beach, the building is flying the flag of Israel and is surrounded by stacks of beach chairs.

Dateline: Israel. Contemporary Photography and Video Art

Exhibition catalog

Publication
2007

Girl in shorts crouches under a desk

Disposable Eyes

Featuring two photo projects: Promised Land and The Pen-Pal Project

Exhibition
25 Oct 2002 bis 26 Jan 2003

Disposable camera in plastic foil with a photo of Jerusalem’s Old City printed on it.

Disposable Eyes

Publication accompanying the exhibition

Publication
2002

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