Past Exhibitions

The exhibition "Trespassing" delves into a relatively new phenomenon in Jewish and Palestinian society in Israel: women hailing from a conservative, religious, and patriarchal background, who create bold art that confronts the conventions of the society from which they come. The artists express the unbearable tension between the digital-global sphere that enables their acquaintance with other worlds, and the intensification of oppressive measures against women in their respective communities. Read More

Jewelry making is a language. It is a language whose vocabulary comprises different metals, precious stones and new and contemporary materials. They all combine in an infinite number of ways, like words that join together to form sentences. The Jewelry Making exhibition presents a dialogue between culture, religion, past and present, across a timeline of around a millennium. Read More

We are born into a certain reality. A certain geography, history, climate, culture, conventions, class, traditions, values and principles. A reality that influences the way we live and act, which fixates the way we see things and think about them. A subjective reality.

A collection of twenty messages, narratives that have been embedded within our collective memory, express a local paradox. Their mere existence will not allow a solution to the conflict within which the state of Israel exists within the middle eastern landscape, yet does not function as part of it. Read More

The Legitimacy of Landscape exhibition is the culmination of a 16 year-long project, during which Yaakov took photographs of Arab, Bedouin and Druze villages, in Israel and the Occupied Territories. It is a sort of voyage through the socio-political landscapes of the state of Israel and the Territories. Read More

In recent years we have seen an increasing number of designers who have been influenced by the changes taking place in Israeli society relating to issues of belonging, identity, origin, gender, nationality etc. The dominant issues emerging from the works of these designers include the issue of Arabs and Jews living alongside each other, and the fluctuations occurring between identities. Read More

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The exhibition examines how local Palestinian and Israeli artists adopt various motifs associated with the Moslem decorative element known as arabesque, and incorporate them in their work while imbuing their creations with biographical, political and gender-related content. Read More

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Each of the twelve artists in this exhibition – architects, designers, plastic artists and video artists – chose an object in the museum’s permanent collection to inspire a new work, giving the object a personal interpretation, and extending it or filling it with new content. Read More

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Dor Guez presents the 3rd installation of his large-scope project, “The Sick man of Europe,”; Guez examines the cultural and national history of certain states that had emerged from the Ottoman debris through the personal stories of creators and intellectuals who stopped creating in the wake of their nation's traumatic events. Read More

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The exhibition follows the pieces of the artist Itay Noy as a reflection of the classical watches collection. Time is a fascinating phenomenon – on one hand, a steady, ceaseless progression of seconds, minutes and hours, and on the other hand this progression is measured in cyclical processes. Read More

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“Sign from Iran” is a poster exhibition at the Museum for Islamic Art that showcases the extraordinary achievements of contemporary graphic designers in Iran. It highlights the contribution of Iranian graphic design to the modern Muslim visual world, and its fascinating encounter with Western culture. Read More

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The exhibition "Tiraz: Local Embroidery – Woman / Memory / Identity" at the Museum for Islamic Art was an inspiration for Jewelry and Fashion Design students at Jerusalem's Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. "Contemporay Embroidery" is their interpretation. Read More

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Artist Andi Arnovitz expresses her thoughts about the world we live in through the media of water colors and collage. Some of the works seem to be taken from the realm of dreams, while others carry an inferred warning that we could be endangering our very existence. Read more

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The spectacular exhibition presents colorful paintings and depictions of landscapes of the Land of Israel (Palestine), painted by David Roberts in the 19th century. Read more

555 different hamsas displayed in an exhibition, which is entirely devoted to the hamsa, one of the most widespread motifs and artifacts in popular culture. Over the course of many years, the hamsa turned from a traditional object with a magical role - both in Moslem culture and Jewish culture - into an iconic object, which represent popular culture and art. In a process of cultural evolution hamsa production became commercial and penetrated numerous areas of life: commercials and street billboards, business premises and public institutions, key holders and as an ornamental object in the car. Many strata of the population now use the hamsa, and it has become an integral part of Israeli identity in 2018. Read more



Time is one of the principal components of our life. Almost every event we experience is connected to the concept of time: We operate on the basis of a schedule we predetermine, we try to “make the most” of our time, we get to meetings “after” or “before” the appointed time, we chase after it, wait for it to pass, live the present, plan the future and bask in the past. But, even with all that, the eternal question is “what is time?”. The riddle remains unsolved and mysterious. Read more

Al-Andalus was Spain’s Islamic name. The name comes from the (V)andals tribes who populated the western Mediterranean or, according to another explanation, came from the legendary continent of Atlantic, or from the Atlantic Ocean. Read more