Metzer-Meiser: Take 2 - Symposium with a view to the present 1972 / 2025
Institute for Israeli Art, in cooperation with the Givat Haviva Art
Gallery
Friday, January 2, 2026,
10:00-13:30
The symposium will take place as part of the exhibition “Metzer-Meiser:
Take 2”
Moderator: Dr. Tali Tamir
Opening words and greetings
Dr. Osnat Zukerman Rechter,
Institution for Israeli Art
Metzer-Meiser – Take 2: Second look, expanded view
Anat Lidror, Curator of the Givat Haviva Art Gallery
The Metzer-Meiser project in the historiography of the development of
performance art in Israel
Dr. Dror Harari, Tel Aviv University
53 years after the Metzer-Meiser project, in light of Israel’s current
reality
Micha Ullman
The Jewish bookcase in concrete, in a swamp – an evolving motif, 1972 –
2025
Avital Geva
- Break –
Cave of shadows and column of earth: corresponding with the
Metzer-Meiser project
Saher Miari, artist participating in the exhibition
“Zionism, socialism, brotherhood of nations”? The attitude of the
Hashomer Hatza’ir movement to Arab society under the test of time
Dr. Omer Einav, Director of Yad Yaari
Metzer-Meiser: a possible model of shared living
Dr. Aiala Wengrowicz Feller, Beit Berl Academic College
The event will take place at the Academic College of Tel Aviv – Yafo
(10 Hever Haleumim St.) Free admission – with preregistration here