In Italy artistic and cultural institutions have now reopened. However other nations have preceded us.

In almost all of the Italian regions there is a feeling of restart, but in Israel it is from February 2021 that art professionals and collectors have breathed a sigh of relief.
After the difficult months experienced globally due to Covid-19, Israel has placed itself at the top of the vaccination campaigns rankings. And this has led the nation to a turning point.
It can therefore be said that an increase in the number of immunized people is essential to guarantee the return to the normal way of living, allowing a restart of all the economic activities.
In short, Israel, on this front, can be seen as a model from which to draw inspiration.
Currently 5,334,950 individuals have been vaccinated and 53% of the population has received both vaccine doses.
At the dawn of the pandemic, Israeli private or public cultural activities were set up into various digital platforms, but the return to physical tours was strongly supported by both users and insiders. In fact, during the lockdown periods, many criticisms had been raised against the strong government measures, moved above all by intellectuals and political commentators.

Therefore, as soon as the health situation allowed it, it was decided to reopen museums with strict rules to follow.

Visiting museums, going to cinemas or theaters is in fact allowed only to people vaccinated or otherwise in possession of the so-called "green passport", to be shown when purchasing entrance tickets. In indoor places the maximum capacity is 1000 people per location up to 5,000 seats or 4000 individuals for places with more than 5,000 placements. Percentage criteria are also adopted for outdoor events. The use of the mask and respect for the interpersonal distance of two meters are mandatory.

As for art galleries, each user must have 7 square meters (a sort of imaginary individual "bubble") available to up to a maximum of 300 visitors at the same time in really large spaces.

So, following these precise rules, let's discover together the cultural events put in place by public and private structures in Tel Aviv, undoubtedly the most vital city in the area.


Let's start from the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the first museum to be opened in Israel in 1932.
The institution is dedicated to the preservation and exhibition of modern and contemporary local and foreign art. Reopened according to the usual times, the structure offers a tour of its permanent collection and sculpture park, as well as 8 temporary exhibitions, which are mentioned below.
“Human, Pattern: Works from the Collection Nahum Zolotov” until 29/04/2021; “It Must Be Love: Gifts from Artists to their Children” until 08/05/2021; “Eran Nave: Hunchback Clock” until 14/05/2021; “Melech Berger: Conditions for a Flourishing Humanity” (her first museum solo show) until 22/5/2021; "Eli Singalovski: Formal Solutions” until 05/06/2021; “Artur Zmijewski, Democracies” until 05/06/2021; “Calder: Great Yellow Sun” until 15/08/2021; “Miki Kratsman and Shabtai Pinchevsky: Anti-Mapping” until 02/10/2021.





Instead, looking at art galleries, cultural centers and non-profit spaces, we have chosen six of them.

The Gordon Gallery was opened in Tel Aviv in 1966 in Gordon Street. In 2018 it inaugurated an additional 400 square meter space and recently concluded a solo show by Ron Arad entitled "Strings, Love Songs and a Red Car" (which can be visited until April 20, 2021).
At the Alon Segev Gallery, the first minimalist space to be born in Israel in 2000 according to European and American examples, it will be possible to visit an exhibition dedicated to Shir Moran, a young artist born in 1986, until May 14, 2021. After it you will see the solo show by Eitan Ben Moshe, “THE STORY OF Y”.
Har-El, on the other hand, is a historic reality dedicated not only to contemporary art, but also to publishing. Until May 30, 2021, it offers an interesting retrospective on artist's books entitled "Pilgrims and Heretics".





The young and promising Inga Gallery, founded in 2006 in the heart of the emerging industrial and cultural area of ​​Bar Yochai street, presents to art collectors "Offering", a personal exhibition by the painter Aram Gershuni.
Thus we arrive at Artspace Tel Aviv, a non-profit space and contemporary art gallery that has set itself the goal of supporting emerging and mid-career national artists. There are two projects that can be visited: "Catch" by Matan Oren and a collective exhibition entitled "Up to Ones Knees", curated by Noga Yudkevik-Etzioni. The Almacén Gallery also offers a group exhibition that involves six creatives: Halil Balabin, Ronit Citri, Ronit Goldschmidt, Netta Laufer, Israel Rabinovitz and Yael Sloma. In this case the curator is Yael Sloma himself.

At this point a question arises: is it currently possible to reach Tel Aviv from Italy?

Apparently the Israeli government is in the process of enacting a law allowing vaccinated foreign tourists to enter the country.

We just have to keep our fingers crossed.