Exhibitions

he exhibition "The Party: sculptures by Yosl Bergner" consists of bronze statuettes of the familiar and loved images that appear in the artist's works. These figures have become an inseparable element of Israeli culture - the musicians, clowns, masks and apples, the rider on the wooden horse - these and others are present in the exhbition, a sculptural celebration of Bergner's works and creations throughout the years.

In the first half of the 20th century Paris became the largest centre of Jewish artists - an unprecedented phenomenon in the history of art, also known as the Jewish School of Paris. Mané-Katz was one of the most outstanding of its representatives.

ané-Katz's collecting is related to the cultural changes that began at the close of the 19th century, when European Jewry became increasingly involved in collecting museum-worthy items of Judaica. This modernist project included a broad spectrum of religious articles and utensils of various kinds appertaining to the development of a new Jewish culture.

Mané-Katz was one of the prominent artists of the Jewish School of Paris in the first half of the 20th century. Like many of the artists who came to Paris, he became engaged with modern art and its typical themes - landscape, still-life, interiors, portraiture and genre scenes.