Over 1,500 proposals were reviewed, and the selected projects span the full spectrum of craft media – ceramics, glass, textile, paper, fiber, metal, and jewelry – as well as a wide range of design disciplines including architecture, industrial design, visual communication, video and performative practices. The Biennale will showcase both emerging and established voices, drawing an up-to-date picture of the vibrant Israeli craft and design scene while also exploring new directions and challenges.
Many of the works present bold combinations of traditional techniques and cutting-edge technologies, alongside experimental and process-driven practices with particular focus on cultural heritage and environmental sustainability.
As part of the Biennale, specially curated projects will take place in MUZA’s permanent collection pavilions. These collaborations between the museum’s curators and invited artists and designers will respond to the wide-ranging collections, generating new connections between past and present.
Throughout the months of the Biennale, three Academic Labs will successively offer a behind-the-scenes glimpse into research-based creative processes.
The Biennale will be accompanied by a range of collateral events, including workshops, gallery talks, and encounters with the artists, conferences, interdisciplinary events, performances, and other activities at the Jack Joseph and Morton Mendel Park (“Bustan MUZA”).
In collaboration with the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality
Sponsored by the “Muza” Project by Phoenix and America Israel
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Thursday from 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM
Friday from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Saturday from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
The museum is closed on Sundays.
Tel.: 03-6415244
The museum covers a large area adjacent to the Ramat Aviv section of Tel Aviv, with the Yarkon river flowing to its south, and has views of the harbor and the city skyline. Distributed around the grounds of the museum are the pavilions in which its collections are stored and displayed. They include rare and unique items. Alongside the pavilions that house the various permanent exhibitions are also “white cube” spaces where rotating exhibitions on different topics are displayed, in dialogue with the museum’s cultural vision and its permanent exhibition. Over the years some of these have become iconic cultural events attracting a large and diverse public, for example the “Biennale for Crafts and Design”, “Photomenta” and the “Local Testimony” photojournalism exhibition.
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