The First Mediterranean Biennial of Contemporary Art is an international event sponsored by the City of Haifa. The Biennial will be held in downtown Haifa, near the harbor, in the area known as the Harbor Campus.
Artists from Israel and around the world will exhibit in the Biennial. The works of art will be displayed inside shipping containers that will be integrated into the vibrant urban space of the city's downtown, under the artistic direction and curation of Mr. Belu-Simion Fainaru.
"If the architectural vision of the Polish-born, Bauhaus-trained Munio Weinraub served as something of a material and ideological template for the construction of the Jewish state, then the cinematic images of his Israeli-born son, Amos Gitai, have been boring holes in the foundations of his father’s designs to reveal their grave psychological and ethical consequences for Israel’s citizens."
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The 1980's were a period of great changes in the Israeli art field. And although only a fraction of these came to full fruition during the decade itself, several of the period's cultural trends – even if manifest then only in embryonic form – were to continue exerting an influence on both the field itself and contemporary artistic creation and its reception.
