BACK ON
Curated by Myriam Marrache
BAÏTELIZE
Tel Aviv–Jaffa | March 7–8, 2026
Back On is a contemporary art exhibition bringing together a compelling selection of emerging and established artists from the current Israeli art scene. Presented in Tel Aviv, the exhibition explores themes of resumption, persistence, and continuity within a context shaped by interruption and intensity.
The title suggests an almost mechanical restart — a return after pause, rupture, or upheaval. Here, resumption is not an erasure of what came before, but a forward movement: an integration of experience into form.
Through painting, sculpture, ceramics, mixed media, installation, and text-based practice, the exhibition examines how material, gesture, and image absorb and transform lived reality. The works presented reflect different formal responses to this notion of continuation:
– Layered paintings oscillating between construction and erasure
– Wall sculptures that inscribe physical gesture into wood and marble
– Mixed-media works incorporating newspapers and everyday materials
– Ceramic pieces exploring volume, trace, and surface memory
– Textual works extending the exhibition into an introspective dimension
The participating artists — Yuval Keeley, Ilya Gefter, Anna Muravich, Dekel Harari, Noa Gosley, Michal Tahan, Noam Amar, Almog Sharir, and Rebecca Marrache — represent a generation whose practices combine material rigor, conceptual clarity, and emotional intensity. Several are graduates of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.
By situating the exhibition within the urban fabric of Tel Aviv, Back On highlights a scene that is both locally rooted and internationally relevant. The works move between figuration and abstraction, intimacy and collective memory, fragility and resistance — offering collectors access to a vibrant contemporary landscape marked by strong individual voices.
Back On positions itself at the intersection of aesthetic refinement and cultural resonance, presenting artworks that engage deeply with the present while maintaining long-term formal and conceptual value.
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