Blade Memory

Published on the occasion of the double exhibition Blade Memory (held at the CCA Tel Aviv-Yafo from December 12, 2020 to April 3, 2021; and at the Dortmunder Kunstverein from May 21 to July 31, 2022) this book is the ultimate tool to help grasp the complexity of a project that can be defined as both a group exhibition and a collaborative work. Conceived and orchestrated by the Israeli artists and curators Naama Arad, I. S. Kalter, and Eran Nave, Blade Memory evokes an aching memory which should be understood on both personal level and on social developments levels. It presents the works of the artists Boaz Arad, Yaron Attar, Michal Bachi, Yonatan Geron & Ariel Kleiner, Yitzhak Golombek, Yaacov Dorchin, Sharon Fadida, Elad Haiman, Omer Halperin, Boaz Levental, Amit Levinger, Michal Makaresco, Pearl Schneider, Noa Schwartz, Siona Shimshi, Narkis Vizel, Oded Yaakov (at the CCA Tel Aviv-Yafo); and Uri Aran, Oded Avramovsky, Marianne Berenhaut, Max Ernst, Avner Ben Gal, Noa Glazer, George Grosz, I. S. Kalter, Talia Keinan, Martin Kippenberger, Harel Luz, Roy Menachem Markovich, Leeu Nevo, Tchelet Ram, Ariel Schlesinger, Shay-Lee Uziel (at the Dortmunder Kunstverein). Works which “were not intended to be included in exhibitions … made even without necessarily being defined as artworks.”