“Protected Space” Exhibition

“Protected Space” Exhibition

Curator: Doron Polak

Ben-Ami Gallery | 12 HaHashmal St., Tel Aviv

Gallery Talk & Opening Evening:Saturday, May 2nd at 20:00.

The exhibition “Protected Space” seeks to explore the concept of protection as a multilayered space that extends beyond the physical definition of walls, shelters, and safe rooms. Alongside constructed spaces, another kind of space exists, internal, emotional, and conscious, where individuals shape their own sense of security within a changing and at times threatening reality.

The works in the exhibition move between exterior and interior, between exposure and withdrawal, between threat and comfort. They examine the possibility of defining a “safe place” through memory, body, object, ritual, or creative action. In doing so, they raise questions about the boundaries of protection: Is it real or imagined, temporary or enduring, personal or collective?

In a period marked by ongoing uncertainty, art itself functions as a protected space, not as a place of escape, but as a sphere for processing, presence, and breath. It is a space that allows complexity to be held, fragmentation to be contained, and moments of stability to be redefined within constant movement.

The exhibition invites artists to offer personal and material interpretations of the concept of protection, and to examine how an artistic act can create a space that simultaneously contains vulnerability and strength.

Curator’s Statement: Doron Polak

Participating Artists:

Avshalom Michael KaponOrit SheinfeldOrly BarkayOrly KatzIrit PeletzEitan GoshenJudy FarhiGabriel LeitnerDvora BloomDalia BarkatDalit Aviad BreliaDaniela AyraHagit Ben AmiHedva Galili SmolinskyHannah Ben Eliezer CurtisYehuda TalmorYaniv KatanYaakov FriedmanMaor GaliliMor LevMichal Barzel CohenMimi PardoMenachem (Kish) KishonMerav Zuberman PerkelMerav TalNaama ShaharSivan Eliash BaevaSimon SolomonKuki ArbelKeren WertheimRachela BarakRita TepplerRani TalShoham ChirurgShai PoratShirly GoldsteinShlupa (David) EhrenbergSharon Shir

Free admission.