Exhibitions

This exhibition presents a selection of Struck’s works from the museum’s collection, reflecting his entire artistic career. The exhibition also aims to acquaint the visitors with his home, through a display of selected furniture and personal items belonging to the artist.
The exhibition reveals Struck’s emphasis on portraiture and landscape.

Today print has become a diverse medium that combines traditional printmaking with new materials and production methods. Digital technologies, for example, have been swiftly integrated into the printmaking process, while traditional techniques have come to rely on photocopiers, fax machines, and inkjet printers. These new technologies have not made other methods obsolete, but rather have expanded the range of options and possibilities in the print medium.

Local art, whether Israeli or Palestinian, has over the generations sharpened its gaze upon the homeland's scenery – a gaze traditionally burdened by concern and distress, on both the personal-existential and the historical-geopolitical level. However, the local artistic discourse surrounding this issue has scarcely considered its gender-oriented aspects. Neither the Israeli nor the Palestinian artistic discourse distinguishes between the masculine and the feminine gaze with regard to this charged subject. The present exhibition cluster seeks to address this complex and mostly neglected issue.

Hermann Struck, born and raised in Berlin, was firmly rooted in the capital’s soil. He had studied at the Berlin Academy of Art and was a member of the city's artists' association. Though he left Germany in 1922 in favor of Haifa, he held on to his studio in Berlin's Hansa quarter. Struck visited Germany regularly until 1933, especially during the summer months. In those years the German capital became a modern metropolis teeming with motion and innovation. At the same time, the status of rural ideals rose, despite the decline of the countryside's economic status. As a witness to this trend, during his Berlin days Struck often depicted views of the German rural landscape. These works are at the center of the present show.

The last two decades have placed Palestinian women artists at the forefront of the Israeli art scene. These artists can be viewed in the framework of the feminist project, which seeks to subvert gender distinctions as social axioms. On the one, hand, the national framework is the artistic sphere from which these artists draw their self-representation.

The exhibition presents newly acquired works from the collection of the Haifa Museum of Art. The collection's expansion, preservation, and display are a vital and important part of the museum's activity. Above all, a museum's collection is that which distinguishes it from others. In 2018 the Haifa Museum of Art acquired contemporary Israeli artworks, all of them dating from 2000 or later, created in a range of media: painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, and photography. Some are now being exhibited for the first time.

A book is an object; a book is an idea. Books draw inspiration from revolutions, histories, and religions. What does it mean to make a book? Making a book means acquiring power over an object. Books are powerful items, containing entire worlds. They allow us to move through time and space, occupying many places simultaneously. Books rise above physical dimensions, allowing the reader to meet people of different periods and places, some of whom have yet to be born.

Sima Levin presents a new project featuring a series of engravings and woodcuts, created especially for her solo exhibition at the Hermann Struck Museum. In this series the artist combines the daily reality of her studio work with the figure and stories of Franz Kafka. These works create a visual texture that fuses reality and imagination, captivating the viewer with its melancholy and seductive European atmosphere

Different cultures have imagined the clouds as the dwelling place of the gods. This most visible natural phenomenon has been linked with myths regarding that which is hidden from sight or uncontrollable. Clouds can be seen everywhere, here and now, allowing urban man to connect with nature. Constantly changing, they evade definition and confound our sense of time. In art, clouds suggest sublime realms that remain unattainable for the viewer. As an artistic theme, the cloud also has Biblical connotations, in its association with the "pillar of cloud" as a revelation of the divine to the Israelites.

Hermann Struck (1876-1944) is considered as one of the most important print artists of Germany and Israel in the first half of the 20th century. For more than forty years as a successful and respected artist, he created a wealth of works on paper, mainly portraits and scenery.