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Shivat Zion 36, Tel Aviv
+972 (0)52 584 0569
info@zimbalista.com
Tue-Thu: 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Fri: 09:00 AM - 1:00 PM
A home for visual arts and music, named after artist Ofra Zimbalista, located
in southeastern Tel Aviv, a developing hub for artists in diverse fields
The gallery complex spans several spaces: an open-air sculpture garden, exhibition halls, and a video room,
aiming to function as a venue for intimate encounters and dialogue between artists and colleagues in creation, with a focus
on sustainable interactions between artists from various disciplines — musicians, writers, and visual artists —
and art lovers, as well as between art and the community in which it is created.
In addition to changing exhibitions, the gallery will host multicultural music performances, accentuating connections
and collaborations between artists from diverse fields. Given its location near the Shapira and Neve Sha’anan neighborhoods, the gallery will also serve as a platform for musicians from a wide range of communities.
The gallery was established through the initiative of musician Chen Zimbalista, founder of the Zimbalista Music Factory
non-profit organization and the Voice of Peace (VoP) project. The gallery complex includes several different spaces: an open sculpture garden, exhibition spaces, and a video room.
The gallery was established at the initiative of musician Chen Zimbalista , founder of the Music Factory Association and the Voice of Peace Project.
Ofra Zimbalista (1939-2014) is an Israeli artist whose success has been measured not only by her numerous museum exhibitions, but rather by the abundance of her sculptures, which are placed in various public spaces in Israel and around the world and have been etched in the collective memory. Her works speak to the general public, and are not only aimed at art enthusiasts and connoisseurs. Zimbalista’s various “bands” include women, men, and children of different ages, sometimes in large-scale performances and sometimes in solo performances. The stages vary, and among them you can find enclosed spaces, old castles, shopping centers, gas stations, and playgrounds.
Zimbalista’s greatness, apart from creating the sculptures themselves, was in placing them on the changing stages. By placing the sculptures in space, Ofra created changing choreographies, based on spatial thinking and careful planning of positioning each figure in a consistent and unique way to her creation.
*The text is based on the words of the curator, Ruth Ofek, in the introduction to the exhibition catalog “The Big Show” (The Open Museum, Tefen Industrial Park, 2016)
Shivat Zion 36, Tel Aviv
+972 (0)52 584 0569
info@zimbalista.com
Tue-Thu: 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Fri: 09:00 AM - 1:00 PM
