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4 unusual facts about Tel Aviv Museum of Art


Günther Förg

Förg has had solo exhibitions at Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg, Austria, Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany, Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland; Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany; Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, The Netherlands; Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv; Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz; and Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin.

Meir Dizengoff

The house underwent extensive renovations and became the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 1932.

Tel Aviv Museum of Art

It was established in 1932 in a building that was the home of Tel Aviv's first mayor, Meir Dizengoff.

The Shakshuka System

A central part of the film deals with a donation attempt by Sammy Ofer to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in exchange for the renaming of the museum after him and his wife, and for provisions which would entitle him, according to the film, to ownership rights to the structure of the museum.


Dov Feigin

One of his most famous sculptures, Animal, (1958, restored in 2006) is now in the Lola Beer Ebner Sculpture Garden of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Hanna Ben Dov

Her paintings can be found in several collections, including the French State Collection, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art collection and the Rockefeller Museum collection in New York.

Joseph Kossonogi

Kossonogi had one-man shows at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 1944 and 1954, in which years he was a co-recipient of the Dizengoff Prize in painting.


see also

Avner Ben-Gal

Ben-Gal was the subject of solo shows at museums such as the Tel-Aviv Museum of Art (2002, 2009); Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland (2008); and Sudden Poverty at the Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, United States (2007); and he has participated in various group shows, including DARK at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, and as part of the Venice Biennial, 2003.