A Look at the Collection — Encounters in the Photography Study Room / Vardi Kahana (in Hebrew)
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art marks a decade of the Lauren and Mitchell Presser Photography Award for a Young Israeli Artist.
To celebrate the occasion, the museum invites the public to a unique series of encounters with the photography collection. In each meeting, participants will be invited into the heart of the collection, to spend time among the works held in it, and to meet one leading photographer.
Works from the collection will be presented for a double discussion: on the one hand, the conversation will consider selected works from the history of photography; on the other, it will focus on the invited artist’s own body of work, and on shared sources of inspiration—between their photographs and the photograph presented.
This is a rare opportunity to view works from the collection alongside a discussion of working processes, shared histories, and photographic language.
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Vardi Kahana is a photographer who lives and works in Tel Aviv. Kahana studied at The Midrasha School of Art in Ramat Hasharon (1990) and worked as a photographer for the magazine Monitin (1981–1984) and for the newspapers Hadashot (1984–1994) and Yedioth Ahronoth (from 1995 onward). Her book Israeli Portrait was published by Hargol Publishing House in 2006.
Kahana’s work has been featured in numerous solo exhibitions around the world, and she has participated in many group exhibitions in Israel and internationally. She is also active as a writer and curator, and served as curator of Local Testimony (Edut Mekomit), the annual exhibition of press and documentary photography at Eretz Israel Museum (MUZA), Tel Aviv, in 2014–2015 and again in 2017.
In 2012, Kahana was awarded the Minister of Culture Prize. In 2018, she received the Enrique Kavlin Lifetime Achievement Award in Photography from the Israel Museum, and in 2024 she was awarded the Werner and Anat Braun Lifetime Achievement Award in Photography by MUZA – Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv.
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Note: This encounter is in Hebrew only.
The number of participants is limited | Advance reservations are required for all participants.
Participation in the encounter includes entrance ticket to the Museum.