The Artifact Gallery was an art gallery located in

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, which featured local artists. It was established in 1986 by Sergio Edelsztein. It closed in 1996 and the archival material was later donated to the

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at the

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, Jerusalem.

History

The Artifact Gallery was established in 1986 by Sergio Edelsztein. It was originally located in the Red House, an industrial building on Nahmani Street in Tel Aviv that formerly housed the Lodzia textile factory. Five years later, the gallery moved to the Noga neighborhood in Jaffa. Artifact gallery showcased the work of leading Israeli artists, among them Diti Almog, Philip Rantzer, Yitzhak Livne, Hila Lulu Lin, David Reeb, Larry Abramson, Asad Azi and Joshua Borkovsky. The gallery was one of the first in the country to provide exhibition space for video art installations. It closed in 1996. In 2013, Edelstein donated the archive of Artifact Gallery, which includes archival material on Israeli artists, to the

at the

, Jerusalem.

Partial list of artists featured in the gallery

Larry Abramson Larry Abramson (; born 1954) is a South African-born Israeli artist. Biography Larry Abramson was born in 1954 in South Africa. In 1961, his family aliyah, immigrated to Israel and lived in Jerusalem. He attended high school in the Hebrew Univ ...

* Diti Almog * Asad Azi * Deganit Berest *

Joshua Borkovsky Joshua (Shuky) Borkovsky (Hebrew: יהושע (שוקי) בורקובסקי; b. 19 January 1952 in Rishon LeZion) is an Israeli artist who lives and works in Jerusalem. Biography Joshua (Shuky) Borkovsky was born in 1952. From 1973 to 1977, he ...

Pinchas Cohen Gan Pinchas Cohen Gan (; born November 3, 1942) is a Moroccan painter and mixed-media artist. He was awarded the Sandberg Prize (1979), the Culture and Sport Ministry's prize for his life's work (2005), and the Israel Prize in Art (2008). Biography ...

* Daniel Davis * Atzmon Ganor * Moshe Gershuni * Tamar Getter *

Michael Gitlin Michael Gitlin (; born 1943 in Cape Town, South Africa) is a contemporary sculptor. Life and work Michael Gitlin's family emigrated from South Africa to Israel in 1948. Gitlin received his BA in English Literature and Art History from the Hebrew ...

* Menashe Kadishman * Yitzhak Livne * Hila Lulu Lin * Michal Na'aman * Joshua Neustein * Philip Rantzer * David Reeb *

Nahum Tevet Nahum Tevet (; born 1946, Kibbutz Mesilot, Mandatory Palestine) is one of the leading Israeli artists whose work was among the earliest to respond to the minimalist canon by introducing into his installations everyday domestic objects, metaphors ...

Micha Ullman Micha Ullman (; born 11 October 1939) is an Israeli sculptor and professor of art. Biography Ullman was born in Tel Aviv to German Jews who immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1933.Michal Lando''Art that hints at big questions,''The Forward. Apri ...

* Bahar Artan Oskay

References

External links

"The Artifact Gallery Archives"

. Retrieved February 2015
The Information Center for Israeli Art at the Israel Museum
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