No New Skies, No New Land: Open Call for a Group Exhibition at Givat Haviva Art Gallery

About this call

The Shared Givat Haviva Art Center, with the Yad Yaari Center and the Menashe Regional Council, invites artists to submit existing works for a group exhibition at the Givat Haviva Art Gallery in Israel. Inspired by A. D. Gordon's line "No new skies, no new land", the show looks at renewal not as formal novelty but as a deep change in how we relate to what exists, and asks how we might look again at the kibbutz, ourselves and the world. 2027 marks a hundred years of the development of the kibbutz movements, and a new movement house is to open at Givat Haviva. The organizers seek works with a personal, critical or unexpected point of view that open room to think about the possible without offering a single answer. A professional jury from the Givat Haviva art center and Yad Yaari selects on artistic quality, contribution to the curatorial line and connection to the kibbutz, its ideas, history or changing reality. The exhibition runs 3 to 17 April 2027 and opens within the Hitkabtzu event at Givat Haviva.

Who can apply

• The official call states no eligibility restriction
• Medium: Painting / Photography / Sculpture / Installation
• Entry fee: See official site
• For visual artists with a proven professional background working in painting, photography, sculpture and installation. Existing works only. Submit through the online form: a CV or artistic biography (CV as a PDF or Word file), a portfolio, up to five images of the proposed works, details for each work in image order (title, year, technique, size in cm) and a short statement on the work and its link to the exhibition theme. Results announced 14 February 2027. The center insures and installs the works; transporting works to the center and back is the artists' responsibility. By submitting, artists allow the center to use images of the work for the exhibition's publicity, media and marketing. The call text is in Hebrew.