The ANTEA Gallery has been a central part of my life and I am including here the documentation of ANTEA DAROM, a large-scale exhibit that very much summarizes our activities.
ANTEA – a Space for Women’s Art at the Kol Ha-Isha feminist center - was an activist art gallery founded in Jerusalem in 1994 by Rita Mendes-Flohr and Nomi Tannhauser and was active for fifteen years, until 2009. Antea sought to create a forum for the critical examination of issues related to women, art and society and to advance the multicultural discourse of women and women artists in Israel.
HER DRESS, HER SYMBOL: ANTEA REVISITED
In 2019 Nomi Tannhauser and I got together again and curated the exhibit Her Dress, Her Symbol: Antea Revisited, with works by 100 artists, at the Agripas 12 and Marie cooperative galleries in Jerusalem.
and in 2022 we published a bilingual, 270-page book “Her Dress, Her Symbol: Antea Revisited - Feminist Revolution in Israeli Art. “
that can be ordered at:
ANTEA DAROM (Antea in the South) -
Curators: Rita Mendes-Flohr and Nomi Tannhauser.
Curator of Kaye College - Israel Rabinowitz
A guest exhibit of ten Antea gallery artists at the Kaye Academic College of Education in Beer Sheva, in March, 2008 - marking International Women's Day.
With the participation of Hannan Abu Hussein, Sara Alimi, Nomi Bruckman, Hoda Jammal, Lena Zaidel, Nomi Tannhauser, Yonat Ofer, Annette Kleinfeld Lissauer, Parvin Schmueli Buchnik and Rachel Shajar.
photographs: Rita Mendes-Flohr
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For another major and groundbreaking Antea exhibit I curated together with Shula Keshet - Ahoti, Sister- Mizrahi Women Artists in Israel, which was held at the Jerusalem Artists' House in 2000 - see http://www.art.org.il/?exhibitions=sister-mizrahi-women-aritsts-in-israel&lang=en