We are delighted to announce the opening of the first museum solo exhibition by Ruti de Vries - ‘Wormhole’, at Nahum Gutman Museum of Art, curator Monica Lavi, director and museum’s chief curator.

“Wormhole” is a site-specific exhibition that takes over the entire exhibition space from top to bottom while reexamining the building’s previous use as ’The Writers' House'. During 1907-1914 the building served as the editorial office of "HaPoel HaTzsair" newspaper led by its editor by Yosef Haim Brenner. Its name, ’The Writers’ House’, was given in 1912 for it became the literary center and meeting place for a group of Hebrew writers who marked the beginning of the new Hebrew culture.

“de Vries draws her inspiration from her personal dynasty of creative women – her grandmother and mother – from the objects they gave her and from rituals and physical gestures associated with them. These all become sculptural creatures located in obsessive, meditative liminal spaces, on the threshold of interior and exterior, between animal and human, exhibition and theatre, object and marionette. “Wormhole” refers to a physical phenomenon enabling a transition between two points distant in space and time. de Vries applies the concept to art objects, transforming them into objects for transitions between souls, spaces, and histories. de Vries’s space-time journey takes place by means of objects made of materials close to nature or their raw state, creating a ritualistic and shamanic layer in the exhibition functioning as a site to channel the spirits of the Great Mothers.” text by Monica Lavi.

Exhibition Opening: Thursday, 23 March 2023, 8pm | Nahum Gutman Museum of Art | 21 Shim'on Rokah Street, Neve Zedek, Tel Aviv

Opening hours: Monday - Thursday 10.00 - 16.00; Friday 10.00 - 14.00; Saturday 10.00 - 15.00; Sunday closed

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Ruti de Vries - opens her first museum solo show at Nahum Gutman Museum