Chamber and Defiance
Musrara Modern Ensemble of is an instrumental ensemble of contemporary music, specializing in canonical musical works from the 2nd half of the 20th century and the 21st century. The ensemble is proud to open Musrara Mix 2025 with a tribute to the legendary filmmaker David Lynch, who passed away earlier this year. Music has always […]
As the Road Reveals Itself, the Spirit Awaits
“As the Road Reveals Itself, the Spirit Awaits” brings together artists and poets who explore the nomadic experience from a contemporary female perspective, unfolding the chronicles of a search – a path that is not predetermined, attesting to an experience of constant movement. The exhibition was inspired by the book “The Wandering of a Daughter […]
Radio Musrara
Radio Musrara is taking on a different format for Musrara Mix 25, where it will function as a temporary broadcasting station – a mobile radio studio that can be viewed through the staircase window. The festival sounds, music, and conversations will be broadcast to various listening and viewing realms within and beyond the festival. The […]
Gait.Way
Performance within the framework of the exhibition at Musrara Art Gallery, “As the Road Reveals Itself, the Spirit Awaits” (curater: Tali Romem). Sometimes the path is steep and treacherous, other times it is flat and straightforward. Sometimes we walk alone and other times we travel with companions. Each journey has its own character and requires […]
Gernik
Reyzl’s practice breaks down the basics of classical DJing. She moves the records manually to distort the music – bass and beats play over scratching and scraping, the records turn faster and slower to alter the pitch. Adding effects she produces a whirlwind of fleeting, drawn out, and disrupted rhythms. Harmonies of atonal roughness, the […]
Poems by Alpha
Musrara Mix 2025 Opening Show in collaboration with Goethe-Institut Israel In his first appearance in Israel since 2015, electronic musician Gelbart presents music for string quartet and speech synthesizer. The work revolves around the voice of a computer programmed by Gelbart. Long before the rise of chat GPT, the computer Alpha was programmed to write poems […]
Dancer and a Bear
Lee Orpaz’s video (2008) places two figures in a set up that looks like the last moments of a high school dance. The party is over, there is no one around except for the bear and the dancer. A keyboard rendition of The Man I Love is playing in the background. The two performative figures […]
The Converter
Yaron Attar’s video work unfolds a conversation between a Christian worshipper and the artist, recorded with a hidden camera. The entire conversation is conducted as a whispered confession, during which the Christian explains the importance of confession and absolution. The conversation between the two is tentative and blends with the sounds of prayer hymns, while […]
THE PASSING OF TIME
Nostalgic desertscapes throb and disappear, and a new desert horizon emerges in their place, different yet similar. Tamar Hirschfeld’s video work is a “Fata Morgana”: a mirage conjured by the journey’s hallucinations. Time and again, the screen burns as the fire gradually leads the viewer from the two-dimensionality of the journal paper to the boundless […]
Dead Horsman
An operatic piece starring a headless horseman and a horse. Musician and artist Zohar Shafir animates the two characters, engaged in an imaginary dialogue between life and death. Although the characters are treated as one entity, the show takes place simultaneously in two separate locations. One space is chaotic and theatrical, packed with sculptural objects […]