Michal Arnheim, Adam Elezrah | Ritual & Rebellion #1
On 8 May ,together with ANTI ,we are launching our new series ‘Ritual and Rebellion’, through which we aim to create a space for young, contemporary, experimental and socially critical Jewish artists who engage with the complexity, contradictions and current processes of transformation within Jewish life, memory and identity.
In our first edition, two artistic perspectives come together, each looking back in different ways on their own childhoods and religiously shaped pasts: Michal Arnheim and Adam Elezrah.
Ritual and Rebellion #1
Galerie HINTEN (Schaufenster Galerie Glaskasten)
Exhibition dates: 8 May 2026 – 12 July 2026
Opening: 8 May 2026, 7.00 pm, Galerie HINTEN Concert by Daniella Ljungsberg
Curated by: Yoav Schutzer
Opening hours: Fri Sat: 6.00 pm – 10.00 pm, Sun 3.00 pm – 7.00 pm
Michal Arnheim (*1994) lives and works in Jerusalem. A graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Arts, she explores the complex layers of memory, femininity and spirituality in her photographic practice. Having grown up in an Orthodox Jewish environment, she sees photography as a tool for emancipation and a search for traces. She returns to the places of her childhood – such as her former synagogue – to reoccupy spaces shaped by rigid rules through ‘invented rituals’ and playful, intuitive impulses. In doing so, she does not merely document the past, but translates hidden and unconscious influences into abstract visual representations. Her work oscillates within the fluid tension between her religious heritage and the spiritual reality she has redefined for herself today.
Adam Elezrah (*1994), who recently completed his Master’s degree at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig, is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice lies at the intersection of sculpture, installation and performance. His works draw on an intense engagement with his childhood in an equally strict religious Jewish environment, where superstition and ritual protective mechanisms governed everyday life. In particular, the ubiquity of talismans to ward off the ‘evil eye’ serves as a starting point for him to investigate the processes of emptying and reactivating objects and their meanings. In his site-specific installations, Elezrah deconstructs the original function of everyday objects and transforms them into new symbols through experiments with materials.
Both Arnheim and Elezrah view the return to one’s own past not as a nostalgic gesture, but as a productive moment. Whilst Michal reappropriates space through photography, Adam transforms it through the physical presence of his sculptures. Both artists demonstrate that identity is not a static state, but a permanent process of transformation – a constant oscillation between what has shaped us and what we create from it.
The opening will be accompanied by a concert by Daniella Ljungsberg. Daniella studied New Music at the Musrara School of Arts in Jerusalem. She weaves Nordic folklore with granular synthesis, loops and field recordings into dreamlike, mystical lo-fi ambient – she, too, takes us on a sonic odyssey back to her Swedish roots and childhood memories. Somewhere between dream-pop and experimental nostalgia, Ljungsberg creates an atmosphere that feels like a collective memory – an invitation into an almost ghostly, yet deeply familiar world.
