The Empty Town Square / A special event marking 30 years since the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (in Hebrew)

Marking thirty years since the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art invites the public on a journey between the public space and the museum space, between social and artistic realms, between the human voice and its silence.

The tour, The City Square Is Quiet, explores the square as a public arena for social and political protest, as a site of gathering, and as a space of memory. City squares in Israel are charged with emotional and historical resonance, and the tour examines how art responds to reality, reflects it, and at times even provokes change within it.

The tour will begin in the museum’s exterior foyer, opening onto the square that in the past two years has become known as Hostages’Square—a place where the wounds of the present and the city’s urban landscape intertwine with the national pulse that cannot be untangled. From there, the tour will continue to selected works in the exhibition Material Imagination: Inflamed Nerve, in which city squares appear within social, political, and personal contexts.

During the tour there will be a screening of the short film The Plaza Before the Museum (Noa Ben-Shalom, Noa Amiel Lavi, 2022, 11 min), which reflects on the square as a civic arena, on the transitions between celebration and protest, and on the silence that remains afterward.

Through the encounter between the square and the museum, we will contemplate the role of the square in the Israeli city and the meaning of remembrance - thirty years on.

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Note: This event is in Hebrew only.
The number of participants is limited | Advance reservations are required for all participants.
Participation in the encounter includes entrance ticket to the Museum.