Ronen.Dvarim — Deuteronomy – projects, pictures and words

In August 2008, Ronen Eidelman, known as The Artist, was invited by the Van Abbemuseum to conceive an art project for the Be(com)ing Dutch exhibition. Through bronze plaques, which he has created and installed throughout the city, he highlights the means of survival of people who are excluded from Dutch society. He aspires to portray them as heroes, resisters to an unjust system, political subjects who fight for their dignity, rights and freedom. The Artist received an honorarium from the museum. By working on these bizarre projects, and through journalistic work he does part time, he manages to live a happy and modest lifestyle in his base in Tel Aviv.

The project can be seen by those willing to explore city of Eindhoven and locate the series of plaques in the sites where these stories were told by their heroes. Hints on the locations can be found in the pictures.

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The Israeli exhibition at the 11th Venice Biennale for Architecture will open its doors on September 12th. I was invited to participate in the exhibition with my project, “The ghost of Manshia Awakes”, but it did not work out. However the texts and pictures about the project are in the exhibitions wonderful catalog and it can be seen online.

Exhibition catalogue:

http://www.labiennale-israeli-pavilion.org/

i will be showing Medinat Weimar at the Dissident Art exhibition in Montreal.
I won’t be there but check it out!

SEPTEMBER 5 – 28, 2008

VERNISSAGE: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 5 – 9 PM
55 NOTRE-DAME WEST (METRO PLACE D’ARMES)

Diana Arce, Mathieu Beauséjour, Caro Caron, Howard Chackowicz, Kathryn Delaney, Ronen Eidelman, Freda Guttman, Gord Hill, Dayna McLeod, Jesse Purcell, Michael Rakowitz, The Shining Mantis, Jackie Sumell / Herman Wallace, Rick Trembles, Tania Willard

The Art + Anarchy Montreal 2008 collective is pleased to invite you to the opening of a new exhibition in Montreal, Dissident Art, on September 5th from 5 pm – 9 pm at 55 Notre-Dame West (in Old Montreal, metro Place d’Armes). The vernissage will feature performances by Diana Arce (Berlin), showcasing her political speech karaoke Politaoke in Montreal for this first time, and The Shining Mantis (New York), engaging in a spontanteous chalk-on-black-wall drawing war between the collective’s two members.

Returning after the success of the Art + Anarchy exhibition in 2007, which saw 230 local and international artists exhibit their work, this year’s exhibition represents a more curated turn with fifteen artists. From Caro Caron’s (Montreal) excellent artistic musings on the gentrification of Montreal’s artist neighbourhoods to the pairing up of artist Jackie Sumell (Brooklyn) and Herman Wallace, a Black Panther member whose life sentence is currently up for review, the exhibition offers variety in concept, style and contribution to the meaning of dissidence in art. In addition to the fifteen chosen artists, the exhibition will be offering a room in which unsolicited artists are invited to come hang their own political work.

For more information, please visit and list of events: www.artdissidentart.com.