The Museum of 21st Century Arts is the first national institution in Italy dedicated to contemporary creativity. The mix of activities - exhibitions, workshops, conferences, screenings, projections, educational projects - reflects MAXXI's vocation as a place to preserve and exhibit its collections.
The works of Tsibi Geva, Maria Saleh Mahameed and Noa Yekutieli tell of a complex cultural reality between identity and place, memory and attachment.
The three artists differ in their origins, their influences, their sensibilities and even in their preferred techniques and materials. Yet their works reveal unexpected connections. The works on display are rooted in individual biographies and tell of intimate yet universal experiences.
Tsibi Geva, of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, son of one of Israel's leading Bauhaus exponents, is an established and internationally renowned artist who lives and works between Tel Aviv and New York; Maria Saleh Mahameed, born and raised in Israel's most populous Arab city, is the daughter of a Palestinian father and a Ukrainian Christian mother; Noa Yekutieli is a self-taught, multidisciplinary artist born in California to a Japanese mother and an Israeli father, who divides her time between Tel Aviv and Los Angeles.
Tsibi Geva, Where I Come From, 2019, photo credit: Elad Sarig. Courtesy: l'artista
Drawing on the Jungian concept of the "collective unconscious", a legacy from the distant past that is common to all of humanity, Conscious Collective explores how it is possible to rediscover a sense of collectivity even in a country where conflict is a constant, and how accepting life with its contradictions can be the key to a better existence.
March 17 to June 4, 2023
