Conversation with Sofie Berzon MacKie and Mirjam Zadoff
Sofie Berzon MacKie is a British-Israeli artist and curator. She is the director of Be’eri Gallery, an art exhibition space for a wide range of exhibitions featuring contemporary artists in Israel. On October 7, 2023, the gallery was torched and burnt to the ground as part of the massacre carried out by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Be’eri and the western Negev.
During the past year, Sofie Berzon MacKie has worked with her colleagues to reopen the gallery in Tel Aviv, where it has found a temporary home for the time it will take to rebuild the kibbutz. As an artist she has worked on a number of projects such as the exhibition “Silvery Water and Starry Earth,” in which a family home that no longer exists is rebuilt, or the “Lighthouse” series of photographs, which combines bits of memories with unfamiliar fragments to create little instances of new beginnings.
Together with Mirjam Zadoff, Berzon MacKie will speak about art’s role after October 7th and about rebuilding an exhibition space in the face of an ongoing war. What can art and museums offer to the communities surrounding them in these times, and even to an audience which is no longer there? What connections
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Conversation with Sofie Berzon MacKie and Mirjam Zadoff
Sofie Berzon MacKie is a British-Israeli artist and curator. She is the director of Be’eri Gallery, an art exhibition space for a wide range of exhibitions featuring contemporary artists in Israel. On October 7, 2023, the gallery was torched and burnt to the ground as part of the massacre carried out by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Be’eri and the western Negev.
During the past year, Sofie Berzon MacKie has worked with her colleagues to reopen the gallery in Tel Aviv, where it has found a temporary home for the time it will take to rebuild the kibbutz. As an artist she has worked on a number of projects such as the exhibition “Silvery Water and Starry Earth,” in which a family home that no longer exists is rebuilt, or the “Lighthouse” series of photographs, which combines bits of memories with unfamiliar fragments to create little instances of new beginnings.
Together with Mirjam Zadoff, Berzon MacKie will speak about art’s role after October 7th and about rebuilding an exhibition space in the face of an ongoing war. What can art and museums offer to the communities surrounding them in these times, and even to an audience which is no longer there? What connections can be made between art spaces and the historical places in which they are located? And where do we begin after everything has been lost?
As part of Various Others Munich 2024.
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