The seeds of sculpture were sown into Yael’s childhood, during hours of pleasant and intimate creation with her mother on the kibbutz. However, another 40 years would pass before she turned her love of sculpting into a career.
“The female figures I sculpt are created with a lot of love - for women and their mature bodies from which life is created. Women are happy, love themselves, are grateful, accept their bodies, and celebrate life.”
20.11Friday10:30-11:30
Hidden Garden: Exhibition Visit & Gallery Talk
with Sculptor Yael Netanel
JNF-USA Info Center, Old Akko
Couples- Free Parking
Free Entry- Art Lovers
You are invited to visit the new sculpture exhibition, "Hidden Garden," and join a gallery talk with the sculptor, Yael Netanel. Yael Netanel is an Israeli ceramic sculptor who has been working for decades at Kibbutz Kfar Masaryk in the Western Galilee.
In the new exhibition “Hidden Garden”, Yael presents a new body of work in which ceramic female figures are embedded within colorful knitted spaces reminiscent of a Galilean forest, waves, roots, sky, and streams of water. Yael’s female figures extend, float, hide, and open within knitted spaces that serve as a garden, a haven, and an internal map of healing.
Body and landscape are interwoven; the sculptures become small islands of breath, rest, dreaming, and holding. In the context of recent Israeli reality, “Hidden Garden” seeks to create a different kind of space—quieter and softer—offering a moment to pause and connect with a protected realm of tenderness during these turbulent times.
Hidden Garden Exhibition — Sculptor: Yael Netanel; Curator: Asia Dublin
About the Sculptor: Yael Netanel lives and creates at Kibbutz Kfar Masaryk in the Western Galilee. Her artistic journey evolved through self-study and a profound personal connection to her medium; clay became, for her, a language of expression, healing, listening, and inner connection. Over the years, she has developed a unique creative language that integrates ceramic sculpture, textiles, and natural materials. Alongside her sculptural work, Yael writes poetry; her creative process involves a dialogue between text and material—sometimes a poem gives birth to a sculpture, and at other times, a sculpture becomes a poem.
About the Curator: Asia Dublin is an independent curator and creator who has worked in art and culture for over a decade. Throughout her career, she has initiated, curated, and produced dozens of art exhibitions and cultural projects in galleries and public spaces. Her work focuses on the intersections of art, community, craftsmanship, and local culture, and on promoting artists and creators from the Western Galilee.
Price: Free Admission
Notes: Suitable for adults only; air-conditioned; wheelchair accessible.
The seeds of sculpture were sown into Yael’s childhood, during hours of pleasant and intimate creation with her mother on the kibbutz. However, another 40 years would pass before she turned her love of sculpting into a career.
“The female figures I sculpt are created with a lot of love - for women and their mature bodies from which life is created. Women are happy, love themselves, are grateful, accept their bodies, and celebrate life.”
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