“Roots of Inspiration” ― Sculptor Yael Netanel in Her New Exhibition “Hidden Garden” at the Space Gallery, Old Akko
The exhibition will be open for visits from 10 am – 4 pm.
Gallery Talk “Roots of Inspiration” Will Take Place at 10 am & 3 pm
As part of July Art 2026, Yael Netanel will open her new exhibition “Hidden Garden” — a poetic space in which body and landscape, material and textile, are intertwined.
Yael, who works and lives in Kibbutz Kfar Masaryk in the Western Galilee, creates metaphorical gardens of softness, rest, and holding in her works. Her ceramic figures are assimilated into knitted and vegetal environments, as if they seek to disappear into nature and become part of it.
The bare and modest clay of the figures stands in contrast to the colorful, rich and sensual world around them — a world reminiscent of moments of dream, memory, or a lost paradise.
“Hidden Garden” offers an intimate look at the way in which an external landscape becomes an emotional landscape, and at the possibility of art creating a space of silence, gathering, and compassion within a changing reality.
During the Open Gallery Saturday, Yael will hold an artist talk and share with visitors her material and emotional world, and the sources of inspiration that accompany her work.
About the Artist & Studio:
In the bright and green Kibbutz Kfar Masaryk, artist Yael Netanel sculpts in clay, mainly women in all their shades and strengths. Yael hosts empowering and experiential meetings, classes, and workshops in her studio and invites them to go through processes of connection between the creation, sculpture, and soul together.
Yael will share with us the process of growth and blossoming that clay sculpture brought to her life, starting with seeds of love that were sown at the beginning of life, took root, and deepened only towards the age of 50 ― when it began to bloom and come out into the light in full splendor.
When? Saturday, July 18, 10 am – 4 pm
Gallery Talk: 10 am & 3 pm
Where? Space Gallery in the JNF-USA Info Center, Old Akko
Price: Free admission with advance registration
Phone: 072-3941110
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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