A new lecture series at the Center for Contemporary Art where artists talk about a project they created abroad: an art work that was significant in their creative development, but that the audience in Israel is almost unfamiliar with. This is an opportunity to get acquainted with thought and work processes on complex, large scale projects that were realized overseas, through the challenges, doubts, and breakthroughs in their making.

Dana Yahalomi, head of the performance group Public Movement, will talk about their latest work As One which was commissioned by Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm and performed in Frankfurt am Main in September 2025.

In spring 2024, Public Movement was approached by the German performance group Ligna and was invited to create a new work to mark the centennial of the first Workers' Olympics held in Frankfurt in 1925. This Olympic tournament was an exciting and forgotten event in the history of the socialist movement. It centered on an utopic vision of a society striving for equality, post-national solidarity, and peace, through the physical cultivation and practice of the bodies that form it.

During the talk, Dana will share how the Movement approached this historical event and proposed to look at it anew; how the conceptual-performative process took shape from the research stages to its execution; what collaborations with international cultural entities had to be created in order for the work to be realized; and how this artistic action in the European public space was formed and informed by the war at home, an air blockade, and a well-founded fear of a protest that might disrupt it from happening.

Public Movement is a research and performance body that explores and stages political actions within public spaces, museums, and cultural institutions. Since its establishment in 2006, the group has operated at the intersection of art and history, creating a variety of performative actions and choreographies including events, rituals, ceremonies, and political gatherings. The group has created over fifty performances in leading art institutions in Israel and around the world, including: Tel Aviv Museum of Art, MAXXI Museum, Rome, Guggenheim Museum, New York, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven; Centre for Contemporary Art Australia, Melbourne; and Abel am Oper Theater, Berlin. Public Movement has participated in the Asian Art Biennale, Taipei, the Berlin Biennale, the New Museum Triennial, New York, and more. The group is the recipient of the Essential Art Award (2021), the Rosenblum Prize for Performing Arts (2017). Public Movement was founded by Omer Krieger and Dana Yahalomi, who led it together until 2011. Yahalomi has been at the head of the group since then. Yahalomi co-wrote the book Solution 263: Double Agent, with curator Alhena Katsof, which was published by Sternberg Press in 2015.

The event will be held in Hebrew

Duration: approx. 60 minutes

Admission:: 20 NIS

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Image: Public Movement, As One, 2025. Photo: NÓI CREW