Oasis Art Gallery
Inspiring visitors to connect across language, culture, and geography, the Oasis Art Gallery showcases work that engages the complex and pressing issues of our time, including identity, nationalism, and political freedom, violence, and oppression. Jewish and Palestinian artists exhibit their work side-by-side, encouraging encounters that broaden viewers’ understanding of the conflict and of each other.
History and Programs
The Oasis Art Gallery was established in 2015 to showcase artworks in all media by Israeli-Jewish and Palestinian artists. In Israel, where Jews and Palestinians live separately, the gallery is a place where notions about the “other” can safely begin to be broken down through art’s incredible power to challenge beliefs and broaden perspectives.
Welcoming over 10,000 visitors annually from around the world, the Oasis Art Gallery organizes several exhibitions a year. “Encounters for Palestinian and Jewish Artists” is an ongoing series that comissions socially engaged work, highlighting the lived experiences of artists throughout the region. Participants form lasting personal and professional partnerships with each other, and their art inspires robust conversations about freedom, equality, and human rights. Accompanying public programs and artist talks provide opportunities to engage more deeply as well as to strategize around taking action for social change.
The gallery also runs a number of external projects, including Artists Hosting Artists, which connects artists with each other for intimate studio visits; Exploring, Creating, which hosts artmaking workshops in inspiring locations around the world; and Uninational Meetings, which convenes Israeli-Jewish and Palestinian artists together in small groups to talk about their their art practices.