Lecture | Tuesday | 21.7 | 19:00

A single photograph of Ilya Gefter’s great-grandfather, shown among Soviet soldiers in the ruins of Berlin after Nazi Germany’s surrender, served as the starting point for a body of work that moves between personal narrative and collective history.

In recent years, Gefter has been working on “The Front,” a series of paintings addressing war, memory, and the way past events continue to echo in the present. Through historical photographs from World War II, he engages with the darker aspects of humanity, which continue to resurface even today.

During the lecture, Gefter will share the sources of inspiration behind his work, his creative process, and the intersection between life, history, and painting.

Recently, two paintings from “The Front” series were added to the museum’s collection.

Ilya Gefter was born in Saint Petersburg in 1980. He studied art in the United States and Italy, has been living in Israel since 2004, and teaches painting at the Tel Aviv School of Fine Arts.