Our story began in the winter of 2006-2007 with our first installation in Jerusalem, «Gates of Prayer», featuring the works of Shmuel Anatoly Schelest. This exhibition, which took place before Skizza had officially been founded, was the beginning of our relationship with the Jerusalem House of Quality, which would soon after become the home of Skizza Gallery.

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Over the years, Skizza Gallery became a place for people to gather and celebrate culture in all its variations: fine art, music, film, literature. It became not just a gallery but a community, which continued steadily growing....  

Painters

About the Gallery

Skizza is a small gallery that is located in the center of the world – in Jerusalem, right across from the walls of the Old City. Skizza, which emerged through the ideas and projects of two art historians, repatriates from the former Soviet Union, has become over the 13 years of its existence an important center for the cultural life of Russian-speaking Israel. We exhibit repatriated artists who unite Jewish and universal values ​​in their creative work.

«The voice is the voice of Yaakov and the hands are the hands of Esau» – This phrase from the Torah concisely formulates the credo of the gallery: The hands of Esau* is a method of artistic expression based on a classical European education, while the voice of Yaakov** is the Jewish aspect, which is difficult to define but is perceived on the level of the artistic tone.

*Esau is the son of Yitzchak from whom the European nations are descended.

**Yaakov is the son of Yitzchak from whom the Jewish nation is descended.

Photos by Olga Mruwka, Gali-Dana Zinger, Vladimir Boxser, Michael Polsky, Jonatan Hanig, Kaska Sikora, Marie Selissky, Mina Minsky, Tanya Karavan, Iuriev Vasili.

Every effort has been made to contact the owners of the copyright of all the works reproduced in this catalogue, but if, for any reason, any acknowledgments have been omitted, the publishers ask those concerned to contact them. 

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Public&Catalogs

On the way. In the Land. Esther Scroll. 2020

Summer. Winter. Spring-Autumn. 2019

Still life. People. Skyline. 2018

Music in Art. 2017-2018

Tmol-Hayom

Tree of life | Tents of Israel | Kibbutz Galuyot

Jewish cart.

Shmuel (Anatoly) Schelest

«Jerusalem Rainbow».  

Dream I. Dream II.

Life of a tree. 2018

Shmuel (Anatoly) Schelest. 

Catalog. The Moshe Castel Museum of Art

«Cosmoport». 2016

ART exhibition catalog

Shmuel Anatoly Schelest - artists catalog

Art Project Jerusalem catalog | Home / New works / Family

Contemporary art festival

Jerusalem Rainbow

Israeli Artists from Belarus  

Иерусалим - молодость вечного города

Israeli Artists from Central Asia  

Contact

«Jerusalem House of Quality» Skizza Gallery, Derech Hebron 12. Jerusalem, Israel

+972 502247334  Marina Schelest, Art Director and Curator of the Gallery

+972 547717464  Marina Genkina, Curator of the Gallery