Prize: 10K NIS + show at Artists House in Jerusalem. Previous winners: Shai Azoulai and Avi Sabah.

On the eve of the 53rd Venice Art Biennale’s opening, Ronen Eidelman interviews Dorit Levité, curator of the Israeli pavilion, trying to understand why the Raffi Lavie show was chosen, why she is doing it and how all of that ties in with Israeli art’s place in the Middle East.

Artists from Israel and around the world are invited to respond to the subject of propaganda with visual
images and texts from various genres such as narrative fiction, poetry, philosophy and others. The selected works will first be exhibited in the Digital Art Center.