Serge Tiroche Contemporary curates exhibitions that bring together works from its diverse collections, as well as via direct collaborations with artists, galleries, and institutions worldwide.
Each exhibition is designed to spark dialogue, connect cultures, and highlight emerging voices alongside established names. Presented in partnership with international venues, our exhibitions are crafted to engage, inspire, and foster meaningful cultural exchange.
Current
-
Africa Rising: Highlights from the Africa First Collection, by Serge Tiroche
ACEL SEOUL 3 Sep - 30 Nov 2025 For much of modern art history, African contemporary art remained on the margins. Today, however, Africa is no longer a periphery but an emergent center. From this shifting ground arises a body of work that carries the memories of colonial histories, the narratives of community, the urgencies of gender and... Read more -
Real Myths: Group Exhibition
Beit Kandinof 17 Sep - 17 Dec 2025 “Myth is a type of speech', wrote Roland Barthes. Not just speech, but a system of communication. Myth does not conceal or glorify: it distorts. It transforms history into nature, and the accidental into the inevitable. But what if myth is also memory? The story of the flood, for example,... Read more
Past
-
Generated Nature, Human Soul by Roy Adin
ACEL Seoul 3 Sep - 4 Oct 2025 Following the tremendous success of his inaugural exhibition in May at Fresh Paint Art Fair, we are excited to announce Roy Adin’s first international solo exhibition, to be held at the newest art venue in Seoul, South Korea. Opening on September 3rd as part of ACEL art company’s inauguration festivities,... Read more -
Africa BASEL
18 - 22 Jun 2025 We are excited to be participating in the inaugural edition of Africa Basel - a visionary fair whose mission alligns perfectly with that of Africa First - to promote African & diaspora artists to international audiences and institutions. In addition to joining the selection committee and promoting the fair to... Read more -
Human Nature by Roy Adin
21 - 26 May 2025 Curator: Serge Tiroche At the height of the AI revolution, generative artist Roy Adin’s international debut takes place as a museum quality standout presentation during Fresh Paint 2025 - Israel’s major Art Fair. At only 24, the young Instagram prodigy makes a huge leap forward into the art world with... Read more -
Nirit Takele: A Time to Love and a Time to Hate, A Time for War and a Time for Peace
27 Sep - 24 Oct 2024 Nirit Takele: A Time to Love and a Time to Hate, A Time for War and a Time for Peace By Ron Bartos Nirit Takele is one of the most prominent artists in contemporary Israeli painting. Over the last decade, since graduating from the art department at Shenkar in 2015,... Read more
-
AKAA Art and Design Fair 2023
24 - 29 Oct 2023 Africa First x LyS have teamed up for the second time to participate at AKAA 2023 with 5 new emerging African artists. In this age of growing violence, displacement, and disorder we must take a moment to celebrate optimism and remember its vital role in our lives, today and in... Read more -
Barry Yusufu, "In Loving Memory of Love"
7 - 28 Sep 2023 View the exhibition video Africa First X Gordon are pleased to present Barry Yosufu's second international solo and first exhibition in Israel, 'In Loving Memory of Love', at the Tel-Aviv Gallery. Barry is one of Nigeria's pre-eminent painters of the current generation. Over the past year, he has worked meticulously... Read more -
Treasure Mlima "The Search for a Face"
9 - 24 Jun 2023 Self-taught South African artist Treasure Mlima (b. 1999) finds aesthetic inspiration from Pop Art and Surrealism, interpreted uniquely with themes based on African experiences and perceptions. His interest in working with visual conversations ranges between concepts of understanding mental health, African identity and addressing social ills. Technically his working process... Read more -
Feni Chulumanco | The Whimpy Home
23 Mar - 15 Apr 2023 We are thrilled to present the first solo exhibition in Israel of South African artist Feni Chulumanco. Born in 1994 in the Eastern Cape, Chulumanco moved to Langa Township in Cape Town at a young age. His passion for the arts was evident from a young age, and he was... Read more
-
Wadii?
15 - 25 Feb 2023 WADII? (What’s happening) is a curated pop-up exhibition by two Zimbabwean visual artists - Franklyn Dzingai and Wilfred Timire - at the Cape Town Art Residency in Woodstock, Cape Town. This exhibition is presented as a collaboration between Gallery 1957, Africa First, Cape Town Art Residency and artHARARE. The event... Read more -
The Harare Fauves
Alon Segev Gallery 1 Feb - 1 Mar 2019 'The Harare Fauves' is a group exhibition featuring works created by Helen Teede, Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude and Wycliffe Mundopa created during their Africa First residency in collaboration with Serge Tiroche Contemporary. The artists have been working together in Harare for several years and are founding members of First Floor Gallery... Read more -
Body Doubles
Art Market Budapest 2018 11 - 14 Oct 2018 Adva Kremer presents Body Doubles, where she explores the representation of women in artworks created by male artists, and their much fewer female counterparts. The male vs. female portraits are paired to create a powerful insight into gender inequality and body image perceptions. The term body double is used in... Read more -
START Exhibition: Beit Kandinof
2 - 15 Jul 2018 We hosted a dinner and exhibition from the START Israeli art incubator collection for a group of leading curators, artists, collectors, and journalists. The trip was organized by Culture for Coexistence - a UK-based not-for-profit organization seeking to bridge divides and encourage coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians through a cultural... Read more
-
Israeli Contemporary Art
14 - 26 Mar 2017 The Tiroche DeLeon and ST-ART collections collaborated with Art Cult Foundation in the exciting exhibition 'Israeli Contemporary Art' at the Modern Art Research Institute of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine. The exhibition 'Israeli Contemporary Art' brought together video works from the Tiroche DeLeon and ST-ART Collections, both founded... Read more -
"Skulls and Helmets" featuring Tsuki Garbian
13 Dec 2016 'Skulls and Helmets', an intriguing joint exhibition at the Bar-David Museum features a wonderful artwork from our collection by STartist Tsuki Garbian. The exhibition, displayed works by artist Yonatan Hirschfeld along with Garbian, attempts to reread classic paintings painted by the great masters such as Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Goya, Velázquez, Titian... Read more -
A Way of Thinking
START Gallery 21 Apr - 30 Aug 2016 'A way of thinking' is an extension of the “Universom” exhibition, part of the International Photography Festival being held in the nearby Jaffa Port. It was exhibited at START Gallery, situated by the flea market in Jaffa, and presented 20 works by a dozen Israeli artists drawn exclusively from the... Read more -
Transfiguration
Ruben Pang 2 - 12 Jul 2015 Ruben Pang’s work emerges from a deeply personal and layered background. Born and raised in Singapore, Ruben was strongly influenced by his father, a former military officer trained by Israeli intelligence. Their close relationship, along with the unique geopolitical parallels between Singapore and Israel as small nations surrounded by larger... Read more
-
Red Sequence- Wall Paper for the Totenhaus
4 - 8 Nov 2014 Red Sequence by Tzion Abraham Hazan was exhibited as part of the 7th Frash Paint fair The Red Sequence exhibition was a series of eighty-five cadmium red oil stick drawings on paper. The sheets of paper are of uniform size and consecutively hung on the wall in a tight five-by-seventeen... Read more -
Synesthesia
4 - 8 Nov 2014 Synesthesia from the Ancient Greek for “together” and “sensation” is a neurological phenomenon where stimulation of one sensory pathway triggers involuntary experiences in another. Jonathan Goldman transformed this concept into an inter-sensual dialogue, translating sound into visual form. Rhythm and resonance appeared in bare wood patterns evoking mountains and seascapes.... Read more -
Goral Echad
19 - 28 Jun 2012 In his solo exhibition ‘Goral Echad’, Amir Fattal seeks to present the relationship between war, trauma and artistic development. Fattal follows the biographies of architects, artists, actors and photographers in order to explore aesthetic style in the context of ethics and politics. In the main installation 'Light and sound structure'... Read more -
Double Mars
22 Mar - 12 Apr 2012 At the core of Tsuki Garbian’s solo exhibition, Double Mars, lays the artist's struggle to find his unique voice. Garbian chooses Bruce Lee as a metaphor and steps into battle against the great masters of the European painting tradition - Titian, Caravaggio, Velasquez and Rembrandt; who contributed, among others, to... Read more
-
Snipers on a Can
2 Feb - 1 Mar 2012 The exhibition “Snipers on a Can” examined the concepts of ‘assemblage,’ ‘ready-made,’ ecological art, and the role of art today as a form of production. The exhibition featured three artists: Haran Mendel, Dror Karta, and Rimma Arslanov. Dror Karta and Haran Mendel both incorporate various ready-mades into their work. Rimma... Read more -
Match Point
10 Dec 2011 - 5 Jan 2012 The exhibition “Match Point”, was a visual, intergenerational encounter between two artists: Roey Heifetz and Aviva Uri. Roey Heifetz, was born in Jerusalem in 1978. He is a young artist who lives and works in Tel-Aviv. His monumental drawings of pencil & graphite on paper, combined with various industrial materials,... Read more -
Poetic Catastrophe
29 Oct - 25 Nov 2011 In his book - 'L'espace critique: essai sur l'urbanisme et les nouvelles technologies' (1984), Paul Virilio claims that accidents are an outcome of science and not its misfortune. According to Virilio, every innovative technology produces a new kind of accidents that could not exist before. The technology, with its different... Read more -
Hard Pop
6 - 14 Sep 2011 'A woman is not born a woman, she becomes a woman'- a famous quote by Simone de Beauvoir, one of the most significant feminist philosophers from the mid 20th century; it seems, from a modern perspective, that the idea of 'becoming a woman' did not include or expect the gap... Read more
-
Abdominal Pain
2 - 29 Jul 2011 Abdominal Pain is the first exhibition drawn entirely from ST-ART's collection. The exhibition explores the co-existence of force and compassion in the art of today. The works contain both natural dissonance and daily injustice. In a time where such images and moments have become so common-place, the exhibition raises questions... Read more -
Intervals
23 Mar - 20 May 2011 ‘Intervals’, Yonatan Levi and Shay Id Alony’s mutual exhibition, wishes to examine the way the individual realizes his validity through dialogue with the other. Levy arouses life in the intervals between his figures; he seeks to discern the body language, the gestures and the dialogue between them. He draws them... Read more -
Geography of Salon
12 Feb - 12 Mar 2011 Geography, as a research discipline in the fields of Natural, Humanities & Social sciences, developed in the 19th century to a field of study. 'Geo' + 'Graphy', as an action of describing the land, is being researched by Sharon Glazberg with materials such as Asphalt, tierscrude oil and bubble gum.... Read more -
Idyll Distortion | Distorted Idyll
29 Dec 2010 - 28 Jan 2011 Idyll Distortion | Distorted Idyll were two solo exhibitions by Ilya Medvedev and Ilan Yona, presented in a shared space, both exploring distortion and idyll from complementary perspectives. Ilya Medvedev presented large oil paintings depicting everyday situations, routines, and seemingly idyllic moments. Yet Medvedev’s idyll contains within it a distortion... Read more
-
START 2
12 May - 30 Jun 2010 Annual ST-ART exhibition presenting works of six ST-ART artists: Shay Id Alony, Maya Bloch, TOm Tomer Goldberg, Giora Jirafi, Peleg Dishon & Anat Canaani. Curators: Serge Tiroche & Dana Hasson Read more -
Make Room
31 May - 30 Sep 2009 ST-ART is presented collaborating artists: Ame72, Est, Joy van Erven, Klone, Know Hope & Zero Cents in a selling group exhibition Upper galleries: 6/6, ST-ART 2008 artists: Yonatan Levy, Avi Nevo, Angelika Sher, Luzy Shtilman, Yonatan Ullman & Artur Yakobov Read more
