Guest curator Lawrence Rinder looks at Rina Kimche’s ceramics in the context of Israeli Modernism, as well as touching on her connections to other international artistic currents.  He focuses in particular on the works in the current exhibition, which date from the 1970s to the 2010s and show diverse expressions of her key themes: history, fragmentation, resilience, and survival.

This event is copresented by The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life.

Lawrence Rinder, former director of BAMPFA, served as chief curator of the 2002 Whitney Biennial and was the founding director of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts at California College of the Arts. Among his many groundbreaking exhibitions are In a Different Light (with Nayland Blake), The American Effect, The Possible, Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective, and Architecture of Life.