When does the exhibition take place?

The event is scheduled for 20.09.2026 at 10:00 AM.

How much is the admission?

The ticket price is 5 Euro, reduced 3 Euro.

Where is the Jena Art Collection located?

The Jena Art Collection is located at Markt 7 in 07743 Jena.

Is the exhibition an indoor event?

Yes, the exhibition takes place in the indoor areas of the Jena Art Collection.

What forms of art are exhibited?

Painting, drawings, and installations are exhibited.

Are there accompanying programs or guided tours?

Yes, there are mediation offers and guided tours for the exhibition. Specific dates and formats will be published by the Jena Art Collection.

Zohar Fraiman ignites a colorful image world full of roles and questions in Jena

Name: ZOHAR FRAIMAN. Players in paradise
Start: 2026-09-20T12:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-20T12:00:00+02:00
Location: Kunstsammlung Jena

ZOHAR FRAIMAN. Players in paradise: Painting between art history, pop culture, and contemporary

With Zohar Fraiman's exhibition Players in paradise, a vivid art experience unfolds in the Jena Art Collection, merging painting, drawing, and installation into a sensory yet analytical imagery. The works of the artist, born in Jerusalem in 1987 and living in Berlin, explore female life concepts in the era of digital self-staging and link them with references from art history, series, Hollywood, and pop culture.

Visual spaces full of roles, masks, and projections

Fraiman's painting develops an exhibition atmosphere where sugary colors, overlapping figures, and hybrid scenes come together to create a dense visual dramaturgy. Between self-optimization, virtual existence, and Disney fantasies, visual spaces emerge that intertwine beauty and irony, seduction and critique. The artist works with clearly readable motifs that recall the logic of social media, advertising, and mass culture while simultaneously opening up art historical depth layers.

Art historical quotes with contemporary sharpness

The exhibition shows how Fraiman re-questions the tradition of painting. Her figures and image fragments draw inspiration from the Renaissance, classical modernism, and surrealism to raise questions about identity, regimes of gaze, and female roles. It is precisely this connection of high culture and pop aesthetics that makes the exploration of her work so appealing: from the seemingly light emerges a precise diagnosis of the present.

Jena as a place of work critique and cultural education

The Jena Art Collection stands in a long tradition of modern and contemporary art. As a municipal collection with a changing exhibition program, it offers an ideal setting for Fraiman's works, which oscillate between analytical image critique and playful surface pleasure. Accompanying the exhibition, mediation offers, guided tours, and family-oriented formats will be anchored in the art collection; thus, the exhibition is also a place of cultural education and aesthetic experience.

An exhibition experience with resonance

The works of Zohar Fraiman keep the gaze in motion. They entice with color, surface, and narrative excess, but at the same time open up questions about media self-presentation, female attribution, and the status of images in digital daily life. Those who visit this exhibition experience painting as contemporary thinking in images: seductive, wise, and highly relevant.

Conclusion: Players in paradise promises an intense look at contemporary painting between critique and seduction. The exhibition is worth a visit on-site, as it connects art historical references, cultural education, and strong visual worlds to create an impressive museum experience.