EXHIBITION
All You Need Is Touch "5"
Museum nacht hanover - villa seligmann 14.7.25
The Struggling artist 26.9.2025 Dispaccio - Napoli
From the 14th The Villa Seligmann presents the work "Touch" by the artist Avi Albers Ben Chamo.
The idea of "touch" was born one early morning in Sicily when Avi walked through the streets with an empty canvas, "during my three weeks of art residency in Palermo, the openers of the people of Sicily touched my heart deeply, so I hang my canvas in the street walls and inviting them to touch my canvas as an act of gratitude. A year later, Touch 1" found its place in the collection of the Museo San Rocco for Contemporary Art in Trapani.
Avi Albers Ben Chamo is a painter and musician living in Berlin. He was born in Israel and is a member of the Iranian-Israeli peace project "Sistanagila". His work is directly inspired by the writings of his ancestor Rabbi Joseph Messas, a progressive thinker who became Chief Rabbi of Haifa in the 1960s and always wanted to connect people. "All you need is TOUCH" is an invitation to touch, to feel to bridge above disagreements and to meet one's own true beauty in the mirror.
As part of the Night of the Museums 2025, the June from 6.15 pm a meeting with the artist Avi Albers Ben Chamo will take place. The work then remains as a permanent loan in the Villa Seligmann and can be visited at events.
VILLA SELIGMANN Hohenzollernstr. 39, 30161 Hannover, Info@villa-seligmann.de 0511 844887-200 www.villa-seligmann.de
"The Struggling Artist" coin machine, (sculpture) A starving artist is an artist who sacrifices material well-being in order to focus on their artwork.[1] They typically live on minimum expenses, either for a lack of business or because all their disposable income goes toward art projects.
In Dialogue with Touch Tagesspiegel 23.08.24
As much as Touch is about dialog, last week I got an email from the exhibition space to inform me that the work was vandalized. Someone took the freedom not to just touch the work but to write on it with a black marker, and to insult me with very "juicy" words. It was the last thing I was expecting to happen.
I thought the gallery was a safe place, and this was my main downer, belly pain, a sudden violent mental and emotional pain. But that happily diminished while talking to a lot of my friends, supporting and giving me love and advice. Yesterday I brought two chairs to the group exhibition, one for me and one for the person who did it, I left the work on the wall and waited. I still believe in it "True dialogue can be achieved only at a touch distance".
Read: Vandalismus und Nazi-Symbolik in Berliner Galerie
