October 2022- . Jaffa d, Tel Aviv-Yaffo

The seventh station of ZUMU was hosted in the neighborhood - Jaffa D., which is located on the border triangle of Tel Aviv, Bat Yam and Holon. This is the first time that Zumu has arrived in a large city, after the previous six stops were outside of Israel's major centers of culture and power.

But we still got here. to the back yard of Tel Aviv-Yafo. We pushed our foot in the door of the Jaffa D neighborhood. We curated, created and implemented a community-based museum that straddles the threshold between the temporary and the permanent, between the local and the external, and between the nostalgic and sentimental and the progressive and innovative.

Jaffa D. is a neighborhood that is on the brink. On the brink of Tel Aviv. on the brink of change. on the verge of boiling. on the verge of blooming. And on the verge of creation. And this moment, of "a leg here a leg there" and of the transition between here and here, we wanted to illuminate with the help of 40 works of art that meet the meeting and the no man's land between the now, the past and the uncertain future. 

Zumu Jaffa D is the first to operate in a defined manner in one neighborhood, in the doorstep format. The museum remains itinerant and dynamic, and the entire exhibition is community-based and created especially for the neighborhood, but unlike the usual format of Zumu, where the works are displayed for a limited period of one to two months in a large, abandoned and restricted space, here the works are created and displayed on the doorsteps of the houses, buildings and yards of the neighborhood and they will remain for an indefinite and unlimited period on the threshold between private and public.
Zumu the threshold touches the residents of the neighborhood in a much deeper and wider way. In fact, almost the entire project is owned by residents the hood. The vast majority of the works, which were created for the project by about 40 artists from all over the country and the world, were created following meetings with the neighbors and placed in an area that is privately owned and after we continue to the next station, it will be completely dependent on them.

Production Team: Milana Gitzin Adiram// Ariel Adiram // Shahar Ben Nun // Bar Yerushalmi  // Haddasa Choen // Alon Sarid // Adi Shaham // Niv segev

Zumu Jaffa D was made possible through the generous support of the Ted Arison Family foundation, Mifal HaPais, The Azrieli Foundation, The Municipality of Tel Aviv-yaffo,  The Ministry of Culture, Anata Foundation, Plumas Foundation, The German and French Embassies in Israel, and private donors.