Neta Weiner, ‘Mother of Foreign’, 2025

Mother of Foreign is a journey of identity and language that unfolds within the public spaces of the museum, becoming a site for encounter and confrontation between the two halves of the city of Tel Aviv–Yafo: Tel Aviv (including the Tel Aviv Museum of Art) and Jaffa. Neta Weiner is a multidisciplinary artist, musician, playwright, and social activist, recipient of the Shechter-Rabinowitz Prize for Original Israeli Creation (2020). He is the lead vocalist of the Arab-Jewish hip-hop ensemble "System Ali" and serves as the artistic director of the cultural movement "Beit System Ali". Weiner lectures on writing at the Kibbutzim College, teaches performance art at Tufts University in Boston, is a spoken word teacher at Nissan Nativ Acting Studio, a creator and actor in award-winning productions, a television and theater actor, and recipient of the Kippod Ha'Zahav Prize for fringe theater.