“Hidden Garden” – A Sculpture Exhibition

Yael Netanel is an Israeli ceramic sculptor who has been working for decades at Kibbutz Kfar Masaryk in the Western Galilee.

In the new exhibition “Hidden Garden”, Yael presents a new body of work in which ceramic female figures are embedded within colorful knitted spaces reminiscent of a Galilean forest, waves, roots, sky, and streams of water. The female figures created by Yael extend, float, hide, and open within knitted spaces, which constitute for them both a garden, a safe haven, and an internal map of healing.

The body and the landscape are intertwined, and the sculptures become small islands of breathing, rest, dreaming, and holding. Within the Israeli reality of recent years, “Hidden Garden” seeks to create a different place ― quieter, softer, one that allows one to stop for a moment and connect to a protected space of softness in a turbulent period.

The exhibition will open as part of the July Art Festival.

Yael Netanel lives and creates in Kibbutz Kfar Masaryk in the Western Galilee. Her artistic path developed from self-study and a deep personal connection to the material, with clay becoming for her a language of expression, healing, listening, and inner connection. Over the years, she has developed a unique creative language that combines ceramic sculpture, textiles, and materials from nature. Alongside her sculptural work, Yael writes poetry, and in her creative process there is a dialogue between text and material ― sometimes a poem gives birth to a sculpture, and sometimes the sculpture becomes a poem.