The new exhibition at the Agam Museum reveals various chapters in the work of the artist Yaakov Agam, and tells the story of his life. This show is more than an exhibition, it is an opportunity for the audience to reacquaint themselves with the place of the artist Agam in the history of Western art and his presence in Israeli art. Visitors to the museum are invited to a journey of introduction, exposure, a life story, a story in art. They are invited to observe Agam’s work from its beginning. In the process of forming and inventing a language unique to him. In the formulation of an artistic, educational, and design theory.

The exhibition of the collection spans the spectrum of Agam’s work, starting from his earliest works, including the work he presented in his first solo exhibition, “Paintings in Motion” in 1953, and the work he presented in the group exhibition “Movement” in 1955, alongside artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Jeanne Tingley, Alexander Calder, Victor Vasarely, and Rafael Soto. The other part is based on works he presented in the exhibition “Agam: Beyond the Visible” at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1980, alongside works from the 1990s and 2000s.

Under the title “Yaakov Agam: The Thread of Life,” Agam’s life story unfolds on a 36-meter-long wall, from his birth in Rishon LeZion in 1928 to the opening of the Agam Museum in 2018 and his receiving the Knight of the French Legion of Honor in 2022. Walking along the wall brings visitors together with stations in his life, artistic peaks, photographs, and smaller-scale works.