The Ratcatcher

Duo Exhibition:
Michael Barak and Mattan Gappell

Curator: Dr. Revital Michali

Opening: Friday 18 July 2025, 12:00
Closing: Saturday 23 August 2025

Events during the exhibition:

• Film, wine and cheese 
  Thursday, 31 July, 20:00 (at Ta Tarbut next to the gallery)
  The film “The Pied Piper” takes liberties as it addresses, and alters, the familiar folk tale "The Piper of Hamelin" and is juxtaposed with the exhibition "The Rat Catcher" at Alfred Gallery.

• Gallery talk: Friday 15 August, 12:00 (at Ta Tarbut next to the gallery)
  A talk about the price of taking decisions in the era of new narratives, with the artists and the curator.

Alfred Cooperative Institute for Art & Culture is an alternative art space – home to an active and vibrant artist community aimed at introducing contemporary Israeli art and its young creators to art lovers in the local community. The Alfred Institute is the successor of 'Alfred Gallery', a pioneer in the sphere of cooperative artistic ventures, who's work became a model for numerous cooperative art galleries in Israel. Alfred Institute was establish in 2005, as a space devoted entirely to promoting and supporting Israeli art.