Becoming – Hadas Porges Solo Exhibition

“The works presented in this exhibition begin with an event or a thought charged with emotion, which I express through color. Something emerges in my mind together with an image, and then I start asking myself why that particular image is the one that best expresses what I was thinking and feeling. During the act of painting, everything is released, and I surrender completely to the process.

I work on each painting for several months. I immerse myself in it and become devoted to it. Usually, I begin, make progress, take a break of several weeks, and then return to it again. Working with oil paints gives me tremendous flexibility. I add another layer, and another layer. I change the background if it does not feel right. I work on every painting for months. I know a work is finished when I see that the emotion I felt evokes something similar in the viewer—that I have succeeded in conveying emotions and thoughts through my art.”

Hadas Porges is a young artist presenting her first solo exhibition. The viewer becomes a participant in her artistic development, witnessing gradual transformations and evolution as they unfold. The works are fresh and emotionally charged, filled with inner turmoil, pain, and desire. They communicate powerful sensations that cannot always be easily named.

The body of work presented in the exhibition reveals a variety of influences drawn from both historical and contemporary art. One can glimpse the presence of the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt in the intertwined figures that separate and reunite, and in the fusion of sensual female nudity with richly colored, dynamic backgrounds.

The influence of Sandro Botticelli emerges through the flowing lines of the elongated figures and the dreamlike, mythological atmosphere. Edvard Munch can be recognized in the intensity of expression and the exploration of the inner world, as the brush turns inward to provide a raw visual expression of the human soul—of anxiety, loneliness, and death, as well as the longing for fertility and love.

The influence of contemporary artist Jenny Saville is evident in Porges’s choice of traditional figurative oil painting and in her artistic approach to representing the female body—an approach that stands in striking contrast to conventional and historical depictions of femininity.

Hadas Porges’s first solo exhibition introduces viewers to the world of a young artist who only recently completed an extended service in Unit 8200, working in the field of cybersecurity.

“For me, technology and art are not so different. In both, I feel that I am creating. In both, I take a concept, a plan, an idea; I think about it from the broadest perspective down to the smallest details, and then I transform it into something tangible. That happens in art, and it also happens when writing code.”

Visitors to the exhibition experience the power of the works and are left wondering where Porges’s artistic journey will lead her next. How will she choose to expand her repertoire? What new directions will she pursue? What additional meanings will she infuse into her evolving artistic language? And how will her art intersect with the other worlds in which she is engaged?

Hadas Porges – Solo Exhibition
June 23, 2026 – July 25, 2026

Curators: Michali Adler and Dr. Galia Duchin Arieli

Opening Reception:
Wednesday, June 25, 2026, at 8:00 PM

Global Art Gallery
13 HaBa’alei HaMelacha Street, Tel Aviv, Israel