The exhibition Goldreich de Shalit: Locale in the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art features the broad individual and joint oeuvres of professional partners and married couple Arthur Goldreich (1929-2011) — artist, architect, freedom fighter and educator — and the interior architect and designer Tamar de Shalit (1932-2009).

The museum’s white main space (20m x 15m) showcases 60 original archive drawers with carefully selected material from the vast multi-disciplinary collections of Goldreich and de Shalit G&dS), arranged in thematic clusters (e.g. hospitality, commemoration, stage). Tens of thousands of items of diverse types are displayed: drawings and plans, slides and photographs, documents, objects and books. Integrated digital screens provide a scope of the work in situ. The visitor glances at the exhibits from above, the bare walls displaying only the striking full-height portraits of G&dS and the main exhibition text in English and Hebrew, adjacent to an intimate seating area, reproduced from G&dS’s original interior design for the museum.

Documenting the couple’s activities and achievements, the exhibition sheds light on the intricate relationship between their personal and professional biographies and key chapters in the political, spatial and aesthetic history of Israel and worldwide.