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Chagall’s Jewish heritage spotlighted in new exhibition

The work of Marc Chagall will transform the Jewish Museum of Australia into a timeless dreamscape in June.

16 Mar 2023

Celina Lei

Visual Arts

Left: Marc Chagall, ‘Vision de Paris (Image of Paris)’, 1960, lithography from Lithographes series © Comité Chagall, courtesy Art & Co/Jewish Museum of Australia, Right: Marc Chagall, ‘Si Mon Soleil (If my Sun)’, 1968, xylography from Poèmes series © Comité Chagall. Image: Courtesy Art & Co/Jewish Museum of Australia.

The Jewish Museum of Australia: Gandel Centre of Judaica is bringing one of the great 20th century masters, Marc Chagall (1887-1985), to Melbourne.

The Museum will be transformed to a Chagall-inspired dreamscape from 9 June to 10 December 2023, including an exclusive capsule of original works and poems.

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Celina Lei

Celina Lei is an arts writer and editor at ArtsHub. She acquired her M.A in Art, Law and Business in New York with a B.A. in Art History and Philosophy from the University of Melbourne. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne.