Through this exhibition, the two cities, which share the name “white city”, were additionally connected.
White cities are connected by very dynamic and vital street art. Those who walk the streets of Belgrade and Tel Aviv will notice walls with old graffiti, new murals, as well as construction sites that are getting closer and closer. Savamala and Florentin are like reflections in a mirror.
The southern part of Tel Aviv called Florentin is located between the ancient port of Jaffa and the first Jewish settlement of Tel Aviv, Neve Tedek. Florentine is known as a bohemian quarter and is often compared to Berlin’s Kreuzberg and New York’s Lower East Side, as it is home to people from all over the world, with a wide variety of occupations, sexual orientations and religions. It is a labyrinth of streets in which new buildings can be seen behind half-ruined buildings and open-air stalls; old craft shops are located next to art galleries, and almost every meter of this area is covered with graffiti, murals and messages.
White city
The city of Tel Aviv has existed for 110 years, and the twenties and thirties of the 20th century were marked by a large wave of immigrants from Germany and Austria. There was a need to build apartments for thousands of new residents and so the whole city was built in the Bauhaus style, which was popular at the time. More than 4,000 white buildings were built in Tel Aviv alone, which is why Tel Aviv is called the “White City”, because it has the largest group of Bauhaus-style buildings in the world.
