To The Internal Libraries - Biblioscppia
To the Inner Libraries is the title of a solo exhibition and artist’s book by the artist Hadassa Goldvicht, presented at the National Library of Israel (August 2025 – May 2026). The project centers on a multi-year documentation of the old National Library building at Givat Ram and its dismantling ahead of the move to the new facility.
Goldvicht presents the library as a living, breathing body through its hidden internal systems. The exhibition includes four video works that reveal the building’s “innards”—its book basements, mechanical conveyors, and the pathways through which millions of books circulated over decades.
The accompanying book brings together images alongside interviews with long-time library staff, curatorial texts, and a conversation addressing processes of recovery and healing.
- Design: Noa Schwarz
- Editing: Hadassa and Michal Goldvicht
- Texts: Netta Assaf, Dr. Amitai Mendelsohn, Efrat Suraqui
- Copies: 300
- Pages: 298
- Type of binding: Hardcover
- Languages: Hebrew, Arabic, English
- Dimensions (cm): 17x23
- Type of printing: Offset
- Publication: Independent
- Place of publication: Jerusalem
- Book photography: Leafing Magazine
- ISBN: 978-965-597-197-2
Hadassa Goldvicht (b. 1981, Jerusalem) is a multidisciplinary artist and lecturer whose work engages with language, the body, and mechanisms of pain and healing. Her practice includes projects in public space created in collaboration with dozens and sometimes hundreds of public-sector workers and community members in Israel and abroad, alongside works involving her own family in the domestic sphere, exploring the relationships between motherhood, language, myth, and creation.
She has presented solo exhibitions in Israel and internationally, including at the Israel Museum, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Querini Stampalia Foundation in Venice, the National Library of Israel, and the Beijing Biennale.
Goldvicht studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (2004) and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts (2007). She is a graduate of the Mandel Institute’s Cultural Leadership Program and has received numerous awards and grants for her work in Israel and abroad.
Her works are held in museums and private collections, including the Israel Museum, the Jewish Museum in New York, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the ANU – Museum of the Jewish People, the Jewish Museum Frankfurt, the Querini Stampalia Foundation in Venice, the Center for Book Arts in New York, and others.
