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BoHouse is an art space with exhibitions, cultural evenings and collaborations with talented people Nice to meet you. But that is not all!

We are Dina Bova, Gadi Boleslavsky and our son Emanuel. We are a family and the house you see here is our home. We named it BoHouse, which is a combination of the first letters of our last names. Our history began in 2005 in one of the Israeli high-tech companies where we worked then. But what united and attracted us to each other was not an interest in technology, but a love for art and a desire

to create. Dina has been involved in sculpture and photography for several years and Gadi - in graphics and design. But we realized that it was more interesting for us to create together and combined our efforts and talents. So we started working together on creative projects. The result of this synergy was Dina's success as a photo artist. Dina's work has received worldwide recognition and brought her about 400 awards in photography competitions around the world.

BoHouse is our dream
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After the wedding, while living, like many young families in rented apartments, we figured out how to turn a standard living space into something extraordinary with minimal funds and effort. We managed to turn even the most ordinary apartment into a space that corresponded to our sense of aesthetics, our style and love for art. In 2013, our son Emanuel was born, and with him so was the dream of building a house where he can grow, develop and create with us! BoHouse is architecture, design and art
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When we started planning our dream home, it quickly became clear to us that we would have to build it ourselves. In interior design, we relied on intuition and our own understanding of aesthetics. And to turn our ideas into an architectural project, we collaborated with a talented architect - Robert Banovsky. This house is the result of the joint creativity of our family. This is a place where we not only come up with new ideas, but also implement them ourselves, as a family team. The design of the house is definitely eclectic. But this is a natural and harmonious eclecticism, in which ethnic masks from Morocco, paintings from Mongolia, vintage furniture from England, works by masters of painting and photography (including, of course, Dina's works), and children's drawings of our son - convey the authentic mood of our home.

BoHouse is a space for creative people
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BoHouse is, of course, our personal space where we live, work and raise our son. Here we come up with new ideas and work together on family art projects. At BoHouse we are happy to hold meetings with interesting people, art exhibitions, concerts and musical events, cultural and literary evenings, master classes of creative people from different fields. So, BoHouse is also a living creative environment for art projects, new ideas and collaborations with other talented artists.

30/01/2026

On Saturday, February 7th, at 4:00 PM, we will open the Taboo-2 exhibition.
As with the first Taboo exhibition three years ago, we continue to showcase how talented artists and photographers use the language of art to convey various emotions and concepts through the depiction of the n**e body.

Opening: Saturday, February 7th at 4:00 PM.
Address: BoHouse, Shaar Efraim, Shenhav 153
Waze: https://waze.com/ul/hsv8zsm94w
Admission: 70 NIS
Those wishing to visit the exhibition, please contact Gadi on WhatsApp 052-5092193

Participating artists:
- Alexey Boukingolts
- Marina Daykovskaya
- Yana Gorelik
- Felix Stein
- Shlomo Bronstein
- Evgeny Leib
- Dina Bova / Gadi Boleslavsky

There are many different definitions of taboo. The following definition seems to be the most concise and clear: “A taboo is a prohibition, a violation that is usually perceived as a threat to society.”

In the 21st century, the artistic depiction of the naked body has become taboo. Nowadays, in progressive social networks, this is unwanted content. The mechanisms of social media reduce exposure or even block images that have any hint of nudity. Many galleries avoid exhibiting "immodest" images in order not to offend the feelings of religious people. In the 21st century, full of technological achievements, as in the Middle Ages, the artistic depiction of nudity is sanctimoniously rejected. At the same time, any child can easily access p**n sites.

At BoHouse, there are no such taboos. That is why we decided to give our art space to talented artists with different views on human body, who use the language of art to convey a variety of emotions with the help of a n**e human body.

✨ Curators: Dina Bova and Gadi Boleslavsky
For those who missed the first Taboo exhibition three years ago, here are some photos
https://www.bohouse.art/taboo-exhibition

02/09/2025

Opening of the Exhibition “Thorns & Wings”

📅 Date: September 6, 2025ת Time: 16:00
📍 Location: BoHouse — Shenhav 153, Sha’ar Ephraim
🎟 Entrance: 70 ₪

Thorns protect, wings set you free.
Every wound can trigger a new flight.

In a world where thorns are sharp and wings are fragile, pain and lightness come together. Life is a game of contrasts, where disappearance becomes the sign of new birth.

“Thorns and Wings” is a metaphor for nature itself: delicate yet dangerous, fragile yet strong, longing to fly but also fighting for survival. Birth always comes with effort: a leaf pushes through a thorn, a wing breaks free from a cocoon, and life finds a way even in a dry flower.

In Masha Orlovich’s artworks, wings and flowers become symbols of harmony. Using complex printmaking techniques, she captures the lightness of nature - reminding us that life is born in silence and light, if we know how to listen.
Masha finds beauty in the combination of the worlds of flora and fauna, where the full splendor of nature is revealed. As she wrote in her early youth:

"I am a tree from soil below,
A flower warmed by winds that blow.
A butterfly with quiet wings,
I drift above eternal things.
Through every birth my path is spun,
To learn the secret life has won.”

Tenno Sooster’s series grows from childhood memories of an Estonian farm, where every dragonfly’s flutter and every ant’s track seemed like a secret sign. Later, he discovered old entomology books from the 18th and 19th centuries, where insects and plants appeared as conscious beings from other worlds. Like a scientist with a microscope, Tenno observes Israel’s fauna. He captures tiny movements while knowing that humans are torn between the desire to preserve and the urge to destroy what they study. In his works, sometimes one creature carries the embryo of another creature - as if life hides its own continuation within itself.

Together, the artists create a space where thorns and wings do not oppose each other, but dance together - like birth and disappearance, pain and beauty, protection and freedom. This is an exhibition about how life always continues to resonate, even among the thorns.

✨ Curators: Dina Bova and Gadi Boleslavsky

More details here:
https://www.bohouse.art/event-details/exhibition-thorns-and-wings

10/02/2025

Dear friends, this thursday, February 13th at 18:30 we open the exhibition "Pictures you can hear" by Mikhail Baranovskiy
https://www.bohouse.art/event-details/exhibition-mikhail-baranovsky

Admission ticket: 50 NIS. BIT on 052-5092193 or cash.
Location: Bohouse small gallery space (studio)
Adress: Shenhav 153, Shaar Efraim

What if paintings could produce sound? What if each brushstroke created a melody and every color evoked a tone?
At Mikhail Baranovsky’s solo exhibition "Pictures You Can Hear", you will witness how paintings find their voice. The artist invites viewers to immerse themselves in a unique fusion of art, where visual imagery and music intertwine, creating a multi-layered perception. Baranovsky’s paintings are accompanied by musical excerpts composed by the artist himself, enhancing the emotional impact and unveiling a new way of engaging with art.

Mikhail Baranovsky is a writer and artist whose work is multifaceted and paradoxical. Born in Rostov-on-Don in 1963, he graduated from Rostov State University with a degree in journalism. He debuted as a writer in 2002 in Moscow, publishing numerous books and screenplays that gained popularity. His artistic career began later in Israel, where he repatriated in 2014. Painting became his response to the challenges of a new life – his new form of self-expression. His works quickly resonated with audiences around the world.
Baranovsky believes that art should surprise and be thought provoking. His paintings do not aim to replicate reality, but rather to transform it. Imagination is at the heart of his creative process. He draws inspiration from the paintings of Rousseau, Chagall, Modigliani, Picasso, from the films of Woody Allen, from the books of Gabriel García Márquez, and from the music of Tom Waits.
Mikhail describes himself as a writer reborn as an artist. His paintings are vivid, polyphonic images created using an unusual technique where paint is applied with a roller, which adds textural depth and richness. The combination of visual art and musical accompaniment allows viewers to fell the artist’s vision more deeply, making the experience more immersive and multidimensional.

The exhibition "Pictures You Can Hear" offers viewers an unusual way to experience art. Try to hear the sound of colors and allow yourself to see music through the eyes of the artist.

Curators:
Gadi Boleslavsky & Dina Bova - Visual artist

In parallel, in main exhibition hall, we continue the exhibition "Count the Stars" of Andrei Popov
https://www.bohouse.art/event-details/exhibition-andrei-popov-count-the-stars

Closure of both exhibitions: April 19th, 2025

17/11/2024

Dear Friends,
On Friday, December 6th at 18:00 we are opening in BoHouse an extraordinary exhibition "Count the Stars" of talented painter from Haifa Andrei Popov.

Location: Bohouse main gallery space.
Waze: https://waze.com/ul/hsv8zsm94w
Admission: 50 NIS.

The exhibition "Count the Stars" by artist Andrey Popov is a fascinating journey into a world of quiet observations and touching images. In his paintings, the artist creates warm, multi-layered stories filled with symbols and irony, where everyday objects and people get special meanings.
Andrey is one of those rare artists who has preserved a childlike ability to feel the world’s marvels, and through this perspective, he reveals familiar things and relationships in an unexpected light. His paintings are like "snapshots" capturing hidden meanings in everyday life, inviting viewers to ponder them and decode their messages. Working in the style of "Artoon" - a unique genre on the border between painting and ironic graphics -Andrey describes his approach as "romantic cynicism." With humor and self-irony, he explores reality with its depth, and its metaphorical layers.
His style, balancing between humor and gentle melancholy, evokes smiles and warmth, encouraging viewers to look at the surrounding world with wonder and compassion. Andrey believes that humor and self-irony are the best medicine for our times. "Perhaps beauty won’t save the world, but humor and self-irony will prevent it from perishing," he says.
"Count the Stars" is an invitation not just to look, but to truly see: to notice the small things that make our life surprising and multifaceted. The exhibition immerses viewers in a contemplative world, allowing them to forget the bustle of daily life and inspiring each person to discover their own "stars."

Andrey Popov was born in 1970 in Tashkent. He began drawing in childhood, filling not only sketchbooks but also the walls of his home. After school, he admitted the Military Space Engineering Institute in St. Petersburg, but after a short time left his military career to pursue art.
Andrey has participated in over 100 exhibitions worldwide, including solo shows, and has won more than 40 international awards in the field of ironic graphics. In 2022, he repatriated to Israel. In 2023 and 2024, representing Israel in competitions in Croatia and Romania, he won bronze twice, placing among the top three cartoonists from 70 countries.
Andrey Popov’s work can be seen in numerous print and online publications. He has illustrated dozens of books, magazines, and newspapers.
Currently, Andrey lives and works in Haifa, and his works are found in private collections around the world.

Curators:
Gadi Boleslavsky and Dina Bova - Visual artist.

Andrei Popov
https://popovart.store/

21/09/2024

Friends!
We are closing the exhibition "ArtChaeology" by Shmuel Schelest.
If you have not yet had time to visit this unique cultural event, then on Tuesday, October 1 at 18:00 there will be a last chance to do so.

Entrance: 50 shekels.
Address: Shaar Efraim, Shenhav 153

Please look at the first comment, there will be a link to our new video from the exhibition.

11/06/2024

Friends, this coming Thursday, June 13 at 7:00 p.m., right after Shavuot, we are waiting for you at the opening of the exhibition ARTcheology of the painter Shmuel Schelest

Details and registration:
https://www.bohouse.art/event-details/exhibition-artchaeology-shmuel-schelest

03/06/2024

Dear Friends,
On Thursday June 13th at 19:00 we are opening of an extraordinary exhibition "ARTchaeology or Time Travel" of Shmuel Schelest - talented and well-known painter from Jerusalem.

This exhibition, like a portal of time, opens before us the biblical history of the Jewish people, captured in visual scrolls.
https://www.bohouse.art/event-details/exhibition-artchaeology-shmuel-schelest

Location: Bohouse main gallery space.
Waze: https://waze.com/ul/hsv8zsm94w
Admission: 50 NIS.

So it's not accidental, that we open this exhibition right after the Jewish holiday Shavuot , which marks the revelation of the Ten Commandments to Moses and the Israelites at Mount Sinai.

We live in a country where you can meet on the train someone, who looks like biblical Shulamith . At every loud rally you can find someone, who cries like Jeremiah. The descendants of Moses no longer build pyramids, but they do build skyscrapers. Unfortunately, we do not always have enough of the King Solomon’s wisdom, but nevertheless we have become not only a nation of the Book, but a Startup nation. And who knows, perhaps someone from the line of David, whom Jews have been waiting for thousands of years, is already going to one of our schools or kindergartens. We are surrounded by people who look like those, who lived on this land thousands of years ago.

The exhibition features three series of scrolls from the project named "Commentaries". In the Jewish tradition, it is customary to comment on the texts of the Holy Scriptures and connect the events of that time with the present day. In this work, which has been going on for over ten years, the artist attempts to give his personal visual commentary on the fundamental facts of Jewish history. But he does so using language of modern art. This combination of a traditional approach to the text and the search for unconventional visual solutions creates the opportunity for the viewer not only to plunge into biblical history, but also to try to unravel the hints and prophecies, transferred from the Biblical text into the fabric of visual series.

This exhibition is about the connection between past and present. According to Jewish tradition, “We all stood under Mount Sinai” – and in Schelest's archaic images we recognize modern Israelis that we meet every day on the streets of Jerusalem, Hebron, Tel Aviv or Haifa.

The artist works using the monotype technique, as well as acrylic painting on paper and canvas, which best meet his goals.

Shmuel Schelest was born in 1957 in Kyiv, Ukraine. He graduated from the Kiev Institute of Fine Arts, as well as the Tashkent National Institute of Theater and Fine Arts. In 2006 he repatriated to Israel. Today he lives in Maale Adumim and works in Jerusalem.

Participated in 25 personal and numerous group exhibitions in Israel and many other countries, such as in Uzbekistan, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Germany, Holland, Georgia, Ukraine, Russia, France.

Curators:
Gadi Boleslavsky, Dina Bova and Marina Schelest.

Shmuel Schelest personal page:
https://www.skizzagallery.com/shmuel-anatoly-schelest

30/04/2024

Saturday, May 4th, 17:00 we we host a closure event in BoHouse of two solo art exhibitions "As Is" by Olga Yerushalmy and "Bestiary" by Maria Sorina.
Both of the artists will attend the closure event.
And all the artworks will be fore sale.

About Olga Yerushalmy exhibition "As Is":
https://www.bohouse.art/event-details/art-exhibition-as-is-olga-yerushalmi

About Maria Sorina exhibition "Bestiary":
https://www.bohouse.art/event-details/exhibition-bestiary-maria-sorina

Address: Shaar Efraim, Shenhav 153
Entry: 50 NIS

See you soon!

26/03/2024

At Saturday, April 6th, 14:00, we're opening an exhibition "Bestiary" of Maria Sorina at Bohouse small gallery space (studio).
Closure: May 5st
Admition ticket: 50 NIS.

Bestia (lat.) - animal, wild beast, evil person, monster.

A bestiary is a medieval book of beasts – a collection of articles with illustrations and allegorical descriptions of various animals. The authors looked for similarities between the images of the creatures and the images and concepts of religion and morality, deciphering them like hieroglyphs. Nature was perceived as an arena of constant struggle between good and evil forces. (Wikipedia)

Maria Sorina is a well-known, accomplished artist, with a recognizable and bold artistic style. Her works reflect how the artist sees reality and the world around her. Maria Sorina is not only a talented artist, she is also a very brave and optimistic person with an unusual story and a very complicated life path.

During her 24 years, Maria experienced several events that turned her life upside down, but shaped her as an artist. A serious illness suffered in childhood, as well as the events of recent years - the war in Ukraine and the war in Israel - heavily influenced her work.

Maria was born in Moscow in 1999. From the age of 10 to 20 she exhibited in the best art galleries in Moscow. After the start of the war with Ukraine, on March 8, 2022, Maria left Russia and immigrated to Israel. But on October 7, war came to Israel as well. War is everywhere now. First of all, it is in the souls of people and this is scary.

The beast, according to Maria, is “something crazy, galloping, with the antlers of a deer, with large teeth and claws, and four or six legs.”

What the artist wanted to express through her series of beasts is easy to understand by looking around, where a human can easily turn into a beast...

The exhibition will feature artist's works over the past two years, created in Israel.

Curators: Gadi Boleslavsky and Dina Bova

Visiting:
Adress: Shenhav 153, Shaar Efraim
After the opening, it's possible to visit any day. To schedule a visit please call 052-5092193 , Gadi
https://www.bohouse.art/event-details/exhibition-bestiary-maria-sorina

11/03/2024

Hats on - this is how we called our costumed, slightly ironic, slightly erotic evening at Bohouse a few days before Purim, where the guests come with hats and masks!
https://www.bohouse.art/event-details/hats-on

Note: this event is in Russian language.

Program:

1. Biologist Ivan Kvasov with a short, frivolous lecture on a serious topic about the History of Contraception from the Stone Age to the present day.
2. Sh***ri expert and rigger Ded Mazai - for a strong and aesthetic connection. He will demonstrate Sh***ri - Japanese art of bo***ge using ropes on the human body.
3. Body-artist Diana Yanvareva will paint on you in her special way, that your friends won't recognize you.
4. Steampunk-styled masks, hats, corsets and jewelry, will be available to purchase from the artists Olga Yerushalmy and Ksenia Nazarov. If you don't have a hat or mask for this evening, you can order them in advance from us.
5. Olga Yerushalmy will also accompany you and show her solo exhibition As Is, which recently opened in the BoHouse exhibition hall.
6. You will have a great opportunity to make cool photos in our “secret” room, painted by the graffiti artist Ana Kogan, where the three-dimensional world turns into the illusion of an impressionist painting.
7. As always, there will be wine and a free buffet with delicious food. We will also showcase BoHouse interior design made by us and our permanent art collection, including new pieces, works by photo-artist Dina Bova and other artists.
For registration and payment click here:
https://www.bohouse.art/event-details/hats-on

Yerushalmi-Sorokin Olga
Kvasov Ivan
Gadi Boleslavsky
Dina Bova - Visual artist
Diana Yanvareva
Ksenia Nazarov
Ana Kogan

01/03/2024

Tomorrow, Saturday March 2nd at 16:00, at BoHouse there will be a gallery talk with the artist Yerushalmi-Sorokin Olga at the exhibition "As Is".
More details:
https://www.bohouse.art/event-details/art-exhibition-as-is-olga-yerushalmi

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Shenhav
Sha'ar Ephraim
4283500

Telephone

+972525092193

Website

https://www.bohouse.art/

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