Department of Photography
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David Adika is a photographer, artist, and Head of the Photography Department at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem. A senior lecturer in the Department of Photography since 1999, he holds bachelor’s (BFA) and master’s (MFA) degrees from Bezalel.
David Adika’s work focuses on the visual and cultural facets of the local Middle Eastern space as a microcosm that reflects his social and family identity. His photographic corpus contains representations of various still life and portraits, blurring the boundaries between abstract conceptual language and lavish visual accuracy. Adika’s visual research explores intimate yet universal biographies, while the photographs unfold familiar and unfamiliar aspects of everyday life and highlight questions of taste and social status.
Adika has had many solo exhibitions in Israeli and international venues, among them Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Art Museum in Riga, Latvia, Bologna MUSEI, Casa Morandi, Italy, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, and Braverman Gallery in Tel Aviv. He has won many awards, including the Minister and the Emerging Artist Prizes from the Ministry of Culture and Sports, and the Jack Nailor Award for Photography. His photographs are included in many collections, such as the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Haifa Museum of Art, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Casa Morandi in Italy, the Knesset and private collections in Israel and abroad.
He lives in Jaffa and works in Jerusalem
Moran is an Animation artist and lecturer, specialized in stopmotion and experimental animation. co-owner of "ZAZ Animation", a leading stopmotion studio in Israel.
Graduate (BFA) from the Screen-Based Arts department of Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem. Further studies (diploma) at the NFTS London, and the Aardman Academy, Bristol, England.
Moran's body of work include: Independent shorts, animation installations and commissioned work for film, advertizing and theater. Her works screened on festivals and exhibitions, winning several prizes and acknowledgements.
Independent:
"Joints"(2017) and "Reorganization" (2015): Award-winning site-specific animation installations. With Osi Wald, Ricardo Werdesheim.
Group exhibitions: Illustration Week 2019; "Ha Mekarer" gallery 2018; Bat Yam International Festival 2017; "Beita" gallery 2017; "Contact Point 2015" at the Israel Museum; Ticho House Museum 2008.
From commissions:
Animation and production of stopmotion scenes in U2's "Love Is Bigger Than Anything In Its Way" music video.
Production, Animation and puppets for the award-winning "Para" chocolate advertizing campaign, 2016-2018.
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Architect, lecturer, doctoral student, and researcher. Teaches at Bezalel since 2015 in studio courses, spatial thinking and theoretical courses. Ohad's practical expertise ranges in scales - as an architect in the Senior Planning Division at the National Planning Administration, he designs national planning policies, and as an independent architect he works at the scale of the building, man and his environment. His theoretical expertise is in architectural theory, with special interest in theories of conceptual architecture in the second half of the 20th century.
Ohad's research focuses on what he calls "Hebraic architecture." In his research, Ohad collects, analyzes, decomposes and reconstructs texts from the Bible and the Sages in an attempt to find within them spatial conceptions, positions on planning, and unique characteristics of the Jewish architectural tradition, whose great lack in material tradition is compensated by coherent, continuous, rich and complex discourses on relevant topics.
Ohad is a graduate of the Department of Architecture with honors at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (2014) and a Master of Architecture Summa Cum Laude in Tel Aviv University (2019). During his master’s degree he was awarded a scholarship for outstanding scholars of the Azrieli Foundation, for writing his thesis "The Biblical City Archetype in the Garden of Eden: Sacred Space as a Model for the Public Sphere."
His is one of the founders of the "Krach" reading club in the Department of Architecture, and "Merhav" forum for promoting of the quality of public space planning in Israel. He writes, edits, and translates text in architecture.
