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
Dr. Rachel Gottesman is a historian of the ancient Mediterranean world and has a special interest in environmental history and spatial theory. Her PhD offered a spatial analysis of mythic cycles and a reconstruction of ancient maritime networks. She held a postdoctoral position at Haifa University and was head of the Research Lab at the Liebling Huse Tel Aviv. Gottesman is a co-curator of the Israeli Pavilion at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale (opening May 2021). She publishes fiction and non-fiction in the fields of history, spatiality, architecture and literature.
Maya Gold is an Israeli artist, lives and works in Tel Aviv and Brussels, teaches at the Fine Arts department since 2007.
Gold is a graduate of the Advanced Arts Studies program at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem (2005).
Since 2002, Gold has shown several solo exhibitions, in Israel and abroad, including at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
Gold has been awarded various prizes and grants including the Young Artists Award of the Israeli Ministry of Culture (2014) and her works have been acquired by museums and collectors worldwide.
Ira Goldman, Tel-Aviv based senior Fashion Designer with extensive experience in tailoring and multiproduct design in local, UK and US brands. She is a lecture at the Fashion Department at Shenkar and Jewelry & Fashion Design Department at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. Goldman holds a B.Des in fashion design from Shenkar and is a recent graduate of the M.Des in Industrial Design, design & technology track at Bezalel. In her work, Goldman explore emotional aspects of human interaction with objects, from production stage to the final user experience.
Erez Golani Solomon is currently a Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design and Theory at the Architecture Department and the Graduate Program in Urban Design of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. He earned his Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Tokyo in 2006, and he is since involved in teaching and research projects in Japan, at the Graduate School of Media and Governance of Keio University, the Graduate Program of Global Studies of Sophia University, as well as Waseda University. His research work encompasses a range of issues concerning the contemporary city, and the ramifications of architectural developments under contemporary cultures and politics. Erez practices architecture as partner at the Tokyo based firm Front-Office. In 2020 and 2021 he held a Senior Research Fellow position at the Azrieli Architecture Archive of Tel Aviv Museum of Art.