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
A multidisciplinary artist practicing lens based art and digital spaces. Examining art and technology simultaneously, she is interested in the junction between imagery, computer vision and human perception.
Dror graduated with a B.F.A. in photography from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, and The Cooper Union School of Art, in New York. She is a lecturer specializing in digital art as a part of the faculty at the Art department of the Bezalel academy.
She received an excellence grant for artists from the Rabinovich Foundation in 2018. Her works have been exhibited at the CCA , the Weizmann institute for science, Rozenfeld Gallery, Beit Ha'ir Museum, Mane Katz museum, Bar David Museum, The Design Week Fair at the Hansen House to name a few. Her Work was published in a variety of publications including- The Dossier Journal and the Weizmann Institute’s annual catalog. She was also commissioned to collaborate on projects with the renowned fashion brand Comme Il Faut, the Tel Aviv Cinematheque and the municipality of the city of Beer Sheva as a VJ and visual director.
Her works are included in public and private collections worldwide.
I am the English coordinator at Bezalel and the Haredi branch of Bezalel and have been teaching at Bezalel since 2014.Before that I was the vice- principal of a Jerusalem High School. All my working life, 38 years, I have been teaching English as a foreign language.
I came on Aliyah in 1984 from England and am married with 4 children. My eldest daughter graduated from the architecture department at Bezalel in 2018 and my youngest daughter will start studying at Bezalel this coming year. I have always had a passionate interest in art and design and have attended many history of art courses at the Israel Museum. In my free time, I love visiting art and design museums and collecting catalogues from exhibitions that I have seen.
My first degree was in Psychology and Statistics from the University of Salford, Manchester and my second degree in Educational Psychology from The Hebrew University. I have also completed a teacher training course in English as a Foreign Language.
I am looking forward to welcoming three new lecturers to the English Unit and to the challenge of redesigning all the English courses so that they will be in line with the new CEFR European regulations.
Michal Helfman (b. 1973) is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Tel Aviv.
Helfman;s works are based on a historical and actual research on personas and organizations who worked under political conditions of uncertainty and vulnerability.
The intertwining of facts and fiction creates the ground on which Helfman’s installations, video works and performances evolve.
Helfman has had solo-shows in, among others: KW Berlin, The Felix Nussbaum Haus Osnabruck the Israel Museum and in Tel Aviv Museum of Art and Tel-Aviv CCA.
She has exhibited in international exhibitions including the 32nd Sao Paulo Biennial, the 50th Venice Biennial, as well as the Martin Gropius Bau Berlin, NBK Berlin, Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Tale of a Tub Rotterdam among others.
Helfman is a recipient of the Anselm Kiefer Award of the Wolf Foundation and 2009 ministry of culture award and for young artists and 2020 ministry of culture awardand for independent artists.
Since 2003 she is a senior faculty member at the BFA and MFA programs of Bezalel.