Department of Photography
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قسم التصوير الفوتوغرافي
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
Maya Zack (B. 1976, Israel) is a visual artist and filmmaker.
Her work ties together themes of memory, history, documentation, reconstruction and metaphysics.
Zack is a lecturer in Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Jerusalem.
She is a graduate of Bezalel, Academy of Art and Design, Fine Art Department, Jerusalem 2000 .B.F.A Magna Cum Laude.
She studied at the Tel Aviv University 2008-12 and in Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee Student Exchange Program.
Zack's work have earned a list of film awards and art prizes and is represented in public and private art collections.
Recent solo shows include: Maya Zack, la mémoire en action Œuvres vidéos. Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme, Paris / Counterlight Tel Aviv Museum of Art / Broken Horizons Petach Tikva Museum of Art / Counterlight, MLF gallery in Rome / Memory Trilogy at MLF gallery Brussels / The Shabbat Room - permanent installation at The Jewish Museum Vienna / Manifesta 10's parallel projects, Taiga Space, St. Petersburg / CUC Gallery, Berlin/ Galerie Natalie Seroussi Paris / Alon Segev Gallery Tel Aviv / Living Room, The Jewish Museum, New York(2011)
Recent group shows include: Specters, Ashdod Museum of Art, Bodyscapes, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2020), Exil, Charim Galerie, Vienna, Austria (2019), Evoking Reality, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin (2019), Constructing the World: Art & Economy, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany (2018-19) and Hidden Workers, Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea (2018), Das Kapital”, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum in Berlin / Menorah - Cult, History and Myth, Vatican Museums - Braccio di Carlo Magno, Piazza San Pietro, Vatican state (2017)
