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
Multidisciplinary artist and senior lecturer in the Department of Fine Arts, Bezalel.
Keinan is an outstanding graduate of the Fine Arts Department (2003), and winner of the Givon Prize, the Anselm Kiefer Wolf Prize and the Gottesdiener Prize.
Keinan has presented many solo exhibitions in Israel and around the world, including at the Noga Gallery (2020, 2016, 2010, 2004), at the Tel Aviv Museum (2008), the Tel Aviv Artists' Workshops (2014), Art Basel (2007), Berlin Art Forum (2007) Ricardo Crespi Gallery In Milan (2011) Goch Museum in Germany (2010)
She has also participated in many group exhibitions in Israel and around the world and her works are in selected private and museum collections, including the Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Petah Tikva, Haifa, and the Gog Museum in Germany.
Participated in various residences around the world in New York at sva as part of a student exchange in 2003, in Paris in Cita in 2014 and in Ireland in Cushindel in 2016.
Keinan creates installations that combine mediums: sculpture, drawing, video and sound. In her works, Keinan strives to create autonomous spaces, gardens, with a unique rhythm and sense of time and light. The viewer is invited to wander through them and experience the place as singular works and as one space.
The medium of drawing is at the base of her work as a daily practice that attracts images and experiences from everyday life and the immediate environment and the basis of her research on image and observation.
In her exhibitions, the boundaries of the mediums are blurred and blurred.
Keinan has collaborated with artists from various fields including poetry, theater and music. Formed the band the hummingbirds with musician Guy Sharaf in 2015.
