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Jossef Krispel is an artist, painter, and the head of the Department of Fine Arts at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, where he has served as a senior lecturer since 2006. He holds both Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) and Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) degrees from Bezalel. In his work, Krispel raises questions about the definition and the position of a painting in relation to the painted surface, and suggests seeing it as a mask, a screen, a shell, or a coating. He has been featured in many solo exhibitions in Israel and abroad, including at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Palazzo Riccardo Medici in Florence, the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, and at the Haifa Museum of Art, to name just a few. He has won numerous awards; among them the 2008 Rappaport Young Artist Prize, the 2012 Ministry of Culture Award, and the 2006 Young Artist Award. His paintings are found in many collections, including that of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, the Israeli Parliament (Knesset), and private collections in Israel and abroad. He lives and works in Jerusalem.
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Ronny Carny is a visual artist. Carny finished her BFA studies in 2006, receiving a prize in excellence from Bezalel. In the year 2009, Carny began her Master of Fine Art studies in Bezalel, which she finished with highest honors in 2011.
Carny is a lecturer in several institutions including the Bezalel Haredi Branch in Jerusalem, The Fine Arts department at Bezalel, and is also the head of one of Bezalel’s preparatory programs for the arts.
Carny exhibited permanent and temporary wall paintings in Israel and abroad. Two of her wall paintings are permanently exhibited in New York City, US, and Dusseldorf, Germany.
Carny exhibited at the Tel- Aviv University Gallery (2016), Shenkar College Gallery, Basis College Gallery, Sommer Gallery (TLV), Rawart Gallery(TLV), Braverman Gallery(TLV), The Museum of Israeli Art in Ramat Gan, Providence College Galleries, Rhode Island, US (2019), Kunst & Denker Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany (2018, 2020) and more. Carny took part in a student exchange program in Vienna’s Academy of Fine Art (2005) and was a resident artist in Paris, France (2013) and Dusseldorf, Germany (2017).
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.
Tal Gafny (b. 1984, Jerusalem, Israel) is an Israeli artist living and working in Tel-Aviv, Israel. She graduated from the Fine Arts Department at Bezalel in 2010. She received her MFA from the department of Sculpture and Extended Media, at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2014. In 2019 she won the Young Artist Award of the Israeli ministry of culture. Other grants and awards include: the Yehoshua Rabinovich Fund exhibition grant, Mif’al HaPais exhibition grant, Ministry of Culture Artist-Teacher award, Yaacov Bar-Gera award and the Keshet award nomination. Gafny has been in residency at The Watermill Center NY, GuestHaus Residency LA, The Scottish Sculpture Workshops UK and others. She is currently a resident at The Artists Residence Herzliya, Israel.
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.
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.
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Irit Hemmo, born 1961, is a Tel Aviv based artist and Senior Lecturer in the Fine Arts Department at Bezalel. Hemmo’s work varies between different mediums and techniques. In the past four years she has worked on an ongoing project - a body of paintings made with dust. For this project, she built a room where she creates dust storms via manipulated vacuum cleaners, resulting in layers of dust (and time) upon carefully placed stencils. In her latest solo show, Hemmo exhibited the dust-room as an automated, time based installation, as well as a projected video. Upon the room's floor, Hemmo created scale sized monuments and objects, which resembled the modern city's architecture. The manipulated vacuum cleaners created dust storms periodically, covering and revealing throughout the show, as the dust piled up over the floor's landscape to create an illusion of a catastrophe, a post-apocalyptic environment where once there was life. Irit has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions around the globe including: The Istanbul Biennale; New York; London; Munich; Koln; Hamburg; Vienna; Valencia; Basel, among many other venues. Her works are part of the collections of both Israel Museum, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv Museum of Art, as well as various institutional and private collections.
Born in Jerusalem 1976.
B.F.A. program at The Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem in 2002 (with Hons)
2005 M.F.A program at Goldsmiths, London
Since 2006 Israeli teaches painting at the Fine Arts Department of Bezalel.
She also teached at Minshar School of Art, Basis Art School, Shankar Collage for Engineering and more.
Among Israeli's solo exhibitions: Black Light, Maya Galley, Tel-Aviv;
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes, Ralli Museum Caesarea;
D'une forte mer à une faille géologique, Taylor Foundation, Paris;
Moledet 1B ,Ashdod Art Museum;
Generation Three, Feinberg Projects, Tel-Aviv;
Last City, at the Tavi Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv;
Bio Power at the Alon Segev Gallery, Tel-Aviv;
Selected group exhibitions at :Haifa Museum, Haifa; Kav 16 Gallery, Tel-aviv; Gallery 39, Tel-Aviv; Art Forum, Berlin; FA Projects, London; Hanngar Bicocca, Milano; Ashdod Art Museum, Ashdod; Feinberg Projects, Tel-Aviv; Sklar Levy Gallery, Modi'n; Zemack Gallery, Tel-Aviv; Alon Segev Gallery, Tel-Aviv; Winzavod - Moscow Contemporary Art Center, Moscow; The Artists’ Studio, Tel-Aviv; Ramat-Gan Museum; Minshar for Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv; Gallery, Fresh Paint art Fair, Tel-Aviv; Noga Gallery, Tel-Aviv.
Israeli also curated painting exhibitions for young artists.
Israeli has received various awards and stipends, including: The Rabinovich Foundation;The Mifal HaPayis support; The Asylum Arts, New York; Erasmus; The Taylor Foundation, Paris; The Bezalel's Achievement award; The Artists Residence Herzliya; Lauren & Mitchell Presser studio stipend; The Sharet Award for young artists by the America -Israel Cultural Foundation; M.F.A fund from the AIA London; and was shortlisted to the Celeste Art Prize.
Eti Jacobi was born in Jaffa in 1961
She studied art at Bezalel and Classical studies and Philosophy at the Tel Aviv University.
Eti exhibits painting in many solo and group exhibitions since 1981.
In 1997 she exhibits a large OneWoman Show at the Tel Aviv Museum: "World of Wonder 3".
Teaching in Bezalel and in Beit Berl "Hamidrasha".
She has won various awards and her paintings are in private collections and at the Tel Aviv Museum and the Israel Museum collections.
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.
Abraham Kritzman (born 1983) is an artist living and working in Tel Aviv and London. He is Currently a Lecturer at Bezalel Academy Jerusalem. He is also a member and curator of Barbur Gallery Jerusalem. Abraham has an M.A. from the Painting Programme at the Royal College of Art (2014). A BFA with honours from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Jerusalem (2011) Selected solo and duo shows: Sally’s Fault Amsterdam, Artists’ House Jerusalem, Danielle Arnaud Gallery London, Hezi Cohen Gallery Tel Aviv, Kav 16 Gallery Tel Aviv, News of the World Gallery London, Atelier 35 Bucharest, Elizabeth Xi Bauer, London, The Artists House Tel Aviv, and Kayma Gallery Jaffa. Selected group exhibitions include: Bradwolff Amsterdam, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum of art, SMAC South Africa, Ashdod Art Museum, The Negev Museum of Art Beer Sheva, Barbur Gallery, Benjamin Gallery, Elizabeth XI Bauer London, Blyth Gallery London, Arebyte Gallery London, Alfred Gallery, Bar David Museum Bar Am, Hanina Gallery Tel Aviv, Graduate Prize Show London, The Artist Studios Talpyot, The Artists House Tel Aviv, Idris Tel Aviv, Artspace Tel Aviv and Beit Binyanini Tel Aviv. Prizes and awards include: Commendation Award, Bezalel Academy, Rappaport Prize 2021- purchasing fund for the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, The Ministry Of Culture Award For Young Artist; Clore – Bezalel Scholarship for MA at the Royal College Of Art London; the Villiers David Travel Award from the Royal College of Art, Excellence Award for Achievements from Bezalel dep. of Fine Art; Milgat Leejay Levene Art Scholarship; the History and Theory Excellence Award from Bezalel; the Aileen Cooper Prize; The Herman Struk Prize for printmaking. Residencies: Sally’s Fault, ODD Bucharest, Arebyte London, Kav 16 gallery Tel Aviv.
Elad Larom graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam and in 2010 he received his MFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem.
Larom has presented his work in various exhibitions in Europe and North America, which include Tento#2, W139, Amsterdam; Bezalel on Tour, Corcoran Gallery and Maltz Museum; Kunstlerhaus FRISE, Hamburg, and many more.
His recent solo exhibitions include:
“Voodoo child”, Galería Agencia de Tránsitos Culturales, santa cruz de Tenerife, Spain. “Die to live”, Hayarkon 19, Tel Aviv, IL . “Cave of Multiplication” Beit Uri and Rami Nehushtan, IL. The Devil probably, white city center, Tel Aviv, 2016, as well as Neo Paganism, Inga Gallery, Tel Aviv, 2014.
Larom has received a number of grants, including Israeli ministry of culture Encouragement prize, a special award from Bezalel and another from the Nederland Fonds for his artistic work on films.
Sagit Mezamer is an artist and curator, holding an MA in clinical psychology. She has been teaching at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, since 2014. Sagit served as artistic director and curator of “Yaffo 23”, Center for Art and Research in Jerusalem, from its inception till the day it closed its doors to the public, in 2013. She curated The Curfew Tower residency in Northern Ireland (with the artist Bill Drummond) in 2014-2017. Over the years she curated dozens of shows and presented her own works in numerous venues. Her works are included in museums and private collections. Supported by Mifal HaPayis, she is currently working at Maamuta Art and Media Center on a, docu-installation The Mother of Opium, dealing with opiate addiction in Israel and around. Sagit is now studying Compassionate Inquiry therapy with Gabor Maté and promotes his work in Israel.
Was born in Tel-Aviv, Israel, 1976, Lives and works in Tel-Aviv.
BFA and MFA, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv and the Cooper-Union, New-York.
Award Recipient of the Lauren and Mitchell Presser Photography Award for a Young Israeli Artist (2015), Rudin Prize, Norton Museum of Art (2015),
The Lottery Council for Culture and Art (2013), The Critics Choice Award, Radical-Jung Festival, Munich, Germany (2013), IAAB and Culture-Scapes scholarship
and residency, Basel, Switzerland (2011), Young Artist Prize, Israeli Ministry of Science and Culture (2009), Joshua Rabinowitz Foundation Prize for the Arts (2004).
Maymon has had solo exhibitions at the Tel Aviv museum of art, the Norton Museum of Art, Florida, the 12th Biennale of Contemporary Art, Naples, Italy, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv, Herzliya Museum of Art, The Artists Studios Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Iltis Bunker, Kiel, Germany, Hinterhof space, Basel, Switzerland, The 2nd International Photography Festival, Jaffa, Volkstheater, Munich, Germany, Volkstheater, Nikosia, Cyprus, Roxy Theater, Basel, Switzerland, Hezi Cohen gallery, Tel Aviv, Tal Esther Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, among other venues. Maymon participated in numerous group exhibitions in Israel and abroad and his works have been published in many journals, books and magazines in Israel and abroad. 1999-2004/ Photographer for “Purple” magazine.
As of 2002, Lecturer and a member of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem and from 2015-2019 the head of the Midrasha photography department, Kfar-saba.
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Chaya Ruckin, born in 1984, lives and works in Tel Aviv; holds an M.F.A from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, received an Asylum Arts grant in 2015.
Ruckin’s practice combines video, photography, sculpture, performance and drawing, through which she explores the relation between body and object, in the everyday environments and the exhibition space. In her work she raises the question: Where does life come from? The question is not a scientific or religious one, but rather what drives us forward and upward even as we are counting down to death from the moment we are born.
Ruckin has participated in many exhibitions, festivals and cultural events in Israel and abroad, among which: the Tel Aviv Artist Studios, Barbur gallery Jerusalem, FIAC International Contemporary Art Fair, Grand Palais, Paris; the Center for Digital Art, Holon; the Queens Museum, New York; the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography and more. Ruckin has participated in the Asylum Arts residency program (New York, 2014) and the Beita Residency (Jerusalem, 2014)
Avi Sabah (1977) was born in Ma’alot Tarshiha.
In 2004, he graduated with honors from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem and since 2006 has served as the lecturer. Sabah was part of the founding team of preparatory studies of Bezalel and taught there from 2011-2019.
In 2017-2018, he also served as a lecturer in Bezalel's Second-Degree Studies and in 2018, was awarded an Outstanding Lecturer Award at Bezalel.
Sabah is also one of the founders of the Barbur Art Gallery in Jerusalem, a contemporary and social art gallery, where he curated numerous exhibitions and established art workshops for youth and senior citizens.
Sabah taught in the art department in a variety of courses: painting, printmaking, first-year studio, conceptual workshops and personal guidance.
Sabah's work has been widely exhibited in Israel and around the world. Among other things, he exhibited solo exhibitions at the Asuncion Biennial in Paraguay and at the Curitiba Biennale, Brazil. In addition, he showed at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Bat Yam Museum of Art, Haifa Museum, Israel Museum, Givon Art Forum, Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv Artists' Workshops, Regina Rex Gallery in New York, Zorcher Gallery in New York, Tokyo Wonder City, Magazine 4 in Austria, Gallery 39 in Tel Aviv and more.
Awards: Excellence Award at Bezalel (2004), Moses Award for Painting (2009), Young Artist Award (2011), Bezalel Excellence Lecturer Award (2018), and Culture Minister's Award from the Ministry of Culture (2018).
Yehudit Sasportas is a senior professor at the department of Fine Art in the BFA and MFA Programs since 94. She works simultaneously in Berlin and Tel Aviv, with a high level of international professional commitment and involvement.
Her work is focused on site-specific installations, which include sculptures, drawings, video and sound works, and call for an intense and overwhelming sensory experience. Her installations have gone through a process of adapting and responding to the architecture of various museum spaces while forming into artworks that present a new way of reading architecture itself, as well as the wider cultural context it was created in. Her sculptural installations deal with a fascinating correspondence taking place between subconscious materials, unspoken and unseen, and the way these layers of information activate conscious areas across the surface.
Sasportas represented Israel in the 2007 Venice Biennial, and has presented more than 17 international solo exhibitions during the last decade, in venues such as: The Archeology of The Unseen, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Wilhelmshaven. Germany, 2020. RIFTS OF ABSENCE, Villa Schöningen, Potsdam, Germany, 2017. HAMAKOM, GL STRAND Kunsthalle, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2016. Seven Winters, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel, 2013. HASIPUR – The Story, Herbert Gerisch Stiftung, Neuemunster, Germany, 2010. The Clearing of the Unseen, DA2 Domus Atrium, Salamanca, Spain, 2009. The Laboratory, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany, 2008. By the River, Matrix 200, the Berkley Museum of Art, San Francisco, USA, 2002. The Carpenter and the Seamstress II, Deitch Projects, New York, USA, 2001.
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Artist and lecturer in the Fine Arts Department
Sasson Graduated with honors from the Department of Fine Arts at Bezalel, and holds a master's degree from the Department of Painting at the Royal College of Art in London.
He has won several awards and scholarships, including the Clore Foundation Scholarship, the America Israel Cultural Foundation Award and a prize to encourage creativity from the Israely Ministry of Culture
Sasson has exhibited solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions in galleries, public spaces and museums in Israel and around the world.
Dr. Miri Segal is a New Media Artist and a senior lecturer at the Fine Arts department in Bezalel.
She was the head of the Postgraduate Fine Art program at “Hamidrasha” (till 2019) and research fellow at the Advanced Reality Lab, IDC, till 2016.
Segal holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Segal had solo exhibitions at Moma PS1(New York), Lisson Gallery (London), Kamel Mennour Gallery (Paris), Tel Aviv Museum, Dvir Gallery (Tel Aviv), and Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (Herzliya), among others. She has participated in group exhibitions and screenings at Tate Museum (London), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Pompidou Center (Paris), Magasin III Stockholm, Kunstmuseum Luzern (Luzern), Tokyo wonder site (Tokyo) and more. She has developed some projects in the seam between Art and Technology and science.
Segal is the recipient of the Gottesdiener Israeli Art Prize, The Minister of Culture Prize for Excellence, Dizengoff Prize, Pundig Prize, as well as several other awards.
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Gil Marco Shani is a painter and installation artist. Born and raised in Tel Aviv, 1968. BA (1994) in Art from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Art Studies (1994) Slade School, London. Faculty member and senior lecturer in the Department of Art at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. Shani has won many awards: the Gottesdiener Foundation Award for a Young Israeli Artist (2008) and the Sandberg Award for Israeli Art for 2018. His paintings are in the collections of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Israel Museum and others. In 1994, he participated in the exhibition "Transit" as part of "Art Focus" and in 1997, he participated in "Sederni Noy" within the "Saf" exhibition at the Israel Museum, curated by Sarit Shapira in 1999. In 2001 Shani completed "Safari" installation at the "Helena" exhibition at the Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art. The ambitious installation "Buses" at the Israel Museum 2018, is one of the highlights of Shani's achievements in his consistent body of work.
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Ester Schneider earned her B.Des and her MFA at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem.
Schneider works mainly in painting and installation. Her work is inspired by a multiplicity of cultural arenas, including Jewish mysticism, Persian miniatures, and Russian modernism.
Schneider's work has been shown extensively in local art institutions and in various international venues, including the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Eretz Israel Museum, Museum on the Seam, The Jerusalem Biennial, The Israeli Drawing Biennial, The Tel Aviv University Art Gallery, The Tel Aviv Artists' Studios, Basis Gallery in Herzliya, ZUMU – Mobile Museum, Hamidrasha Gallery, Inga Gallery, Gallery at The Artists’ Studios in Jerusalem, Triumph Gallery in Moscow, and gallery of the American Jewish University in Los Angeles.
Schneider is the recipient of the Ministry of Culture Award in Visual Arts (2019), the Ilana Elovic-Bezalel Prize for Excellence in the Arts (2016), the Givon Prize (2012), and the Young Artist Prize by the Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sport (2011), as well as excellence awards from the Advanced Studies Programs at Bezalel and Hamidrasha - Beit Berl College.
Her works are included in the collections of the Tel Aviv Museum and Ha'aretz, and in private collections in Israel and abroad.
