Roy Brand is a philosopher and a curator working in the areas of modern philosophy and contemporary aesthetics. He is a senior lecturer in the Master’s programs of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. He founded and directed Yaffo 23, a center for contemporary art, and he is editor and curator of numerous art exhibits, among them, The Urburb: Patterns of Contemporary Living (Israeli Pavilion of The Venice Biennial, 2014) and Bare Life (Museum on the Seam, 2007). His book LoveKnowledge: The Life of Philosophy from Socrates to Derrida was published in 2013 by Columbia University Press, New York and translated into Korean, Hebrew and Persian. His book Art and the Form of Life is forthcoming by Palgrave Macmillan. He currently heads Parterre Institute for Philosophy and Art in Tel Aviv. 

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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.

Daniel Meir (b. 1972, in Haifa Israel) is a Tel Aviv based sound designer and sound artist, specializing in sound design and original music for video art, documentaries, film, and theater.

He works with critically acclaimed video artists, film makers, and musicians from around the world. Notably, he has collaborated on works that have been featured in the Venice Biennale, among Academy Awards nominated films, and a Cannes Festival winning film. 

His work can be heard daily in cinemas, museums and exhibitions worldwide.

Daniel teaches sound art and sound design at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem.

In addition, He is the co-founder and director of Halas Radio, an experimental internet radio station sponsored by The Israeli Center for Digital Art.

For CV and Credit list see danielmeir.com

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.

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.

Mierle Laderman Ukeles believes art creates freedom and asks whether we can design modes of survival—for a thriving planet, not an entropic one—that don’t crush our personal and civic freedom and silence the individual’s voice.

Her works are in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum; Guggenheim Museum; the Art Institute of Chicago (promised gift); Migros Museum, Zurich; Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum, Hartford; Smith College Museum, Northampton; and the Jewish Museum, New York City.  She is represented by Ronald Feldman Gallery in New York.

She exhibits and lectures internationally and has received honorary doctorates from the Rhode Island School of Design, the Maine College of Art, and in May, 2019, from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she gave the Commencement Address.  

Two books have recently been published about her work:  MIERLE LADERMAN UKELES:  MAINTENANCE ART, Prestel, 2016 and SEVEN WORK BALLETS, Sternberg, 2015.

Sharon Yaari, photographer, artist, and photography and art lecturer.

Ya’ari graduated from the photography department of Bezalel Academy of Art and design, Jerusalem, in 1994 and received MPhil, Faculty of Art, Design and Technology, University of Derby, England in 2002.
Ya'ari's works focus on ordinary objects and routine life throughout the country while inducing from them a range of complex socio-political sensitive insights.

Solo exhibitions of his work have been shown at Oldenburger Kunstverein, Germany; Haus Esters, Kunstmuseen Krefeld Germany; The National Gallery Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania; Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel; Galerie Martin Janda Vienna; Sommer Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv; Lisson Gallery, London; Lombard Freid Fine Arts, New York; Andrea Meislin Gallery New York; Herzliya Art Museum; Select group shows at The Israel Museum Jerusalem; Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Dom Museum Wien; Jewish Museum New York, National Gallery of Modern Art New Delhi, India, Kunst Haus Austria, Camera-Austria, Graz, Austria; Lothringer 13 Halle, Munich, Germany; Ashdod art Museum; CCA Tel Aviv; Haifa Museum of Art.

Yaari awarded the EMET Prize, Culture and Art: Photography (2018); The Constantiner Photography Award, Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2010); Creative Encouragement Award, Israel ministry of cultural & sport (2009); The Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation Israeli Art Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2005); The Janet & George M. Jaffin Award, America–Israel Cultural Foundation (2004); Minister of Education and Sport Prize for Artists in the Field of Plastic Arts (2000); Gerard Levi Price, Young Photographer’s Price, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2009);

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Nevet Yitzhak (b. 1975, Israel; lives and works in Tel Aviv) is a graduate of the Naggar School of Photography, Media and New Music (2003); and the Bezalel Program for Advanced Studies in Art (2007). Her work has been shown at the 6th Asian Biennial, Taiwan; Koffler Center of the Arts, Toronto; Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach; Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin; SMBA, Amsterdam; Kuandu Museum, Taipei; the Museum for Islamic Art, Jerusalem; Herzlyia Museum of Contemporary Art; Petach Tikva Museum of Art; Circle 1, Berlin; 68 Square Meters, Copenhagen; Edel Assanti Gallery, London; TSR, Miami; the 5th Mediations Biennale, Poznan; SIP Institute for Photography, Tel Aviv; Mana Contemporary, Jersey City; Huashan Culture Park, Taipei and CCA, Tel- Aviv.

Yitzhak has been awarded the Visual Art Award, Israeli Ministry of Culture & Sport (2017); The Landau Fund Prize for Arts and Sciences (2014); Beatrice S. Kolliner Award for a Young Israeli Artist (Israel Museum, 2014); Shmuel Givon Prize (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2012); Creative Encouragement Award (Israel Ministry of Culture and Sport, 2012)Minister of Culture award; and the Creative Encouragement Award.

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