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
Iddo Ginat is an Israeli architect, curator and researcher, graduated from Bezalel, holds a master's degree from Harvard University, and is in the final stages of his doctorate at the Cohen Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University. He lectures both in the Department of Architecture and the Department of Visual Culture. Iddo was co-curator of the exhibition "Land.Milk.Honey: Animal Stories in Imagined Landscapes" which represented Israel at the Architecture Biennale in Venice 2021. The book published in conjunction with the exhibition won the Deutsches Architekturmuseum’s Architecture Book Award for 2021. In recent years Iddo has focused on historical and architectural research, and his areas of interest include history of Israeli architecture, modernism, and the relationship between technology and ecology in the design of the built environment. Among his published works in recent years are articles for exhibition catalogs such as "Bodyscapes" at the Israel Museum (2020) and "Yasky & Co.” at the Tel Aviv Museum (2016).
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Erez Golani Solomon is currently a Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design and Theory at the Architecture Department and the Graduate Program in Urban Design of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. He earned his Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Tokyo in 2006, and he is since involved in teaching and research projects in Japan, at the Graduate School of Media and Governance of Keio University, the Graduate Program of Global Studies of Sophia University, as well as Waseda University. His research work encompasses a range of issues concerning the contemporary city, and the ramifications of architectural developments under contemporary cultures and politics. Erez practices architecture as partner at the Tokyo based firm Front-Office. In 2020 and 2021 he held a Senior Research Fellow position at the Azrieli Architecture Archive of Tel Aviv Museum of Art.