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
Dafna Kaffeman graduated in 1999 from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, and in 2001 received a Master in Fine Arts from the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam. She had one-person shows, among others, at the San Fransisco Museum of Design and Craft (2015), the American University Museum in Washington (2011) ,and Lorch-Seidel Contemporary in Berlin (2006, 2010, 2013, 2017) .
Kaffeman participated in many group shows in Europe ,Israel and the United States. Her work is in the collections of various museums, such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Corning Museum of Glass, N.Y. and the Israel Museum , Jerusalem IL , The Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, Canada, and more.
In 2011 and 2016 she was awarded the Prize for the Advancement of the Arts and creation in the field of Design (Israel). In 2019 she was awarded the Andree Matter Award for a female contemporary artist.
"Using a botanic lexicon that reaches into cultural practices of commemoration, sacrifice and mourning, the artist blends local values in meticulously crafted glass and embroidery work." (From the catalogue of the winners of the 2011 Minister of Culture prizes).
Kaffeman is senior lecturer at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. She also taught as a guest lecturer at the Tokyo Art University, Japan, Ball State University , IN, Kublentz University, Germany and Corning Museum , NY, and more.
Dr. Adina Kamien is Senior Curator of Modern Art at The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and lecturer in modern art and curating at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. She has curated numerous exhibitions and authored catalogues and articles on Dada and surrealism, Duchamp, Man Ray, Miro, among others. Curator in charge of the Vera and Arturo Schwarz Collection of Dada, Surrealism, and their legacies, her book "Duchamp, Man Ray, and the Conundrum of the Replica" was published by Routledge. Pursuing the use of the readymade in contemporary art, her exhibition No Place Like Home focused on the transformed domestic object returned to a quasi-home within the museum. Kamien's current exhibition at the Israel Museum, "Bodyscapes," focuses on the relationship between the body and nature and on the use of the body as a structure to organize knowledge, from prehistory until today.
Independent Animation Filmmaker, Visual Artist, lecturer, and mentor.
Graduated with honors from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Department of Screen-Based Arts.
Her film "In Other Words" (2016) screened in more than 100 festivals around the world and won many awards.
Art director of the award-winning documentary "ADVOCATE" (directed by Philippe Bellaïche & Rachel Leah Jones) (2019) Doc-Aviv Winner & shortlisted for the 2020 Oscar.
Her next film, "Letter to the Pig", an Israeli French co-production, won a prestigious production grant at the Annecy Festival (2017).
