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
Lecturer and researcher in the field of Cinema and Television Studies. Tomer teaches at the Department of Visual and Material Culture at Bezalel as well as at the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University. Her research is concerned on the ties between cinema, technology and music. Her work is primarily focused on phenomenological experiences of viewing and listening in popular culture: from music channels to professional wrestling, between the classical Hollywood Musical and the Historical Epic film, as well as reflexive and cinephilic practices in cinema and on the internet. She has completed her Master’s Thesis titled “The Period Film Musical as an Experience of Saturated Historicity” at the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University. She is a graduate the Screen Based Arts Department at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem.
Nirith Nelson, curator and lecturer, resides in Israel. Has earned her BA and MA from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem in Art History.
Since 1998 on, she is a faculty member at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, teaching curatorial practices and contemporary art. In 2019 was appointed to be head of the Curatorial Studies in the frame of the Policy & Theory of the Arts Masters Program at Bezalel.
Worked at the Israel Museum as a curator and lecturer (for 9 years) headed the JCVA residency (http://jcva.org.prv05.dodihosting.com) as its artistic director (for 14 yrs), was the art adviser to the Jerusalem Foundation (for 14yrs) and worked in several other institutions.
In those frames as well as an independent curator, curated over forty exhibitions both in contemporary art and design, which were shown in major venues in Israel and abroad.
