Department of Screen-Based Arts
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Animator and animation director and producer, founder of the Jerusalem based studio Mind The Gap Animation, that focuses on social and artistic issues, as well as independent content. Yael's films were screened and won awards in various festivals worldwide.
Yael also worked as a senior production manager at Walking The Dog studio in Brussels, on projects such as Where Is Anne Frank by Ari Folman, the series Royals Next Door, and The Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol by Sylvain Chomet (Les Triplettes de Belleville, The illusionist).
In addition to series and film making, Yael conducts local and international animation and cross-media initiatives, such as Copro Foundation's Animarket – the first international animation coproduction market in Israel; Asif Israeli Animation Festival, part of the annual Animix Festival; Animation and spoken word projects such as Poetry in Motion with Poetry Slam Israel and Moving Words with Arts By The People; and many more.
Holds a B.F.A. cum laude from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem, in the department of Screen-based arts.
Maya Zack (B. 1976, Israel) is a visual artist and filmmaker.
Her work ties together themes of memory, history, documentation, reconstruction and metaphysics.
Zack is a lecturer in Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Jerusalem.
She is a graduate of Bezalel, Academy of Art and Design, Fine Art Department, Jerusalem 2000 .B.F.A Magna Cum Laude.
She studied at the Tel Aviv University 2008-12 and in Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee Student Exchange Program.
Zack's work have earned a list of film awards and art prizes and is represented in public and private art collections.
Recent solo shows include: Maya Zack, la mémoire en action Œuvres vidéos. Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme, Paris / Counterlight Tel Aviv Museum of Art / Broken Horizons Petach Tikva Museum of Art / Counterlight, MLF gallery in Rome / Memory Trilogy at MLF gallery Brussels / The Shabbat Room - permanent installation at The Jewish Museum Vienna / Manifesta 10's parallel projects, Taiga Space, St. Petersburg / CUC Gallery, Berlin/ Galerie Natalie Seroussi Paris / Alon Segev Gallery Tel Aviv / Living Room, The Jewish Museum, New York(2011)
Recent group shows include: Specters, Ashdod Museum of Art, Bodyscapes, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2020), Exil, Charim Galerie, Vienna, Austria (2019), Evoking Reality, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin (2019), Constructing the World: Art & Economy, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany (2018-19) and Hidden Workers, Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea (2018), Das Kapital”, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum in Berlin / Menorah - Cult, History and Myth, Vatican Museums - Braccio di Carlo Magno, Piazza San Pietro, Vatican state (2017)