Department of Fine Arts
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Jossef Krispel is an artist, painter, and the head of the Department of Fine Arts at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, where he has served as a senior lecturer since 2006. He holds both Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) and Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) degrees from Bezalel. In his work, Krispel raises questions about the definition and the position of a painting in relation to the painted surface, and suggests seeing it as a mask, a screen, a shell, or a coating. He has been featured in many solo exhibitions in Israel and abroad, including at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Palazzo Riccardo Medici in Florence, the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, and at the Haifa Museum of Art, to name just a few. He has won numerous awards; among them the 2008 Rappaport Young Artist Prize, the 2012 Ministry of Culture Award, and the 2006 Young Artist Award. His paintings are found in many collections, including that of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, the Israeli Parliament (Knesset), and private collections in Israel and abroad. He lives and works in Jerusalem.
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Dor Zlekha Levy is a multimedia artist who specializes in audiovisual installations, video art, and live performances. Sound is a core element in his work. His works bring to life the voices excluded from Israeli cultural discourse in a way that allows them to not only be heard, but be listened to. His recent project, Reflection, is showing now in the historical site of The Arches Pool in Ramle. Solo exhibitions of his work have been held at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Hamidrasha Gallery, and Braverman Gallery, among others, and he has participated in numerous group exhibitions. A recent graduate of Artport Residency Program, Zlekha Levy is a recipient of the Ministry of Culture Prize for a Young Artist 2017, and was awarded the ‘Zoom 2016’ Prize.
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Alexandra Zuckerman was born in Moscow in 1981. She lives and works in Tel Aviv-Yafo. She graduated with excellence from the Fine Arts Department of Bezalel. She graduated a B.Sc from the Biology Department of Tel Aviv University. She also has a Diploma in Education from the Hebrew University Jerusalem with Bezalel. Her works have been exhibited in many solo and group exhibitions in Israel and abroad, such as Noga Gallery in Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Bar-David Museum in Kibbutz Bar'am, Magasin III in Stockholm, Living Art Museum in Reykjavik, kim? Contemporary Art Centre in Riga, Galerja Sabot in Cluj-Napoca, Kayu Lucie Fontaine in Bali, Christian Nagel Galerie in Berlin, and Galleri Riis in Stockholm. Zuckerman is a lecturer in the Haredi Branch at Bezalel, as well as an art teacher and educator at Studio Ankori High School in Tel Aviv-Yafo.
