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
Exhibitions curator, lecturer and writer on various artistic subjects. Lectures In Bezalel about the History of Ceramics. Worked for 20 years in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem mostly as an curator of interactive exhibitions at The Ruth Youth Wing. Works as a free lancer mainly as curator of Israeli History exhibitions. Selected exhibitions: Dosh, A Caricaturist 1921 - 2000, Eretz Israel Museum, Ramat Aviv, 2006, Childhood paintings of Israeli Artists, Ramat Gan's Art Museum, 2015, Visitors center of the National Archives, 2019. Today curates The Knesset (parliament) Museum and the permanent exhibition of the State Comptroller and Ombudsman in Jerusalem.
Curator, lecturer, and researcher. Her fields of research include culture theory, art theory and history, curatorial studie. Bulgaru lectures at Bezalel, HIT (Holon Institute of Technology), the Kibbutzim College of Education Technology and the Arts, and at Oranim college.
From 2007 and on, curated exhibitions in public and private institutions, amongst them the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Artists' Studios in Jerusalem. Bulgaru has served as curator at the Haifa Museum of Art, MoBY (Museums of Bat Yam) and the Shpilman Institute of Photography.
Bulgaru has graduated from "Hamidrasha" School of Art, Beit Berl College, and earned a Master's degree and Ph.D. at Bar Ilan University's Program for Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies. Her doctoral dissertation explored photography in relation to memory, tourism, history, and the Sublime. Bulgaru has attended various conferences in Israel and abroad and her essays appeared in various catalogs.