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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
Illustrator, lecturer and curator, artistic editor and comic book artist, engages in writing that expresses childhood motifs significantly. Lecturer in the Department of Screen Arts, and the Department of Visual and Material Culture.
Farber is a graduate of the Visual Communication Department at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, an award winner and a Sharet Foundation scholarship in undergraduate studies. His final project, which dealt with grotesque illustrations of political figures, was purchased shortly thereafter and formed the basis for the first season of “The Harzufim”, the first Israeli political satire program whose protagonists were puppets, and aired on Channel 2. He also received an excellence scholarship in graduate studies in screenwriting at Tel Aviv University.
He illustrated children's books and in many magazines. He initiated and edited the bestselling "Still Optimistic - Artists Painting Dudu Geva", published by Zamora-Pavilion, and curated the accompanying exhibition at the Holon Institute of Technology Gallery, with 120 illustrators and one Dudu Geva. He has also curated and exhibited in numerous exhibitions.
He has won numerous awards, including the Rabinowitz Foundation for the Arts, the Lottery Council for Culture and the Arts, and a prize and first place at the Illustration Week in Tel Aviv. In recent years, he has edit, illustrated, and published the graphic trilogy "Isaac's Notebooks", based on the diary of his late grandfather.
Nina Farkache is an independent Design Research, Design Thinking and service design specialist with 20 years of professional experience in versatile fields and industries.
She leads and conducts design research/User research and trend research for product, service and strategy development, and helps companies align their products and services with users' needs & trends.
In addition she works with organizations and companies on implementing Design Thinking culture to reach innovation.
Nina brings industrial design expertise earned in the Netherlands, where she lived and worked over 10 years. During this time she was an independent designer and innovation consultant for leading companies such as Heineken, Fiat, Leo Burnett and Droog Design.
Inspired by her work at IDEO California, for the last 15 years Nina has focused on Human Centered Research and Design Thinking.
She is a lecturer of "Design Thinking" and "Design Research" at Master's Degree in Industrial Design in Bezalel, and at the M.Des design program at the Technion in the faculty of architecture and town planning.
Recent clients:
Allegro AI, TytoCare, Aman Digital, Menora Mivtachim. Deliveroo, HP Indigo, Poenicia, Wix, Strauss Water, Kornit Digital, Tiny-Love, Nestle, Mazor Robotics
Ifat Finkelman (b.1972) is a Tel Aviv based architect and a senior lecturer at the Architecture Department at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, where she also serves as the head of the foundation studies. She completed her BArch Cum Laude (1998) and MSc (2010) at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa and continued her graduate studies at the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA), London.
Her research thesis Anatomy of Space and Body: the Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation (EWMN) in the context of the Post-war Architectural Culture (2010), examines EWMN within the context of architectural discourse as a method and system for representing and mapping data about spatial relations and movement.
Finkelman was awarded the Azrieli Foundation Fund for young researcher (2010), the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Independent Scholar Fellowship (2011), and the Rechter Award for Young Architects (2016) for designing the Youth Wing courtyard at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2014).
She was co-curator of the Israeli Pavilion at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia (2018), and chief-editor of the book that accompanied it: In Statu Quo: Structures of Negotiations (Hatje Cantz, 2018).
