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
Erez Golani Solomon is currently a Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design and Theory at the Architecture Department and the Graduate Program in Urban Design of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. He earned his Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Tokyo in 2006, and he is since involved in teaching and research projects in Japan, at the Graduate School of Media and Governance of Keio University, the Graduate Program of Global Studies of Sophia University, as well as Waseda University. His research work encompasses a range of issues concerning the contemporary city, and the ramifications of architectural developments under contemporary cultures and politics. Erez practices architecture as partner at the Tokyo based firm Front-Office. In 2020 and 2021 he held a Senior Research Fellow position at the Azrieli Architecture Archive of Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
Maya Gold is an Israeli artist, lives and works in Tel Aviv and Brussels, teaches at the Fine Arts department since 2007.
Gold is a graduate of the Advanced Arts Studies program at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem (2005).
Since 2002, Gold has shown several solo exhibitions, in Israel and abroad, including at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
Gold has been awarded various prizes and grants including the Young Artists Award of the Israeli Ministry of Culture (2014) and her works have been acquired by museums and collectors worldwide.
Designer, artist and lecturer.
Owns a fashion and jewelry design studio, presenting in Israel and around the world.
Senior Lecturer in the Jewelry and Fashion Department and Visual and Material Culture Department.
Goren is an outstanding graduate of the Jewelry and Fashion Department at Bezalel.
Goren worked as a head designer in Paris (2004-2008) and presented in six fashion weeks.
Finished his doctoral studies at the Sorbonne in Paris (2013)
Established his studio (2009) and since then has been developing material and design research that combines a variety of disciplines.
The main challenge is to combine and connect material technologies used in jewelry and metalwork with clothing and textile technologies, in order to allow each material to integrate organically into the other material, creating a single unit with a new and unique material identity.
Goren participates in exhibitions in Israel and around the world.
participated in the first biennial of design and art (2020) at the Eretz Israel Museum. Presented a solo exhibition at the “Periscope” Gallery (2019) Tel Aviv. Tow group exhibitions at the CICA Museum (2019) in South Korea. At the Judaica Biennale in Jerusalem (2018) at a group exhibition at the Islamic Museum (2018) Jerusalem. And Paris Fashion Week (2016).
