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
Dr. Roni Amir received her Ph.D. in Art History and Archaeology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2009. She currently teaches in Bezalel and has been the head of the Academic Department at Emuna Ephrata – Academic College of Education for Art since 1996. Dr. Amir is an archaeologist and historian by training, who specializes in ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman She teaches courses in History of Art, Ancient Architecture, Mythologies and Archetypes as well as Visual Art. The author has published articles about Ancient Synagogues, ceramics from varied archeological sites, and Roman and Byzantine mosaics.
Researcher, algorithm developer, and lecturer.
Studied humanities at Hebrew University and attained a Neuroscience Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University. Studies visual perception and information processing, in particular temporal and spatial aspects of attention orientation and eye movements.
Engages in data-based installations, and social activistm.
A POTTER, PERFORMANSE ARTIST AND LECTURER IN VARIOUS INSTITUTES.
RUNS HIS OWN INDEPENDENT STUDIO IN TEL AVIV.
Graduate from Bezalel Academy of art, Jerusalem - department of Ceramics and Glass Design (2000)
Specialty in the fields of ceramic screen printing and paper clay
Member of the editorial staff of "1280" "- Israeli magazine of clay culture
Member of the khnum group – 4 potters that aim to expose the public to the joy and commitment in the process of pottery making using performance art and installations as their medium.
Recipient of AIDA Scholarship to the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, NE, USA.2010
Selected Group Exhibitions:
"Clay, Sensation", The Fifth Biennale for Israeli Ceramics(2009)
The second International Modern Pot Art Biennale Exhibition, Shanghai, China(2010)
"Designers plus 10" the design museum, Holon.(2012)
"Identity", the Knesset permanent collection of contemporary Israeli ceramics(2016)
the 47th congress of the international academy of ceramics (IAC), Sant Pau Modernista, Barcelona, Spain.(2016)
first person. Second nature" The Tel aviv crafts and desing biennale (2020)"
Private Collections:
The Knesset permanent collection of contemporary Israeli ceramics, Jerusalem.
The Umm el-Fahem Art Gallery collection, Israel
The Modern Pot Art gallery collection, Shanghai, China The Watershed Center for Ceramic art ceramic collction,Main,USA
An Architect in practice and in academia with vast knowledge and experience in Architecture and Urban Design.
Noa has been a lecturer for over a decade in the Architecture department and is also currently the academic coordinator of the master’s degree in Urban Design. She was in charged of “Tempus” program, a European program for higher education.
Noa holds a Master’s degree in Architecture from the "de la ville et des territoires" school in Paris, which was then followed by several years of international practice experience both in France and New-York. Abroad Noa has worked on a variety of scales, from the MDU – Mobile Dwelling Unit, which was exhibited in the Whitney museum in NY, to a large public realm in the French city of Rennes. Back in Israel, Noa has worked on some of Israel’s most significant regeneration projects, such as central Netanya and the new development of North-West Tel Aviv.
Since 2010 Noa has her own practice and is also a senior consultant to the Jerusalem Planning Authority overseeing some of their major projects such as the new Entrance to Jerusalem Masterplan.
