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
An art historian, specializing in modernism, postmodernism and contemporary art; senior lecturer at the Department of Visual and Material culture in Bezalel.
Dr. Aronov's research interests include avant-garde art, interrelations between cultures, social and political aspects of art. He focuses on artistic expressions of eschatological conceptions, of utopias and dystopias in modern and contemporary art.
Dr. Aronov received his MA degree in art history from the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, Russia, and his Ph.D. in the history of modern art from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He authored two books on the art of Vasily Kandinsky, the pioneer of abstract painting, articles in catalogs for exhibitions and professional journals on the avant-garde art.
Selected bibliography:
- Kandinsky’s Quest: A Study in the Artist’s Personal Symbolism 1866-1907. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2006.
- "Kandinsky the Spiritual Wanderer", in Kandinskij, The Wandering Knight: On His Journey Towards Abstraction, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia; Mudec, Museo delle Culture, Milan, 2017.
- "Kazimir Malevich: Experiments in Suprematist Poetry", Toronto Slavic Quarterly (University of Toronto), no. 47 (Winter 2014), pp. 323-344
- "The Pictorial Trans-rationalism of Kazimir Malevich". Aurora: The Journal of the History of Art (DePaul University, Chicago), vol. VIII. (2007), pp. 38-83.
Judith Asher is a designer illustrator artist and lecturer.
In her work she explores the tension between images form and content.
She is a graduate with honours from the Visual Communication Department, the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem and has an M.A. in Visual Communication from the Royal College of Art, London.
She won the Ministry of Culture, Science and Sport Award for 2002 and three awards from the American Friends of Israel Association, the Sandberg Illustration Award and the Felheim Typography Award.
She has lectured at various academic institutions including the University of Der Kunst Berlin, Germany; the High School of Design Kolding, Denmark; The School of Art and Design Otis, California, USA.
In 2011, she was elected as a research representative for "The Face of the Digital Age" at the Royal College of Art, London.
Her works have been exhibited widely and in 2020 she took up residency at the Hansen House in Jerusalem resulting in the exhibition "Living Life" .
She had a one woman show “fictional landscapes” in 2015 at the Beit Dror Gallery, Kibbutz Einat.
She has published several books, including ‘The Diary of an Infant’ published by Sifriyat Hapoalim and has worked with various clients from Israel, Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom and is currently working on a graphic novel.
