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
Yael Atzmony is an artist and potter, a senior lecturer and head of materials in the Department of Ceramic Design and Glass. Atzmony is magna cum laude graduate of Haifa University's Faculty of Art and winner of the Maud Friedland Excellence Award in pottery.
Using a wide range of media (sculpting, illustration, video and installation), Atzmony explores the connection between symbol and place and deals with issues such as memory and material. Her works have been displayed in both solo and group exhibitions in Israel and across the world. Among her solo exhibitions - Periscope Gallery, Benyamini House, the Artists' House in Tel Aviv, Keramik Museum Berlin, Wan Fung Gallery in Beijing and the Ceramic Art and Perception Gallery in Sydney, to name a few.
Atzmony has taken part in symposia and international artist residency programs. Among them, the Ceramics Symposium in Bechinyé The Czech Republic, guest artist with Amsterdam's Rietveld Academie, guest artist with Burg University of Art and Design in Halle, Germany. In addition, Atzmony is a frequent panelist in the Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sport's Design Awards.
One of Atzmony's most notable projects is 'Tracing Oblivion,' which displayed in Israel and Europe. The project was based on extensive research of testimonies and map schemes of the Sobibor Death Camp in Poland. One more of Yael's projects is 'Forest Path', wherein she placed objects in the deep waters of Ramla's ‘pool of arches’ site which correlated with a video art piece she presented at the Benyamini House gallery.
Sarah Auslander is the design expert on "Hazira" - a joint initiative of Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Ministry of Interior, Peres Center for Peace and Innovation that establishes innovation teams in local government and regional clusters across the country, who learn innovative processes and implement bold ideas that improve the lives of residents. Previously the design expert on the Tel Aviv innovation team, Sarah has worked as a design researcher and a service designer with companies in the private and public sector. Sarah is also a senior lecturer in Master's Degree in Industrial Design at Bezalel, teaching service design for social innovation. Her academic research focuses on designing with and to empower communities.
