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
Professor Architect Yuval Baer began his Architecture studies at the Illinois Institute of Technology between the years 1983-85. He received his B.Arch. in Architecture & Urban design at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 1988, and completed his thesis project as an exchange student at Pratt Institute in New York in the studio of Raimund Abraham. Yuval Baer received his M.Sc. degree in Architecture & Building design at Columbia University in 1990.
Yuval Baer began teaching in Bezalel in 1992. He became a faculty member in 1998, promoted to the position of Senior Lecturer in 2001 and professor in 2024.
After completing his studies, Yuval Baer worked at Paul Segal Associates, Ehernkrantz & Eckstut and the office of Richard Meier in NYC, and later as an associate partner in the office of David Reznik in Jerusalem till 2004. In 2005 opened his own practice YBGSNA with his partner Galit Shifman-Nathan, and in 2023 opened an independent practice BAER – Architecture & Urban Design
The BAER – Architecture & Urban Design Studio is involved in significant public projects for the President of Israel, the Prime Minister's Office, major universities, the Jerusalem Planning Authorities as well as international collaborations with Foster + Partners, the BBC, several Chinese firms and institutions in Nigeria. Studio BAER – Architecture & Urban Design was invited to participate in the ECC exhibition at Bienalle of Architecture in Venice in 2021 and 2023.
B. Jerusalem 1971,
Video artist, Head of Video studies at the The Screen Based Arts Department at The Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. MFA graduate at Hunter college NYC. She received The Gesher Foundation award (2008), The Creative Encouragement Award of the Israel Ministry of Culture & Sport (2008), The Young Artist Award of the Israel Ministry of Culture & Sport (2004) The America – Israel Cultural Foundation (AICF) Scholarship Award for Artistic Achievement (1998-2002). Balaban has participated in exhibitions both in Israel and abroad, amongst them solo exhibitions at The Herzliya Museum of Art, The Haifa Museum of Art, Appendix Gallery, Warsaw, Tavi Art gallery, Tel Aviv and group exhibitions in Artists space, NYC, Queens Museum, NYC, Video Zone, Herzliya Museum, Art Chicago, Mediation Biennale, Poznan, Meet Factory, Prague, Tarun centre for contemporary Art, poland, NordArt, Germany. The Israel museum, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for contemporary art, the Tel Aviv museum of Art, ZAZ10TS Gallery NYC.
Diverse curatorial projects in the public sphere: Operation, Contemporary Art at the Supermarket, featuring 22 artists. Talita-Kumi - video installation in the windows of a central store, video program projections at the abandoned "Eden" cinema in central jerusalem.