Graduates Exhibition | Master’s Program in Fine Arts (M.F.A.) 2026

The M.F.A. program invites you to its 2026 Graduate Exhibition.

The Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem Master’s Program in Fine Arts 2026 Graduate Exhibition opens to the public with work that turns a critical eye on the spirit of the times. The exhibition presents twenty-five final projects created and curated within an ongoing reality of uncertainty and profound transformations in Israeli society. After a long period in which concepts such as home, security, community, and civic responsibility have been imbued with new and sometimes contradictory meanings, it seems that the very possibility of imagining a shared future has become an open and urgent question. Within this reality, art continues to play a vital role as a space for questioning, listening, witnessing, and critical imagination.

As in previous years, this year’s exhibition does not deal with one specific theme, but rather with the multiple voices of a generation of young artists. And yet, it is clear that contemporary reality leaves its mark on both the works and the way we encounter them. Some of the works directly deal with feelings of fracture, loss, and fatigue; others examine the relationship between the private and the public, between everyday experience and the political, social, and technological forces that shape it. Many of the works offer a fresh look at the familiar and the obvious, revealing the complexities, contradictions, and possibilities inherent in the current reality.

‎Jossef Krispel, head of the program: “The events of recent years compel us to reexamine the relationship between personal trauma and collective responsibility, between the private arena and the public and political reality. Art does not necessarily provide answers but rather allows a space to dwell on questions, to listen, to witness, and to engage in critical imagination. It is precisely from within the current reality, and not outside of it, that the need arises to continue to imagine, create, and act.”

Exhibition curator: Hadas Maor, lecturer in the MFA program

25.6-4.7.26

Opening event: Thursday | 24.6.2026 | 19:00
119 Herzl St., Tel Aviv

Opening hours:
Tues.-Thurs. 12:00–22:00
Fri. 10:00–14:00
Sat. 12:00–22:00