The Participating Artists

Larry Abramson (b. 1954, South Africa, immigrated to Israel 1961) is an artist who has exhibited extensively in Israel and abroad, with one-person exhibitions at Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York, Venice Biennale, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Kibbutz Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Haifa Museum of art, Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv and New York, Circle 1 Gallery, Berlin (2014), Jerusalem Print Workshop, and Volta NY, New York. His work is in the collections of the Israel Museum, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Felix Nussbaum Haus, Osnabruek, and the British Museum, London, and he has received many prizes and awards, among them the Kolliner Award (Israel Museum, 1979), Jacques O'Hana Award (Tel Aviv Museum, 1991), Pundik Prize for Israeli Art (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2007) and Sandberg Award (Israel Museum, 2022). Over the past 30 years he has participated in many initiatives in support of peaceful and equal coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians. Abramson taught at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem for 25 years. He has also been Visiting Professor at the University of California, San Diego, the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg, and is currently Professor of Art at the Multidisciplinary Art School at Shenkar College, Ramat Gan, where he was Head of the School (2013-2016). An anthology of his writings, titled "The Painter is a Spy", was published in 2018 by the Kibbutz Meuhad Publishing House, Tel Aviv (Hebrew).

Chicago-based Nelly Agassi is a multi-disciplinary artist working in performance, installation, video, and tactile media. Her process features obsessive, repetitive actions that function as a gripping point, a connection to reality and safe ground. Agassi's practice reflects a post-feminist shift, exploring femininity from a position of privilege and choice. Although her work references traditional domestic crafts like embroidery, sewing, and knitting, Agassi employs these materials in unconventional, non-functional ways to generate new meanings. Agassi's site-specific works merge personal an architectural stories, revealing glimpses of spatial biography through her lived experience. Primarily using materials, body, and space, she creates intimate dialogues within public environments and their stories. Holding MFAs from Chelsea College and BFAs from Central St. Martins, London, Agassi's work has been exhibited internationally at venues like Tate Modern, The Israel Museum, the Triennale di Milano and Zacheta in Warsaw. Notable projects include collaborations with Lady Dior and Sonia Rykiel. In Chicago, her work has been exhibited at The Graham Foundation, Chicago Cultural Center and The Arts Club of Chicago. Her work was recently acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago. Recent and upcoming projects include her collaboration with Tod's, solo exhibitions at Foksal Gallery Warsaw (Fall 2023), The International Museum of Surgical Science (Fall 2024), Kim? Contemporary Art Centre in Riga, and The Richard H. Driehaus Museum, among others. Nelly is a co-founder of the nonprofit organization Fieldwork Collaborative Projects and a 2019 Graham Foundation Fellow.

Born in Tel Aviv in 1951, educated at the Jerusalem Academy of Art and later at the Architectural Association in London, Ron Arad co-founded with Caroline Thorman the design and production studio One Off in 1981 and later, in 1989, Ron Arad Associates architecture and design practice. In 2008 Ron Arad Architects was established alongside Ron Arad Associates. From 1994 to 1999 he established the Ron Arad Studio, design and production unit in Como, Italy. Ron Arad was awarded the Royal Designer for Industry (RDI) in recognition of his ‘sustained excellence in aesthetic and efficient design for industry’ in 2002, and was awarded the London Dsign Medal in 2011. He was professor of Design at the Hochschule in Vienna from 1994 to 1997, and later Professor of Design Products at the Royal College of Art in London up until 2009, when he was made Professor Emeritus. In 2013 he was elected as a Royal Academician by the Royal Academy of Art in London. Ron Arad’s constant experimentation with the possibilities of materials such as steel, aluminium or polyamide and his radical re-conception of the form and structure of furniture has put him at the forefront of contemporary design. Selected Shows 2010 Ron Arad: ʻRestlessʼ, Barbican Art Gallery, London, 18February – 16 May 2009 Ron Arad: ʻNo Disciplineʼ, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2 August – 19 October 2008 ʻRon Arad: No Disciplineʼ Pompidou Centre, Paris, 20 November – 16 March 09 ‍ Exhibitions 2023 Ron Arad, Dubito Ergo Cogito, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv, April-May 2023 2022 Overdose, Design Museum, Holon, April-August 2022 2021 Black box, Design Museum, Holon, February-Jun 2021 2021 Ron Arad: Strings, love songs, and a red car, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv, April-Jun 2021 2018 Ron Arad: ‘All and Nothing’ Over, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv, March – April 2018 2018 Ron Arad: ‘Flat Mates’ Over the Influence, Hng Kong, 12th January to 28th February 2018 2017/18 Ron Arad: ‘Beautiful, Useful, Love’ Grob Gallery, Geneva, 3rd November 2017 to 26th January 2018 2016/17 Ron Arad: ‘One Man Show’ Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, 18th November 2016 to 1st February 2017 2016 Ron Arad: ‘Summer Exhibition’ Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, 22 June to 15 September 2016 Ron Arad: ‘Ron Arad Rocks!, Louisa Guinness Gallery, London, 26 February to 8 April 2015 Ron Arad: ‘in Reverse’ Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, 12 February to 14 March 2014 Paris Motor Show October 201 2014 Ron Arad: ‘Last Train’ Ron Arad Studio, London 27 June – 2 July 2013/14 Ron Arad: ‘in Reverse’ Pinacoteca, Turin, 20 December 2013 to 30 March 2014 2013 Ron Arad: Ivorypress, Madrid 5 September – 9 November 2013 Ron Arad: ‘in Reverse’ Design Museum, Holon, Israel 19 June – 19 October 2013 Ron Arad: ‘Last Train’, Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Venice 1 June – 24 November 2012 Ron Arad:720°, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem 15 August – 5 September 2011 Ron Arad: ʻCurtain Callʼ, Roundhouse, London, 9 – 29 August 2009 Ron Arad: Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong, 26 November 2009 – 29 January 2010 ʻRon Arad: New Workʼ, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, 8 April – 9 May Ron Arad Gallery Mourmans, Maastricht, March ʻRon Aradʼ Gana Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea, 27 March – 20 April 2007 ʻRestlessʼ, Friedman Benda Gallery, New York, September ʻBodyguardsʼ, Metropol, Milan April ʻThe Dogs Barkedʼ de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich November 2006- February 2007 2006 ʻThere is no solution because there is no problemʼ 508 West 26 Street, New York 14-30 September (with Barry Friedman Gallery) ʻBlo-Gloʼ, Dolce & Gabbana, Metropol, Milan April ʻBlo-Jobsʼ, Gallery Mourmans, Lanaken, Belgium (March) 2005 ʻPaved with Good Intentionsʼ, a new installation by Ron Arad, Miami Basel (1 Dec – 10 Dec) ʻDesins by Ron Aradʼ, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art (11 Nov 2005 – 7 Jan ʻRon Arad: A Retrospective Exhibitionʼ, Barry Friedman Ltd, New-York (5 May – 24 June) ʻRon Arad: New Works & Installationʼ, featuring Mike Figgisʼ film for the exhibition ʻIn Spaceʼ, Phillips, de Pury & Co., Chelsea, New-York 2004 ʻRon Arad Fatto In Italiaʼ as part of the Venice Biennale 9. International Exhibition of Architecture, ʻMetamorphʼ Vincenza ʻLo-rez-dolores-tabula-rasaʼ, Galeria Marconi, Milan 2003 ʻRon Arad in der Galerie Stefan Vodgtʼ, Galerie der Moderne, Munich ʻRon Arad Studio Works: 1981-2003ʼ, Louisa Guinness allery, London ʻVon Mensch zu Menschʼ, Sparda Bank, Münster ʻRon Aradʼ, Galeria Marconi, Milan ʻPermetreʼs la Llibertatʼ, Centre dʼArt Santa Monica, Barcelona 2002 ʻTwo Floorsʼ, Galeria Marconi, Milan 2001 ʻDelight in Dedarkʼ, Galeria Marconi, Milan 2000 ʻNot Made By Hand Not Made in Chinaʼ, Galeria Marconi, Milan ʻBefore and After Nowʼ, Victoria and Albert Museum, London 1998 R.T.W. Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow 1997 Ron Arad new acquisitions, Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts Ron Arad at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia Ron Arad and Ingo Maurer, Spazio Krizia, Milan 1996 Glasgow Festival f Architecture & Design Ron Arad and Ingo Maurer, Spazio Krizia, Milan 1995 Ron Arad – Gazi, Athens The work of Ron Arad, Museum of Applied Arts, Helsinki Ron Arad and Ingo Maurer, Triennale, Milan ʻSticks and Stonesʼ, Vitra Design Museum, Touring Exhibition 1990-1995 1994 ʻLʼEsprit du Nomadeʼ, Cartier Fondation, Paris 1993 ʻBreeding in Captivityʼ Edward Totah Gallery ʻDesign in the 20th Centuryʼ, Grand Palais, Paris ʻOne Off and Short Runsʼ, Centre for Contemporary Arts, (Warsaw, Krakow, Prague) 1991 ʻA Break with Traditionʼ, Rohska Museum, Gothenburg, Sweden 1990 Ron Arad Recent Works, Tel Aviv Musem of Art 1987 ʻNouvelles Tendencesʼ, Centre Georges Pompidou ʻDocumenta 8ʼ, Kassel 1986 ʻIntellectual Interiorsʼ, Seibo, Tokyo with P. Starck, R. Kawakubo, S. Kuramata Awards 2016 Compasso d’Oro 2014 Pillar of the Roundhouse, London 2011 London Design Medal 2010 Honorary Doctorate at Tel Aviv University 2006 The Jerusalem Prize for Arts and Letters, awarded by Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Israel 2005 FX magazine Designer of the Year Award 2004 Architektur & Wohnen Designer of the Year Award Finalist for the 2002 World Technology Award for Design 2002 Royal Designer for Industry 2001 Oribe Art& Design Award, Gifu, Japan 2001 Gio Ponti International Design Award, Denver 2001 Barcelona Primavera International Award for Design 2001 Co-winner of Perrier Jouët Selfridges Design Prize, London 1999 Design Plus Award, Frankfurt/Main; Internationaler Designpreis Baden-Württemberg, Design Center Stuttgart 1994 Designer of the Year, Salon du Meuble, Paris Work in Public Collections Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Montreal Musée des Beaux Arts, Montreal Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein Musée National d’Art Moderne/Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Fond National d’Art Contemporain, Paris Musée des Arts Décoratifs Paris Centre National d’Art Plastique, Paris Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Museum of Modern Art, New York Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Victoria and Albert Museum, London Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester Design Museum, London Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam Rohsska Design Museum, Gothenburg Powerhouse, Sydney Design Museum, Osaka Design Museum, Nürnberg Neue Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart Selected Publications Ron Arad: In Reverse, published by Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin 2013 Ron Arad: Last Train, published by Steinmetz 2013 Ron Arad: No Discipline published by MoMA NY 2009 Ron Arad: No Discipline, published by Editions du Centre Pompidou, Paris 2008 Ron Arad Architecture published by Enrico Navarra, France 2008 Ron Arad: Paved With Good Intentions published by Friedman Benda and The Gallery Mourmans, 2007 Ron Arad published by Barry Friedman Ltd, 2005 Ron Arad talks to Matthew Collings, Phaidon Press, 2004 Ron Arad by Deyan Sudjic, graphics Angus Hyland, Pentagram, Laurence King Publishers, 1999 Ron Arad by Raymond Guidot, Olivier Boissiere, Dis Voir, 1998 Design Classics Bookworm by Volker Albus, publisher Form Verlag,1997 Ron Arad Associates: One Off Three by Artemis Architectural Publications, 1993 Introductions by Ettore Sottsass, Cedric Price

Hilla Ben Ari is a multidisciplinary artist. Her video installations maintain an ongoing dialogue with the creative fields of theatre and dance, thus creating an intersection between visual arts and performing arts. Ben Ari has had solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions in museums and galleries in Israel and worldwide. Throughout the years of her practice, Ben Ari has been awarded prizes such as: Becky Dekel Award for an Outstanding Artist (2025); The Prize for an Established Video Artist - the Israeli Ministry of Culture (2016); the Pins Prize - The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2016); The Premio Combat Prize, Italy (2016); Award on behalf of the Ostrovsky Family Fund, Jerusalem Film Festival (2016); and The Kolb Prize - Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2014). Ben Ari is the recipient of grants and scholarships from funds such as AICF, Artis, Asylum Arts, Outset Contemporary Art Fund, the Ostrovsky Family Fund, and more. Her works are featured in the collections of The Israel Museum, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Bundestag, Berlin and other public as well as private collections.

Avigdor Arikha (1929-2010) moved from Israel to Paris in 1949, where he became an integral part of the artistic and intellectual life of the city until his death on 29 April 2010. A painter, draughtsman, printmaker and art historian, he is known for working only in natural light and for producing each of his works in one day. Born into a German-speaking Jewish family in Bukowina, Arikha was deported, in 1941, to a Transnistrian concentration camp, where his father died. He survived thanks to sketches he composed on scraps of paper, depicting the horrors of the Holocaust. Those were shown to delegates of the Red Cross, who facilitated his and his sister's escape. In 1944, at the age of fifteen, Arikha moved to the British Mandate of Palestine. Schooled in Jerusalem mostly by Bauhaus teachers who had escaped Germany, Arikha adopted a modernist approach, mastering multiple skills and mediums in line with Bauhaus principles. He moved to Paris to attend the École des Beaux-Arts, eventually becoming a prominent figure in Parisian intellectual and artistic circles, with close friends including Samuel Beckett, among others. Throughout the eighties and nineties Arikha also rose to prominence as an art historian, lecturing around the world. He curated exhibitions internationally, including Ingres at the Frick Collection, New York and Poussin at the Louvre, Paris. In 1992 he was commissioned by The BBC to make a documentary about Velazquez. Arikha's work is in public collections worldwide including: British Museum, London, UK; Denver Art Museum, Denver, US; Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, IT; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., US; Israel Museum, Jerusalem, ISR; The Jewish Museum, New York, US; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, US; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, FR; Musée du Louvre, Paris, FR; Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR; National Portrait Gallery, London, UK; Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, UK; Tate, London, UK. He was awarded many prizes and honorary degrees, and named a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 2005.

Artist Guy Avital is primarily a painter, based in Tel-Aviv. He began his formal education at a foundation course of Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, later he joined Kunstakademie Dusseldorf as a guest student in the class of artist Albert Oehlen. In 2009 he graduated Bezalel Academy of Art & Design MFA program. In 2015 he co-founded a private painting school in Tel-Aviv which aspire to introduce new and contemporary teaching approach to painting. Avital’s multilayered paintings incorporate various techniques of integrating painting and collage. His visual language is of constant metamorphosis developed through series of works. Each series - in his ongoing experiment - is driven by a specific work process designed to bring forth a principle of fusing contrasting visual languages and dialects onto a single canvas. Avital’s experience of daily life with its concerns, fantasies, politics and philosophical questions is reflected through the meticulous aesthetic investigation, and translated into abstract thoughts of colour and shape. The themes in his work - gardens, interiors, landscapes and ruins, are inspired by both observation and the history of painting Guy Avital exhibited in museums, public spaces and galleries in Israel and Europe. His work is held in Collections both in Israel and abroad.

Ilit Azoulay is an international artist of Moroccan origin (b. 1972 in Tel Aviv–Jaffa, Israel; lives and works in Berlin) who is best known for her pioneering photographic technique of reassembling images from information gathered from rigorous research. Incorporating photomontage, sound, and architectural elements, she scrutinizes the ways in which visual information is processed culturally, revealing unseen visual information and creating alternative points of view within familiar fields of knowledge. Azoulay’s works are in numerous museums and private collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art New York, Guggenheim Museum, New York, LACMA, Los Angeles, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, the Art Institute of Chicago, Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv. Her work has been exhibited extensively around the world, including her solo exhibitions Mere Things at the Jewish Museum New York (2024), STOPOVER at Villa Stuck, Munich (2024), Queendom. Navigating Future Codes at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria (2024), her project Room #8 at CaixaForum Madrid, (2023), her solo exhibition Queendom, at the Israeli Pavilion of the 59th Biennale Arte in Venice (2022), as well as exhibitions at CCA — Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (2019), The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2017), and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2014). She has also participated in group exhibitions at major international venues, such as Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich (2022), Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City (2018), Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (2016), The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2015), Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (2015), and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2015).

Yair Barak is a contemporary artist and curator recognized for his distinctive approach to visual storytelling, where traditional techniques intersect with contemporary conceptual frameworks. Working across photography and video art, his practice investigates themes of identity, memory, masculinity, and commemoration, often blurring the boundaries between the personal and the collective. Barak’s work has been exhibited at leading cultural institutions, including the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Israel Museum, the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Mishkan Museum of Art in Ein Harod. He has earned critical recognition for creating visually compelling and emotionally resonant works that engage with both intimate narratives and broader cultural discourse.

Zadok Ben-David (1949) is an award-winning artist based in London and Portugal. Ben-David represented his country Israel at the Venice Biennale in 1988 and participated in biennales worldwide including; The 4th CAA International Printmaking Triennial, Museum of Contemporary Art, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China (2025), XXIII Cerveira International Art Biennial, Portugal (2024), Ennova Art Biennale, China (2024), XXII Cerveira International Art Biennial, Portugal (2022), Breda Photo Biennial, Netherlands (2020), Krasnoyarsk Biennale, Russia (2019), Busan Biennale, South Korea (2010); Biennale Cuvee, Austria (2009); "Wonder" Singapore Biennale, Singapore (2008) and Sculptuur Biennale, Netherlands (2007). Zadok Ben-David has exhibited in various galleries and museums around the world. Solo shows and group exhibitions include: SIMoA, Shenzhen, China (2026), Shanghai Natural History Museum, China (2026), Kunsthal Rotterdam, the Netherlands (2026), Gyre Gallery, Japan (2026), Rarity Gallery, Mykonos, Greece (2025), Galerie Vidal Saint Phalle, Paris (2024), The Armory Show, New York (2024), Luxembourg Art Week (2024), Art Miami (2023), PAD London (2023), Taikoo Li, Beijing, China (2022), Shanghai Art Week (2022), Sea Art Festival, Busan, Korea (2021), Galerie Vidal Saint Phalle, Paris (2020), Galerie Vidal Saint Phalle, Paris (2018), "Permanent Way", Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK (2016), "Out of the Box", Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv (2012), Mysteski Arsevnal, Ukraine (2012), Guangdong Art Museum, China (2007), Singapore Museum of Art, Singapore (2003), Neanderthal Museum, Germany (2000), Palais Royal, Paris, France (2000), and Kunsteuropa, Germany (1992). Ben-David has also exhibited extensively in art galleries across Europe, Australia, America, Central Asia and the Middle East, and his works are included in many public and private collections around the world.

Tali Ben Bassat (born in Israel , lives and works in Tel Aviv) is a graduate of art studies at the Midrasha School of Art, Beit Berl College, and the Department of Continuation programs at Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art. She has been active as an artist and exhibiting continuously since completing her studies. Over the years, she has expanded her work from painting and drawing into printmaking and etching. Tali Ben Bassat has received numerous grants and awards, including the Alima Rita Prize for Printmaking (Mishkan, Museum of Art, Ein Harod, 2020), the Minister of Culture Award for Artists in the Visual Arts (2018), the Creativity Encouragement Award (2003), and the Artwork Acquisition Prize (2002)of the Ministry of Culture. Her works are included in museum collections such as the Israel Museum in Jerusalem; the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and the Ashdod Museum of Art, as well as in private collections in Israel and internationally.

Sara Berman (b.1975, UK) obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in fashion Design from Central Saint Martins in 1999. Subsequently, she founded and managed her eponymous fashion brand for 15 years. In 2016, Sara Berman completed her Master of Fine Arts in Painting at Slade School of Fine Art. Berman has widely exhibited her work internationally, including in London, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Milan, Miami, New York, Palm Beach, Rotterdam; most recently in group presentations at Hauser & Wirth, London, the Port Visser Collection in the Netherlands and The Maison Estelle in London, Sara Berman currently lives and works in London. Recent solo exhibitions include: Circus, Mimmo Scognamiglio, Milan, Italy (2026); Playing the Fool, The Arts Club, Wedel Art (2025); Where Muses Dare, Larsen Warner, Stockholm, Sweden (2025); Lapdogs and Fools, Vielmetter, Los Angeles, USA (2024); No Visible Means of Support, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida, USA (2023); The Armory Show NYC, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, New York (2022).

Anat Betzer (b. 1965, Israel) is a Tel Aviv-based artist working in painting, sculpture and installation art. After graduating from the Midrasha art school at the Beit Berl College (1989) she mooved to London, living and working there for four years. Upon returning to Israel she became a faculty member at the Midrasha College and began exhibiting extensively. Alongside solo shows exhibited regularly at the Julie M. Gallery in Tel Aviv and Toronto, and Noga gallery. among other venues, she participated in numerous group exhibitions, both in Israel and abroad. Prizes include the Young Artist Award by the Israeli Ministry of Education (1994), and a prize by the Israeli Minister of Culture and Sport, for a contribution to Israeli art and culture (2008). Her works are in dozens of private collections as well as in the collection of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. ​ ​

Zoya Cherkassky is a Ukrainian-Israeli artist born in Kyiv in 1976. She immigrated to Israel in 1991, an experience that became central to her work, which often explores migration, Soviet childhood, identity, social satire, and cultural memory. Her major exhibitions include Pravda at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and 7 October 2023 at The Jewish Museum, New York. Her work has been shown internationally and is held in museum and private collections.

Visual Artist (b.1972), based in Tel-Aviv. Graduated "Hamidrasha, Beit-Berl Art College (1999). Her work has been displayed in Israel Museum, Tel-Aviv Museum of art, Haifa Museum, Petah-Tikva Museum and Bialik House Museum among other venues. Represented by A. Antonopoulou contemporary art gallery in Athens, Greece. Her work found in various museum's collections, Leumi Bank art collection, Isrotel hotels chain art collection and many private art collections around the globe. Inspired by rituals and narratives evolving the relationship between the wild and the man-made Cohen's drawings reflect ecological, socia, political and theological aspects that influence her everyday life. By documenting the process of growth and withering in the wild, with a simple ballpoint pen drawing, she corresponds with the old masters paintings and botanist drawings, in a criticizing and contemporary point of view. Cohen's work portrays ancient multi-cultural elements, heritage and traditions that some are carried to this day, spotlighting local cultural characteristics such as talismans and amulets ascribing "Berachoth" (written blessings) and various folkloristic goods. In her map series she brings together old map papers, and drawings of various wild flowers, sacred and cursed plants in Islam Judaism and Christianity, medicinal plants, talismans made of natural motifs and other organic items. Cohen's drawings invite the audience to observe closely and consider questions regarding identity and evolution and bring to mind the dialectics between local and global, the planted and the uprooted, east and west, indoors and outdoors, nature and culture, entangling past and present, charted pathways and unrestrained nature.

Ruthi Helbitz Cohen | Biographical Notes b. 1969, Israel; lives and works in Ein Vered and Tel Aviv 1989–1991 1991–1992 - BA in Art and Psychology, University of Haifa - Studied in the Department of Fine Art, Bezalel Academy of Arts and - Design, Jerusalem 1992–1993 - Studied Art, HaMidrasha School of Art, Ramat Hasharon, Israel (now - Beit Berl Academic College) 1997–1998 - Studied in the Department of Art, University of Haifa 2008–2010 - MFA, Oranim College of Education, Tivon, Israel 2025 - Associate Professor Selected Solo Exhibitions 1994 - "Sweet Dreams," Janco-Dada Museum, Ein Hod, Israel; - curator: Raya Zommer (cat.) 1995 2001 2002 -"New Works," Borochov Gallery, Tel Aviv; curator: Ilana Tenebaum (cat.) - "New Works," Tal Esther Gallery, Tel Aviv (cat.) - "I Must Put Up with This," Goren Art Gallery, Max Stern Yezreel Valley College - (YVC), Israel 2004 - "New Works," Gallery on the Cliff, Netanya, Israel - "Boomerang," Tal Esther Gallery, Tel Aviv 2006 - "New Works," Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv - "Mind the Gap," Umtrieb Gallery, Kiel, Germany 2007 2008 - "Distortion," Umtrieb Gallery, Kiel, Germany - "Panoramas," Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel; curator: Dalia Levin - "Mind the Gap," Evi Gougenheim Artplace, Paris 2009 - "The Damsels' House," as part of "5 Artists: Wonderous Worlds," - Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art; - curator: Varda Steinlauf (cat.) - "Free But Securely Held," Oranim College Art Gallery, Tivon, Israel; - curator: Taly Cohen Garbuz; Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv 2010 2011 - "Sisyphus, Polylog," Mittelmeerbiennale, Köln, Germany - "On the Edge" (with Joshua Sobol), Nahum Gutman Museum of Art, Tel Aviv; - curator: Monica Lavi 2012 - "The Spider’s Strategy," Beelden aan Zee Museum, The Hague; - curator: Ronit Eden 2013 2014 - "Frameless," Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou; curator: Yaniv Shapira - "Four Matriarchs and a Remainder," Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv; - Galerie Helga Hofman, Alphen aan de Rijn, The Netherlands 2015 - "Whispers," Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv - "Veil of Tears," Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art; curator: Aya Lurie (cat.) 2017 - "Sunset," Haifa Museum of Art; curator: Svetlana Reingold - "Inspire Project 2017: A Deed Without a Name," Macedonia Museum of - Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki; curator: Thouli Misirloglou - "Daphne," The Israel Culture Institute, Budapest 2018 - "Potsdam – Amsterdam – Tel Aviv" (with Joshua Rosenman), Kunstverein - KunstHaus Potsdam; curators: Hubertus von de Goltz, Angelika Euchner - "Passive-Aggressive: From Daphne to Judith," Whiteconcepts Gallery, Berlin 142/ - "Poem/Po-Eima: A Hair in the Crime Scene" (with Joshua Sobol), The Open - University Gallery, Raanana, Israel ; curator: Carmit Blumensohn (cat.) 2019 2020 2021 - "Beloved," The Open Museum, Tefen Industrial Park; curator: Ruthi Ofek (cat.) - "The Sky Fell On Me," The Art Gallery, Umm el Fahem; curator: Yael Guilat - "Bombs will Fly over the Naked King, and a Heavy Heart will Plummet," - Hamidrasha Gallery, 19 Hayarkon, Tel Aviv; curator: Avi Lubin 2022 - "And Then the Silence," Contemporary Art Center, Ramla, Israel; - curator: Dr. Smadar Sheffi 2023 - "Mother, I shall weave a chain of pearls for thy neck with my tears of sorrow," - Schechter Gallery, Neve Schechter, Tel Aviv; curator: Bar Yerushalmi - "The Fragile Noise," Gordon Gallery, Jerusalem; Jerusalem Print Workshop; - curator: Amon Yariv - "Drawing the Waves" (with Diana Blok), Suzanne Biederberg Gallery, Amsterdam - "The Sky Fell On Her," Dat Bolwerck, Zutphen, The Netherlands; - curator: Marlise van der Jagt - "The Book of Ruth," Moving Gallery, Utrecht 2023-24 - "Art in the Vide," Museum De Fundatie, Zwolle, The Netherlands; - curator: Beatrice von Bormann 2024 - "The Sky Fell On Her," Dat Bolwerck, Zutphen, The Netherlands; - curator: Marlise van der Jagt - "The Book of Ruth," Moving Gallery, Utrecht 2025 - "The Book of Ruth," Inselgalerie Berlin - "Behind the Silent Darkness," Wilfrid Israel Museum, Kibbutz Hazoreah, Israel; - curator: Shir Meller-Yamaguchi - "Olympic Village," Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art; curator: Sari Golan (cat.) 2026 - "White Lily," Rubin Museum, Tel Aviv; curator: Edna Erde - (forthcoming) Selected Group Exhibitions 1994 - "HaMidrasha Graduates Exhibition," Nofar Gallery, Tel Aviv - "Cry Wolf," Mary Fauzi Gallery, Jaffa; curator: Eitan Hillel - "Painting, Above and Beyond," The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel; - curator: Aïm Deüelle Lüski (cat.) - "A Set Table: Who Sat on My Chair," The Artists' House, Tel Aviv; - curator: Naomi Shalev (cat.) - "Painting Photography Painting: Immersion," The Art Workshop Gallery, - Yavne, Israel - "The Full Part of the Sign II," Ami Steinitz Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv; - curator: Ilana Tanenbaum 1995 - Recipients of the Sharet Foundation Grants, The Genia Schreiber University Art - Gallery, Tel Aviv University 1995-96 1996 - Traveling exhibition in the USA on behalf of American-Israel Cultural Foundation - "Untitled," Nehama Café Gallery, Jaffa - "Untitled," Neveh Tzedek Gallery, Tel Aviv - Recipients of the Sharet Foundation Grants, The Museum of Israeli Art, - Ramat Gan, Israel - "Artists Against the Hard Hand Policy," Beit Haam Gallery, Tel Aviv; - Umm al Fahem, Art Gallery; curator: Said Abu Shakra 2002 - "Imagine: 300 Artists for Co-Existence," The Art Gallery, Umm el-Fahem - "Recipients of the Teacher Artists Award," The Israel Ministry of Science, - Culture, and Sports," Oranim College Gallery, Tivon 2003 - "Dying to Sleep," Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv /143 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024 ",The- "st Portrait," Lottery Council for Culture and Arts award winners exhition, - Tel Aviv Museum of Art; curator: Varda Steinlauf (cat.) - "Body Impressions," The Art Gallery, Memorial Center, Kiryat Tivon, Israel; - curator: Anat Gatenio - Gallery artists, Brantesburg Gallery, Copenhagen - "Piece of Art – Peace of Art," traveling exhibition of works by Egyptian, Israeli, - Palestinian, and German artists in Germany (cat.) - "Intensive Care," Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv - "Raffi," Tova Osman Gallery, Tel Aviv - "The First 20 Years," exhibition in homage to Esti Reshef," The Art Gallery, - Memorial Hall Center, Kiryat Tivon, Israel; curator: Taly Cohen Garbuz - "Bread and Roses," Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv - "In & Out," Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv - "Black," Bineth Gallery, Tel Aviv - "The Winners: Recipients of the Ministry of Culture and Sports Prizes in Art and - Design," Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel; curator: Galia Bar Or (cat.) - "Lo-li-ta," Office in Tel Aviv Gallery, Tel Aviv; curator: Rachel sukman - "Art Couture," Bineth Gallery, Tel Aviv; curator: Tessy Cohen Pfeffer - "New Works," Kieler Museum, Kiel, Germany - "Slough," Rothschild 121 Gallery, Tel Aviv; curator: Carmit Blumensohn - "Black Mamba," Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv - Umtrieb Gallery Artists at Preview art fair, Berlin - "2012," Gordon 2 Gallery, Tel Aviv (cat.) - "Summer Exhibition," Gordon Gallery and Gordon 2 Gallery, Tel Aviv - "The Chicago Triangle," Haifa Museum of Art; curator: Ruti Direktor - "Summer Exhibition," Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv - "The Circle of Life: The Israeli Pavilion," NordArt 2016, Büdelsdorf, Germany; - curator: Carmit Blumensohn - "On the Edge: Israeli Paper, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv; curator: Anat Gatenio - KunstRai art fair, Amsterdam - "Naked Soul: Chaïm Soutine and Israeli Art – Chaim Atar," Mishkan Museum of - Art, Ein Harod, Israel; curators: Yaniv Shapira, Suria Sadekova, Batsheva - Goldman-Ida - "Digging Down: Art of the Pre-Future," Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem; - curator: Shira Fridman - "Reflections on Space and Time: Art in the Station" (with Diana Blok), - Hashalom Rail Station, Tel Aviv; Sderot Rail Station - "The Naked King," Democracy Theater, demonstration, Tel Aviv - "Hachora," Nulobaz Cooperative Art Space, Tel Aviv - "Real Time," Beit Hankin, Kfar Yehusha, Israel; curator: Neta Haber - "Mixed Emotions," as part of "Loving Art Making Art," Tel Aviv; curators: - Tali Kayam, Hagar Raban - "Fragilities," Dina Recanati Art Foundation, Herzliya Pituach, Israel; - curator: Hagai Segev - "50 Years of the Jerusalem Print Workshop," Jerusalem Print Workshop; - curator: Arik Kilemnik - "Drawing the Waves" (with Diana Blok), SIC Gallery, Athens Black Eye Of Midnight Echoes And Reflections On Else Lasker-Schüler״ -- Felicja: Musical Arts Center, Tel Aviv, curator: Dr. Smadar Sheffi - Maintes formes que je n’avais pas isolées jusque-là de la réalité," Institut ״ - Français, Tel Aviv, curator: Dr. Smadar Sheffi - ,Zuzu Gallery, Hefer Valley Industrial Park ״,The Movement of Intelligence״ - curator: Rotem Ritov (cat.) /144 Selected Grants and Awards 1994–95, 1996–97 - Sharet Grant, America-Israel Cultural Foundation 2002 - Artist-Teacher Project Award, Israel Ministry of Science, Culture, and Sports - First Portrait Award, Israel National Lottery Council for Culture and Art 2004 2008 2010 2013 - Artist-Teacher Project Award, Israel Ministry of Science, Culture, and Sports - Creativity Encouragement Award, Israel Ministry of Science, Culture, and Sport - Commendation, Kener Award, Kener House, Rishon LeZion, Israel - Minister of Culture Award for the Visual Arts Residencies 2006 2023 - "Peace of Art – Piece of Art," Heinrich Böll Foundation, Germany - Schechter Gallery, Neve Schechter, Tel Aviv 2024, 2026 - ISCP, Brooklyn Selected Collections The Israel Museum, Jerusalem Tel Aviv Museum of Art Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel Haifa Museum of Art Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, The Netherlands MOMus Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki Bank Leumi Collection Haaretz Art Collection Public and private collections in Israel and abroad

Tel Aviv-based painter known for vivid figurative work exploring identity and memory.

Anthony Aziz (b. Massachusetts) Sammy Cucher (b. Lima, Peru) Aziz + Cucher have been a collaborative team since 1992, after meeting as graduate students at the San Francisco Art Institute. They were members of the Fine Arts faculty at Parsons School of Design in New York for more than 25 years and they are now based in Madrid, Spain. Their interdisciplinary practice includes video, photography, screen-printing, textiles, sculpture and digital animation. The images, objects and installations they produce are meant to reflect on the boundaries of identity at a time when these are becoming increasingly fluid and undefined. Often a synthesis of reality and fiction, their work tries to reveal the pathologies associated with unfettered globalization, post-human conditions and the intersections between the social, the biological, and the technological. In all their projects they are searching for a visual poetics that can express both the anxieties and expectations of living in such a moment. Aziz + Cucher have exhibited at the 46th Venice Biennale, MASS MoCA, the New Museum (New York), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the List Visual Art Center at MIT (Cambridge, MA), the National Gallery of Berlin, and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid), among others.

Dana Darvish is a multidisciplinary artist working with photography, collage, and moving image. Her practice explores themes of identity, memory, transformation, and fragmentation through layered visual compositions that combine archival materials, found imagery, and cinematic references. She received her BFA from the Faculty of Arts at Beit Berl College (HaMidrasha) and has participated in solo and group exhibitions in Israel and abroad, including at Art Cube Artists' Studios, Arad Contemporary Art Center, The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, and The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Her work has been supported by grants from the Mifal HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts and the Rabinovich Art Foundation, and is included in private and museum collections.

Karen Dolev (b. 1994, Jerusalem) is a visual artist based in Tel Aviv-Jaffa. She studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, where she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts (Jerusalem, 2017) and her Master of Fine Arts (Tel Aviv, 2023). In 2016, she participated in an exchange program at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Dolev's work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries. Her work is included in the collection of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art as well as in private collections in Israel and abroad. Dolev's work explores the intersection of spirituality and existential depth, as well as industrial production and raw materiality. Starting from a culture of visual abundance, she draws on motifs from New Age aesthetics and the iconography of pop culture. She frequently works with systems of order such as scales, diagrams, catalogs, or spectra. Drawing is central to her practice: using soft pastels on delicate paper, she develops pictorial spaces that unfold a floating, almost ethereal atmosphere.

Osnat Ben-Dov Born in Jerusalem, 1968. Lives and creates in Tel Aviv, Osnat conducts a dialogue with the world of classical and contemporary art. She deals with her immediate environment and investigates through it entities that maintain relationships of encounter and composition. During her professional past she specialized in food photography in the studio and worked with leading chefs and magazines. Esnat is a graduate (1994) of the department of photography at Hadassah College in Jerusalem and studied at the art seminary in Ramat Hasharon (1991). She has exhibitions focusing on art, photography and video in museums and galleries in Israel and around the world. Lecturer and Photography Educator.

Gilad Efrat is a painter and Professor of Art at the School of Multidisciplinary Art at Shenkar - Engineering. Design. Art. Efrat earned his MFA from the joint program of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Following his studies, he was accepted into the prestigious Core Residency Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. In 1997, Efrat held his first solo exhibition at the Kibbutz Gallery in Tel Aviv. Since then, he has presented numerous solo and group exhibitions in Israel and internationally. His work has been shown at leading institutions including the Israel Museum, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Martin-Gropius-Bau, the Jewish Museum Vienna, the Royal Academy of Arts, the LeRoy Neiman Gallery at Columbia University, and the Fruitmarket Gallery, among others. In Israel, his work has also been exhibited at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, the Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod, the Petach Tikva Museum of Art, the Haifa Museum of Art, and Gordon Gallery. Recent exhibitions include presentations at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Israel Museum. Comprehensive catalogs of his work have been published in collaboration with major institutions, including Inside Painting (Israel Museum, Jerusalem), Ape Scape (Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod), No Man’s Land (2004, Galleria Oredaria Arti Contemporanee, Rome), and Surface (1998, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art). Over the years, Efrat has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Michel Kikoïne Prize for Israeli Painting (Tel Aviv University), the Israeli Minister of Culture Prize (2012), the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2007), the Artadia Grant (2004), and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art’s Richter Prize (2006), among others.

Solo Exhibitions 2022 Wild Angels, Open university Raanana. 2018 Barbarian in the Garden, Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel Group exhibition 2025 Between Heaven and Earth, Zuzu Gallery, Emek Hefer 2025 Brink, Herald street, London 2019 25 years to Noga gallery of contemporary art, tel aviv 2018 Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21 st Century, First Art Museum, Nashville 2015 The Epoch of Space, Haifa art Museum, israel 2015 Pizutti Collection, This just in: New Acquisitions, Columbus, Ohio, USA

Eldar Farber (b. 1970) is an Israeli painter living and working between Tel Aviv and Berlin. His figurative-realistic practice often explores landscapes and urban environments in both Israel and Germany. His work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions at institutions and venues including the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Israel Museum, the Jewish Museum Berlin, and the Alon Segev Gallery. A recipient of the Haim Shiff Prize and a 2025 Artis Grant, Farber's work is held in the collections of the Israel Museum, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and the Jewish Museum Berlin. He received his artistic training at the Art Students League of New York, the Jerusalem Studio School, and the Maryland Institute College of Art.

Tony Vazquez-Figueroa (b. 1970, Caracas, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan artist whose work examines the cultural, political, and material consequences of oil and its role in shaping modern life. His practice is informed by an early background in film and advertising, disciplines through which he developed a sustained interest in images, persuasion, and the construction of collective narratives. Vazquez-Figueroa received a BFA in Film from Emerson College and later pursued formal art training at the Escuela de Arte San Alejandro in Havana, the New York Studio School, and the Slade School of Painting at University College London. His experiences living and working in Cuba and Venezuela—particularly during periods of political upheaval, economic collapse, and the erosion of public institutions—have been central to the formation of his work. These conditions shaped an ongoing engagement with material culture, spectacle, and the structural presence of lack, as well as with the tension between what remains operative and invisible and what becomes suddenly exposed, disrupted, or present by way of that lack. His work has been exhibited internationally, has received numerous awards in the visual arts, and is held in public and private collections including the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Museum of Latin American Art, California, and the UNIS Museum, Guatemala. He lives and works between Miami and Mexico City.

Born in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1967, he earned his MFA in photography from the Royal College of Art in London, later gaining critical success with exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum, Tate Britain, The Guggenheim and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and a professorship at the University for the University of the Creative Arts , England. Gersht’s works have been in numerous major institutions including the Guggenheim, New York; the Hirshorn Museum, Washington D.C.; Bass Museum of Art, Miami; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, among many others.

B. 1967 Painter and teacher of painting Lives and works in Tel-Aviv

תמר גטר (1953) למדה אצל רפי לביא בין השנים 1970 - 72 ותורת הספרות באוניברסיטת תל-אביב בין השנים 1975 - 79. גטר, מרצה בכירה חברת סגל בבצלאל למעלה מ-20 שנה, עד פרישתה ב-2022. בעבר לימדה גם בחוג לארכיטקטורה של אונ' תל-אביב. גטר, בולטת בדור הפורץ של שנות ה-70, מציגה ברציפות מ- 1973בגיל 19. תערוכת היחיד הראשונה שלה ב-1978 נערכה בגלריה גילת בירושלים ובאותה שנה אצר יונה פישר את מחזור תל- חי במוזיאון ישראל. מאז הציגה למעלה מ-50 פרוייקטים עצמאיים הכוללים הצבות ציור, פרוייקטים על במה, ועבודות וידיאו. מבין תערוכותיה הרבות נזכיר את הביאנאלה של וונציה ב-1982, ה"טירונים" במנזר הכרמליתים בפרנקפורט ב- 1990, ב-1994 פרויקט בניין ה'ארץ' , "האתה שבגוסטב" ו"כניסות כפולות" במשכן לאמנות בעין-חרוד ב-1995. "מפלצת כפולה" בסאגאצ'ו, טוקיו ב-1996. ב-1997 "יכול למבטם של מיליונים" ב'אוריאל 31' בוולס. "ארבעה פרויקטים" ב-1999 במוזיאון חיפה, ושוב המשכן אשר הציג אותה בפעם הרביעית ב-2018, עם הצבתה המונומנטלית "הליוטרופיון". "סאקרום", הצבה מרובת חללים בגלריה של בית ברל בת"א הוקמה ב- 2019, ומאז, לאחר מספר תערוכות נוספות, הוצגה ב-2023 בתערוכת יחיד "פיעל", במוזיאון תל אביב לאמנות, המוזיאון אשר העניק לה ב-2010 את פרס פונדיק וערך לה את הרטרוספקטיבה המקיפה "GO2"שכללה גם הצבת ענק חדשה, בשם זה ואת ההצבה "גביעים וגוויות", אשר פותחה לאורך למעלה מעשור, ביצירותמקבילות שנעשו בתל אביב, בצרפת וביפן. לאורך השנים כתבה גטר על יוצרים אחרים, בעיקר ב"סטודיו". מ-2008 פרסמה סיפורת ב"מטעם", וב-2014 את ספר הנובלות שלה "רוגטקה" בהוצ' רסלינג. ספר פרוזה חדש, "שוט" בהוצאת אפיק, יצא בתחילת 2026. כאות הוקרה על מפעל חייה ועל עבודתה מרובת השנים בבצלאל וסדרת הרצאותיה הסוחפת "נזרת" בשידורי זום בתקופת הקורונה מעניקה האקדמיה בנובמבר 2024 לתמר גטר את "מחברת הזהב" כרך ב', בשיתוף עם הוצאת אסיה. תערוכת יחיד "עבודות חדשות 2024", הוצגה בגלריה גבעון בתל אביב. גטר ממשיכה בעבודת ההוראה במסגרת "המראות", פרוייקט משותף של אמנים ואוצרים בניהולו של ירון אתר. לסיום, נוסיף כי גטר זכתה בפרסים רבים נוספים, ביניהם, פרס אוחנה של מוזיאון תל-אביב ב-1981, מלגת מגדל מוסון בפרנקפורט ב-1989, פרס סנדברג של מוזיאון ישראל ב-1995, ופרס דיזנגוף ב-2019. עבודותיה נמצאות באוספים רבים ומוצגות במוזיאונים דרך קבע.

Tsibi Geva is one of Israel's most prominent and influential artists. Born on 1951 in Kibbutz Ein Shemer, Israel, Geva lives and works in Tel Aviv and New York. Since 1979 he has exhibited extensively worldwide. Solo exhibitions include the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (1984); Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (1985); Tel Aviv Museum (1988); Haifa Museum, Haifa (2003); Tel Aviv Museum (2008); The American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC (2013); MACRO Testaccio, Rome (2014) and Mönchenhaus – Museum of Modern Art, Goslar (2015) and the Israeli Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale (2015). His participation in international group exhibitions include the Kunsthaus Zürich Orangerie Herrenhausen, Hannover (1989); The Jewish Museum, NY (1989), Whitebox, NY (2013); Palazzo Reale, Milan (2006); Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (2005); El Espacio Aglutinador, Havana, Cuba (1998); The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2012); Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2016). Geva is a professor at the School of Visual Arts, MFA program, NY; the University of Haifa, and Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl College, Israel. He is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including the Sandberg Prize from The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; the Mendel and Eva Pundik Foundation Prize from the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Israeli Ministry of Culture.

Michal Geva is an Israeli artist. She completed her MFA in Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts in May 2016. Geva was born in 1980 in Kibbutz Ein-Shemer, Israel. In 2003 she attended the BFA program in Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and completed it at Beit Berrel School of Art "Hamidrasha" in Israel in 2008. She participated in the Fellowship program for young creators at "Alma Home for Hebrew Culture" during 2011-2013. Michal Geva took part in various group shows and art fairs in Israel and New York, among them: Pulse-Miami Art fair (2016) and Fresh-Paint Art fair (TLV 2010-13). Geva had several solo exhibitions: New York Art Center (NY 2020), 39 Gallery (TLV, 2011), Java Gallery (NYC, 2013), Minshar Gallery (TLV, 2013), Hanina Gallery (TLV, 2014). She was awarded a Scholarship from "America-Israel Cultural Foundation" in 2008, and a Rabinovitch Foundation grant in 2013. In 2023, following the 7/10 events, Geva initiated and founded "Israel's Art at Dawn" foundation, to support Israeli artists after the trauma of October 7.

Itamar Gilboa (b. 1973, IL / NL) Itamar Gilboa received his BFA from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (2005). He has exhibited internationally in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including at MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art (Kraków),MIC Faenza, Ummuseum (South Korea) and Gungpyeong Art Museum Archive (South Korea), the COP26 UN Climate Summit (Glasgow), Jerwood Space (London), Museum Beelden aan Zee (Scheveningen), the Jewish Historical Museum (Amsterdam), and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. His works are represented in major public and private collections, including the LAM Museum, Ummuseum, AkzoNobel Art Foundation, ING Art Collection, House of Orange-Nassau Royal Collections, DSM Art Collection, Rosewood Amsterdam, and numerous private collections worldwide.

JONATHAN GOLD Painter | b. 1972, Kibbutz Afek, Israel …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… BIOGRAPHY Jonathan Gold is a Tel Aviv–based painter. Since 2000, he has exhibited extensively in solo exhibitions in Tel Aviv, Ein Harod, Jerusalem, New York, and Houston. His work has been featured in major international group exhibitions, including the Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin) and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. His paintings are held in prominent public and private collections, including the Israel Museum, Mishkan Museum of Art, and the Hecht Museum. Gold is an alumnus of the Rijksakademie (Amsterdam), the University of Haifa, and Beit Berl Art College. He currently serves as a Senior Lecturer at the Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art, Tel Aviv.

Liat Green is a London-based artist, painter, mixed media practitioner, and art psychotherapist, with a practice spanning nearly three decades. Working across drawing, painting, video, and photography, she explores themes of movement and the mind through an experimental, process-led approach. Green often works simultaneously across multiple surfaces, employing materials such as ink, oil, watercolour, acrylic, tape, and paper. Her practice embraces unpredictability, with disruption and chance functioning as integral components of the work’s development. She studied painting at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and continued her training in Tel Aviv and London. Over the years, Green has exhibited internationally, including in New York, Israel, Venice, and St. Petersburg in both group and solo exhibitions. Following a period dedicated to completing a Master’s degree in art therapy and working at Geha Mental Health Center in Israel, Green has returned to exhibiting in galleries and exhibitions internationally.

Exhibitions: 04.2026 - The Tel Aviv Biennale of Crafts and Design 2026, Works and Days, Group exhibition. 03.2026 - Memory Game, Solo exhibition, Municipal Art Gallery, Rishon Lezion 12.2025 - The Structure, Group exhibition, HaShalom Tower, Tel Aviv 11.2025 - CICA International Art Awards Exhibition, CICA Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia 5.2025 - Cartography of Dreams, Duo exhibition, Freshpaint Fair, Tel Aviv 11.2024 - Guardian Demons, Solo exhibition, Beit Benyamini, Contemporary Ceramics Center, Tel Aviv 11.2024 - Between the Masks, Solo exhibition, Beita Gallery, Jerusalem 5.2024 - Blow! The Power of Exhalation - Group exhibition, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv 5.2024 - The Most Precious Shell - Group exhibition, Nachum Gutman Museum, Jaffa 3.2024 - Siftah (The Beginning) - Group exhibition, Tiv'on, Israel 10.2023 - NOW! Group exhibition, Jaffa 5.2023 - Attachments, Solo exhibition at the Freshpaint Fair, Jaffa 11.2022 - LaCulture, Annual group exhibition, Jaffa 10.2018 - One Moment, Group exhibition, Istanbul, Turkey 4.2017 - 3D Art, Group exhibition, Old Jaffa Museum, Jaffa 9.2016 - Not For Consumption, Group exhibition, Tel Aviv 6.2016 - Solo exhibition, Jerusalem 4.2016 - Voyage, Group exhibition, Tel Aviv 3.2016 - Breaking the Rules, Group exhibition, Guangzhou, China 11.2015 - AutoMuses, Solo exhibition, Tel Aviv 5.2015 - Breaking the Rules, Group exhibition, Nami Island, South Korea 2.2015 - The Beast Within, Group exhibition, Tel Aviv Education: 2003 - 1998 - B.Des. Bezalel academy of art and design 1993 - 1996 - High school of Art studies, Jerusalem

The Artists Ayelet Carmi is a painter and installation artist. She holds a BFA from the Department of Fine Art, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. Her work often features mythological female figures, as well as hybrids of machinery and the human form. With a background in traditional painting, she re-examines the conventions of representation. Her work displays metamorphoses of the world and imaginary figments. Carmi has been awarded scholarships and grants by the Israeli Ministry of Education and the Lottery Council for the Arts. Meirav Heiman is an interdisciplinary artist working in photography and video. She holds a BFA from the Department of Photography, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. Her work departs from everyday life, recreating domestic scenarios in a stylized, grotesque manner to provoke a wide range of human emotions. The basic need for love and intimacy is counteracted by the rigidity of family and gender constructions. Heiman has received various art grants and scholarships, as well as distinctions from international art festivals The Collaboration Carmi and Heiman have been working together since 2014 and produced nine joint projects to date. In 2014, they began collaboratingon “The Israel Trail: Procession,” which debuted as a three-channel video installation at the Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Israel in 2018. The work was purchased to the collection of the Israel Museum and was shown in the three-channel version in the exhibition "Common Ground", Israeli Art Meets Archaeology, Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Also in 2018, “Sphere” stood at the center of a collaborative show that the two artists presented at the Neve Schechter Gallery in Tel Aviv. Additional projects include “Icosahedron” (Haifa Museum of Art, Israel in 2016), and “Eclipse” (2015), screened in Israel and abroad. Their colaborative work has gained support from the Lottery Council for the Arts (Israel), the Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts (Israel), Artis (NY), and Asylum Arts (NY). In 2019, Carmi and Heiman’s collaborative works were featured in a large duo exhibition at Hadassah-Brandeis institute, Kniznick Gallery, Boston. Their works were also featured in a series of festivals, including Videoformes, The Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, a video art program for the Museum of Nature and Hunting in Paris, Stuttgarter Filmwinter – Festival for Expanded Media, , FIVA – International Festival for Video Art, and KLEX – independent international festival of experimental film, video art and music. Over the last two years, Heiman Carmi created a new series focusing on historical female figures by blending reality, imagination, and fiction. This collection of video works centered on historical narratives that the artists developed by crossing borders between media, history, and fiction. Within this body of work, they produced "Zahra" (presented at Contemporary, Ramat Hasharon, 2022, curated by Ravit Harari), "Physics" (a collaboration with the Modalius Ensemble presented at the Israel Music Festival and later installed as a solo exhibition at the Eretz Israel Museum), and "Calipers" (featured in the 2023 Art and Design Biennale at the Eretz Israel Museum, curated by Nir Harmet). Additionally, they worked on a solo museum exhibition at the Israel Museum's Anna Ticho House, which was showcased in March 2025 under the curation of Timna Seligman.

Gaston Zvi Ickowicz (b. 1974, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a visual artist based in Israel, working primarily with photography and video. He immigrated to Israel in 1980. Ickowicz's artistic practice explores the dynamic relationship between people and landscape within complex socio-political contexts. He graduated with honors from the Musrara School of Photography in Jerusalem (2000), and later completed advanced art studies at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem (2009). Ickowicz has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions both in Israel and internationally. His work has been shown at major institutions including the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2011); Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (2008); The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (2016); Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv (2015); and MACRO - Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome (2013), among others. He is the recipient of several prestigious awards and grants, such as the Lauren & Mitchell Presser Award for Young Israeli Artists (2009) and grants from the Israeli Ministry of Culture.

Merav Kamel (born in 1988, Israel) and Halil Balabin (born in 1987, Israel) live and work in Tel Aviv. They received their BFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem (Kamel in 2012, Balabin in 2014). They have been working together since 2012. Their interdisciplinary work shifts among different techniques and practices, from hand-sewing hybrid figures, to drawing, painting, sculpture and site-specific installations. Their research investigates human society and modern culture through a provocative yet ironic practice – at times surrealistic and folkloristic, but also critical andserious – that focuses on gender issues, sexuality, power and control, and represents fears, weaknesses and desires of our contemporaneity. Their work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including: Buchum Museum, Germany; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Tel Aviv Museum; Bat Yam Museum; Herzliya Museum; Brno house of art, Czech; Pram Gallery, Prague; PM gallery, Dusseldorf; Circle 1 Gallery, Berlin; Untitled art fair, Miami; Artport, Tel Aviv; Dada Museum, Ein Hod; Ha’Kibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv; Givon Gallery, Tel Aviv; Basis Gallery, Herzliya; Inga Gallery, Tel aviv; among many other venues. Their work is included in many public and private collections such as the Tel Aviv Museum of Art; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Philara collection; Carry and Dan Bronner collection; Discount Bank collection; Roni and Allen Baharaff collection; Shoken collection; Ann and Ari Rosenblatt collection; Dubi Shiff collection and other private ones. Both were awarded from Beatrice S. Kolliner Award for a Young Israeli Artist, Israel Museum, Israel Ministry of Culture, Young Artist Award (Kamel in 2018, Balabin on 2016); Artis Grant for Exceptional Work in Uncertain Times; “Elhanani” Prize from Bezalel Academy of Art; America-Israel cultural Foundation award for extraordinary artistic achievement.

Kaplan's work is rooted in the symbolic language of material and is fascinated by how cultures embed meaning into matter. She works across sculpture, installation, and archival strategies, often drawing from overlooked local histories and traditional craft. She has developed an archive of patterns from mid-century Israeli ceramics that serves as a generative engine for sculptural forms. Liora Kaplan (1974, Herzliya; lives and works in Tel Aviv-Yafo) studied at Avni Institute of Art and Design in Tel Aviv and at the Faculty of Arts – Hamidrasha at Beit Berl College. Kaplan's had solo exhibitions at the KMAC Museum, Kentucky, USA (2023), CCA Tel Aviv Yafo (2022), Rozin Center Tel Aviv (2017) and Ferrate Gallery, Tel Aviv (2013). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Sotheby's, New York, USA (2021), Ramat Hasharon Gallery (2020), Beit Ha'ir, Tel Aviv (2020), CCA Tel Aviv Yafo (2020), Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv (2019), Red House Gallery, Tel Aviv (2017), Hanut Gallery, Tel Aviv (2016), and Tiroche Auction House, Herzliya (2014), Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv (2014), Lilienblum 23, Tel Aviv (2014), Salon 96, Tel Aviv (2014), SCOPE Art Fair, Miami (2013), See.me Gallery, New York (2013). Her work is in the collections of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Israel), ST-ART (Israel), Galila Barzilai (Belgium) and in private collections around the world. It has been featured in magazines such as Document Journal, Whitewall, Haaretz, La Repubblica, Textura Magazine, Time Out, Portfolio and Blackbook.

Dani Karavan (1930–2021) Dani Karavan was born in Tel Aviv to Zehava and Abraham Karavan, who later became the city's landscape architect. He studied painting with leading artists including Aharon Avni, Avigdor Steimatzky, Yehezkel Streichman, Marcel Janco, and Mordechai Ardon. In 1948, he was among the founders of Kibbutz Har'el, where he met his wife, Hava. During this period, he produced politically engaged drawings and paintings. In 1956, Karavan travelled to Florence to study fresco at the Accademia delle Belle Arti, where the foundations of his interdisciplinary artistic practice were established. Upon returning to Israel, he created set designs for the Cameri Theatre, the Inbal Dance Company, the Martha Graham Dance Company in New York, and the Batsheva Dance Company, of which he was a founding member. During the 1960s, Karavan created his first site-specific public works, including concrete and stone reliefs for the Tel Aviv Court of Justice, the Weizmann Institute of Science, and the Negev Monument in Beersheba. Karavan's major environmental works include: Kikar Levana (White Square), Tel Aviv (1977–1988); Axe Majeur, Cergy-Pontoise, France (1980–2012); Ma'alot, Cologne, Germany (1979–1986); Passage, Nuremberg, Germany (1995–2000); Mamshit Negev, the Egyptian border (1996–2000); Murou Art Forest, Murou, Nara, Japan (1998–2006); Homage to the Sinti and Roma, Berlin, Germany (1999–2012); Culture Square, Tel Aviv, Israel (2001–2012). Karavan exhibited widely in museums around the world, and his works are included in numerous prestigious public and private collections. He received many major international awards, including the Israel Prize for Art and Science (1977), the Goslar Kaiserring for Visual Art (1996), UNESCO's Artist for Peace designation (1996), the Praemium Imperiale (1998), and the Piepenbrock Award for Sculpture (2004). He was also among the initiators of efforts to preserve Tel Aviv's International Style (Bauhaus) architectural heritage. Throughout his life, Karavan was a dedicated advocate for peace and human rights.

Mosh Kashi Mosh Kashi is an Israeli Artist. Graduated from Hamidasha Art Academy and have an M.A degree in Arts Education from University of Leeds, Bretton Hall, England. Mosh Kashi has received numerous prestigious awards, amongst them: the Israeli Young Artist Award (1994), the Cité des Arts Scholarship, Paris (1996), the Artistic Achievement Award, Israel (1997) and Israeli Minister of Education and Culture Prize for the Visual Arts (2004) and Latly the Recognation Award for arts of Plumas Fund [2014] . Mosh Kashis most well-known paintings hold sublime elements inspired by the tradition of the Major Romantic motifs as well with deep link to the update contemporary visual Art. The Double Vie series (1997), Fields and Forest Green (Bois, 2003), Cronos (2006) ,the Golden Balls installations (Bialik House 2010, Tefen Museum 2012).Ash Dreamer series [2014 ] and lately, at the last years several projects on Larg scale canvases as the Crown and the Corpus Series. Kashi's art has been exhibited 14 solo and much many Group Exhibitions in Israel and worldwide. Mosh Kashi works are included in various public and private collections in Israel and abroad such as the Israel Museum collection in Jerusalem, Haifa Museum collection, Herzelia Museum Collection,Tefen Museum collection and more. [ It will be a privilege to see some of his original painting in Stokholm Embassy residency] Mosh Kashi Is Senior Lecturer at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. Mosh Kashi Lives and work in Tel Aviv.

Avner Katz (1939–2020) was a prominent Israeli painter, illustrator, author, and educator. Widely recognized for designing the beloved character "Kipi Ben Kippod" on the Israeli version of Sesame Street, he left a lasting impact on Israeli art and children's literature, serving as a professor at the University of Haifa.Biography OutlineBirth & Education: Born on March 11, 1939, at Kibbutz Ramat Rachel, Israel. He studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem (1955–1959) and later at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London (1964–1966).Artistic Career: Katz was highly acclaimed for his eclectic and virtuosic painting style. He created large-scale woodcuts and paintings exploring the Israeli experience, while also working as an illustrator for renowned authors like Isaac Bashevis Singer and Yehuda Atlas. He was also a regular contributor and editorial member of the legendary Israeli satirical column Davar Acher.Teaching: He was a highly influential educator who taught at institutions like the Bezalel Academy, the Avni Institute, and WIZO Haifa. He later became the head of the Art Department at the University of Haifa.Awards: He won several major accolades throughout his career, including the Ben-Yizchak Award for Children's Book Illustration (1980) and the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) award (1980).

Alon Kedem (b.1982) lives and works in Jerusalem, Israel. He holds a BFA and MFA degrees from the Bezalel academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. Kedem had participated in various group exhibitions in Israel and abroad, amongst them "All through the Days - Playfulness in contemporary Israeli Art" (2024-present) at the Ramat Gan museum of Israeli Art, “Fake news\Fake truth” (2019) at the Haifa Art Museum, "Take Painting" (2016) at Petach Tikva museum of Art. Kedem also had many solo exhibitions at the last 15 years amongst them- "Auto-Therapy", 2024, a solo exhibition at Keren Bar Gil contemporary Art gallery, Ramat Hasharon, "Here is there " (2022) and “Hamudi Tours” (2019), solo exhibitionsat Hezi Cohen Gallery in Tel- Aviv, and “Great Sunset”, (2017) at CIPA gallery, Beijing. In 2011, Kedem received the Osnat Mozes Prize for a young painter, and on 2014 Kedem had been chosen to be one of the 100 painters (the only Israeli one) in the prestigious book "100 Painters of Tomorrow", by Kurt Beers, Thames & Hudson, London. Kedem's works are part of the Israel museum collection, the Tel Aviv museum of Art collection, the Knesset collection, The American university museum collection in Washington DC and many other public and private collections in Israel, USA, Europe, and China.

Gabriella Klein is an Israeli-American painter based in Tel Aviv. Working across painting, drawing, and large-scale murals, she grounds her imagery in personal experience and direct observation, often depicting everyday situations. Rooted in the domestic, her work connects contemporary life to the longer continuum of art history. Her work has been widely exhibited both in Israel and internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include "Night Train" at the Petach Tikva Museum of Art and "Hold" at The Cabin Los Angeles. Her paintings are held in private and public collections, including the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Haifa Museum of Art, Bank Leumi, and the Benetton Collection. She has participated in artist residencies in Los Angeles, Austria, Berlin, and China.

Jossef Krispel is an Israeli artist (born 1974), he is the Head of the Fine Arts department and the Head of the Master's Prorgam in Arts at the Bezalel Art and Design Academy Jeruusalem.

Olga Kundina (b. 1965) painter, holds an MA from The Institute for the Graphic Arts, Moscow (1985-1990). Moved to Israel in 1990. One of the founders of The New Barbizon Group. Lecturer at The Arts Institute, Tel Hai College. Her work exhibited in one-person and group shows in Israel and abroad, among them are De Apple Museum, Amsterdam (2020), Erez Israel Museum, Tel Aviv (2019), Hamidrasha Gallery (2019), Museum of Art, Ein Harod (2017), Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2016), Haifa Museum of Art (2014), Circle1 gallery, Berlin. Her work is included in many public and private collections in Israel and abroad including The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, The Knesset, Bar-David Museum, Israel Makov collection, Discount Bank art collection and more.

Sigalit Landau Born in Jerusalem 1969, lives and works in Tel Aviv. Sigalit Landau, an interdisciplinary artist who works with installation, video, painting, photography, and sculpture. She currently lives and works in Tel Aviv. Landau’s work has been exhibited in leading venues around the world. Her one-person shows include: Temple Mount, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (1995); VoorWerk 5, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (1996); Resident Alien I, Documenta X, Kassel (1997); The Country, Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv (2002); Carcel de Amor, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid (2005); The Endless Solution, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv (2005); The Dining Hall, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2007); Projects 87: Sigalit Landau, The Museum of Modern Art, New York City (2008); Salt Sails + Sugar Knots, Kamel Mennour Gallery, Paris (2008); One Man’s Floor Is Another Man’s Feelings, The Israeli Pavilion, 54th International Art Exhibition—la Biennale di Venezia (2011); Caryatid, The Negev Museum of Art, Beersheba (2012); Infinite Games, Solyanka State Gallery, Moscow (2012); Margin, Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest (2013); The Ram in the Thicket, Ginza Maison Hermès, Tokyo (2013); Phoenician Sand Dance, MACBA, Barcelona (2014); Moving to Stand Still, Koffler Centre ofFine Arts, Toronto (2014); Miqlat, Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme, Paris (2016); Sorrow Grove, Wiener Festwochen, Vienna (2016); Salt Years, Museum der Moderne Salzburg (2019). Landau was the recipient of the 1993 Jewish National Fund (USA) Sculpture Award; the 2000 Times/Artangel Open Commission, London; the 2004 Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation Israeli Art Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv; the 2004 Beatrice S. Kolliner Award for Young Israeli Artists, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; the 2007 Dan Sandel and the Sandel Family Foundation for Sculpture Award, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv; and the 2016 Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, among others. In 2017 Landau received an Honorary Doctor of Philosophy from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel and she was conferred the title of Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government; Honorary Associate degree from the Open University of Israel (2019) and Honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel (2020).

Born in 1961, Jacobi Lelior is a painter who teaches art at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and at the Faculty of Arts – HaMidrasha. She has been showing her work in exhibitions since 1981, and her paintings are included in the collections of both the Tel Aviv Museum of Art ,the Israel Museum and private collections. . She is the recipient of the 2022 Rappaport Prize, and her solo prize exhibition "Monkeys in the Mist"was held at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 2024.

Ofer Lellouche (b. 1947, Tunis) is an Israeli painter, sculptor, etcher, and video artist who lives and works between Tel Aviv and Paris. After studying mathematics and physics in Paris, he moved to Israel and later trained at the Avni Institute of Art and Design under Yehezkiel Streichman. He continued his studies in Paris with renowned sculptor César Baldaccini and completed a master's degree in literature. Beginning his career in video art and self-portraiture, Lellouche developed a distinctive visual language that bridges representation and abstraction. His work has been exhibited internationally at leading institutions, including the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Israel Museum Jerusalem, the Gulbenkian Museum of Modern Art Lisbon, the CAFA Museum Beijing, and the Albertina Museum Vienna.

Visual artist. Taught at Kalisher and Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. Currently mentors and accompanies artists. Has presented numerous solo exhibitions, including museum shows: “Body of Earth” (Petah Tikva Museum of Art, 2023), “Twilight: Urban Landscapes” (University Gallery, 2009), “Towers” (Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, 2005), “Pools” (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2000), and “Thatch and Honeycombs” (The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1995). Participated in many group exhibitions in Israel and abroad: Won awards and prizes, including The Janet and George Japin Prize, America-Israel Cultural Foundation, The Michel Kikoine Prize, Faculty of the Arts, Tel Aviv University, Israeli Culture and Education Ministry Award, Dan Sandel Sculpture Award, Tel Aviv Museum, and IDB Award for Israeli artist, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Her works are held in the collections of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, The Israel Museum, the Jewish Museum in New York, as well as in public and private collections. Represented by Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv.

Yitzhak Livneh is an Israeli painter. Born in 1952, he lives and works in Tel Aviv, and has become an influential figure in Israeli painting through both his artistic practice and his teaching at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, where he previously headed the Fine Art Department. His paintings often combine painterly gestures with slogans, advertisements, and visual references drawn from everyday life, creating layered works that explore perception, media, and the instability of meaning. Livneh has exhibited widely in Israel and internationally, including at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the Israel Museum, and has received several major awards, including the Israeli Ministry of Culture Prize.

1958 - Born in Israel Lives and works in Tel Aviv Education 1979 - California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco 1984 - B.F.A , School of Visual Arts, New York 1983-84 - Silk Screen Printer at Andy Warhol's Studio, New York 1984-Scholarship to Skohegen Program , Maine 20 Solo exhibitions Selected group shows 2014- Chicago Triangle- art women dialogue, Haifa Museum of Art 2017- Imagined Homes , Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art 6 2017- Present Absent , Wilfrid Israel Museum, 2023- Nohow on, Again on ,Ticho House, Israel Museum, Jerusalem Represented by Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv And Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles Collections - Museums, Private and corporate in Israel, USA, Europe

Was born in Tel-Aviv, Israel, 1976 / Lives and works in Tel-Aviv. BFA and MFA, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv and the Cooper-Union of art, New-York. Recipient of the Lauren and Mitchell Presser Photography Award for a Young Israeli Artist (2015) / Rudin Prize, Norton Museum of Art (2015) / The Lottery Council for Culture and Art (2013) / The Critics Choice Award, Radical-Jung Festival, Munich, Germany (2013) / IAAB and Culture-Scapes scholarship and residency, Basel, Switzerland (2011) / Young Artist Prize, Israeli Ministry of Science and Culture (2009) / Joshua Rabinowitz Foundation Prize for the Arts (2004) Maymon has had solo exhibitions at the Tel Aviv museum of art / the Norton Museum of Art, Florida / the art pavilion, Ein-Harod museum / the 12th Biennale of Contemporary Art, Naples, Italy / Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv / Herzliya Museum of Art / The Artist's Studios Gallery, Tel-Aviv / Iltis Bunker, Kiel, Germany / Hinterhof space, Basel, Switzerland / The 2nd International Photography Festival, Jaffa / Volkstheater, Munich, Germany / Volkstheater, Nikosia, Cyprus / Roxy Theater, Basel, Switzerland / Hezi Cohen gallery, Tel Aviv / Tal-Esther Gallery, Tel-Aviv / Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv / Inga gallery, Tel Aviv, among other venues. Maymon participated in numerous group exhibitions in Israel and abroad and his works have been published in many journals, books and magazines in Israel and abroad. 1999-2004/ Photographer for “Purple” magazine. As of 2002, Lecturer and a member of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem and from 2016-2020 the head of the Midrasha photography department, Kfar-saba

Naomi Mendel (b. 1981, Jerusalem) is an Israeli artist based in Jerusalem. She holds an MFA from the University of Haifa (2021) and a BFA from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem (2006), and also studied at Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht in the Netherlands. Mendel has presented solo and collaborative exhibitions in Israel and abroad, including at Hanina Gallery, Tel Aviv; Keren Bar-Gil Gallery, Ramat Hasharon; and Art Ventures Gallery, California. Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including at the Haifa Museum of Art, Eretz Israel Museum, and international exhibitions in London and Zurich. Recipient of grants and awards from the Rabinovitch Foundation, the Ministry of Culture and Sport, and Kunststiftung Schues Art Foundation (Hamburg), Mendel's work is held in public and private collections, including the Haifa Museum of Art, Bank Leumi Collection, Bank Hapoalim Collection, and the Kunststiftung Schues Art Foundation.

Ido Michaeli is a multidisciplinary artist whose work resides on the seam of art, design and craft and utilizes textile, stained-glass, ceramic, and painting.   Michaeli's work has been exhibited extensively in galleries and museums around the world. He holds a Masters of Art and a bachelors of Design, both from the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem. Individual Study Program, HaMidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl Academic College, Tel Aviv, Israel

Mordechay has exhibited internationally, including at the Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf; Kunststiftung Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle; the KAI10 Athena Foundation; the Tel Aviv Museum of Art; and the CCA Tel Aviv. He received awards from Stiftung Kunstfonds and the Israeli Ministry of Culture, among others. His works are in major collections such as the Federal Republic of Germany, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, and Philara Collection, Düsseldorf.

Eitan Ben Moshe (b. 1971, Haifa) is an Israeli contemporary artist working in sculpture, installation, video, and digital media. He lives and works between Tel Aviv and Berlin. A graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and the Kalisher School of Art, his practice explores the intersections of mythology, technology, spirituality, and contemporary visual culture. Ben-Moshe has presented major solo exhibitions in museums and galleries in Israel and internationally, including World Chants at the Bat Yam Museum of Art (2024), Stargate at the Arad Center for Contemporary Art (2023), Thus Far at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (2019), and The Story of Y at Blake & Vargas, Berlin (2021). He has also held three comprehensive solo exhibitions at Alon Segev Gallery, Tel Aviv: Jericho Moons (2012), The White Light (2013), and Albino Heart (2017), in addition to The Story of Y, Part I (2021). His work has been exhibited at major institutions and has received support from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation, and other leading cultural institutions. Alongside his artistic practice, Ben-Moshe teaches at the Department of Fine Arts at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, and at the Department of Textile Design at Shenkar College. His video works have been screened and awarded at international film and media festivals in Los Angeles, Hollywood, Munich, Chicago, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

Neta Harari Navon lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel. Harari studied fine art at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem and at HaMidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl. She holds a BA in theater studies and costume design from Tel Aviv University and an MA in art therapy from David Yellin College of Education, Jerusalem. Harari is a lecturer at Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem and at the HIT Faculty of Design, Holon. Harari has exhibited extensively in leading art galleries in Israel, as well as all major museums in Israel, including Tel Aviv Museum of Art, The Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Haifa Museum of Art, and Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod. In 2015, Harari participated in “Dismaland,” Banksy’s most ambitious art project featuring 58 international artists hand-picked by Bansky himself, which received widespread exposure in the global press. She was one of only two Israeli artists selected for this project. Harari has won numerous awards for art and community involvement and her works are included in important private and public collections.

מתגוררת ועובדת בתל אביב.אמנית ציור וידאו ומיצב. למדה טקסטיל ב"שנקר",בבית הספר הגבוה לאמנות הציור "קלישר "וקולנוע באוניברסיטת תל אביב. עבודתה חקרנית,לעיתים ארס פואטית,אסוציאטיבית,מציעה מתוך הווה מחשבות הבראה אפשרויות לעתיד. הציגה בארץ ובחו'ל בתערוכות יחיד וקבוצתיות .בין השאר במוזיאון ינקו דאדא,במוזיאון ארץ ישראל ,מוזיאון פתח תקווה מוזיאון תלאביב,מוזיאון וילפריד ומוזיאון ישראל. עבודות וידאו הוצגו בפסטיבל הקולנוע ירושלים ,בלונדון,בבוסטון,באוניברסיטת מידלברי,ורמונט ובסיאול . זוכת "קרן סימון",-מוזיאון תל אביב,וקרן יהושוע רבינוביץ לאמנויות. עבודותיה נמצאות באוסף דיסקונט, ובאוספים פרטיים בארץ ובעולם.

Adi Nes (born 1966, Kiryat Gat, Israel), is one of Israel's most prominent photographers. Since his graduation from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem (1992), his works have been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Israel and abroad, achieving great recognition and success. Nes's body of work includes five main series to date: Soldiers, Boys, Prisoners, Biblical Stories and The Village. His creations have won Nes various prestigious awards, including the Anglo-Israeli Photographic award (1993), the Education, Culture & Sport Minister's Prize for Artists in the Vsual Arts (1999), the Gottesdiener Foundation Israeli Art Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2000), and the Constantiner Prize for Photography (2003), Culture Minister's Prize for Artists in the Visual Arts (2013). His photographs have been acquired by many of the most celebrated public and private art collections, and have been sold successfully in international art auctions. Nes's large scale and multi-layered color photographs, executed with meticulous light and print qualities, draw inspiration from his personal biography, as well as from collective Israeli memory and universal art history. His works correspond with famous pieces from the art canon, as well as with contemporary photography, mythologies, film, media and journalism, fashion, and more. Nes diverts these borrowed images towards new contexts, thus creating a new and critical look at contemporary reality.

Gilad Ophir (b. 1957) lives and works in Tel Aviv. Since the late 1980s, he has exhibited widely in museums and galleries, and his works are held in major collections, including the Tate Modern, London, the Israel Museum, and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Trained in New York at the School of Visual Arts (BFA) and Hunter College (MFA), Ophir began his studies at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, and has served as a senior lecturer at the Bezalel Academy and at Shenkar, Multidisciplinary School of Art. Ophir first gained recognition for his conceptual photography, examining urban landscapes and the traces left by human activity. In his long-term project Necropolis, he focused on military landscapes and the enduring presence of militarized structures embedded in the terrain. In recent years, his practice has shifted toward a studio-based process combining photography with material experimentation. Through layering, staining, erasure, and reconstruction, he forms images that carry the marks of time, intervention, and transformation. The works presented here belong to this latter body, in which images emerge through a sequence of decisions until the surface reaches clarity and presence.

Zemer Peled b. 1983 is an Israeli artist whose sculptural practice explores the beauty and brutality of the natural world through the language of porcelain. Trained at Bezalel and the Royal College of Art in London, Peled's work examines the tension between the sublime and the violent—the transformation of shattered material into renewed, living structure. Inspired by natural forms and landscapes, Peled’s sculptures and installations recall the resilience of nature and the complex beauty of survival. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including in the permanent collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Massachusetts), Crocker Art Museum (California), and the Fuller Craft Museum (Massachusetts). Her sculptures are represented in major public and private collections in the United States, Europe, and Asia. After spending over 12 years abroad, in 2024, she returned to Israel, where she continues to expand the expressive potential of porcelain through experimental forms that merge craft, sculpture, and natural history.

Eli Petel (Eliyahu Fatal) (b.Jerusalem, 1974) is an artist whose practice spans multiple media, with a particular focus on painting and installation. Petel's work explores the perception of the image and the influence of political and social contexts on the ways images are understood and interpreted. His works have been exhibited in both major and peripheral venues in Israel and internationally.

Adam Rabinowitz was born in Hadera, Israel, and lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. He received his BFA at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem (1998). His work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including: Gonggong, Oolong Gallery, New York (2026; Show Me the Way, CCA Tel Aviv Yafo (2025); Sun Shark, Har-El Gallery, Tel Aviv (2025); The Outer Planets, The Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles (2025); Baby Comet; The Finley, Los Angeles (2024); Knust Kunz Gallery, Munich (2022); Previously Wet Paintings, BOZOMAG, Los Angeles (2022); Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp (2022); Hello Earth, BOZOMAG, Los Angeles (2019); Sea of Holes, Aspis, Jaffa (2018); Mothership, ACE Gallery, Los Angeles (2017); Forde, Geneva (2009); Tardemon, Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2006); Dimyon Hofshi, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv (2003); Eshet, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (2000); Mary Faouzi Gallery, Jaffa (1999). Among his many group exhibitions are: The Autonomous Art Biennale, Tel Aviv (2025); Earthsea, MoBY, Museums of Bat Yam (2025); Helmut, 3426 Art Foundation, Tel Aviv (2025); Holywood Dream Bubble: Ed Ruscha’s Influence in Los Angeles and Beyond, The Hole, Los Angeles (224); Into The Unknown, Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2024); Ghost Ship, Massey Klein Gallery, New York (2024); Yesterday Now Tomorrow, Chauffer, Sydney (2023); Cool School (Trane of Thought), Oolong Gallery, San Diego; A Loop, Triangle & Trapezoid, BOZOMAG, Pasadena (2022); Hoshen, MoBY: Museums of Bat Yam (2022); Netherworld, Sotheby’s Gallery, Tel Aviv (2022); A New Age: The Spiritual in Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2019); Mountain Energei, Har-El Gallery, Tel Aviv (2018); Inside the Distance, Sabine Knust Gallery, Munich (2017); Same Same But Different - Works from the Ha’aretz Collection, Minus1 Gallery, Tel Aviv (2017); The Second Strike, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (2011); Real Time: Art in Israel 1998-2008, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2008); Penal Colony, Ein-Harod Museum of Art (2008); The Line of Time and the Plane of Now, Harris-Lieberman Gallery, New York (2007); Orthodox Tune, Brun, Düsseldorf (2007); Mini Israel, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2006); Transfer 6, Kunstmuseum Bonn; Haus Lange/Haus Esters Museum, Krefeld (2003); 1st International Art Biennial of Buenos Aires, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires (2000); Republic of Art - Art and Artists from Israel and Palestine, Palazio delle Papesse, Siena (2000). His work is featured in prominent public and private collections such as: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Haifa Museum of Art; Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art; Ein-Harod Museum of Art; Haaretz Art Collection; Shpilman Institute of Photography, Tel Aviv.

Gideon Rubin (1973, Israel), is a painter whose work explores memory, history and identity. His work often draws on photographic sources, anonymous images and found or personal imagery, capturing fragmented moments that encourage reflection. Rubin has exhibited internationally, most recently: ‘there are ways out.’ at Galerie Karsten Greve, St Moritz (2026) and ‘Seeds of Hate and Hope’ at the Sainsbury Centre (2025). Notable exhibitions include: ‘Living Memory’ at All Saint’s Chapel with Louise Bourgeois, Nicolas Godin, (2023), and Black Book at the Freud Museum, London (2018). His paintings are held in public collections worldwide, including: Collezione Maramotti, Italy; Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany; Museum Voorlinden Collection; The Netherlands. His second monograph, ‘Look Again’ published by Anomie Publishing in 2023, featured essays by Jennifer Higgie, Dr. Matthew Holman, and conversation with artist Varda Caivano. He received his BFA from the SVA, New York, and MFA from the Slade School, London.

Karen Russo (b. 1974, Tel-Aviv) is an artist based in London. Russo’s work uses document and narrative in an exploration of how knowledge, perception, and culture intertwine the rational with the obscure. By tracing marginalized practices, obscure phenomena and esoteric forms of knowledge she addresses the legacy of transgressive means for understanding the unseen and the unknown. Russo’s work has been exhibited in venues including Barbican Centre; Hayward Gallery; Tate Modern; Towner Eastbourne; Delfina; Kino Kino Centre for Contemporary Art, Sandnes; Busan Biennial; Große Kunstschau Museum, Worpswede; Haus der Kulturen Der Welt, HKW Berlin; Krefeld Museum, Krefeld; Tel-Aviv Museum, Tel-Aviv; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; CCA Tel-Aviv, Hertzliya Museum, Petach-Tikva Museum and more. Her films have been screened in festivals such as Oberhausen, Ann Arbor, EMAF, Uppsala, Kassell to name a few. Recent awards include: Lawrence Kasdan Award for Best Narrative Film, Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2025; Special Mention Award, Oberhausen Film Festival, 2021; Ostrovsky Family Award for Best Experimental Film, Jerusalem Film Festival, 2021, Award for an Established Video Artist, Ministry of Culture, 2018; She is a Film London Jarman Award Nominee, 2023.

About Yehudit Sasportas Yehudit Sasportas (born 1969, Ashdod, Israel) is among the most prominent and influential artists in contemporary Israeli art, and one of the creators whose artistic language has gained broad international recognition. Her practice is multidisciplinary, integrating sculpture, drawing, installations, video, and sound. Sasportas creates experiential and complex environments that respond directly to the architecture in which they are situated. At the core of her artistic practice lies an ongoing contemplation of the unseen—unconscious materials, quiet processes, and concealed energies—that connect the tangible with the metaphysical, enabling the viewer to delve into hidden layers of perception and awareness and to experience an intense and total sensory encounter. Education and Academic Path Sasportas is a graduate of the Department of Art at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, where she completed her BFA studies in 1993, including a semester at Cooper Union in New York, and her MFA studies in 1999. Professor Sasportas is a senior lecturer in the Department of Art at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, teaching in both the MFA and BFA programs. She hasbeen engaged in teaching at Bezalel and additional institutions since 1994. Professional Career The artistic development of Sasportas is reflected in a rich sequence of solo exhibitions in leading museums and exhibition spaces in Israel and internationally. Among her exhibitions are: The Time Dwellers (Arter, Istanbul, 2022); The Archeology of the Unseen (Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Germany, 2021); RIFTS OF ABSENCE (Villa Schöningen, Potsdam, 2017); Vertical Swamps HAMAKOM (Bo Bjerggaard Gallery, Copenhagen, 2016); Vertical Swamp Raw Material (Eigen + Art Gallery, Berlin, 2015); Seven Winters The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 2013); The Clearing of the Unseen (DA2 Domus Atrium, Spain, 2009); The Laboratory (Braunschweig, Germany, 2008); The Guardians of the Threshold (The Israeli Pavilion, the 52nd Venice Biennale, 2007); The Cave Light (Leonhardi Museum, Dresden, 2005); By the River, Matrix 200 (Berkeley Art Museum, San Francisco, 2002); The Carpenter and the Seamstress (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, 2000). Alongside her solo exhibitions, Sasportas regularly participates in major group exhibitions that position her work within broader discussions of culture, memory, and space. Amng her recent exhibitions are Pendulum Swing: Israeli Art (The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 2025); I Don’t Want to Forget (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, 2024); Backstage (Museum Tal, Engelberg, 2024); Home is Where You Are Happy (Haus Mödrath, Kerpen, 2023); By the Sea (Wilhelmshaven, 2021); Sculpture & Nature (Schloss Schwante, Oberkrämer, Germany, 2020); Illuminations (Russia, 2019); Shades of Black and White (Bo Bjerggaard Gallery, Copenhagen, 2014). Earlier exhibitions—including the International Istanbul Biennial (1999) and presentations in leading museums throughout Europe and the Unitd States—demonstrate the depth of sustained international interest in her artistic language. Awards and Grants Over the years, Sasportas has received wide recognition through awards, fellowships, and residencies. Among her most recent awards are the Zila Yaron Prize (2024) and the Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art (2024). She has received grants and fellowships from the Independent Creators Fund, the Ministry of Culture and Sport (2022), a grant for the production of a new artwork from Mifal HaPais, and support for the encouragement of artistic creation in the visual arts from the Ministry o Culture and Sport. Notable residencies include Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin (2004) and the Binz Foundation in Switzerland (2003). Early awards such as the Gottesdiener Prize (1999), the Ingeborg Bachmann Fellowship established by Anselm Kiefer through the Wolf Foundation (1996), and many others mark the consistent and significant path through which she has developed her artistic language. Over more than three decades of artistic practice, Yehudit Sasportas has been engaged in a compelling dialogue between subconscious, unspoken, and unseen life materials, in a manner through which these layers of information activate the visible, cognitive realm at the surface. Her works—installations, drawings, and films—constitute an ongoing investigation into the hidden forces that shape human perception. She continues to work and exhibit in Israel and internationally, maintaining her position as a central and influential figure in contemporary art discourse.

Born in Japan and based in London / Kanazawa, he creates spatial and temporal installations using mixed media, primarily moving images, alongside installation, drawing, and sculpture. His work explores the oscillation between personal and collective memory, drawing out a quiet sense of universality, fragility, and nostalgia — an emotional terrain shaped by time and remembrance. His works are held in the public collections of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, US; the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, AU; the National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan; and the Hayward Gallery, London, UK, among others.

Elie Shamir (b. 1953, Kfar Yehoshua, Israel) A graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, Shamir returned to his birthplace of Kfar Yehoshua in 1999 as the third generation of the village's founders. The issue of place runs through his work with great force, the tangled relationship between the Jew and the land, the farmer and his field, the immigrant and the native-born. His paintings are rooted in the geological strata of the Jezreel Valley, layered with biblical past, Zionist history, and personal family memory.

Dina Shenhav Born in Jerusalem, 1968, lives and works in Tel Aviv. Shenhav is an installation artist dealing with questions about issues related to politics, society, history, archeology and the complex relationship between man and nature. Working in large-scale installations, video, photography, and painting, she earned her BFA from Hamidrasha School of Art and her MFA in Haifa University. She has exhibited in over 20 solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions worldwide, among them: Arte Laguna, Arsenal of Venice; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art; Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Middle East Center for the Arts (MECA), Jersey City; Art in General, New York; and Goethe-Institute, St. Petersburg

Born Netanya, Israel, 1974; Lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel. Graduate of the Art Department, Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl Academic College, Israel. Tal Shochat works in photography, staging both figures and objects to create symbolically-laden images that often question the boundary between nature and artifice. Shochat "stages" her trees, which undergo a process that prepares them to be objectified by her lens. At times the background is black; in another case, in an equally beautiful photograph, the background is a rug of the type sometimes called "Persian." The photographs of the trees—whether pomegranate, olive, palm, plum, orapple—avoid the ideological groundwork enforced by Israeli culture on those who wish to observe them. Visually speaking, Shochat's trees detach themselves from it completely, and the viewer faces the tree when everything not beautiful has, ostensibly, been cut away. She has exhibited extensively in Israel and the US, with solo exhibitions at Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv (2017;2008; 2005; 2003); Petach Tikva Museum of Art (2017); the National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia (2012); Herzliya Museum of Art, Israel (2007); and Haifa Museum of Art, Israel (1999), among many other exhibitions at leading art spaces over the world. Shochat received in 2015 the Minister of Culture and Sport's Visual Art Award, and the Israeli Ministry of Education and Culture Prize for a Young Artist in 2005. Her works are included in many international collections, private and public: The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Haifa Museum of Art; The Doron Sebbag Art Collection, ORS Ltd., Tel Aviv; The Shpilman Institute of Photography, Tel Aviv; Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, California.

Guy Shoham (b. 1971, Tel Aviv) is a London-based painter whose practice examines the intersection of beauty and temptation, and the tensions between high and low art, between abstraction and realism. His work interrogates the persistent dichotomy of kitsch and modernism and reframes the craft of painting as a site for critical inquiry. Guy is represented by Keren Bar Gil Gallery, where he had a solo show in April 2025.

Lior Tamim is a project-based artist working with sculpture, sound, installation, video, and site-specific projects. Tamim's work has been exhibited at the 7th Biennale for Drawing in Israel, Givon Art Gallery and Givon Art Forum, Bezalel Gallery of Contemporary Art, Suzanne Dellal Center for Dance and Theater, the Academiae Biennial in Italy, and the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, among other venues. He has participated in residency programs at Triangle Arts Association, New York (2015), and Praksis Oslo (2021). Recent exhibitions include the OSTRALE Biennale O25 in Dresden and the Petah Tikva Museum of Art. Tamim is the recipient of the Makov Prize (2023), the Mifal HaPais Award for the exhibition Aliya at Kibbutzim College (2023), and a grant from the Rabinovich Foundation for the production of a new artwork (2023). He received the Rose Biller Award (2015), the William Randolph Hearst Scholarship (2014), the Tischman Prize (2014), and multiple merit scholarships from Parsons School of Design and Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. Tamim received a BFA in Photography from Parsons School of Design (2015) and an MFA from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (2019).

Daniel Tchetchik is an artist, a staff photographer and the chief editor of the photography blog at Haaretz Newspaper. He divides his time between artistic projects and documentary assignments; often, each approach inspires the other. He has exhibited in leading museums and galleries in Israel and on international platforms in NYC, Kassel, San Francisco, Sweden, Berlin, Hamburg, Bulgaria, and India. His works are part of the collections of the Tel Aviv Museum, the Ramat Gan Museum, The Peter Blum Gallery, Hotel Montefiore, The Umm El Fahem Gallery, the Museum for Sepulkralkultur, The Marc Rich Foundation, The French Institute, as well as several private collections. His editorial work has been published on prominent platforms such as The Financial Times, The Süddeutsche Zeitung, The New Yorker, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Haaretz Newspaper and more. Artist Statement: Through his practice, photography, Tchetchik investigates his natural surroundings. It is a search for visual descriptions and reflections of a contemporary emotion in the landscape and people. Tchetchik’s works carry a powerful, overwhelming sense of impending, imminent danger. There is an on-going interplay between light and dark, destruction and rebirth, harsh and tender. The images themselves are immersive, engaging and singularly powerful. From the breathtaking, somewhat mysterious landscapes, to the sparkling of light on the swirling clouds, an eerie scene of a fairground ride or the magically glowing tree of light - all seeking a deeper understanding of the world, all somewhat removed from specific time or place. Revealing a collective unconscious is the force that leads his vision.

Naama Tsabar’s practice fuses elements from sculpture, music, performance and architecture. Her interactive works expose hidden spaces and systems, reconceive gendered narratives, and shift the viewing experience to one of active participation. Tsabar draws attention to the muted and unseen by propagating sound through space and sculptural form. Between sculpture and instrument, form and sound, Tsabar’s work lingers on the intimate, sensual and corporeal potentials within this transitional state. Collaborating with local communities of female identifying and gender non-conforming performers, Tsabar writes a new feminist and queer history of fluency. Tsabar’s work was presented in institutions internationally, among them the The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), MoMA PS1 (New York), The Bass Museum (Miami), SFMoMA (San Francisco), Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Tel Aviv), The Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (Herziliya) and the Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart (Berlin). Naama Tsabar (b. 1982, Israel) lives and works in New York. She received her MFA from Columbia University in 2010 and her B.Ed.FA from Hamidrasha at Beit Berl. Solo exhibitions and performances of Tsabar have been presented at the Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart (Berlin), Astrup Fearnley Museet (Oslo), Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (Connecticut), CAC (New Orleans), The Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh), The Bass Museum (Miami), Kinosaito Arts Center (New York), Nasher Museum (North Carolina), CCA (Tel Aviv), Faena Art Center (Buenos Aires), Kunsthuas Baselland (Basel), the Museum of Art and Design (New York), Palais De Tokyo (Paris), The High Line (New York), The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Tel Aviv), The Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (Herziliya). Selected group exhibitions featuring Tsabar’s work include the MCA Denver, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Centre Pompidou (Shanghai), Seattle Art Museum, Smart Museum of Art (Chicago), The Moody Center for the Arts (Houston), Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art (Ramat Gan), The Jewish Museum of Belgium (Brussels), Bat Yam Museum of Art (Bat Yam), Ballroom Marfa (Texas), Schirn Kunsthalle (Frankfurt), Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens (Sint-Martens-Latem), Hessel Museum of Art at CCS Bard (New York), Haifa Museum of Art (Haifa), MoMA PS1 (New York), Tsabar’s work has been featured in publications including ArtForum, Art In America, ArtReview, ARTnews, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Frieze, Bomb Magazine, Art Asia Pacific, Wire, and Whitewall, among others. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, A4 Arts Foundation, Centre Pompidou, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Seattle Art Museum, Pérez Art Museum Miami, The Bass Museum, Norton Museum of Art, Kadist Collection, Jimenez-Colón Collection, Tel Aviv Museum, Israel Museum, and Coleccion Dieresis.

Micha Ullman

Curriculum Vitae GAL WEINSTEIN b. 1970, Ramat Gan lives and works in Tel Aviv Education 1993-1997 BFA, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem Selected Solo Exhibitions 2024 Sanding, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv 2019 Echo, Riccardo Crespi Gallery, Milan, Italy 2017 Sun Stand Still, The Israeli Pavilion at the 57th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy 2016 Backwards, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv 2015 Light holes, Plutschow Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland 2014 Rust and Fire, Keitelman Gallery, Brussels, Belgium; Solar, Riccardo Crespi Gallery, Milan, Italy 2013 Seeing stars, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv 2011 Demonstrating Presence, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland; Details, Keitelman Gallery, Brussels, Belgium 2010 Beside, Each, Other, Riccardo Crespi Gallery, Milan, Italy 2008 Site-Seeing, The University Gallery, Haifa 2007 Tremors, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Selected Group Exhibitions 2024 Three Degrees of Sea, Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland 2023 Hic Nunc, Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo, Brazil 2022 The Garden, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv 2021 Caution: Live Wires, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem 2020 ISRAEL-ITALY CULTURAL AGREEMENT, Riccardo Crespi Gallery, Milan, Italy 2019 Dead Nature: Notes on the Contemporary Vanitas, Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Brazil 2018 How Much is Enough, Museum for Art and Cultural History, Dortmund, Germany 2017 Material World, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland 2015 Promised Lands, Hebrew Union College, New York 2014 Contemporary Art in Israel, Sao Paulo Museum of Modern Art, Brazil Awards and Grants 2001 Ministry of Education and Culture Grant 1999 Artist-Teacher Fellowship, Israeli Ministry of Education and Culture 1998 Young Artists' Award, Israeli Ministry of Education and Culture Collections Tel Aviv Museum of Art; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Petach Tikvah Museum of Art; Haifa Museum of Art; British Museum, London; MAXXI, Rome; Bank Hapoalim; First International Bank of Israel; Huarte Contemporary Art Center, Pamplona

Mirit Weinstock is an artist and designer based in Paris. Working across visual art, ceramics, Ikebana, jewelry, and craft, her practice unfolds as a poetic dialogue between material, nature, and personal experience. Weinstock holds a BA in Fashion Design from Shenkar College (2002) and an MFA from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (2013). Early in her career, she worked with Alexander McQueen in London and Alber Elbaz at Lanvin in Paris. In 2010, she launched Mirit Weinstock Jewelry, first presented at the legendary Colette boutique in Paris, where her work was recognized for its strong craft-based language and emotional clarity. In 2012, she received the Vogue Talents Award. Between 2019 and 2025, Weinstock lived in Japan, where a profound artistic transformation took place. Immersing herself in traditional Japanese culture, she studied Ikebana at the Ikenobo Foundation, earning a Master Instructor certification. Through Ikebana, she developed a sensitivity to restraint, movement, and the expressive power of a single gesture—an approach that became central to her artistic voice. Parallel to this, she deepened her engagement with ceramics through residencies at Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park (2023) and Arita, Kyushu (2025), working with local porcelain, historical molds, and traditional techniques. During this period, ceramics became a core medium in her practice, translating the intimacy and temporality of Ikebana into sculptural form. Her recent exhibitions include Ceramics (Shigaraki Ceramic Park Gallery, 2023), participation in the Ikenobo Annual Exhibition (Tokyo, 2022), her first museum solo exhibition My Life in Flowers (MUZA – Eretz Israel Museum, 2025), London Craft Week (2025), where she received the Soul Craft Award, and the solo exhibition Never Is A Long Time at Chelouche Gallery, Tel-Aviv (2025). Weinstock’s work reflects an exploration of femininity, fragility, memory, and the quiet spaces where nature and human emotion meet.

Pavel Wolberg (born 1966 in Leningrad,[St Petersburg,Russia] USSR) is a visual artist and a former photojournalist living in Tel Aviv. Major museum solo exhibitions; include;,CCA TEL AVIV Goch Kunstmuseum, Goch, Germany, Bochum Kunstmuseum, Bochum,Germany Gemak Museum, Hag, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester New York, Ashdod Art Museum and Herzliya Museum of Art Beer Sheva museum of art and Haifa museum of art among others. group exhibitions at institutions such as the 52 Venice Biennale, the Martin-Gropius-Bau, KIM-Kunst Im Tunnel, Düsseldorf, La collection Antoine de Galbert, La Maison Rouge, Paris, Jewish Museum, Amsterdam , Passage de Retz, Paris, Krefeld Museum, Exit Art, New York / Mystetskyi Arsenal National Art and Culture Museum, Kiev, Ukraine, OCAT, Shanghai, China, ArtLab, Lausanne, Switzerland,Camera, Italian Centre for Photography, Turin, Italy,,Museum of Modern Art, Mexico, Mexico, Mouravieff-Apostol House & Museum, Moscow, Russia, House of Economy, Stuttgart, Germany Art. LUMA Westbau, Zurich, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK SELECTED COLLECTIONS Fond National d'Art Contemporain, France,The Israel Museum, Jerusalem,The Jewish Museum, NYC,Kadist foundation, San Francisco, Paris,La Maison Rouge, Fondation A. de Galbert, Paris,Lac Collection, Geneva,Marcel Brient collection, Paris,Neufite Vie collection, Paris,The Phoenix collection of Art, Tel Aviv,Sherman Collection, Sidney,Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv,Private Collections AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS 2017 Prix Pictet (shortlist,) 2011 Sony World Photography Awards , 2006 Artist's special residency – La Mairie de Paris, 2005 Leon Constantiner Prize for Israeli Photography, 2003 America Israel Cultural Foundation Prize, 2002 Ministry of Science, Culture and the Sports Prize, 1997 The Gérard Lévy Prize for a Young Photographer, 1994-5 America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship

Lee Yanor (b. 1963, Haifa) is an Israeli artist living and working in Tel Aviv. Trained in photography at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem and at Pratt Institute in New York, she later received her MFA from Université Paris 8. Yanor’s practice moves between photography, video, and installation, exploring the fragile territory between the body and memory. Through layered visual languages—emulsions on canvas, translucent voile prints, holograms, and multichannel video—her works construct immersive environments in which images appear, dissolve, and re-emerge. Her work has been presented internationally, including at the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Taipei Fine Arts Museum; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; the Tony Cragg Foundation, Wuppertal; and the Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv. She is the recipient of the Leon Constantiner Photography Award (Tel Aviv Museum of Art) and the Coreografo Elettronica Prize (MADRE Museum, Naples, Italy).

Shai Yehezkelli​ was born in Jerusalem (1979), and earned his BFA ​Degree with Highest Honor (”Summa Cum Laude”)​ from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Jerusalem (2006), and his MFA from the Bezalel Academy, Tel Aviv (2010). He was awarded The Rappaport prize for a young artist (2015), the “Bank Leumi Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievements” and the "Arieli" prize in 2006 and received a grant from The Israeli lottery Culture-Council in 2014. Yehezkelli has exhibited solo shows and has been in group shows in US, UK, Germany, Denmark and in Israel

Dana Yoeli (b. 1979, United States) is a Tel Aviv-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice encompasses large scale installations, video, Ceramics, drawing, and sculpture. Her work explores the tension between personal narrative and collective ethos, examining the roles that nostalgia, memory, and commemorative ceremonies play in shaping these relationships. In recent years, Yoeli has shifted her focus from collective memory - comprising a cohesive ethos - to the fragmented, specific stories found in personal, often overlooked images and untold narratives. Yoeli holds a BFA and MFA from Bezalel Academy of Art, Jerusalem. Her work has been exhibited in leading galleries and museums throughout Israel and Europe, and she is the recipient of numerous grants, awards, and fellowships. Her works are held in private and public collections in Israel and internationally.

Yaara Zach (b. 1984) lives and works in Tel Aviv. A multidisciplinary artist, Zach has been a lecturer at Shenkar College since 2017 and has been represented by Givon Art Gallery since 2018. She holds an MFA from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (2011). Zach is the recipient of the 2022 Ann and Ari Rosenblatt Prize for Visual Art and has received support from institutions including Artport, Artis, Asylum Arts, Outset, Mifal HaPayis, and the Rabinovich Foundation. Her work has been exhibited extensively at venues such as the Moscow Biennale for Young Art, the Brno House of Arts (Czech Republic), the Berardo Collection Museum (Lisbon), the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and the Israel Museum. Among her notable projects are the solo exhibition Metal Tongue (2025) at the Bezalel Gallery; The First Year (2023), presented at CCA Tel Aviv-Yafo and Artwall Gallery (Prague); and the solo show Unreasonable Doubt at the Petach Tikva Museum of Art. Her work is held in prestigious collections including the Israel Museum, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the POC Brussels Art Collection, and the Ahuvi Art Collection. Operating at the intersection of sculpture, installation, and performance, Zach’s practice utilizes a diverse range of materials - from industrial metal to organic matter. Through these, she examines the relationship between the physical body and both private and collective narratives, exploring the tensions between the individual and the group. Her practice often exposes underlying power dynamics through heavy, loaded materiality and site-specific interventions.

Guy Zagursky is a Tel Aviv based artist born in 1972. He holds an MFA from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, and a B.Ed. from Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl College. Zagursky has presented solo exhibitions at institutions and galleries in Israel, Europe and the US. among his solo shows are: at the Ashdod Art Museum, Sommer Contemporary Art, Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, Tache Levy Gallery in Brussels, The Herzliya Museum of Art and more. His work has also been shown in major group exhibitions at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, the Bass Museum in Miami, MACRO in Rome. He has participated in international residency and scholarship programs including Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin and The Fountainhead Residency in Miami.

Shay Zilberman is an Israeli collage artist. He lives and works in Jaffa. He acquired his BFA from Beaux-Arts de Paris (with honors), and in 2003 he studied fashion design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. Between 2020 and 2022, he was a fellow at Alma, Home for Hebrew Culture in Tel Aviv. In 2024 Zilberman was the recipient of Idud Hayetzira Prize – israeli ministry of culture and sport, In 2021, the Ann and Ari Rosenblatt Prize for Visual Art in Israel, and in 2022, he received the Alima Prize for the Art of Printmaking in Israel. During the past decade and a half, Zilberman has adopted photography-based handmade collage and printmaking as his main practice. This involves a complex set of strategies, beginning with the search for raw visual materials, hunting for and browsing through albums, photo-books, magazines, and catalogs. All of these publications, although varied in scope, aesthetics, and content, reflect fragments of eclectic visual culture and how it has shaped itself, its desires, and interests through popular travel journeys, leisure, botany, science, how-to literature, and more. By using this pool of print materials, Zilberman creates an alternative imaginary of local histories and aspirations, an encounter between the personal and collective, the nostalgic and contemporary. Zilberman’s work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Israel and abroad. Selected solo exhibitions include The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv University, Petach Tikva Museum of Arts; Tel Aviv Artists’ House; Inga Gallery, Tel Aviv; Wilfrid Israel Museum of Asian Art and Studies, HaZore'a; and Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art. In addition, Zilberman has participated in dual and group exhibitions, including Petach Tikva Museum of Arts; Artists’ Studios, Jerusalem; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; PCG galleries, Providence, RI; Haifa Museum of Art; Tel Aviv Museum of Art; and Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv. His works are in the collections of the Israel Museum, the Tel Aviv Museum, Petach Tikva Museum of Arts, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, The Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod, and private collections in Israel and abroad.

Ayelet Zohar is a transdisciplinary artist, working in painting, photography and installation art. Zohar is a graduate of the Midrasha Art School, has an MFA from the Central Academy of Fine Art (CAFA) in Beijing, and a PhD from the Slade School of Fine Art in London. Zohar exhibited her works in numerous venues, including London, New York, Tokyo, Beijing and Israel. In 2025 Zohar received the Outset Prize for her installation project From Water Tower to Lighthouse: When it Rains, it Pours, installed at the Qiryat Tivon Water Tower Art Gallery. Zohar's works are in Haaretz Art Collection, Tel Aviv; Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan; The Fan Museum, London; and many private collections around the world.

Lives and works in Tel Aviv-Jaffa