Dor Zelkha Levi, head of the New-Media Art Department

Ayala Landow

Multidisciplinary plastic artist, born in Israel in 1982. Holds a BFA (2008) and MFA (2010) in Art from the Bezalel Academy of Art. An active artist, she creates in sculpture, painting, and installation. For the past decade she has been involved in art education and teaching. Other than her artistic practice, Landow collaborates in artistic interdisciplinary projects and is a member of various art communities. Over the past decade, she has presented a variety of solo exhibitions, curated several exhibitions, and participated in many group exhibitions in galleries and museums in Israel and around the world, including at the Israel Museum, Bat Yam Museum, Neues Museum Weimar, Center of Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv, HaKibbutz Gallery in Tel Aviv, Line 16 Gallery in Tel Aviv, and C1 Berlin Gallery. Landow has won a support grant for the project “Asylum Arts”, New York (2016, 2018), as well as the Bezalel Academy of Art Award for Encouraging Creativity (2010).

Ruti De Vries

Lives and works in Tel Aviv. Holds an MFA from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design (2015), and a B.Ed in Art and Education from the Midrasha for Art, Beit Berl (2012). Has had solo exhibitions at the Artists Residence Herzliya, HaKibbutz Gallery Tel Aviv, Sha’ar HaAmakim Gallery, Pram Gallery in Prague (forthcoming), La Cité Artists Residence in Paris and Schimmel Projects Art Center in Dresden. She has participated in group exhibitions at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Bat Yam Museum, Janco-Dada Museum in Ein Hod, Petah Tikva Museum, the Sixth Drawing Biennale in Jerusalem, the Krakow-Warsaw Art Week, and others. Laurate of the 2016 Ministery of Science, Culture and Sport Young Artist Prize, has received grants from the Rabinovich Foundation of Art and Mifal HaPais; participated in the La Cité Artists Residency Program, Paris, and in the artist support programs of Artis, Asylum and Artport. Lecturer at Minshar, Musrara and centers for gifted pupils.

Ori Drumer

Autodidact, active artist in the fields of plastic art and computers, musician (Duralex Sedlex), writes in various frameworks. Wrote the book My Skin, which he later adapted into a play that won first place in the Acco Festival of Alternative Israeli Theatre (2002).
www.oridrumer.com

Roi Carmeli

Born in Tel Aviv in 1982. Holds a BFA from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design (2010) and an MFA from the Glasgow School of Art (2015). Teaches Art at the New-Media Art Department at Musrara and the Art Department at Shenkar. Student exchange at the California College of Art (2008). Artist residencies at Corning Scottish Sculpture Workshop, UK (2016), Museum for Glass, NY (2012), Tenjiamyama Art Studio, JP (2018), Creative Lab Residency, CCA, UK (2020), among others. Selected solo/group exhibitions: “The Shop” (2011); “Tenants Meeting”, Line 16 Gallery (2013); “Don’t Forget to Bring Me Back”, Project Room, Glasgow (2017); “Hibernation”, Tenjin-Yama Art Centre, Sapporo, Japan (2018); “The Advantages of Poisonous Plants”, Zaratan, Lisbon (2019). His works are among the collections of the Israel Museum and Mandel Foundation, as well as private collections in London, Tel Aviv, and Brussels. Has volunteered at Market Gallery in Glasgow as part of the administrative committee (2017-2018). Founder of Pka’at 2021, a residency exhibit space in Tel Aviv.

Dr. Irit Carmon Popper

Art curator, visual culture researcher and associate lecturer. She graduated with a BA in Philosophy and Art History, and an MA in Art History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Graduate of Museology Studies, Tel Aviv University Gallery, and holds a PhD from the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion IIT. She has won honors and excellency prizes for her PhD research, which combines contemporary art and heritage preservation in sites-in-conflict: Elhanani Prize (2017), Ben Halpern Award in Israel Studies (2019), the Bruno Zevi Foundation Rome Award (2020), and others. Her research is published in scientific journals, and she participates in many national and international conferences. She is a member of OCOMUS Israel and the Women Historians’ Forum and is currently researching as part of the Built Heritage Research Center in the Technion. Her curatorial projects include exhibitions in various spaces, institutional and alternative. She has worked as a curator in various Israeli museums, including the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Petah Tikva Museum of Art, Israel Foreign Affairs Ministry – curator of the Israeli embassy in Paris, Installation Stage – Dan Zakhem Miklat 209 in Tel Aviv, and the Umm al-Fahm Art Gallery. Her exhibitions as a freelance curator were held in the Kupferman Collection House, Kibbutz Lohamei Hagetaot; Hachava Gallery for Interdisciplinary Ecological Art in Holon; Binyamin Gallery, Tel Aviv; Indie Communal Photography Gallery, Tel Aviv; Arad Contemporary Art Center; IKONA Gallery of Photography, Venice, Italy; art events in public spaces; Mix-Art Festival in Bamoshava Park in Rishon LeZion; Musrara Mix Festival in Jerusalem; and the Social Bauhaus events in Haifa. She is a lecturer of history and theory of art, design, architecture, and curation in various academic institutions, including Musrara Interdisciplinary School of Art and Society in Jerusalem, Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning of the Technion, and the Art History Department in Haifa University. A former lecturer at the Camera Obscura School of Photography and Kibbutzim College in Tel Aviv.

David Rafael Lockard

Director of the JerusaLab workshop – Musrara’s interactive workshop, and craft and programming lecturer. Jerusalem-based teaching designer with a background in art and journalism, researching ways to make technology accessible through creativity. Holds an MA from the ITP program for interactive communication, University of New York, where he was also a research fellow and founded the departmental academic journal Adjacent. Worked for several years in development of techno-pedagogic content for the Jerusalem Education Administration. Lockard has recently presented projects on learning and technology at the Bezalel Center of Teaching Development and at the Bauhaus Institute in Dessau, Germany. Member of Beit Hagat collective for inter-cultural dialogue, where he founded an artists hub. Teaches product design and modeling at the Hadassah Ein Karem School.

Kineret Haya Max

Artist, graduate of the School for Visual Theatre, currently finishing her MFA at Bezalel. Lecturer, holds performance workshops in Israel and around the world. Her works accommodate the time and place and are distinguished by simple depiction of complex imagery. Has presented in museums and art spaces around the world, including Galeria Labirynt Lublin, BOLIT Gallery in Girona, BACC Bangkok, Haifa Museum, Islam Museum in Jerusalem, HIAP Gallery Helsinki, Performance Conference 0:2, The Power of Words Festival, annual performance stage (since 2008) at the ZAZ festival, and more. Laurate of the Jerusalem Fund Award for Encouraging Creativity and the America-Israel Culture Foundation scholarship. Recipient of an excellence prize from the School for Visual Theatre.

Arik Futterman

Filmer and video editor, video artist, live video, and mapping. Born in Jerusalem in 1982. Graduated with honors from the Media Department, Musrara School, Jerusalem (2009). Has presented his video works in a number of exhibitions in Israel and around the world, including at the Futer en Seine in Paris, Matadero in Madrid, and the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow. Member of the Jerusalemite artists’ collective No Coast, which provides a platform for freelance audio-video artists in Jerusalem. Intensively documents the City of Jerusalem in video.

Asaf Alboher

Graduate of the Photography Department of the Musrara School of Art and Society in Jerusalem; holds a BA in philosophy and cinema from Tel Aviv University. Teaches photography in various contexts and to various audiences across Israel. Specializes in teaching studio photography and technological and digital basics alongside alternative methods of optics, print and analogical lab work. Accompanies curative processes ahead of group exhibitions, and deals with commercial photography of architecture, portraits and products.

Dorian Gottlieb

Multidisciplinary artist focusing on photography, graduated with honors from the Department of Photography, Bezalel (2012) and MFA graduate, Bezalel (2016). Photography lecturer at the Musrara School of Photography, Jerusalem. His works have been exhibited, among other places, in the Herzliya Museum, Photography Museum in Tel Hai, Gutman Museum, Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv, Rosenfeld Gallery, Barbur Gallery, the International Photography Museum, and more. He has won many prizes and honors, including summa cum laude in the Department of History and Theory, Bezalel; the Loren and Mitchell Perser Award for Excellence in Photography (2012), Bezalel; cum laude in the Department of Photography 2011, Bezalel. His works are among the collections of the Herzliya Museum, Nachum Gutman Museum, Igal Ahouvi, Serge Tiroche, Gideon Ofrat / Levin Collection, Mandel Institute, and others.

Ayelet HaShachar Cohen

Multidisciplinary artist – writer – teacher – art project producer – creators’ guide | graduate of Hamidrasha – Faculty of Arts in Ramat Hasharon (1990) | teaches in the Photography and Phototherapy Departments at the Musrara School and in the Phototherapy Program at Tel Aviv University | director of the art gallery of the Musrara School, and guide of the Mandel Institute and Musrara School artists hub | former head of the Photography Department at the Musrara School (2008-2022) | curated the exhibition series First Friday for young artists at the Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art (2009-2016) | as an artist, she investigates private and public living environments and examines the boundary between the natural and the artificial, using photography practices, collage and writing, in connection to organic materials and in relation to exhibit spaces | participated in numerous group exhibitions and held 19 solo exhibitions, including in the Petah Tikva Museum of Art, Haifa Museum of Contemporary Art, Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art, Cabri Gallery, and Indie Gallery in Tel Aviv | laurate of the America-Israel Culture Foundation scholarship (1922 and 1995) and of the Minister of Science, Culture and Sport Prize for encouraging artists (2000) | has been awarded the Mifal HaPais and Tel Aviv Rabinovich Foundation (2015) grants | has published the artist’s book Facing the Sun | has been awarded the Mifal HaPais and Petah Tikva Museum of Art Greenhouse Grant (2022) | her works are among public collections such as the Israel Museum Collection in Jerusalem, Haifa Museum of Contemporary Art Collection, Ashdod Museum Collection, Discount Bank Photography Collection – and private collections in Israel and around the world.

Tali Ben Nun

Independent curator, active in the local art field since 2004. Holds a BA in the Department of Art History, Tel Aviv University, and graduate of the Culture, Curatorship and Critique Department, Camera Obscura School. Early in her career she directed and curated two contemporary art galleries (Braverman Gallery and Gallery 39), and since 2012 she works as an independent curator. Ben Nun has curated numerous solo and group exhibitions in commercial galleries, museums and non-profit spaces whose work brings together the private and the public. “An exhibition for me is a time-dependent ‘event’ bringing together space, image/object and observer.  I believe in research-based curatorship, dialogue and continuous work processes with artists”.

Yaacov Israel

Artist, freelance photographer, curator and photography lecturer in the Photography Department at Bezalel Academy of Art, Hadassah College, WIZO Haifa Academy of Design and Education, Musrara Multidisciplinary School and Sam Spiegel Film and Television School. Graduated with honors from the Department of Photography, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem (2002). Has presented in numerous exhibitions in Israel and around the world, including solo exhibitions in the Fifty One Fine Art Photography gallery, Antwerp; Margaret Street Gallery, London; Impressions Gallery, Bradford, United Kingdom; the Open Museum of Photography, Tel Hai; Haifa Museum of Art; Architect’s House Gallery, Jaffa; Jerusalem Artists’ House, and others. He has published two artist’s books, Legitimacy of Landscape (Germany: Verlag Kettler & The PhotoBook Museum, 2015) and The Quest for the Man on the White Donkey (Amsterdam: Schilt Publishing, 2012) – which was included in the Photo Eye website and PDN magazine lists of best photography books published in 2012. His books and exhibitions have been covered by the press and professional websites and magazines around the world, including in TIME LightBox and the BBC. His works are among public and private collections.

Michal BarOr

Artist and researcher working with photographs, institutions and collections. Heads the 40+ Program of the Photography Department at the Musrara School. BarOr completed her BA studies at Bezalel in 2008 and her MA studies at the Royal College of Art in London in 2013. She has presented several solo and collaboration-based exhibitions, including “Bite the Bullet” in the Meetfectory gallery in Prague (2019), “This is Not a Dream” at the Contemporary Art Museum in Tenerife (2018), “River” (mutual exhibition with Avshalom Suliman) at the Joint Gallery in Kabri (2018), “Looters” at the Center of Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv – which was accompanied by an artist’s book – (2017), “Abandoned Property” at the Dana Gallery on Kibbutz Yad Mordechai (2016), and “Predatory Birds, Song Birds” at the Petah Tikva Museum of Art (2015). BarOr has participated in many group exhibitions in Israel and around the world, including exhibitions at the Tel Aviv Museum, Narrative Project Gallery, London (2018), NURTUREart, New York (2017), and Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv (2016). In 2018 she participated in the artist residency program Meetfectory in Prague, and during 2015-2016 in the Artport Tel Aviv residency program. In 2016 she was awarded the Artis Scholarship for the Development of an Artistic Project, and in 2015 she won the Young Artist Prize.