Head of the Photography Department, Dafna Ichilov is an artist, curator and photography lecturer. Head of the department since 2022. In 1988 she received her BFA from the Department of Photography at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. 1998-1999: MFA from the Central Saint Martins College of Art in London. In 1992 she co-founded with the Limbus Group the Limbus – Place for Photography, a collective space run and curated by artists. During 1992-2006 she directed and curated the gallery. In the framework of her activity in the gallery, hundreds of group and solo exhibitions were held, as well as national and international collaborations, and for the first time, Israeli photography auctions took place. Meanwhile, she was also a member of the Limbus Group. Exhibitions of the group were held, and collaborative art activities and curative initiatives took place. In 2009 she initiated, curated and edited the book Limbus. Place. Photography – a book that is a multi-participant exhibition summarizing contemporary time, place and photography, offering a visual interpretation for local reality (Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing in collaboration with the Limbus Group). Laurate of the Gerard Levi Prize for Young Photographers (Israel Museum, 1994). Since 2003 she has been an freelance curator for various galleries, interactive spaces and public spaces. A lecturer in various photography and art schools since 1990. Since 2006 she has held various roles at the Musrara Multidisciplinary School of Art and Society in Jerusalem, including instructor and coordinator of the graduate programs, co-instructor and director of the Art for Social Change and Artists’ Hub for Social Change programs, supervisor and lecturer of creative processes in the Phototherapy Department. She has presented in solo and group exhibitions in Israel and around the world. Her works are among private and museum collections (Jewish Museum in New York; Science, Culture and Sport Ministry Collection; Bet Avi Chai Collection, Jerusalem). In the course of many years, as an artist and a curator, she has sought dialogue and collaboration in work processes, artistic projects, collaborative curation, and more. She has gained years-long professional experience as lecturer, diversified curator, and initiator of processes, empowerment and personal and group supervision of artists and students.

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.

Photographer and artist, studied photography and painting at Hamidrasha – Faculty of Arts in Ramat Hasharon. Selected exhibitions: “Antipathos”, Israel Museum; “The Range of Realism”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art; “90 70 90”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Laurate of the America-Israel Culture Foundation scholarship 1994-1995.

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 Mueum 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.

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.

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.

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.

Multidisciplinary artist working mostly in photography, video and installation. Lives and works in Tel Aviv. Graduated with honors from the Shenkar Multidisciplinary Art School and an MA student in the Interdisciplinary Program at Tel Aviv University. Member of the cooperative P8 Gallery, a writer and producer in the online art magazine Erev Rav, content and activity coordinator at Tel Aviv Culture Kiryat Hamelacha Center. Her works address cultural, historical and gender-related issues, and their roles in the structuring and expression of familial, historical and political narratives. In 2020 she held her first solo exhibition, “Big Hole in the Middle” (curator: Iris Pshedezki) in the P8 Gallery. In addition, she participated in two-person and group exhibitions in a number of public exhibit spaces, and curated several exhibitions and art events, including the projection series “Cinema P8” with Sally Krysztal.

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”.

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.

Interdisciplinary scholar and lecturer of the Humanities and Social Sciences. His formal higher education was acquired mostly in the Tel Aviv and Paris-1 Pantheon-Sorbonne Universities. Graduated with distinction from his BA studies in General History and Philosophy, Tel Aviv University. In 2016 he was invited for a scholar residency in the Philosophy Department of Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris. In 2015 he participated in the founding seminary of the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry, New School University, New York. Member of the Minerva Center for the Humanities, Tel Aviv University. Was awarded the 2017 Marcel Reich-Ranicki Prize for the Research of German Research, for his research proposal on the perception of otherness of Hegel and Levinas. Has published and assisted in the preparation of various translations from French. Published an article in the journal Zmanim (winter 2006) dealing with the work “The Rite of Spring”. High-school teacher of history and philosophy, lecturer in the Photography Department at Musrara School, former assistant in the Department of Philosophy, Tel Aviv University. Teaches philosophy also in independent frameworks. A member of the Israeli Seminar of Continental Philosophy. Graduate of the Classical Music Department at Telma Yalin High School, which included a final paper in philosophy. Continues to work in music and art in various forms.

Multidisciplinary artist working in installation, video and sculpture. Graduated with honors from the Musrara School Photography Department (2014), and of the MFA program of the Department of Fine Art, Goldsmith, London (2018). Has had solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions in Israel and around the world, including Castor Gallery, Chalton Gallery, Royal Society of Sculptors, De Pimlico Project Safehouse, Deptford X Festival, Tenderpixel Gallery, Arebyte Gallery, and Peter von Kant Gallery in London; DE: FORMAL Gallery in New York; Bat Yam Museum; India Gallery; The Refrigerator Gallery in Tel Aviv; Musrara Mix Festival in Jerusalem; Edmond de Rothschild Center; Hansen House in Jerusalem; and others. Her works have been published in Vogue, i-D Vice,‎ Harper’s Bazaar, Evening Standard, Boundary, Daily Lazy, ArtMaze Magazine, Granata Journal, Harama Art Magazine, and others.
She has won the Gilbert Bayes Award (2019), Tiffany & Co. x Outset Studiomakers Prize (2018), Mayor Prize (2014), and the Morel Derfler Excellence Prize (2013). Participated in the Outset Bialik Residency (2019) and Rupert Residency (2021) programs.

Photographer and digital artist. Graduate of the Musrara School Photography Department, Jerusalem (2007), laurate of the Landa Foundation Excellence Prize, and co-founder of the Jerusalemite artists group Hagigit, which created collaborative projects in public spaces. Holds a B.Ed with a major in communications and informal education. Combines photography in his work with at-risk children and youth.
Works with documentary and studio photography, photo processing, 360° content, and combines photography and video works employing online platforms and smartphone and tablet apps. Has presented in various galleries, including the Hecht Gallery in Haifa and Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Spreads the digital word in open access online articles.

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 creatives’ collective No Coast, which provides a platform for freelance audio-video creatives in Jerusalem. Intensively documents the City of Jerusalem in video.

Artist / photographer / photography lecturer. Born in Tiberius in 1967 and lives in Tel Aviv. Holds a BA from the Photography Department of Bezalel, Jerusalem (1995). Graduate of studies equivalent to an MA, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam (1999). Has won the Young Artist Prize (2001) and Prize to Encourage Creativity (2004); candidate for the Gotsdiner Foundation Prize (2006) and the Minister of Culture Prize for Plastic Arts (2011). Has presented 15 isolation projects in her home and in galleries and museums, entitled, “I am making art from toilet paper sand and grass again – live memory of a possible subjectivity”. During 1998-1999, she published two artist’s books, Talking Parts and A Book (Rijksakademie, The Netherlands). In 2009 her book Tear Passages Are Clear was published by Resling, and included photographs and texts. In 2019 her book Photographic Truth is Natural Truth: Chronicles of a Photography Department was published, also by Resling. In 2022 she won the prestigious Landau Pais Prize for the Arts.

Interdisciplinary artist working across installation, sound, video and photography. Her work deals with the unconsciousness and the places where it surfaces. Covo is a graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, and of the Royal College of Art in London. Two-time laurate of the AICF scholarship; was also awarded the Artist-Teacher Scholarship for 2018-2019. Has had solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions and screenings in Israel and around the world, including at the BFI Mediatheque; in the framework of the Décor Sonore residency program in Paris; the Israeli Center of Digital Art in Holon; and the Musrara Mix Festival in Jerusalem. Following several years of living and creating in London and Paris, she moved to Jerusalem where she has been living and working over the past few years.

Multidisciplinary artist focusing on video art, video installation, digital collage and drawing, among other things. Graduate of the Avni Institute, of the Hamidrasha Faculty of Arts, and graduated with honors from the MFA program of the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. Presented a solo exhibition in the Shay Aryeh Gallery in Tel Aviv, and participated in numerous group exhibitions in Israel and around the world, including in the Rotterdam Museum of Contemporary Art and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

Artist, photographer and art lecturer. BFA and MFA graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, and holds an MLS in library and information science from Haifa University.
Teaches at the photography departments of the Musrara School and Bezalel Academy of Art. Was the director of the cinema library of Tel Aviv’s Cinematheque for seven years. Had solo exhibitions in the Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art, Dan Gallery in Tel Aviv, Tmuna Theature in Tel Aviv, Derfler Gallery at the Haifa Academy of Art and Design, and Ashdod Museum. Participated in many group exhibitions in Israel, Paris, Canada, Cambodia, New York, Germany and Greece.
Has been awarded the Buschken Mowatt Nichol Foundation Prize – in the framework of an international festival of analogical photography; Young Artist Award, Ministry of Culture, Science and Sport; MFA Excellence Award, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design; an award granted by Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv; Sharett America-Israel Foundation Award; and BFA Excellence Award, Bezalel Academy.
His works are among the collections of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Schocken, Igal Ahouvi, Yifat Gurion and private collections.