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The art scene in Israel shows expansive growth and Bezalel students, faculty and alumni are exhibiting in museums and galleries around the world, where they continue to influence creative movements internationally.
Fazebuk Network Tel Aviv
November 5th
19:00 Gallery of Bezalel,
Bezalel Academy of Art & Design
60 Salame Street, Tel Aviv
An exhibition of real friends in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Tel Aviv. A project initiated by Martin G. Schmid. With Tal Alperstein, Friedemann Banz and Giulia Bowinkel, Zohar Gottesmann, Renan Harari, Roey Heifetz, Oree Holban, Chaya Ruckin, Zamir Shatz, Ady Shimony, Avshalom Suliman, Naneci Yurdagul co-curated by Chaya Ruckin & Avshalom Suliman. For more information click here.
 Micha Ullman
"Sands of Time: The Work of Micha Ullman"
June 21, 2011-November 12, 2011
Nathan Cummings 20th Century Art Building
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
The Israel Museum is hosting the first retrospective about Micha Ullman. Sculptor Micha Ullman was born in Tel Aviv in 1939, the son of German immigrants, and is an art history professor. Ullman initially studied agriculture before turning to arts and enrolling at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London. Ullman received the Israel Prize in sculpture in April 2009. Directors of the museum James S. Snyder, Anne and Jerome Fisher declared: "In this first museum retrospective for Ullman, Wedding, along the rest of the works on display, illustrate the dualities that infuse artist's works, simultaneously conveying a sense of the intangible and celestial, as well as the tactile and earthbound", as reported on ArtDaily. For more information
click here.
 Michal Rovner
Histories
Musee du Louvre, Paris
May 19-August 15, 2011
Israeli multimedia artist and Bezalel graduate Michal Rovner explores the themes of archaeology, memory, and territory with an oeuvre that is deeply influenced by the socio-political conflicts in the Middle East. For more information click here.
 Maya Zack
Camera Obscura
Natalie Seroussi Gallery, 34 rue de Seine, Paris
May 19-July 9, 2011
Natalie Seroussi Gallery presents the works of Maya Zack, a major figure in the Israeli art scene. Zack has won many prices in international festivals with her short film Mother Economy (2007). Through her videos, which are characterized by a unique cinematic language, Maya Zack depicts the obsessive human attempt to control and classify everyday life. She uses feminine characters who measure with scientific validity gestures and objects in their environment. In the Camera Obscura exhibition, curated by Marie Shek, two of Zack's videos Mother Economy (2007) and Black and White Rule (2011) will be screened in container installation built especially for the show. Drawings by the artist will be displayed alongside the videos. For more information click here.
Giving Shape to Art
MASA Bezalel Art Experience Exhibition: Giving Shape to Art
Opening: June 13th, 2011
Closing: June 17th, 2011
Place: Bezalel Gallery, Yaffo 23
The MASA Bezalel Experience participants invite you to their exhibition: Giving Shape to Art. The opening will take place on Monday, June 13th, 2011 at 6pm in the Bezalel Gallery, Yaffo 23.The exhibition will close on June 17th, 2011.
Participants:
Eyal Amsili, Colombia
Naftali Ash, USA
Rachel Leah Becker, USA
Ruth Beraha, Italy
Agostina Dorin, Spain
Rahel Fainchtein, USA
Aliza Gans, USA
Danielle Gorodenzik, USA
Anna Green, England
Violet Gurian, USA
Daniel Ho, China
Aharon Magidovitch, USA
Rachel Reiswerg, Brazil
Simone Roark, USA
Sarah Schulman, USA
Shira Singelenberg, USA
Judith Sitbon, France
Yiscah Symonds, Australia
BEZALEL LEGACY: INNOVATION INSPIRATION
Sotheby's London To Showcase Work by Graduates and Students of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem in a Selling Exhibition in Conjunction with Curator Janice Blackburn
SOTHEBY'S LONDON is delighted to announce its collaboration with Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem on their first ever exhibition in the UK, in conjunction with Curator Janice Blackburn. From Thursday, 5 May to Wednesday, 11 May, 2011, Sotheby's will host a selling exhibition of work by recent graduates and students from the academy in Jerusalem. Ceramics and glass, photography, industrial design and fashion will feature in Sotheby's New Bond Street galleries.
'Bezalel Legacy Innovation Inspiration' offers a real insight into the multi-layered types of design that have earned Bezalel its much deserved reputation as one of the world's most outstanding arts institutions, which visitors to the exhibition in Sotheby's East Gallery will be able to see and enjoy for themselves.
Learn more about Bezalel - Legacy Innovation Inspiration.
Image credit: Tal Gur, Mesh Chair, metal and plastic
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 'Thinking Hands' at Milan Design Week 2011
As part of the the ventura lambrate collective space on show at Milan design week April 2011,
the Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem exhibits 'thinking hands' a presentation of 45 works from
37 undergraduate and post graduate students within a 100 m2 exhibition area.
'The philosophical background of the theme of the exhibition, 'Thinking Hands',
comes from the new integration and combination possibilities in design today,
enabled by the post-industrial radical change,' says professor Ezri Tarazi,
head of the master of design program as well as one of the show's curators.
The show will take visitors through a range of products, many of which experiment with
new combinations of materials and technological processes, resulting in a diverse grouping of projects
that address areas of transportation, furniture, clothing and jewelry and tools.
'Thinking Hands' is curated by Ezri Tarazi, Haim Parnas, Ilanit Kabessa and Liora Rosin.
Learn more.
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Jan Tichy
Project Cabrini-Green
March 28 - April 24, 2011
Cabrini-Green housing projects
1230 N. Burling St., Chicago
Beginning on the evening of March 28, the last high-rise building at the Cabrini-Green housing projects (1230 N. Burling St., Chicago) will be lit up in the form of 134 LED lights, one for each apartment in the building. The light installation will be visible in the evenings during the four-week demolition period. As the building is razed, the lights will be demolished along with the building. The public light art installation, titled Project Cabrini Green, is a community-based art project conceived by artist and educator Jan Tichy. Project Cabrini Green involved over 200 people to realize, from Cabrini-Green and the wider city. Jan Tichy is represented by Richard Gray Gallery. From January to March 2011, together with over 20 students from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Tichy held two and three-day workshops with local youth at Cabrini Connections, Marwen, After School Matters Creative Writing Program at Gallery 37 and ThaBrigade Stamp Cabrini Green Marching Band. In the workshops, students were introduced to public art and light art, and brainstorming sessions and group activities were held on the concepts of Home, Public Housing, Community and Demolition. The youth were then charged with the task of writing poems or texts that addressed the concepts above. Employing a computer program developed by SAIC students that translates sound into light, the youth performed their texts for recording, creating unique light patterns. These light patterns define each of the 134 LED lights at the high-rise. Thus, the youth's voices literally tell their stories through light. As a component of Project Cabrini Green, live-feed footage from the site will be projected at the Museum of Contemporary Art at street level, on the corner of Pearson and Mies Van der Rohe streets behind the museum's glass facade, thereby rendering it visible at night. A voice/light-activated model of the high-rise will accompany the installation, and the youth participant's written texts and audio content will be available. Tricia Van Eck, Associate Curator, is the organizing curator of the installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art. The youth's texts, the audio content, and the live-feed video will also be available on the project website.
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Ezri Tazari
Kalab
February 5th - March 18th, 2011
Paradigma Design Gallery
60 Ahad Ha'am Street, Tel Aviv, Israel
'Kalab', an exhibition of works by israeli designer Ezri Tarazi, creates a home-like space from the materials and vernacular of military engagement. army slang for 'close to home', the installation and its pieces create a visual juxtaposition of the blurring of the lines between civil and military life that has come to characterize the culture of the conflict-ridden country. Many of the works incorporate materials taken directly from the lines of war.
Between 1996-2004 Ezri was the chair of the industrial design program at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, nominated by design leaders as one of the best design schools today. In 2002 he founded the Masters Program in Industrial Design (M.Des), and in 2005 he founded a Masters Program in Design Management.
For more information click here.
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Jan Tichy
White Light/Black Light
Installations by Finnbogi Petursson and Jan Tichy
January 28 - April 3, 2011
Wood Street Galleries
601 Wood Street, Pittsburgh, PA
Jan Tichy's multimedia installations also draw upon the ephemeral. The Czech-Israeli artist, now living in Chicago, refers to natural phenomena presented within a digital photographic domain. In Tichy's "Tubes" (2006), a TV monitor 'plays' the white noise of itself while projecting onto a landscape of tubes within a closed environment, yielding an installation that is at once transitory and concrete. With shadow and light assuming equal roles, this sensory environment is hauntingly beautiful and ominous in its measured play.
For more information click here.
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Yossi Breger
And there was evening And there was morning, One day
February 24 - June 4, 2011
Tel Aviv Museum
Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Pavilion
8 Dubnov STreet, 64732 Tel Aviv, Israel
The exhibition presents 159 photos, all new, in various formats, taken since 2007 in various places around the world–Tel Aviv, Berlin, Cologne, Havana, Paris, Brussels, Rome, Beijing, Stockholm–Tin the course of daily life. The photos–of landscapes, buildings, spaces, objects, people–tell a story of being in front of a thing, the fundamental things that form the infrastructure of human environment. They are precise and thoughtful, articulated in pictorial, emotional and classical formal language; their accumulation creates a general conceptual model of a life story and a world, time&—space relations constructed by light and revealing a personal and sensual touch with elements of nature and culture. Yossi Breger (b. France, 1960), recipient of the 1996 Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation Israeli Art Prize, is a senior lecturer at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design MFA Program and Department of Photography, which he headed during 2000—2006.
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Jan Tichy
Certificates of Authenticity
Through March 2011
Richard Gray Gallery
Suite No. 253
875 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago
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Dafna Kaffeman
What Could Be Sweeter Than Going to Paradise?
January 25 - March 13, 2011
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center
4400 Massachusetts Ave, Washington, DC
Israeli artist Dafna Kaffeman's delicate glass sculptures mimic organic forms including leaves, fur and flowers. Her small works and large scale installations often deal with issues raised by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The installation "Mantis Religiosa" is based on a statement made by a young Palestinian. It consists of lifelike lampworked glass objects and found handkerchiefs embroidered by Israeli men. Dafna Kaffeman is head of Glass Studies at Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem. Her exhibition will be on view at the American University Museum of Art January 25-March 13, 2011.
Learn more here.
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Maya Zack
Living Room
September 2, 2010-October 15, 2011
Alon Segev Gallery
6 Rothschild Boulevard, Tel Aviv
The "Living Room" project consists of 4 pieces done in a Computer Generated Anaglyph (3D print). "Living Room" was created following sessions of interviews Zack took with M.N, an elderly man, who described his Berlin Home before immigrating to Israel in 1938. Later on, Zack went on an extensive research of the era in order to reconstruct a visualization of this house. "Living Room" depicts a typical Jewish home in Berlin of the 1930's. The 4 pieces create a house of their own and invite the viewer to "visit" the house, or more precisely, voyage through our collective memory. "Living Room" addresses the theme of "Rupture and Repair" through an extinct German Jewish past from the period prior to World War II. Memories of this world relate to concrete places that, due to forced immigration, exist now at a great distance (of both time and space).
Learn more here.
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Shuli Sade
Shifting Perception: Meditation on Time and Velocity
September 15th-January 30th, 2011
Gensler
2020 K Street, NW, Washington DC
Opening: September 15th 5:30-7:00 p.m.
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Miki Kratsman
Targeted Killing
September 7-November 17, 2010
TRUST, Media City Seoul 2010, Korea
2020 K Street, NW, Washington DC
Opening: September 15th 5:30-7:00 p.m.
"Targeted Killing", the new project Miki Kratsman is working upon, examines the term "focused foiling" coined by the IDF (Israel Defense Forces). All the photographs in "Targeted Killing" were taken from Mount Scopus, located in northeast Jerusalem and overlooking the Palestinian villages surrounding it. Miki Kratsman was born in 1959, Argentina and immigrated to Israel in 1971. His photographs appear regularly in "Ha'aretz" newspaper in the column "The Twilight Zone" on which he is signed together with the journalist Gideon Levi. Since 2006 he presides as head of the photography department of Bezalel academy of arts, Jerusalem. Kratsman exhibits consistently, in Israel and throughout the world.
For more information click here.
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The cross-cultural city: urban context and cultural diversity
November 11-12, 2010
The 2010 urban design graduate workshop celebrating the
UNESCO International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures
Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem
Celebrating 10 years of World Heritage in Israel with an appreciation of the UNESCO Chair in Urban Design and Conservation Studies, in recognition of 35 years teaching at Bezalel
Building on PUSH - Promoting the Understanding for Shared Heritage
An EU partnership for peace project 2006-2008
Al Quds University, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and
the Jordanian Society for Sustainable Development.
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Yael Bartana: and Europe will be stunned
May 22-September 19, 2010
Moderna Museet Malmö
Gasverksgatan 22
SE-211 29 Malmö
Sweden
Moderna Museet Malmö presents the internationally acclaimed film and video artist Yael Bartana as their main exhibition this summer. The exhibition and Europe will be stunned will occupy the entire Turbine Hall and will screen the artist's five most recent productions. Oscillating between history and an imagined future, these films exist in a troubled borderland between documentary, propaganda and fiction. For more information click here.
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Bezalel Community Project with Hadassah Hospital
June 9, 2010 through August 9, 2010
Haverut will perform its annual art exhibition at the Hadassah Hospital on Mt. Scopus in Jerusalem, presenting art works of Hadassah patients and students of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design who accompanied Hadassah's patients throughout the year. The exhibition will be displayed on ground floor at the Hadassah Hospital on Mt. Scopus in Jerusalem starting Wednesday June 9th 2010, displaying for two months.
Opening evening event will take place on Wednesday, June 9th at 7:00 pm at Hadassah Hospital.
Program
Greetings- Professor Stern, Director of Hadassah Mt. Scopus
Professor Zukerman, President of Bezalel
Rachel Ettun, Director of Haverut
Presentation of Haverut's projects
Music concert- the Israeli ethnic band Habrera HaTiveet
For more information click here.
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Yaffo 23
Through July 2, 2010
23 Yaffo st., Jerusalem, Elevator Entrance from no. 3 Coresh St.
Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem is very pleased to announce the opening of Yaffo 23, a new art-site in downtown Jerusalem. Yaffo 23 occupies the 3rd floor of the old office building from the time of the British Mandate, a huge 10,000SF facility that will house new practices in art and design and combine research, theory, and action.
#1, the first series of installations, performances, and sound-actions explore the new space through sound, movement, and time. At the opening night Maya Dunietz will play a sound sculpture by Alona Rodeha huge wheel with speakers and mics that turn in circles like an olive press, as in an ancient ritual around which the community converges. Lovegrenade, a noise-rock band, will be dispersed in space playing among the visitors or bringing the audience into the band; and Ashkara Metim, a Jerusalem-based punk band will play through video cameras and monitors.
Through the first cycle, artists and musicians will add new sculptural elements that combine sound and movement. The duo Dupress (Ido Govrin and Liora Belford) will conduct an "archeology of sound" retrieving the stories and voices that passed through the walls of the great hall that used to house the telephone switchboard operator of Jerusalem. Yaniv Kuris will insert the external auditory environment in by recording and condensing the sounds of Jerusalem on a Friday afternoon-the muezzins in the mosques and the bells of the churches-as if making the space breath in the city in a sort of sound meditation. Ilan Volkov and the collective marginal consort (Israel) will unload their tool box, spread in space and play for two hours acoustic and electronic instruments, combining harmony with risk and a-integration.
The events will conclude with a round panel and a closing party with the experimental groups: NX2 Space Patrol, Cassex Vibrato, and The Noses. The audience is welcome to participate.
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Salame 10
2010 Bezalel Master of Fine Arts Graduate Show
Through June 26, 2010
Bezalel Gallery in Tel Aviv
60 Salame Street, Tel Aviv
Featuring Larissa Aharoni, Ilit Azoulay, Ayelet Ben Dor, Matan Ben Tulila, Yael Efrati, Sasha Flit, Nir harel, Tomer kep, Ayala Landow, Elad Larom, Hila Laviv, Haran Mendel, Ido Michaeli, Ravit Mishli, Dan Orimian, Elham Rokni, Roni Shneior, Shai Yehezkelli, Dana Yoeli.
For more information click here.
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Melanie Daniel: Evergreen
THE 2009 RAPPAPORT PRIZE FOR A YOUNG ISRAELI PAINTER
Through June 12, 2010
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Haft Hall, upper level
27 Shaul Hamelech Blvd,
Tel Aviv, Israel
"Evergreen", Melanie Daniel's (b. 1972) new series of paintings, brings to a peak the artist's work with images of camouflage and human blending into the environment, which combine feelings of foreignness and alienation with those of belonging. Daniel arrived at art after immigrating from Canada to Israel in 1995. Since then, she has participated in many group exhibitions in Israel and overseas, and held solo exhibitions in Sweden, New Zealand, Canada and Israel.
For more information click here.
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Designtransfer: Universitate der Kunste Berlin
Through May 6, 2010
Einsteinufer 43-53
10587 Berlin-Charlottenburg
The Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem is having an exhibit at the Universitate der Kunste Berlin presenting work from the programs of Architecture, Fine Arts, Photography, Ceramics and Glass, Product Design, Jewellery, Screen Based Arts and Visual Communications. There will be three lectures presented in conjunction with the exhibit, on Friday April 16th at 7:00 p.m.
"Design in Social Context: Israel's Undesigned Backyards"
Prof. Yaara Bar-On, Vice-President of Bezalel Academy
"Lost and found - the case of Hebrew typeface design during the 1950s"
Adi Stern, Head of Visual Communication, Bezalel Academy
"Eine Familienreise nach Berlin (A Family Trip to Berlin)"- on Merav Salomon's book released in 2009
Merav Salomon, Head of Illustration, Bezalel Academy, and CS book editor Johannes Frank
Furthermore, results of the workshop "Memory and Documentation" by Merav Salomon with students of the UdK will be presented.
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International Conference
Visible Sounds: Interrelationships Among Music, the Visual Arts and the Performing Arts
Sunday - Thursday, February 21-25, 2010
For schedules and location click here.
Presented by Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, the Institute for Advanced Studies, the Israel Science Foundation and the Academy of Music and Dance Jerusalem with the support of the Goethe Institute, Jerusalem.
Click here for more information.
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NO PROBLEM (?)
Bezalel Alumni Jewelers: Shirly Bar-Amotz, Rory Hooper, Michal Oren, Deganit Stern Schocken, Edda Vardimon
Gallery Loupe for Contemporary Art Jewelry
50 Church Street, Montclair, NJ
February 9 - March 16, 2010
"No Problem (?)" addresses the tension that exists between the monumental problems of the State of Israel and the "flippant" jargon of everyday speech that often seems to belie these problems. This exhibition brings together the outstanding talent of contemporary studio jewelers. "NO PROBLEM (?)" is curated by Deganit Stern Schocken - a leading force in the field of Contemporary Art Jewelry, one of Israel's most important studio jewelers and a Bezalel alumna. For more information click here.
Image Credit: Deganit Stern Schocken, Figure of Speech: The Eye, 2009, Stainless steel, polystyrene, silver, gold, zircon, 60x135 mm.
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JAN TICHY
Bezalel graduate Jan Tichy is exhibiting at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago from September 26, 2009 - January 9, 2010 as part of the "Learning Modern" exhibition. This exhibition features projects by artists and architects, ranging in age from their 20s to 80s, who today continue a legacy of interdisciplinary innovation for better living, while exploring the central role of experiential education in the modern vision.
For more information see here.
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YEHUDIT SASPORTAS
Bezalel Graduate and Lecturer Yehudit Sasportas is exhibiting at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Sasportas' piece "Cosmic Rift" is part of the Wallworks exhibition through October 25, 2009.
For more information, see here.
Image credit: Yehudit Sasportas, Acrylic on wall, 25 x 69 feet
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