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Malachi Sgan-Cohen 

Born in Jerusalem. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts with honours from the Department of Fine Arts, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel. He was the Recipient of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship for Visual Art Studies from the Dalia and Eli Hurvitz Foundation. His works have been exhibited in various group exhibitions in Museums and galleries such as The Museum of Bat Yam (MoBY), Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva, The New Gallery Artists studio’s, Jerusalem, Gordon-London House, The municipal Gallery for Art, Rishon Lezion and Hanina Gallery, Tel Aviv. He Worked as a teaching assistant at the Department of Fine Art, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. He had written texts for catalogues and exhibitions for the Jerusalem Artist’s House and the Tel Aviv Artist’s Studios which were published by Erev Rav Magazine.

Anat Shamgar

A dance-maker, a dancer and an educator. Her work ranges from personal body language to abstract exploration of form, based on explorative methods of art making and body-mind practices. She performs in solo and collaborative work. Many of her collaborations involve links across the arts.

Anat has been collaborating with many artists, among them were the musician JC Jones (the series “Real Time Composition”); the American Dance maker Lisa Nelson  (“Reallocation”); the dance maker Prof. Amos Hetz (“body stories”); the swiss Dance maker Bruno Srefanoni (“living Space”); the violinist Malcolm Goldsteen (“Trio”); the poet Efrat Mishori (“Mother Tangue”), the American dance makers Vicky Shick (“Exchange”); Daniel Lepkov (“Minded Steps”), the choreographer Tamar Borer (“Shalosh”), and others.

Among her last solo pieces :  “Good Girl – Bad Girl” music by Maurice Ravel; “Three in one Dress” music by Arnold Schoenberg; “Monologue” music by Luigi Nono; “Tuk”  music by John Cage; Has performed in international festivals in Montpelier, Köln, Berlin Israel and New York.

During the last years has presented the programs: “Suddenly – Simply – Body” (2005), “Love Matador” (2006), “Rocks” (2007), “Parts” (2008), ” Dance with a Sculpture” (2010).

Advocates body exploration to construct efficiency, awareness and body integration. Perceives the connection between somatic work and the research of abstract form of movement, as a basis of independent dance creation. Dance making performance and education are one in the exploration and embodiment of artistic values.

Has been teaching in the Dance Faculty since 1991, currently is the head of the Movement department and the choreography department.

Michal BenJakob

b. 1990 in New York. Living and working in Tel Aviv, BFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. Independent Curator, working at the Beit Ariela Municipal Public Library, as a cultural event producer, and owner of a private at home nail salon .Michal runs a nail salon at home giving her the freedom to create outside of the realm of art within the cultural-social context.  

Most recently she curated “So Much So”, a group exhibition at Gabirol Gallery in Tel Aviv that reunited a group of young artists from Bezalel’s Fine Art Department. Each one operates with a different relation to space and medium, relative to where they were situated. The exhibition and its themes are born and borne from a common womb and the collective exit to an alienated world.

Anat Keinan

Lives and works in Jerusalem. Graduated from the Fine Art department in Bezalel Academy.

Anat is a painter, sculpture and printmaker; create kinetic metal ploy devices, installations that integrate mechanical structures and sizeable woodcut prints.

Her works explore the way architecture and environment influence the human body, his behaviour and stability.

Paz Sher

Graduated from the Fine Arts department of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, currently lives and creates in Jerusalem.

The sculpture is the center medium in Paz’s Installation.

Art that has been disgorged, out from a visceral concern regarding the present.  

Zohar Gotesman (1979, in Israel)

is a sculptor based in Tel Aviv, Israel. Gotesman is a graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. Between 2011-12 Zohar spent a year in Carrara, Italy, where he studied traditional marble carving.

He is also a graduated from the Archeology department of Ben-Gurion university.

Zohar has won the prestige Outset Israel Art Support Fund. He is the recipient of the Nata Dushnitsky-Kaplan Foundation Prize, the Young Artist Award of the Israeli ministry of Culture and the America-Israel Cultural Foundation award. He has received support from the Pais Institute.

Zohar exhibited solo exhibitions at Rosenfeld Gallery in Tel Aviv 2013 and at the Tel Aviv Museum in September 2017. Gotesman exhibits excessively at major group exhibitions in well-known museums and galleries in Israel and abroad, among them at the Petach Tikvah Museum, the Tel Aviv museum, at the Kade Amersfoort, the Netherlands, the LeRoy Neiman Gallery at Colombia University, New York, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, The Artists House, Tel Aviv, Hezi Cohen gallery, Tel Aviv, and many more.

He has permanent public sculptures in Jerusalem, Haifa and Modiin, and his sculptures are in private collections in Israel and around the world.

Noam Dror

born kibutz sarid . studies :  bezalel academy fine  arts israel . academy fine arts munchen germany. exhibit in israel and europe . works in installation and paintig. lost dialog . live and work west jerusalem .

Hila Cohen-Schneiderman

is the chief curator of MoBY: Bat Yam Museums. She’s specializing in site-specific projects based on artistic research, and explores the relationship between artists and art to the public and the urban space. From 2016-17 she curated the Liebling Project – an artist residency in the White City Center, Tel Aviv. From 2012-16, she worked as a curator at the Petach Tikva Museum of Art, and from 2010-11, acted as chief curator of the Spaceship Gallery at Hayarkon 70 social complex, Tel-Aviv. She is a graduate of the “Revivim: Honors Program for The Training of Jewish Studies Teachers” and holds an MA in Hebrew Literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.  These days she is a teacher at the Bezalel academy of art and design Jerusalem and Shenkar college, Ramat Gan.