Dor Zlekha Levy is an interdisciplinary artist specializing in installations involving projection and sound, video art, and multimedia performances. His distinctive working process, often developed in collaboration with musicians, transforms sound into a formative element within his works. Ancient folk traditions serve as the foundation for original audiovisual events in his practice.

Zlekha Levy has presented several solo exhibitions, among them at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Midrasha Gallery, and Braverman Gallery. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions in museum and private spaces, including the Israel Museum and the Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art. In recent years, his practice has focused on site-specific installations presented in historical locations, including One Tongue (the Bell Caves, Beit Guvrin National Park) and Reflection (the Pool of Arches, Ramla).

He is Head of the Department of Arts and Photography at the Musrara School of Art and Society (Nagar), and teaches at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Bezalel’s Haredi branch, and the School of Visual Theater.

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).

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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.

Installation artist, Bezalel graduate, holds a BA and MA in Art, Mathematics and Philosophy. Works in various media including video, digital and painting. Deals with the theoretical aspect of artistic practice, and the relationship between philosophical consciousness theories and contemporary art.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A photographer and digital artist, graduate of the Photography Department at Musrara (2007), recipient of the Landa Foundation Excellence Award, and a founding member of the Jerusalem-based artists’ collective “Hagigit,” which created collaborative projects in the public space.

He holds a B.Ed. specializing in communication and informal education and integrates photography into work with at-risk children and youth. His practice spans documentary and studio photography, image processing, 360° content, and the integration of photography and video with web platforms, smartphone apps, and tablets. His work has been exhibited in galleries including the Hecht Museum (Haifa) and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

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.

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”.

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.

Born in Jerusalem in 1990.

An interdisciplinary artist working with sculpture, mechanical systems in extreme states, and community-based art practices. He is the founder, director, and teacher of Melekhet Machshevet—a center for art and technology—and a teaching assistant in the course “Introduction to Kinetic Art” at Shenkar College. A graduate of the Design Academy Eindhoven (Netherlands), his works have been exhibited at Kav 16 Gallery, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Caserne Gallery (Netherlands), Studio Orta (France), and many other venues in Israel and abroad. He lives and works in Jerusalem.

An interdisciplinary artist working primarily with photography, video, and installation. She lives and works in Tel Aviv. She holds a BFA with honors from Shenkar’s Multidisciplinary Art School and is an MA student in the Interdisciplinary Arts Program at Tel Aviv University. She is a member of the P8 Cooperative Gallery, a writer and producer for the online art magazine Erev Rav, and a content and activity coordinator at Tel Aviv Culture – Kiryat HaMelacha. Her works explore the cultural, historical, and gendered charge of objects and their role in shaping personal, historical, and political narratives.

An interdisciplinary artist working with installation, video, and sculpture. She graduated with honors from the Photography Department at Musrara (2014) and with honors from the MFA program in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London (2018). Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Israel and internationally, including venues in London, New York, and across Israel. Her work has been featured in publications such as Vogue, i-D, Vice, Harper’s Bazaar, and others. She is a recipient of numerous awards and participated in international residency programs.

Dafna Ichilov currently serves as Head of the 40+ Program at the school and previously served as Head of the Photography Department from 2022 to 2024. She is an artist, curator, and photography lecturer, and has been Head of the Photography Department at the Musrara School since 2022.

She earned her BFA from the Photography Department at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in 1988, and completed her MFA at Central Saint Martins College of Art in London between 1998 and 1999.

In 1992, together with the Limbus Group, she co-founded Limbus – A Place for Photography, a cooperative, artist-run gallery, which she managed and curated until 2006. During this period, hundreds of solo and group exhibitions were presented, alongside national and international artistic collaborations, and the first public auctions of Israeli photography were held. In parallel, she was an active member of the Limbus Group, participating in group exhibitions, collaborative artistic actions, and joint curatorial initiatives.

In 2009, she initiated, curated, and edited the book Limbus. Place. Photography, published by Hakibbutz Hameuchad in collaboration with the Limbus Group. Conceived as a large-scale group exhibition in book form, the publication reflected on time, place, and contemporary photography, offering a visual interpretation of local reality.

Ichilov is the recipient of the Gerard Levy Prize for a Young Photographer (Israel Museum, 1994). Since 2003, she has worked as an independent curator in galleries, alternative spaces, and public venues. Since 1990, she has taught photography and art at various institutions. From 2006 onward, she has held multiple roles at the Musrara School of Art and Society in Jerusalem, including coordinator and mentor of the Continuing Studies Program, partner in the development and facilitation of the programs Art for Social Change and Artists’ Incubator for Social Change, and lecturer and facilitator of creative processes in the Phototherapy Department.

Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Israel and internationally, and is held in private and museum collections, including the Jewish Museum, New York; the Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport Collection; and the Beit Avi Chai Collection, Jerusalem. Throughout her career, as both artist and curator, she has sought dialogue and partnerships, engaging in diverse collaborative practices in artistic creation, joint projects, and co-curation. She brings extensive professional experience as a lecturer, broad curatorial expertise, and long-standing experience in mentoring and accompanying individual and group creative processes for students and artists.

A photographer and artist who studied photography and painting at the Teachers’ Seminary in Ramat HaSharon. Selected exhibitions include Antipathos at the Israel Museum; The Range of Realism at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art; and 90 70 90 at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Recipient of an America–Israel Cultural Foundation grant (1994–1995).

A graduate of the BFA program in Photography at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, and of the Continuing Studies Program in Art at the Midrasha – Beit Berl College. He has participated in exhibitions in Israel and abroad and teaches After Effects and cinema.

Meital Katz-Minerbo was born in Israel and raised in Venezuela. She currently lives and works in Tel Aviv. Her artistic practice explores representations of “otherness” and a longing for belonging. As a woman and immigrant in the 21st century, Katz-Minervo constructs a visual narrative that critically and creatively represents the experience of the “other.”

Working across a wide range of practices—including painting, printmaking, collage, sculpture, and fashion design—she creates performative, paradigmatic events that combine elements of popular culture with a sense of secrecy, drawing particular attention to the spaces between the exhibited works.

Katz-Minerbo holds an MFA from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (2007), a BEd from the Midrasha – Beit Berl College (2000), and is a graduate of the Illustration Program at the Caracas Design Institute (1994). Her works have been exhibited widely in Israel and internationally, including at MACRO Museum (Italy), The Gallery Apart (Rome), the Nahum Gutman Museum, Midrasha Gallery (19 HaYarkon Street), Jerusalem Artists House, the Haifa Museum of Contemporary Art, the Oscar Niemeyer Museum (Brazil), the Curitiba International Biennial of Contemporary Art, and the Janco Dada Museum in Ein Hod.