The Braginsky Center’s Artist in Residence Program provides a framework in which an outstanding leader in literature or the arts are invited to work and create on the Weizmann Institute campus for a semester, and to entering into a deep dialogue with science. Selected based on the original project proposals, participating artists-in-residence cap their time on campus with the creation of a work of artistic or literary merit that draws from the common creative spark shared by science and the humanities, and which will be left behind at the Weizmann Institute at the end of the artist’s stay.

Carmi Dror

Carmi Dror is a multidisciplinary artist, currently living and working in Tel Aviv. Examining art, science and technology simultaneously, she is interested in the junction between imagery, computer vision and human perception, by practicing lens-based art and digital spheres.

Dror graduated with a B.F.A. in photography from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem and The Cooper Union School of Art, in New York. She is a lecturer specializing in digital art as a part of the faculty at the Art department of the Bezalel academy.

https://carmidror.com/

Chen Flamenbaum

Chen Flamenbaum is a sculptor and teacher of sculpture born in Mexico and raised in Tel Aviv. He holds a bachelor’s degree, with distinction, from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, and a teaching certificate from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His works are displayed in galleries and museums in Israel and worldwide, and in various collections. He has earned a number of accolades, including the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Award and the Cooper-New York Scholarship Award, and has served as an assistant to artists like Ofer Lellouche, Yael Frank, and Zohar Gotesman.

Lee Yanor

Visual artist, filmmaker, and photographer. Born in 1963 in Haifa. Studied Art and Photography at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, at the Pratt Institute in New York, and at Paris 8 University where she received a Master of Fine Arts in 1993.
Lee Yanor works creatively interweaving photography, film and video. Movement is an element that has a philosophical and physical presence within her. Through her video-installations, photographs, emulsions and holograms, she brings out the materiality of the image and imprints countless layers of reflexive and collective memories in time and space.
 

Lihi Turjeman

Lihi Turjeman (Tel-Aviv, Israel, 1985) lives and works in Tel-Aviv and Turin.A monochromatic nature characterizes her large-scale painting installations and revolves around space in multiple forms and meanings. Her works emphasize an extreme duality, moving freely between an epic approach and a microscopic concentration on details drawn by “mapping” and scratching the surface. Her practice includes a manner that can be categorized as action painting, in which she performs physical actions on the surface of the picture plane

Art Meets Science

Art Meets Science: The First Artist Residency at the Weizmann Institute of Science | Article in Hebrew

This year the Weizmann Institute will host Lihi Turjeman, Chen Flamenbaum, Carmi Dror and Lee Yanor to promote collaboration, mutual inspiration and dialog between artists and scientists

 

Shahar Binyamini

Shahar Binyamini, a dancer and choreographer, worked on campus for a period of
six months creating a new dance piece.

Yonatan Blumenfeld

The Spoken Word artist Yonatan Blumenfeld has spent a residency with us.