School of Ceramic Art (1)
- Local Artist Residency Program
The Benyamini School of Ceramic Art is a professional center offering courses for beginners, intermediate and advanced students, artists, and designers who want to work with clay. The school has a team of professional lecturers running a year-round program of courses in practical and theoretical aspects of ceramics as well as a three- year recognized diploma program, workshops, lectures, and master classes with artists from Israel and abroad.
Gallery (2)
The galleries at the Benyamini Center initiate dialogue about material culture, contemporary ceramics, design, art, architecture and craft. The exhibitions in the various gallery spaces raise relevant questions about these fields of knowledge taking a broad, interdisciplinary approach, and relate to the complex environment we inhabit.

Head curator: Dr Shlomit Bauman
Curators of the Small Gallery: Reut Rabuah, Shelly Shavit
Events and Special Programming (3)
This program aims to broaden the dialogue of the various aspects of ceramics and material culture, and includies lectures, masterclasses, gallery talks, symposia and special events that are planned throughout the year. Each meeting brings diverse views of the ceramic field locally and globally in contemporary and historical culture. We invite makers, designers and artists from various media and our activities are suitable for professional audiences as well as the general public.
In addition, the Benyamini Center places great importance on community involvement and during the year, participates in projects for and with the local community.
Library (4)
- Ceramic Magazines
- Digital data base of Israeli ceramics
The Library carries close to 1200 books on all aspects of the ceramic arts: Studio ceramics, Design, Pottery, How-to, History of ceramics, Israeli ceramics, Textbooks etc.. They represent most of the ceramics books available today worldwide. The Library also carries all the important international ceramic magazines and has a growing archive of "Israeli Ceramics" from its inception till today. The Library is constantly updated with the newest releases. It is accompanied with an updated database which can be viewed on the Benyamini internet site (it lists the Categories and Keywords for easy search). The aim of the Library is to familiarize professionals in the field, students, and the public at large with the ceramic field in all its richness, and be a well-equipped research center, as well as a learning source for the Benyamini Ceramic Art School.
International (5)
- Benyamini Center Abroad
- International Residency Programs
The international activities at the Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center are a two way operation – outward and inward – in an effort to establish Israeli ceramic art as part of the international clay community and to contribute to its professional dialogue with the world. In order to initiate global ties and launch international connections, we reach out to the global community by participating in international projects, conferences and symposia as a path of integration in relevant professional conversations worldwide. Conversely, in order to bring the world to us in a variety of professional programs, we host international residencies and promote, produce and lead international conferences and symposia. These are productive and challenging platforms for sharing thoughts and ideas in relevant social, professional and political issues.
Benyamini Center (6)
The Issachar and Yehudit Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center promotes ceramic art and design in a vibrant atmosphere of creativity for professional artists as well as the general public. Through the on-going activities we wish to create a dialogue between the various aspects of ceramics and extend its scope in the broad spectrum of material culture.

The Benyamini center is located in Kiryat Hamelacha in south Tel Aviv in an area that has become the hub of contemporary art in the city with many galleries and artist studios in the area. It is a public non-profit organization founded in 2001.
Contact (7)

In the beginning God created, the ornament / Group exhibition

Gallery talk: Friday, 28.8.2026, 11:30

עינת לידר ודיויד גוס. צילום: ליאת אלבלינג

Tell / Sivan Scheffner

Gallery talk: Friday, 28.8.2026, 11:30

Yearly Courses 2026-27

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Textura

On-line Magazine for Material Culture

- School of Ceramic Art
  
  Yearly Courses 2026-27
  
  We invite you to join the Benyamini School of Ceramic Art and to study in a unique environment with a well equipped and spacious studio, galleries and professional library and an amazing team of teachers.
  
  Year courses – 30 lessons in different fields and levels: wheel throwing, hand building, sculpture
  
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- School of Ceramic Art
  
  Workshops 2026-27
  
  We invite you to join the Benyamini School of Ceramic Art and to study in a unique environment with a well equipped and spacious studio, galleries and professional library and an amazing team of teachers.
  
  Short worshops- a variety of subjects: porcelain, special firings, printing, figurative sculpture
  
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- Diploma Program
  
  Diploma Studies Program
  
  The School offers a unique program to acquire skills and a broad knowledge of all fields of clay making, development of a personal style and guidance in operating an independent studio. The program, suited to each student, runs over several years and includes compulsory and optional courses. It is geared towards beginners or part time ceramists who would like to expand their knowledge or make a career change.
  
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- Experience clay
  
  chance to experience working with clay
  
  The Benyamini Center offers a gift voucher – a unique present for a birthday, family occasion or work team outing – a chance to experience working with clay either wheel-throwing or sculpting in clay
  
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- Benyamini Gallery Gallery talk: Friday, 28.8.2026, 11:30
  
  In the beginning God created, the ornament / Group exhibition
  
  Artists: Hanan Abu-Hussein, Itamar Even, Sarah Auslander, Anisa Ashkar, Tsibi Geva, David Goss, Yonatan Hopp, Nevet Yitzhak, Elia Levi Yunger, Einat Leader, Talia Mukmel, Liav Mizrahi, Doron Naama Gelfer, Amnon Amos.
  Curator: Shlomit Bauman
  
  Opening: Thursday, 6.8.2026, 11:00
  Gallery talk: Friday, 28.8.2026, 11:30
  Closing: Saturday, 19.9.2026, 14:00
  
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- The small gallery Gallery talk: Friday, 28.8.2026, 11:30
  
  Tell / Sivan Scheffner
  
  Curators: Reut Rabuah, Shelly Shavit
  Opening: Thursday, 6.8.2026, 11:00
  Gallery talk: Friday, 28.8.2026, 11:30
  Closing: Saturday, 19.9.2026, 14:00
  
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- “Above and Below the Surface” Lectures 2026-27
  
  Theoretical Program
  
  The lecture series covers a broad understanding of the history of both local and international ceramics, providing a cultural and historical foundation for creative practice. Its aim is to offer a comprehensive learning experience that combines theory and practice, traditional and contemporary, local and international within the field of ceramics.
  
  This year, the program will include a variety of lectures by archaeologists, curators, and scholars of art and craft, covering a wide range of subjects: prehistoric ceramics, ancient pigments on pottery, the history of porcelain, Shōji Hamada and the revival of Japanese ceramics, Armenian pottery in Jerusalem, a
  
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- Textura
  
  On-line Magazine for Material Culture
  
  Textura – an on-line magazine for material culture published by the Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center – was established to create a platform for an on-going, interesting, meaningful, and contemporary dialogue about ceramic art and design, considering local and global history of material culture.
  
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