דרורה דומיני, מראה בתערוכה צידה לדרך ארוכה 2023. צילום: אלעד שריג
Local Residency Programs / 2025
The Artist Residency Program at Benyamini Center has been running for several years, hosting leading artists from Israel and abroad. Following the success of previous residency programs, an open call was announced for Israeli ceramic artists, artists, designers, and craft practitioners to submit proposals for the 2025 Artist Residency.
The program is a collaboration between the Benyamini School of Ceramic Art and the Benyamini Gallery.
Residency recipients are awarded a workspace in the studio, materials, and professional guidance in ceramics as needed. During the residency, the artists will give a public lecture and/or artist talk, and selected works created during the program will be exhibited in the Benyamini Gallery.
The three artists selected for the 2025 Summer Residency at Benyamini are: Drora Dominey – A senior sculptor who has been active since the 1980s, Dominey’s work explores questions surrounding the identity of the sculptural object and its status in relation to a reality that primarily references items from the domestic sphere. She works with a wide range of materials and technologies, including woodworking, aluminum casting, sewn fabric, and the use of readymades. Dominey’s artistic language is at once distinctive, precise, material, and conceptual.
Noy Haimovitch and Tamir Erlich – Collaborating artists whose practice is based on the intertwined development of thought and material. Ceramics has been a recurring meeting point in their previous exhibitions, offering a direct, tactile medium that responds to touch and pressure—imprinting within it processes of thought and emotion. Each of their works emerges through an ongoing process in which ideas take shape and dissolve, images accumulate, and the material itself reacts immediately to wear and time.
In recent years, Benyamini Center has become a meeting point between design, art, and craft. On one hand, it fosters intersections between these fields; on the other, it preserves the local identity of ceramic creation. The residency recipients, who come from diverse backgrounds, have proposed compelling projects that expand the boundaries of the ceramic field and spark great curiosity about the directions this new creative work will take.
The residency artists will be working in the Benyamini studio throughout the current summer.
The Artist Residency at Benyamini is led by Ravit Lazer, Director of the Benyamini School of Ceramic Art, and Shlomit Bauman, Curator of the Benyamini Gallery.
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