The artistic initiative, born from a collaboration between the Edmond de Rothschild Center's residency program and Reality Group's "HATHIYA 14", is realized as a project room and an exhibition in process and in the making, based on the principle of site-specific work that responds to the site. The works of the residency artists operate one after the other: each creator adds a new work that is a response to the previous work in space and is also adapted to the given exhibition space. This creates an evolving chain of artistic responses, in which each action adds a new layer to a process that continues to change throughout the period.
The title of the exhibition, "Temporary Colony", originates from the idea of the residency as an act of temporary takeover, an intermediate state from which works, consciousnesses and relationships grow. In Revival Space 14, a place that is itself a fissure in urbanity (industry, offices, warehouses, arrangements that hold the practicalities of life), the Project Room functions as a kind of temporary branch of non-functional meanings; a kind of nucleus that generates its own frequency within a structure whose original function is completely different.
Five artists took part in the exhibition of personal projects: Dafna Amira, Oz Wirth, Tal Itzhaki, Amir Cohen, and Michaela Mor.
Dafna Amira
An artist and a photographer who lives in Jaffa and grew up in Rishon LeZion. Graduated with honors from the Department of Photography at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem (2021), and graduated with a master's degree from the MFA program at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Tel Aviv (2024).
Oz Wirth
Shenkar graduated, raised in Pardes Hanna, third generation on his father's side in the colony and his mother who grew up in Michmoret. Son of a farmer and a graphic designer, hence the influence and great connection between art and nature, the sea and plants that he uses in his artworks.
Tal Yitzhaki
Multidisciplinary designer. Shenkar Graduated of industrial design in 2023. Since graduating, he has been developing a personal language that uses functional design tools to explore cultural and spiritual questions.
Amir Cohen
A graduate of Bezalel, he was born and raised in Rosh Ha'ayin, in an environment that he describes as full of working with his hands and body, and this influenced the way he understands creation – as a physical act, of effort, of contact and of listening to what is resisted.
Michaela Mor
Grew up in Ra'anana in a traditional home, to immigrant parents from Uzbekistan. Michaela was educated in religious institutions from kindergarten to high school and has since left the faith and lived a secular life, but she testifies that something about her faith has remained with her.
Both projects will be unveiled during an Open Studio event on December 25. The exhibitions will run through January 10, 2026, closing at 2 p.m.
The residency artists’ individual projects will be presented at Studio 212 (Part A, second floor), while the group exhibition, Temporary Colony, will be on view at Studio 16 (Part B, ground floor), both located at 14 Hathiya Street, Tel Aviv.
Opening hours for both exhibitions are Wednesday–Thursday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Friday–Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
About the Edmond de Rothschild Center Residency Program:
The residency program, led by Director David Dalal and Artistic Director Assaf Hinden is part of the Edmond de Rothschild Center's work to promote artists and designers from the beginning of their professional careers. The residency is designed to advance creators from their current professional point to the next stage in their professional careers by developing work habits in an independent studio, developing a personal project and releasing it to the world, creating another project as a collective, and getting to know the industry operating in the field of crafts and creation. As part of the residency at HATHIYA 14, the center has provided a shared studio for the participants. Participants in the residency receive professional guidance. In addition, each participant receives a grant of 10,000 NIS + a budget for producing the project.