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Mikka Chesno (b. 1998, Zimbabwe) is a figurative painter whose practice is shaped by a cross-continental upbringing in Cape Town and Jerusalem, completing her B.F.A. at Bezalel and an exchange program at HGB, Leipzig. Her work moves between expressive narrative painting and psychologically charged imagery. Colourful, seemingly playful scenes lure the viewer into themes of desire, sexuality, power, and vulnerability. Chesno has exhibited internationally in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, New York, Venice, Berlin, Leipzig and Cape Town and has participated in artist residencies, most recently in India. She is the recipient of the Printmaking Shtrok Prize at Bezalel and First Prize in the White Rose Holocaust Competition at the Cape Town Holocaust and Genocide Centre. She initiated art workshops for displaced families in Israel during the war and assisted autistic children in animation classes at Jerusalem Arts high school. Upcoming presentations include IMA Foundation, London and Fresh Paint 2026.
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I see the world as chaos, a dark space filled with loneliness and pain, where we search for someone to hold onto. And yet, with all my heart, I believe in the human spirit, in our inner light, and in the fierce force of life that is stronger than destruction. I search for my own path within the chaos, for structure and meaning. This is how I paint. Through metaphors, I seek to reach the most sensitive places of the human soul, in the spaces between dreams, madness, and reality, where boundaries blur. It is there that I want to meet the viewer and create a sense of recognition, a moment in which loneliness becomes shared. I am inspired by the raw honesty of Meir Ariel, by the way he moved between different realities, primal urges and spirit, weaving them together at the edge of madness. I seek that same intensity in my art. For me, painting is a search for light within chaos, and for the force of life that prevails over fear.
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Olga Vayshbein (b. 1976) is an Israeli artist and illustrator. She graduated from the College of Art in Simferopol, Crimea. Working in a unique monotype technique that combines ink and acrylic, Vayshbein explores the space between chaos and form, intuition and control, creating visual images that exist on the threshold between abstraction and familiar reality. Her works have been exhibited in Israel and internationally.
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Olga Yerushalmy was born in 1978 in St. Petersburg, Russia, and has lived in Israel since 1993. She currently lives and works in Israel. Yerushalmy studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design between 1998 and 2003, following earlier studies at the Gan Nahum Art School in Rishon LeZion. Working across painting, drawing, and printmaking, her artistic practice explores themes of light, shadow, memory, and the gradual dissolution of form. Using acrylic, watercolor, etching, and mixed media techniques, she investigates the delicate boundary between presence and absence, allowing figures and spaces to emerge as fleeting traces and reflections. Yerushalmy has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Israel and internationally, including international printmaking biennials. In 2024, she took part in an artist residency in Poland. In 2026, she is participating in the Freshpaint Art Fair as part of the project "Dialogue", curated by Ella Cohen, in collaboration with artist Olga Khiroshalmi. Her work is included in a museum collection in North Macedonia. She is the founder of the Duck & Dodo Art Group and is a member of the Israeli Professional Artists Association and the Holon Painters and Sculptors Association.
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Taly Eichenwald-Dvir is an Israeli ceramic artist whose work explores memory, materiality, and the human need for beauty and hope. Following a distinguished academic and consulting career, including postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley, she returned to a lifelong passion for art and devoted herself to the study of ceramic sculpture. She trained with leading ceramic artists and established her own studio practice. A central body of her work is the Delicia Collection, a series of hand-sculpted ceramic sweets forms that transform familiar symbols of sweetness into contemporary sculptural objects. Created during a period of profound social uncertainty, the collection reflects a search for joy, optimism, and human connection. Through vibrant colors, playful forms, and meticulous craftsmanship, Delicia reimagines sweets and candies as a metaphor for memory, resilience and joy.The collection was born from a belief that joy is not only something we find, but something we create. Her sculptural and functional ceramic works combine traditional ceramic techniques with a contemporary artistic language, inviting viewers to engage with moments of wonder, nostalgia, and delight. Her work has been exhibited in group exhibitions and featured in art and design publications.
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Patricia Abramovich is an abstract artist and founder of ABStudio Gallery. Her work explores color, movement, and emotional presence through large-scale paintings, held in private collections internationally.
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