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Belu-Simion Fainaru is an Israeli sculptor, installation artist and curator, and the winner of the 2025 Israel Prize for Design and Interdisciplinary Art. He is known for his powerful and symbolic visual language that explores contrasts and contradictions, reflecting on the difficulties of living in Israel, and on the notions of uprootedness, belonging, sanity, and memory. This new exhibition presents a wall installation of images of masks hanging alongside video works, drawings, and collages. Masks have been used in human societies since the times of the Ancients, both as ritual vehicles and as a means of attaining mental and physical transformation. Through a dialogue with the masks of Marcel Janco, one of the founders of the Dada Exhibition Face to Face – One Thing After Another | The Janco Dada Museum, Ein Hod Comics Festival Animix 2025 | The Tel Aviv Cinematheque This five-day celebration of comics, zines, animation, and illustration, with dozens of creators taking part, is chockfull of events, movie screenings, workshops, roundtables, exhibitions and more. The festival is also host to the “Asif” comics competition for Israeli and international creators. Events include: the Yakir Awards ceremony, this year crowning the work of comics duo Nir and Gali, leading creators in the world of Israeli animation, screenings of dozens of animated movies from around the world, both for adults and children, screenings of experimental animated movies, and an evening

Illustration by Nir and Gali

Illustration by Bill Plympton

with legendary animator Bill Plympton, one of the most influential animators working today. August 5-9, animix.co.il

Idan Amedi I Photo: Tamar Hanan

Art Fair The Hutzot HaYotzer Arts and Crafts Festival | The Sultan’s Pool, Jerusalem Jerusalem’s annual arts and crafts festival is back, centering this year around the image of the tree - a symbol of rootedness, community, and renewal. A “Tree of Life” will be erected, and dozens of artworks and performances will be presented, all focusing on the power of regrowth and renewal, and an initiative for the restoration of burned forests in the Jerusalem region will be launched. Visitors will be able to discover 80 arts and crafts stalls with paintings, ceramic works, jewelry, Judaica items, toys, and more, as well as enjoy the festival’s many (kosher) food stalls, as well as take part in creative workshops, and of course, delight in the many music shows lined up, including by Aviv Gefen, Shlomi Shabat, Ehud Banai, Miri Mesika, Yehuda Poliker, Idan Amedi, and more. August 4-16, artfair-jer.com

Photo: Belu-Simion Fainaru

movement, Fainaru creates a visual expression of anxiety and tension - between certainty and uncertainty, the seen and the unseen, fear and

the ability to overcome. Until October 1 st 2025, jancodada.co.il

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