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Artists
Laila Abd Elrazaq
Laila Abd Elrazaq is an interdisciplinary artist working across video, sound, text, and digital media. Her practice explores the intersections of personal narrative, gender identity, and the socio-political frameworks that shape and define “Arab identity”. Drawing from both personal and collective memory, she investigates what it means to exist between languages, histories, and imposed roles.

She holds a BA (Hons) and an MFA from the University of Haifa, as well as a Fine Arts Teaching Certificate from Hamidrasha Faculty of Arts, Beit Berl College. She is the recipient of multiple scholarships and awards, including the AICF Scholarship, the late Prof. Uri Katzenstein Award for Excellence in a Final BA Project, the Walid Abu Shakra Young Artist Prize, and the WAVA Artist of the Mediterranean Award. She currently lectures at the University of Haifa, and her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally.
arnt bek | Arndt Beck | אַרנט†בעק
Arndt Beck (arnt bek | Arndt Beck | אַרנט†בעק), born in West Germany, works as a freelance artist in disciplines as diverse as photography, drawing, and text. As the heir to the estate of HELMUT J. PSOTTA, Beck also sees themself as a mediator of Psotta’s work. Beck has been intensively engaged with the Yiddish language for several years and initiated the exhibitions and event series of YIDDISH BERLIN since 2019. As of 2025, Beck is part of a transnational research group on the work of Yiddish poet Avrom Nokhem Stencl, who spent crucial years of his life (1921–1936) in Berlin. Beck recently iniciated MILI, an ongoing collective artistic exploration in honor to the anarcha-feminist activist Milly Witkop and started exploring the archive of Yiddish writer Shmuel Lewin. Latest publications: Illustrations to Katerina Kuznetsova, Glozperl, Lider, 2025.
Liliana Farber
Liliana Farber is an Uruguayan-born, New York-based, visual artist. Through research-based processes and using digital strategies, Farber creates still and moving images, objects, installations, and web-based works. These investigate notions of land imaginaries, unmappable spaces, utopias, and techno-colonialism.

Farber’s work has been exhibited at The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Lisbon; The Center for Books Art, New York; Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria; Arebyte Gallery, London; and Panke Gallery, Berlin; among others venues. 
Farber is a recipient of the Lumen Prize for Art and Technology, UK; Artis grant, USA; and Asylum Arts grant, USA. She has been an artist-in-residence at LMCC, NYC, Wassaic Projects, NY, and LESP, NYC. Her work is part of the Victoria and Albert Museum collection in London and numerous private collections worldwide. She has been featured in On Curating, Switzerland and MIT’s Leonardo Journal, USA. Farber received her MFA from Parsons School of Design, New York, and her BA from ORT University, Uruguay.
Eliana Pliskin Jacobs 
Eliana Pliskin Jacobs is a Yiddish singer, circus performer, visual and performance artist, and the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors. Her solo inter-disciplinary work combines circus, music, visual and performance art and examines themes of ghostliness, history of place, migratory identity and ethereal liminality. She holds a BA in Art History and Visual Arts from the University of British Columbia, as well as an MFA from HEAD-Geneva and the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin under the supervision of Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung.

Eliana began training and performing circus at the age of 12 in the United States, and since 2012 has been performing, teaching, choreographing and directing productions as an independent aerialist in Western Canada and throughout Europe. Trained in Baroque and Yiddish singing, Eliana has performed with various klezmer bands and as a soloist with the Dresden Philharmonic, the Leipzig Gewandhaus and the Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestras. In 2023 she founded the klezmer-circus ensemble Tsirk Dobranotch with the internationally renowned klezmer band Dobranotch; the ensemble has created three productions, which they continue to tour internationally. Since 2018, Eliana has been exhibiting and performing visual work in solo and group exhibitions and artistic interventions around Europe. These include, among others, exhibitions following residencies at Haihatus (Joutsa, 2018), Kemijärvi (2018) and Pilotenkueche (Leipzig, 2019), the research and online exhibition project “HABITER” (2021), ongoing public interventions with the Kunstkollektiv Marinus (of which she was a founding member in 2022), a solo performance and exhibition for the Amo Collective’s “Decolonial Flânerie” at the Humboldt University Berlin (2023), and solo performances at her family’s former places of residence: “Brenzilber” (Berlin, 2021) and “Das atmende Haus” (Dresden, 2025). Eliana is currently a guest researcher with the Research CoLab “Modes of Intersectional Conversation” at the Humboldt University Berlin’s Institute for European Ethnology.

www.eliana-arts.com

Masha Shprayzer 
Artist Masha Shprayzer explores identity and memory through a feminist lens, tracing how women transmit experience across generations through everyday rituals. She often turns to Yiddish culture as a fragmented yet surviving space of cultural memory and addresses mental health as part of both personal and collective histories. Masha works with installation, textiles, and performance.

In 2024–2025 she participated in exhibitions in Israel including the video performance Soul, created as a result of the Bavua residency program by Ta Tarbut within the Loving Art Making Art Festival, Hameretz Shtaim, Tel Aviv (2025); the exhibition following the residency The Great Perhaps, Herzl House, Tel Aviv (2025); and the group exhibition Kingdom of Jerusalem, Harmony Cultural Center, Jerusalem (2024). In 2024 she presented the solo exhibition Vintertsayt at KakdelArt Container Gallery, Beit Hamecholot, Tel Aviv–Yafo.

Her recent international projects include the exhibition following the residency Hidden, Sisters Garden, Umbria, Italy (2025), and the residency Memory Archive. Collected Stories, Ria Keburia Foundation, Tbilisi (2024). 

Masha Shprayzer graduated from the Joseph Backstein Institute of Contemporary Art in Moscow. Born in Rostov-on-Don, she is currently based in Tel Aviv.