Ruti Sela and Maayan Amir

Ruti Sela was born in Jerusalem, 1974. She lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel. She teaches art and video art at Haifa University and Avni Institute. She was awarded a BFA in art with excellence at the Bezalel Academy and an MFA from the studies Film Department, Tel Aviv University. She has won many awards for her work among them is the Israeli ministry of education award for excellent Yung Artist and in 2009 she won the Wolf Foundation, Anselm Kiefer prize. Her works are shown internationally in exhibitions such as the Sidney Biennale (2006) and venues such as Centre Pompidou (Paris), Art in General (NY), TPW (Toronto) among many others places. Her work will also be shown in the upcoming Istanbul Biennale (2009)

Maayan Amir Lives and works in Tel-Aviv, she is an artist and independent curator. She is currently studying towards PhD at the interdisciplinary art studies at Tel-Aviv University. She is teaching curatorial studies at Sapir Academic College and edited a book about Israeli documentary cinema which was published on 2008. Her works are shown internationally in exhibitions such as the Sidney Biennale (2006) and venues such as Centre Pompidou (Paris), Art in General (NY), TPW (Toronto) among many others places. Her work will also be shown in the upcoming Istanbul Biennale (2009)