Sagsoget - Alloy - Legierung

Artist list

Dan Abitbul, Loris Alexis, Vered Anisimov, Anaelle Attab Azoulay, Ido Berenstain, Ksenia Bilder, Avigail Capon, Michal Caspi, Moran Cohen, Yuval Elazari Volcani, Zohar Fadlon, Adi Farber, Carmel Goldental, Nava Hadar Avnit, Hasan Kurd, Moriah Levine Pollack, Noga Mazover, Gaia Or Ner, Nour Qaimari, Ahlam Qaissi, Itai Shiftan, Fatma Shkirat, Sofia Zakharova, Mai Zarkawi, Yasmin Zehavi, Suzan Zriean

The exhibition seeks to reflect the spirit ‒ the specific “Sagsoget” (Engl. alloy) ‒ of the Bezalel jewellery from recent years, done by students and graduates of the jewellery and fashion department of Bezalel, who came from all over Israel – from different sectors, ethnicities, and religions.

‏The combination of the department’s European roots, mainly German, and its geographical and cultural location in the Middle East, has given rise to a conceptual and creative dialectic, oscillating between opposite yet complementary poles. The featured works surrender a tension between the local and the universal – between function and pure idea – between a one-off handiwork and serial production – between tributes to the past and insistence on the present and the contemporary – between west and east – between work in a bubble and exposure to outside influences. In fact, this dialectic is the essence and core of the Department of Jewelry and Fashion at Bezalel.

With great pleasure Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum has invited professors and students of the Bezalel department for jewellery and fashion to be on display at Pinakothek der Moderne as part of the format “Under the stairs“ during SCHMUCK in Munich 2023.


Press conference: Friday, 10th March 2023, 11 a.m.
Opening: Saturday, 11th March, 7 p.m.