In August 2018, the artist Uri Katzenstein passed away unexpectedly. In 2021, a new prize for multidisciplinary art was established in his memory, honoring his distinctive approach, which combined performance, sound, video, and sculpture. This prize will be awarded annually to a selected artist or art collective.
With a value of 70,000 NIS, the prize will be granted to a proposal that stands out for its exceptional innovation and groundbreaking creativity, as selected by a professional judging panel.
The prize was established with the generous support of the Danziger family and Rivka Saker. It is managed by Udi Edelman, CEO the Center for Digital Art—Holon and operated with the assistance of the Katzenstein family and friends.
Chana Anushik Manhaimer
is the second winner of the Uri Katzenstein Prize.
Anushik Manhaimer is a multidisciplinary artist and performer. Works in installation, video, performance, new media and animation. Exhibited in museums and galleries in Israel and abroad and participated in international art festivals.
In her latest work in The Center for Digital Art in Holon, Chana Anushik Manhaimer explores the sensory experience within our contemporary socio-technological reality. We live in an era of an unprecedented flood of images – real, augmented, or fabricated – overwhelming us in their indiscriminate chaos. The Institute for Voluntary Sensorial Deprivation researches and develops strategies for defense and rehabilitation, aiming to restore our relationship with our senses while rebuilding trust in the body’s ability to filter sensory input. It examines how society organizes and dictates what is deemed possible to see, hear, and feel.
Gilad Ratman
is the first winner of the Uri Katzenstein Prize.
Born in 1975, in Israel and Tashkent, lives and works in Tel Aviv. Ratman is known for his video, sculpture and sound installations, through which he seeks to examine states of consciousness and human behavior, within complex systems of control and dependence.
PLECOS is an installation that includes video, sound, a system of doors and living clay. The exhibition seeks to create a cyclical movement between inside and outside, thereby attempting to feel the invisible boundary between the subject and the other. The attempt to create communication through speech, and the initial formation of language, mark the allure of the self, as well as the longing for understanding and meaning. Through strategies of disconnection and connection, Ratman seeks to suggest relationships of continuity and duration between material, digital and oral embodiments.