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 is awarded annually to a selected artist or art collective.
With a value of 70,000 NIS, the prize is 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 of the Center for Digital Art—Holon and operated with the assistance of the Katzenstein family and friends.
The call for proposals for the 2025 Prize will be published soon
Gilad Ratman – The first winner of the Uri Katzenstein Multidisciplinary Art Award for 2022.
PLECOS, which was exhibited at The CCA, 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. Through strategies of disconnection and connection, Ratman seeks to suggest relationships of continuity and duration between material, digital and oral embodiments.
Chana Anushik Manhaimer – The second winner of the Uri Katzenstein Multidisciplinary Art Award for 2023.
In The Institutefor Voluntary Sensorial Deprivation, which was exhibited at The Center for Digital Art in Holon, Anushik Manhaimer explores the sensory experience within our contemporary socio-technological reality. She examines how society organizes and dictates what is deemed possible to see, hear, and feel.
