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Dafna Kaffeman

Dafna Kaffeman is an Israeli artist who works mainly in glass and embroidery and teaches at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.

born 1972Flame-worked glass plants and insectsEmbroidery with social and political textsTeaching glass at Bezalel

Occupation: sculptor, artist
Education: Sandberg Institute, Gerrit Rietveld Academie

Dafna Kaffeman was born in 1972 in Jerusalem

Dafna Kaffeman was born in Jerusalem in 1972. From 1994 to 1996 she studied ceramic design at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.

She graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam in 1999. In 2001 she earned a Master of Fine Arts from the Sandberg Institute, also in Amsterdam.

From 2005 to 2011 she headed the glass program at Bezalel, where she later became a professor. She has also taught at schools and museums abroad, including in Germany, Japan and the United States.

Her work combines flame-worked glass plants and insects with embroidery, drawing and print. It uses texts about events in Israel to deal with social and political themes such as identity, immigration, memorial and mourning.

She has had solo shows in Israel, Europe and the United States. Her works are held by museums such as the Israel Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Corning Museum of Glass.