Alma Itzhaky is an artist and researcher, born in Israel/Palestine and currently based in Berlin. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from Tel Aviv University and is currently a Minerva Postdoctoral Fellow at the Leibniz Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung. Her studio practice, rooted in painting and drawing, explores the tension between the narrative and referential potential of drawing and its concrete, material aspects. Working on paper and often on a large scale, her works highlight the performative nature of drawing as a form of bodily mark-making.

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Itzhaky’s projects are inspired by the memory of specific places and environments, delving into the intersections of urban landscapes and human-altered forms of nature. She is particularly drawn to desolate areas and the trope of the “wasteland,” which embodies mythical and historical narratives of ruination and survival.

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Itzhaky has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions, including a solo exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and at Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv. She has participated in international residency programs, such as LABA Contemporary Art in Berlin, the NARS Foundation residency in Brooklyn, and the Drawing Center Viewing Program in New York City. Her work won notable prizes, including the Rappaport Prize for a Young Artist (2014).

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In her academic work, Itzhaky examines the intersection of art and the political sphere, focusing on how artistic experiences influence the understanding of agency. Her current research project investigates “environmental imaginaries” in Palestinian and Israeli art. This work explores how artists envision the local environment, its history and its future, against the backdrop of inherited and ongoing colonial constructions of nature.