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Renana Aldor is an artist working across moving image, installation, and expanded cinematic practices.
She is a lecturer at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, where she graduated with honors from the Screen-Based Arts Department and later received her MFA.
Her working process often begins with an existing or imagined photographic moment, suspended in time and animated through camera movement or the subtle calibration of the gaze. Through moving image and installation, she constructs choreographed encounters in which bodies, objects, and the cinematic gaze constitute the perception of memory and space. Her work engages the cinematic apparatus as a way of thinking, exploring how gestures, proximity and distance, duration, and spatial structures shape the relationship between the individual and the collective, and between body and psyche. Her works often unfold through restrained yet charged situations, where anticipation and uncertainty linger without resolution, producing an uncanny sense of suspended time.
Aldor is the recipient of the 2021 Miron Sima Visual Arts Award and the Young Artist Award from the Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sports. She has received production grants from the Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts (2025), Mifal HaPais Art Incubator (2024), and the Foundation for Independent Creators (2021). Her solo exhibitions include In the Beginning at the Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv (2025); The Space, the Period, the Comma, the Twenty-Two Letters at Jerusalem Artists’ House (2021); and Blind Spot at Art Cube Artists’ Studios, Jerusalem (2018). Her work has also been presented at Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv; the National Art Center, Tokyo; Arsenal Gallery, Poznań; REAKTOR International Film Festival, Vienna; and the Jerusalem Film Festival.