Jennifer Roth
The Kidnapped Poster Campaign: Graffiti Artists Dede Bandaid and Nitzan Mintz in Conversation with Jennifer Roth

Jennifer V. Roth heads her own art advisory company, JVR ART ADVISORY LLC, specializing in estate and collection management and planning. Prior to founding her own company, she was a senior vice president at Sotheby’s, NY, specializing in fine art, including Israeli art and Judaica. She is a board member of Artis, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting Israeli contemporary art abroad. She is also a board member of Friends of Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and serves on the Judaica Acquisitions Committee at the Jewish Museum in NY. Jennifer was born in South Africa and obtained a BA from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and an MA from Columbia University, New York.

Dede Bandaid is a Tel-Aviv based, multidisciplinary urban artist, who utilizes various mediums to communicate within the public arena. He started creating his works after finishing his military service and continued to develop and elaborate them while completing his undergraduate studies at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. Dede’s inspiration stems from the urban landscape and the social and the personal questions it evokes. As he gathers stories and structures hidden within the ever-changing city streets, Dede examines and questions the man-made lifestyle people create for themselves, and reflects on absurd, paradoxical human existence. Outdoor locations and found objects often serve as a point of departure for the pieces he creates. The techniques he later applies, such as assemblage, collage, painting, photography and installation, are chosen based on their ability to highlight the original sources of inspiration and the stories they carry. Nowadays his works can be viewed at galleries, exhibition spaces, various art events and in the streets of art capitals around the world, such as London, New York, Berlin and Tel-Aviv.

Nitzan Mintz is a visual poet based in Tel Aviv. She began working a decade ago in the streets of Tel Aviv, where she would create visual poetry for specific locations in the city. She later continued to create studio pieces as well. The public sphere has a central role in Mintz’s artistic process, as it is her main source of inspiration. As a Tel Aviv native, her personal growth and change has been echoed by the dramatic changes Tel Aviv has undergone in recent years. In her poems, Mintz attempts to verbalize personal and collective emotional struggles. Her poems are later developed into her visual pieces. She mainly uses leftovers from the public sphere, industrial materials, paint, and letter stencils. Her final pieces facilitate a unique connection between text, form, and color, allowing a new experience for the viewer. Mintz has created pieces in the public sphere and has exhibited her work in different art venues and events in many cities in the world such as New York, Miami, Montreal, London, Paris, Prague, Vienna, Berlin, and more.