Winner of the 2026 Osnat Mozes Painting Prize for a Young Artist – David Rosenberg

Awarded in collaboration with the Jerusalem Artists’ House

David Rosenberg is the winner of the 2026 Osnat Mozes Painting Prize for a Young Artist, awarded in collaboration with the Jerusalem Artists’ House. Introduced in 2007, the Prize includes a 10,000 NIS award and a solo exhibition at the Jerusalem Artists’ House.

Rosenberg’s exhibition will open at the Jerusalem Artists’ House on August 22, 2026.

In their statement, the prize committee members noted:

David Rosenberg’s art explores the formal transformations of the painterly medium with sensitivity, depth, and a playful approach. In his oeuvre, he delves into the relationship between the painting’s surface and its role as a generator of illusion. His works emerge from a commitment to rigorous, painstaking inquiry, counterweighted by humor and self-awareness. His performative painting comprises architectural and graphic imagery, complex compositions, and built structures that evoke billboards, riddles, and warning signs. His profound understanding of the medium’s materiality cements his status as a promising artist, working from a deep affinity with the tradition of abstract painting, both international and Israeli. Rosenberg approaches painting as a question: What is an image? What is abstract painting? At what moment does the work come apart? What sustains it? And how, despite everything, does the painterly act remain contemporary and more relevant than ever?

For all these qualities, we have chosen to confer the 2026 Osnat Mozes Painting Prize for a Young Artist on David Rosenberg.

Prize committee: Sagie Azoulay, Oren Eliav, Yaara Oren

* The award ceremony will be held on January 11, 2027 *

David Rosenberg –  CV

1. 1992 Jerusalem; lives and work in Pardes Hanna

Education

2018–2022   B.F.A., Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem, Department of Fine Arts

Solo Exhibitions

2025   Magnetic Fields, Department of Fine Arts, Bezalel Academy, curated by Jossef Krispel

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022   LIKE FATHER LIKE SON, HaKubia Gallery, curated by Dan Orimian

2021   Bikurim, The New Gallery – Teddy, curated by Sally Haftel

2022   Portrait, curated by Dan Orimian

2020   HaMerkazit 1, Haifa, curated by Shirley Meshulam

2019   Art Space

2018   Collections Exhibition, Bezalel Academy

Awards

2020   Excellence Award, Department of Fine Arts, Bezalel Academy

David Rosenberg, Window to infinity, 2026, spray paint and acrylic on canvas

David Rosenberg, Untitled, 2026, spray on canvas