Ruth Feuerstein
Ruth Feuerstein
In her drawings and poetry, Ruth Feuerstein seeks to restore art to its traditional role as a bridge between humanity and divinity, as a space for revelation and as a medium that connects the visible reality with other layers of existence. Feuerstein’s work represents a new link in the chain of religious art, seeking to provide the present with contemporary visions through engagement with subterranean layers of time, flowing from the past and future within the hidden depths of the present.
Feuerstein's work can be defined as 'spiritual realism': through the realms of imagination she represents the spiritual reality that stirs in the world. In that manner, Feuerstein creates in her poetry and drawing a new corpus of mythology – symbolic narratives that binds together the present time and the individual soul, alongside the resonances of the great time of tradition.
In times of constant reduction in the manifestations of spirit in the world; times of generic content and overflow of lifeless language and imagery, Feuerstein creates parallel worlds that restore a sense of mystery and sanctity. In that sense, her religious art acts as a form of resistance to the current cultural and spiritual climate. The idea of revelation through art comes as an alternative to the endless flow of meaningless information. Instead of the superficial abundance that characterises today's Western culture of excess and consumerism, Feuerstein seeks to give voice to a genuine infinity: the essence of the world as it is revealed and expressed through the renewal of human consciousness and art.
Ruth Feuerstein (b. 1994) is a poet, multidisciplinary artist and researcher based in Jerusalem. She is the winner of the Yitzhak Navon Prize from the Ministry of Culture for the Preservation and Cultivation of Jewish Culture in Literature, and the Uri Zvi Grinberg Prize for Poetry. Her debut book "The Book of Oblivion and Redemption" was published in 2024, and her second book, "City of No-Exile" was published in 2025. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions, presenting her visual art alongside her poetry and audio work.
Tel Aviv University, Master's Degree in Literature, 2022 – Present.
Tel Aviv University, Bachelor's Degree in Literature and an Interdisciplinary Program in the Humanities with highest Honors, 2019-2022.
Education
CV
Exhibitions
"Dreamodeldivinity," Solo Exhibition, Art Cube Artists Studios Jerusalem, Curator: Ariel Hacohen, October – November 2024.
Fresh Paint Fair, The Artists incubator, Curators: Raz Shapira and Yifat Gurion, Tel Aviv, 2025.
“Ula”, Group Exhibition, Beit HaGefen, Haifa, Curated by: Nadine Basis, Diana Gaitani, Mira Gnoser, Omer Greenwald Mor, Irit Marsifer, Inas Saab, Lina Colin, Yuval Komem, 2025.
Signal & Silence, Group Exhibition, Medina Art Gallery, Rome, Curator: Danielle Sher, 2026.
Literary Publications
The Book of Oblivion and Redemption: A Vision in Four Acts for an Impossible Stage, Editor: Tal Nitzan, Blima Books, Jerusalem-Berlin: 2024.
City of Non-Exile, Editor: Tal Nitzan, Blima Books, Jerusalem-Berlin: 2025.
Books:
Other Selected Publications:
'Urban Culture and a Great Spirit' (Essay), Ma’aleh: Journal of Criticism, Issue No. 21, 2026.
'In the Blink of a Summer (Wake Up, Beloved)', Haaretz, 2.9.2025
('Close Your Eyes and Leave') from “Hitbasrut”, Granta Israel, Online Edition, “Ihuzim” Issue, 2025.
'Vision of the Machine'; 'Vision of the Birds', Oh!, Issue 29, 2025.
Selected Translations from "The Book of Hours" by Rainer Maria Rilke, Oh!, Issue 28, Anthology of World Poetry, 2025.
('Wednesday'; 'Thursday') from "Hitbasrut", Nanopoetica, Issue 41, 2025.
'Orut' (Skins), Tefer: A Journal for Experimental Literature from Ben-Gurion University, Issue 2, 2024.
('Cure me, My Beloved Fell from Me'), Without Direct Gaze: Love in Contemporary Hebrew Poetry, Editor: Michael Kagzanov, Catharsis, 2024.
'Ruach', Saf Magazine, Issue 2, "Magic: Cosmos," 2024.
('A Song of the Dead'; 'I Remember a World') from "Hitbasrut", Nanopoetica, Issue 39, 2024.
'Dreamodeldivinity', Granta, Online Edition, September 2024.
'What Have They Done to You', taken from "City of Pain", Oh!, Issue 27, 2024.
('Oh, Awaken, Awaken, You Sleepers'; 'And Moving Farther from the Modern') from "Hitbasrut", Nanopoetica, Issue 38, 2024.
'To Know that That', from " Hitbasrut", Oh!, Issue 26," 2024.
('My People, My People, Who is it with me?'); 'Suffering Lies Within Me as an Angel'; 'A cycle of Endings', Granta, Online Edition, March 2024.
'The Lord's Speech'; 'Kaddish', Helicon, Issue 142, 2024.
'Our Body, Body of Transformations', from "The Book of Oblivion and Redemption", Hamusach: An Online Journal from the the National Library, March 2024.
'God of the Opening', Makor Rishon, February 17, 2024.
'Between places, between times', from "The Book of Oblivion and Redemption", Moznaim, Issue No. 5, Volume 40, December 2023.
('When grief knocked at our door'; 'Come in our City of sorrow'; 'God's tunnels') from "Hitbasrut", Be’et Barzel: Words for a Time of Crisis, Kadem Center, Issue 2, 2023.
('The one who builds an image without an eye'; 'Wing factory in the window') from "Hitbasrut" Nanopoetica, Issue No. 35, 2023.
Act 1, from "The Book of Oblivion and Redemption", Moznaim", Issue No. 3, Volume 98, August 2023.
'Nephilim': A Poem, Hamusach, online journal from the National Library, July 2023.
('Our Lord is mute'; 'How did you harness the spirit of the people'), Meshiv Haruach, Open My Lips – Prayers that Continue to be Written, Issue 85, 2022.
'Gold', Lechol Haruchot, Tel Aviv University, Gad Yaakobi Memorial Poetry Competition, Issue No. 4, 2020.
Awards
The Yitzhak Navon Minister of Culture and Sport Award for the preservation and promotion of Jewish culture in the field of literature, 2025.
The Uri Zvi Grinberg Award for Hebrew Poetry, 2025.
Pozis Scholarship for Literary Research, Tel Aviv University, 2025.
Third Prize in the Writing Competition of the Ben-Yehuda Project, 2024.
Yehoshu’a Rabinowitz Arts Foundation Prize for Publishing a Poetry Book ("City of No-Exile"), 2024.
"Mifaal Hapais" grant for Publishing a Poetry Book ("City of No-Exile"), 2024.
Lili Gron Excellence Scholarship in Literary Studies, Department of Literature, Tel Aviv University, 2024.
Ignatz Bubis Scholarship in Jewish Studies, Tel Aviv University, 2024.
Sadan Prize from the School of Jewish Studies and Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, 2024.
Research Grant for German Literature in Memory of Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Tel Aviv University, 2024.
Literary Projects Prize for Publishing a Poetry Book, supported by the Ministry of Culture and Sports ("The Book of Oblivion and Redemption"), 2023.
Yonah Goldrich Research Scholarship from the Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture Institute, Tel Aviv University, 2022.
Rector's Excellence Award from the Faculty of Humanities for commendable achievements, Tel Aviv University, 2020.
Second prize in the Gad Yaakobi poetry competition, Tel Aviv University, 2020.