Jerusalem Design Week returns for a large-scale edition taking place from July 9-16, 2026, at Hansen House and throughout Jerusalem. Since its founding in 2011, Jerusalem Design Week has become a unique platform for developing original works, fostering international collaborations, and presenting new, groundbreaking projects. With more than one hundred participants, it is Israel’s largest and leading public cultural event in the field of design. Open to the general public and free of charge.
This year’s theme, "Victory Gate", explores the meeting point between sports and design, and the ways concepts such as victory, competition, and belonging are translated into a visual and cultural language. Through the lens of sports, Design Week also seeks to examine the place of victory and defeat in the local reality, and to ask how living amid ongoing struggles shapes the way we imagine achievement, resolution, and hope. Against the backdrop of the international sporting events of summer 2026, Design Week offers a renewed look at sports as a social, political, and emotional space. Team colors, symbols, flags, sports fashion, and stadiums shape identity and collective consciousness, turning sports arenas into spaces of emotion, power, and belonging.
- Among the projects featured during Design Week are "I Came to Cheer", with works by Alon Rotman, Neta Dror, Oz Mualem, and Bar Mossan Levy.
- "Hall of Fame" will explore ideas of victory and achievement through works by Bina Baitel, Ohad Benit, and additional designers.
- "In the Spirit of Sports" reexamines rules, conventions, and mechanisms from the world of sports through design practices, with works by Batya Kolton, Dekel Bobrov, Miki Kedar, and others.
- In the Hansen House courtyard, the exhibition "The Heat", curated by Roni Yehezkel, will present interactive games and installations for the public, while "The Matchmaker", under the artistic direction of Itay Yaakov, connects Jerusalem-based designers with soccer fans through fashion, photography, and fan culture. Alongside these, additional exhibitions will also be presented, including "Sparta", which examines the connection between sports, power, and discipline, and "Control Room", which focuses on measurement, monitoring, and technology in the world of sports, featuring works by Saar Friedman and Hadar Bar, Liora Rosin, and Nitzan Debi.
- A unique academic project will bring together Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem, the Maccabiah, and Ben-Gurion University, alongside an extensive content program of screenings, performances, installations, talks, and music under the artistic direction of Yuval Mendelson.
"In a year when we are focusing on sports in the 15th edition of Design Week, we seek to ask what victory really is. Is victory a moment of decision, or a process of perseverance, recovery, and growth? In the complex regional reality we have been living in over the past few years, the concepts of victory and defeat extend far beyond the playing field. ‘Victory Gate’ seeks to use the language of sports to examine questions of power, hope, identity, competition, solidarity, and the human cost of the desire to win. We invite everyone, from every place and of every age, to become active players, participate, and enjoy the meeting point between design, sports, and culture in Jerusalem." (Ran Wolf, Director of Jerusalem Design Week)
