B. 1969, Israel. Lives and works in Ein Vered and Tel Aviv.

Ruthi Helbitz Cohen is a highly acclaimed contemporary artist whose work is held in the permanent collections of the Israel Museum and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. A recipient of the Minister of Culture Prize, she has exhibited extensively across Israel and Europe, including solo shows in Berlin, Paris, and Amsterdam.

Helbitz Cohen’s practice is defined by an alchemical approach to materials. Working on industrial parchment and semi-transparent fabrics rather than traditional canvas, she utilizes fluid substances like industrial dyes, bleach, and coffee to mirror the shifting boundaries of the subconscious. Her technique of soaking and layering creates a translucent, skin-like quality where figures seem to dissolve into the surface, evoking a profound sense of transience and permanent transformation.

Drawing deeply from history, classical poetry, collective myth and psychological practices, her work explores the feminine archetype through a lens of personal biography. Her large-scale installations navigate themes of trauma, domesticity, and the visceral body, maintaining a constant tension between the "pretty" and the "grotesque." By weaving poetic references into her ghostly imagery, Helbitz Cohen creates a liminal space where the private becomes universal, confronting the shadowy layers of human identity.