Born in Bucharest in 1959,
lives and works in Haifa and Antwerp.

Belu-Simion Fainaru has been exploring for years, and through different artistic media, facets of Jewish culture. His works touch on questions of cultural and territorial relations between the individual and society. He addresses situations of nomadism and transience, and examines social, cultural, and religious meanings of unique sites. In this way he constructs a range between the earthly and the heavenly, and between tradition, holiness, and art. In his art Fainaru removed Judaica from the familiar, limited context of yiddishkeit to universal contexts, and contributed greatly to placing the Jewish subject matter on the center stage of Israeli art.