It closed in 1996 and the archival material was later donated to the Information Center for Israeli Art at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
Five years later, the gallery moved to the Noga neighborhood in Jaffa.
Artifact gallery showcased the work of leading Israeli artists, among them Diti Almog, Philip Rantzer, Yitzhak Livne, Hila Lulu Lin, David Reeb, Larry Abramson, Asad Azi and Joshua Borkovsky.
The gallery was one of the first in the country to provide exhibition space for video art installations.
In 2013, Edelstein donated the archive of Artifact Gallery, which includes archival material on Israeli artists, to the Information Center for Israeli Art at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.