Bio and CV

Galit Eilat is an interdependent curator and writer based in Amsterdam. Since 2018 she is the director of Meduza Foundation. Her projects seek to develop conditions that enable collective encounters and experiences, underpinned by a critical view towards the status quo. Pivotal to her projects is the process of knowledge dissemination, which departs from the ethos that art is charged with the potential to ignite social change. Her current research trajectories are dealing with the Syndrome of the PresentArt in Dark times and Picasso’s Heritage.

In 2001, she founded the Israeli Center for Digital Art, where she served as director for ten years. In 2004, she co-founded Maarav, an online arts and culture magazine and in 2007, she co- founded the Mobile Archive. Together with Reem Fadda, Eyal Danon and Phil Misselwitz she initiated the traveling seminar series, Liminal Spaces, a platform for joint work, action, and dialogue between the Israeli and Palestinian art communities. She served as the first artistic director of the Akademie der Künste der Welt in Cologne. Among others she curated and co-curated projects such as VideoZone 4 – International Video Art Biennial in Tel Aviv, And Europe will be stunned — Yael Bartana in the Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (with Sebastian Cichocki), the 32nd October Salon, Belgrade (with Alenka Gregoric) and 31st Sao Paulo Biennial (with Nuria Enguita Mayo, Pablo Lafuente, Charles Esche, Oren Sagiv and associate Curators – Benjamin Seroussi, Luiza Proença).

International collaborations have included projects with gfzk | Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig; Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk. Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw; National Gallery Kosovo; Kunsthaus Bregenz; MG + MSUM Moderna Galerija Ljubljana; SALT, Istanbul; Malmö Konstmuseum; Serralves Museum and more.

In addition to her curatorial activities, she also engages in teaching and writing extensively about art and politics.

CV

Institutional Positions

2018

Director of Meduza Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2012-13

Artistic director of the Akademie der Künste der Welt. Cologne, Germany.

2010-13

Guest curator, Van Abbemuseum. Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

2001-10

Founding Director of the Israeli Center for Digital art. Holon, Israel.

Curating and Co-Curating (selective)

2020

Art in Dark Times. Yael Bartana, Quinsy Gario, Jelena Jureša, Didem Pekün and Jacqueline Rose. Co curator Erden Kosova.  Bibak, bi’baxchange. Berlin.

2016-20

Syndrome of the Present, Trans disciplinary research project. Juan Pérez Agirregoikoa, Marc David Baer, Yael Bartana, Melis Birder, Ayse Cavdar, Yael Davids, Marjolijn Dijkman, Galit Eilat, Koken Ergun, Amir Engel, Alexander van der Haven, Hannah Dawn Henderson, Gil Hochberg, Natasa Ilic, Yolande Jansen, Erden Kosova, Romm Lewkowicz, Savas Michael Matsas, Pawel Maciejko, Meriç,Öner Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Bik Van der Pol, Danielle Riou, Julian Reid, Roee Rosen and Artur Zjmyewsky. Amsterdam, Thessaloniki, Izmir, Istanbul and Recife.

2019

Sokol Beqiri,  National Museum of Fine Arts. Tirana, Albania.

2013-17

Once Upon a Time … the Collection Now, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Collection presentation. Exhibition advisor Christiane Berndes, Charles Esche, Diana Franssen.

2016

The Presence of the Real, Adem Jashari, Prishtina. Peja Arts Gallery, Peje. Kosovo. Effi & Amir, Nir Evron, Flaka Haliti, Majlinda Hoxha, Cristina Mari / Bardhi Haliti, Armend Nimani, Vigan Nimani, Ilya Rabinovich, Blerim Racaj. Pristina and Peja, Kosovo.

2015

Neither Forward nor Back: Acting in the Present, Jakarta Biennale. Jakarta, Indonesia. Curatorial advisor.

How to (…) things that don’t exist – an exhibition developed out of the 31st São Paulo Biennial, Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal. Artists, Juan Pérez Agirregoikoa, Yael Bartana, Anna Boghiguian, Johanna Calle, Tony Chakar, Chto Delat, Contrafilé, Danica Dakic, Etcétera & Léon Ferrari, Nilbar Güres, Sandi Hilal & Alessandro Petti, Clara Ianni & Débora Maria da Silva, Voluspa Jarpa, Edward Krasinski, Graziela Kunsch & Lilian L’Abbate Kelian, Mark Lewis, Ana Lira, Gabriel Mascaro, Virginia de Medeiros, Cildo Meireles, Éder Oliveira, Bruno Pacheco, Agnieszka Piksa, Armando Queiroz & Almires Martins & Marcelo Rodrigues, Walid Raad, Juan Carlos Romero, Wilhelm Sasnal, Qiu Zhijie . Co curator Charles Esche and Oren Sagiv.

Rainbow In The Dark – On the Joy and Torment of Faith, Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö. Sweden. Artists: Juan Pérez Agirregoikoa, Mirosław Bałka, Yael Bartana, Magnus Bärtås, Yane Calovski & Hristina Ivanoska, Köken Ergun, Carl Johan Erikson, Etcetera, Michael Kessus Gedalyovich, Tamar Guimarães & Kasper Akhøj, Nilbar Güreş, Michal Heiman, Jonathan Horowitz, Gülsün Karamustafa, Paweł Kwiek, Jumana Manna & Sille Storihle, Honorata Martin, Virgínia de Medeiros, Teresa Murak, Nira Pereg, Lene Adler Petersen & Bjørn Nørgaard, Wael Shawky, Slavs and Tatars, Zbigniew Warpechowski, Nahúm B Zenil, Artur Żmijewski. Co curator Sebastian Cichocki.

2014

How To Talk About Things That Do Not Exist, 31st Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo. Brazil. Artists, Agnieszka Piksa, Ana Lira, Anna Boghiguian, Armando Queiroz, Arthur Scovino, Asger Jorn, Bik Van der Pol, Bruno Pacheco, Clara Ianni e Débora Maria de Silva, Contrafilé with Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, Danica Dakić, Éder Oliveira, Edward Krasinski, El Hadji Sy, Graziela Kunsch and Lilian Kelian, Halil Altindere, Imogen Stidworthy, Ines Doujak and John Barker, Jo Baer, Johanna Calle, Juan Carlos Romero, Juan Downey, Juan Pérez Agirregoikoa, Leigh Orpaz, MAPA Teatro, Marta Neves, Mujeres Creando, Museo Travesti del Perú, Nilbar Güreş, Nurit Sharett, Pedro G. Romero, Prabhakar Pachpute, Romy Pocztaruk, Ruane Abou-Rahme and Basel Abbas, Sheela Gowda, Tamar Guimarães e Kasper Akhøj, Thiago Martins de Melo, Tony Chakar, Val del Omar, Vivian Suter, Virgínia de Medeiros, Voluspa Jarpa, Walid Raad, Wilhelm Sasnal, Yael Bartana. Co curators Charles Esche, Nuria Enguita Mayo, Pablo Lafuente and Oren Sagiv.

Rainbow In The Dark, SALT, Istanbul, Turkey. Artists, Kader Attia, Fayçal Baghriche, Mirosław Bałka, Fatma Bucak, Köken Ergun, Nilbar Güreş, Jonathan Horowitz, Gülsün Karamustafa, Paweł Kwiek, Virgínia de Medeiros, Mujeres Públicas, Teresa Murak, Walid Raad, Zofia Rydet, Wael Shawky, Slavs & Tatars, Zbigniew Warpechowski, Artur Żmijewski and Paweł Althamer. Co curator Sebastian Cichocki.

2013

Black or White, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Artists, Michael J. Baers, Sue Coe, Robert Crumb, Emma De Swaef and Marc James Roels, Piotr Dumała, Extrastruggle, Philippe Grammaticopoulos, Greg Irons and Tom Veitch, Phil Mulloy, Prabhakar Pachpute, Dan Perjovschi, Peter Pontiac, Ton Smits, William Kentridge.

2012

Living Archive, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, in collaboration with Van Abbemuseum. Artists: Francis Bacon, Robert Indiana, Paul McCarthy, Michal Heiman, Hannah Hurtzig and Katrin Mayer.

It doesn’t always have to be beautiful, unless it’s beautiful, National Gallery Kosovo, Kosovo. Artists: Adrian Paci, Yael Bartana, Albert Heta, Arben Elshani, Aya Ben Ron, Bert Theis, Danica Dakic, Deimantas Narcevicius, Dren Maliqi, Driton Hajredini, Edi Hila, Fatos Kabashi, Joanna Billing, Josef Dabernig, Laurent Mareschal, Luan Bajraktari, Majlinda Hoxha, Mark Lewis, Mehmet Behluli, Orhan Kurtolli, Ozlem Gunol and Mustafa Kunt, Petrit Halilaj, Praneet Soi, Qendrese Deda, Sejla Kameric, Shpend Havolli, Tanja Lazetic, Vadim Fishkin, Vangelis Gokas. Co-curator Charles Esche.

A Voyage To Cythera, Aya Ben Ron, Berlin Medical Historical Museum, Berlin, Germany

Beyond the Truth, City Art Gallery of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Artists: Amir Yatziv, Rabih Mroue, Michael Blum, Etcetera, Mladen Miljanović, Katarina Zdjelar, Ibro Hasanović. Co-curator Alenka Gregoric.

Black and White, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland. Artists: Phil Mulloy, Aya Ben Ron, Heimo Wallner, Philippe Grammaticopoulos, William Kentridge, Piotr Dumała, Marek Raczkowski, Robert Crumb, Blu, Sebastian Diaz Morales, Krzysztof Ostrowski, Victoria Lomasko, Krzysztof “Prosiacek” Owedyk, Dan Perjovschi, Extrastruggle, Anna Niesterowicz, Yael Bartana. Co-curator Łukasz Ronduda.

2009-11

Picasso in Palestine, Khaled Hurani, International Academy of art, Ramallah, Palestine. Van Abbemuseum. Co – curators, Fatima AbdulKarim, Remco de Blaaij and Charles Esche.

2007-11

Mobile Archive, The Isreli Center for Digital Art in collaboration with Hamburg Kunstverein, WYSPA (Gdansk), Nova Gallery (Zagrab), Skuc Gallery (Ljubljana), Venice University of Art (Venice), Newbery Gallery at the Glasgow School of Art (Glasgow), Art in General (NYC) Centro da Cultura Judaica, São Paulo (Sao Paulo).

2011

This Day, Akram Zaatari, Mala Galerija, Slovenia, Ljubljana.

And Europe will be Stunned, Yael Bartana, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

Strange and Close CAPC, Bordeaux in collaboration with Van Abbemuseum. Artists: Marjetica Potrc, Dan Peterman, Yael Bartana, Artur Zmijewski, Absalon, Chto Delat, Daniza Dakic, Harun Farocki, Michal Heiman, Erzen Shokololi, Akram Zaatari, Nedko Solakov, Aydan Murtezaoglu, Michelangelo Pistoletto. Co-curator Charles Esche.

And Europe will be stunned, Yael Bartana, The Polish Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale, Italy. Co-curator Sebastian Cichocki.

It’s Time We Got To Know Each Other, October Salon 52nd, The Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrade, Serbia. Artists: Damir Avdić, Art Clinic, Yossi Atia & Itamar Rose, Yael Bartana, the Centre for Cultural Decontamination, Nemanja Cvijanović, Vuk Ćosić & Irena Woelle, Rod Dickinson, Mikós Erhardt & Little Warsaw, Etcétera.., Jan Fabre, Ibro Hasanović, IRWIN, Khaled Jarrar, Kiosk, the Kontekst Collective, Mladen Miljanović, Avi Mograbi, Darinka Pop-Mitić,Vahida Ramujkić, Kateřina Šedá, Nebojša Šerić Shoba, Imogen Stidworthy, Milica Tomić, Urtica, Amir Yatziv, Akram Zaatari, Katarina Zdjelar, Artur Żmijewski. Co-curator Alenka Gregoric.

2010

The Politics of Collection, The Collection of Politics, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Artists: Michal Heiman, Hannah Hurtzig, Lia Perjovschi, Sean Snyder, Lidwien van de Ven, Akram Zaatari, Denmark Denmark, Zofia Kulik.

The Real War, Sean Snyder, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel.

2009

Evil to the Core, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon. Israel. Artists: Rod Dickinson, Artur Zmijewski, Noam Gelbart, David Reeb, David Tartakover, Amir Yatziv. Co-curator Ran Kasmy Ilan.

On Invisible, Unknown and Ghostly Knowledge, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon. Israel. Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge No 12, Hannah Hurtzig, The Jewish-Arabic Center in Jaffa, Israel.

2008-09

Middle East Summit, meetings between active actors from the Middle East and North Africa.  Host institute – Van AbbeMuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

2008

Chosen – A joint collaboration between Wyspa Institute of Art Gdansk, Poland and The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel. Artists: Anna Niesterowicz, Menachem & Yekutiel Roth, Yael Bartana, Yossi & Itamar, Artur Zmijewski, Sala-manca, Joanna Rajkowska, Avi Mograbi, Ittai Meyer & Suff Backaleinick, Roee Rosen, Anna Molska, Grzegorz Klaman.

Speed of Light, VideoZone, The 4th International Video Art Biennial in Israel, The Isreli Center for Digital Art. Artists: Guido van der Werve, Romy Achituv, Neil Beloufa, Leigh Orpaz, Ohad Fishof, Guy Bar Amotz, Sala-Manca collective, Mark Formanek. Co-curator Eyal Danon,

2008

Never Looked Better, Museum Beth Hatefutsoth, Tel Aviv, Israel. Artists: Yael Bartana, Yochai Avrhami, Yossi Atia and Itamar Rose, Ilya Rabinovich, Michael Blum. Co-curator Eyal Danon.

2007

HaPzura, Sound art and experimental music festival. The festival included the exhibition “Works in Translation” with artists: Adriana Garcia Galan, Eva Koch, Imogen Stidworthy, Marcus Coates, Artur Zmijewski, Romi Ahituv, Yossi Mar-Haim, Michal Naaman. A sound intervention series with artists: Cathy Van Eck, Edwin van der Heide, Yael Davids, Maya Dunietz, Michal Rothschild, Michal Rinnot, Leor Weinstein, Michal Rinott, Roee Ben Sira, Ori Drumer, Tikva Morowati, David Hindman, Spencer Kiser, Marcus Coates, Jetske de Boer, Public Movement, Josef Sprintzak. Performances with artists: FAUST, Mouse on Mars, Eddie Prevost, John Butcher, Peter Brotzmann, Marino Pliakas, Michael Wertmuller, Philip Jeck, Gal & Maurin, Keir Neuringer, TaaPet, Igor Krutogolov, Machinefabriek, Malox, The Quintet’s Quartet, Seventeen Migs of Spring, O.B.E.Y, Eran Sachs, Musica Genera, TV Buddhas, Blood Stereo, Dora Doll, Ariel Shibolet, Panda Porn, Arik Shapira, Mapstation

2006-08

Liminal Spaces, Traveling seminar. Palestine, Israel and Germany. Artists: Rene Gabri & Ayreen Anastas , Khaled Hourani , Inass Yassin, Sandi Hilal & Alessandro Petti, Yazan Khalili, Suleiman Mansour, Sami Bukhari, Oren Sagiv, Yochai Avrahami , Miri Segal, Tal Adler, Yosi Atia & Itamar Ross, Hagar Goren , Manar Zuabi, Anjalika Sagar & Kodwo Eshun, Lida Abdul, Sanja Ivekovic, Simon Wachsmuth, Mauricio Guillen, Michael Blum , Lia Perjovschi, Hans Bernhard , Solmaz Shahbazi, Artur Zmijewski, Yael Bartana Oliver Clemens & Sabine Horlitz, Azra Aksamija, Inass Hamad, Jumana Emil Abboud, Ligna, Peter Friedl, Sala-Manca, Sameh Abboushi, Sean Snyder, Superflex. Co-curators with Eyal Danon, Reem Fadda and Phil Misselwitz.

2006

People, Land, State, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel. Artists: Nurit Sharett, Erzen Shkololli, Efrat Shvili, Solmaz Shahbazi, Gulsun Karamustafa, Cao Fei, Anri Sala, Mark Napier, Khalid Hourani & Miri Segal, Yael Bartana, Bureau d’études – Léonore Bonaccini & Xavier Fourt, Köken Ergun, Yochai Avrahami.

Forbidden Games, VideoZone, The 3rd International Video Art Biennial in Israel, The Israeli Center for Digital Art. Games: The Night Bush Was Captured, War in the North, Global Conflicts; Palestine, (t)Error, Airport Insecurity, Special Force, Counter Strike, Stone Throwers, Carpet Invaders, Gulf War II, UnderSiege, September 12, Intifada, Suicide Bomber, Wild West Bank, Nasrallah Games, Kuma War, War Against Terror. Co-curator Eyal Danon.

This is not America, Artists: Magdi Habachi, Nedko Solakov, The Blue Noses Group, Vadim Fishkin,  Jakup Ferri, Erzen Shaklolli, Adrian Paci, Sener Özmen & Erkan Özgen.  By Art Project Gallery, Tel Aviv.

2005

HaPzura,  Sound and experimental music series with artists: Uri Katzenstein, Ran Slavin, David Oppenheim, Gil Wasserman, Ilan Green, Yoav Ya’acobi, Eyal Talmudi, Tomer Harari, Dani Meir, Daniel Davidovsky, Nadav Assor, Assaf Talmudi, Erel Paz and more.

Serial Cases, Video program exchange between 10 curators from 8 cities. Curated the program “Trespassing” with artists: Avi Mograbi, Annan Tzukerman, Artists without walls, Ruti Sela, Maayan Amir, Clil Nadav, Nira Pereg.

Chapter 3 Artists: Chen Sheinberg and Ketti Dor, Anan Tzuckerman, Yael Bartana, Avi Mograbi, Itai Engel & Ziv Koren & Doron Solomons, Eitan Heller, Rutti Sela & Maayan Amir, [R], [R], [F], Berat Isik, Marcus Coates, Esra Ersen, Romy Achituv, Nira Pereg, Sener Ozmen, Plug’n’Pray, Gregg Smith, George Dupin, Nurit Sharett, Yes Men, Molleindustria, Dragan Espenschied & Alvar Freude.

2004

‘BJCEM – Biennial of Young Artists’, Naples

loosing ctrl, Co-curated with Eyal Danon and Basak Sanova, Istanbul-Israel

April 1st, Artists without walls, collective action on Abu Dis wall. Abu Dis, Jerusalem.

Chapter 2 Artists: Elyasaf Kowner, Gebhard Sengmuller, Effi & Amir, Utopia Travel – Emanuel Danesch/David Rych, Bureau D’tudes, Zhou Hongxaing, Meena Park & Sasa, Sala Manca, Jacqueline Salloum, Kuda.org, Maayan Amir and Ruti Sela, Krzysztof Wodiczko, BIT- bureau of inverse technology, Ligna, Yomango, Dirk Fleischmann

2003

Hilchot Shchenim  Exhibition Trilogy. Chapter 1 artists: Fikret Atay, Haim Ben Shitrit, Aya Ben-Ron, Liraz Pank, Urtica, Katie Bush, Birgit Glatzel, Jody Zellen, Potatoland, Shirley Shor, Erational “Kesher Zugi” (curated by Neta Eshel) artists: Doron Solomons, Dina Shenhav, “How Much is Enough?” (curated by Ori Drummer) artist: Hadas Ofrat “Walking Istanbul, Notes from the Quarantine” (curated by Basak Senova – Erden Kosova), artists: Aydan Murtezaoglu, 2/5 BZ, ExtraMücadele, Nermin Er, ZeN and Bulent Sangar; comics artist: Kemal Aratan, Anabala (Murat Ertel)

2002

Here and Now of young israel animators. Artists: Tamir Sheffer, Mushon Zer-Aviv, Uri Inks, Yoni Goodman, Alex Galitzki, Uri Ashi.

Yael Bartana, Variables X Y Z, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon

Vuk Cosic, Ascii- Mades and More, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon

Story Agent, Video Zone, the first israeli video biennial. Artists: Ambient TV.NET, Yael Bartana, Romy Achituv, Dana Levy and Marc Lafia, Tamir Sheffer, Zohar Kfir, Hagar Goren, Chen Sheinberg, Lev Manovich, Edwin Zwakman, De,i Livshitz, Maria Pomiansky, Liron Lupo, Elyasaf Kowner, Anette Weintraub, Fran Ilich, Desperate Optimists, jenifer and Kevin McCoy, Yuli Ziv, Lialiana Olia, Arik Layer.

Invisible Power at the “Omanut Ha’aretz” festival in Tel-Aviv. Artists: Yael Bartana, Liron Lupo, Effie and Amir, Elyasaf Kowner, Yochai Avrahami, Yuli ZIv, Dani Meir.

The Digital Maze, at the Acco festival for theatre. With Artists: Stanza, Oren Zukerman, Gregory Chatonsky, Teo Spiller, Eddo Stern, Chark Wag and Young Hae-Chang, Yuli Ziv and Uri Golan.

DAL space ‘Project1; PAUSE’ – Gwangju Biennial, Korea.

2001

Net.Congestion Festival; Curator of the ‘Media Bank’ Amsterdam.

1999

The Mobile Museum Art Focus 3, international Biennial of Contemporary Art, Jerusalem, Israel

Fellowship and Awards

2017-18

Keith Haring Fellowship at The Center for Curatorial Study (CCS) and The Human Rights Program (HRP) Bard college, New York. USA.

2007

Best Art Practices International award for young curators. Italian Cultural Office of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano — South Tyrol

1994-5

Young Artist Award from the Ministry of Culture and Education, Israel

1993

Double Exposure: the Anglo-Israeli Photographic Awards for photographing a project in England

1992

Artist Prize of America-Israel Art Foundation

Academic Positions

2017

Dutch Art Institute, ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem, The Netherlands.

2009-10

Professor at the curatorial studies, Kibutzim College of Education and the CCA. Tel Aviv, Israel.

2009-10

Academic advisor, Curatorial Study, Technion. Haifa, Israel.

2006-08

Professor at the Department of Film Studies, Tel Aviv University. Tel Aviv. Israel.

2002-07

Professor at the Department of Photography, Video & Computer Imaging, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. Israel.

Selected Academic Lectures, Visiting Lecturer, External Seminar (selective)

2020

31st Sao Paulo Biennale, Institute for Israeli Art, Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yafo.

The Lobotomised museum / The art object and its context. conference, The Roadmap to Equality in the Arts in the Netherlands. ArtEZ studium generale. Arnhem. 

2019

The Lobotomised museum / The art object and its context. Institute for Israeli Art, Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yafo.

2018

Policy of collections, policy of images. 15th Sur Global Meeting. Policy of collections, policy of images. MUNTREF Contemporary Art Center and Museum of Immigration Immigrant Hotel.Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Curating Critical Pedagogies, International Research Roundtable. Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada.

Keith Haring lecture The Center for Curatorial Study (CCS) and The Human Rights Program (HRP) Bard college, New York. USA.

Simulation for Emancipation, “The Forum Museum. Museum Spaces for an Intolerant World”. MUAC | UNAM Centro Cultural Universitario, Mexico City

2017

‘On hostility and hospitality’ with Sandi Hillal. Valand Academy. Gothenburg, Sweden.

Form action to cult, (IDS) Intra-Disciplinary Seminar, Cooper Union. NY. USA.

Public Talk, VCU School of the Arts, Richmond Virginia. USA.

The House We’re Building, The Vera List Center, New School, NY. USA.

2016

The Catastrophe, Winter School of Discontent. Den Haag.The Netherlands

2015

Visiting professor, “Public Art and New Artistic Strategies”. MFA-Program Bauhaus University. Weimar, Germany.

Visiting professor, ‘New media art’ Karlsruhe University of Art and Design. Karlsruhe, Germany.

How to reflect on a biennial that just ended? The Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, Sweden.

2014

‘Where do you draw the line?’ The Future Curatorial What Not: Curating, Instituting, and the Study What? Conundrum. Symposium. CCS Bard, Exhibition Histories and Central Saint Martins, University of Arts London and de Appel Arts Centre. NY. USA

Curatorial workshop, Generative Practices. Vessel in collaboration with Haizea Barcenilla. Bari. Italy.

2012

‘Liminal Spaces, Art & Architecture’, Seminar. The Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, Sweden.

Giant Step, reflections on institutional critique. Seminar. Vessel art project, Bari, Italy

Forms of Criticism, Giant Step1: Enter the Art world? Marginal Establishments, Cooperation and Resistance, Seminar. Bari, Italy.

Secular Messianism, Seminar. Contemporary Arts Center at UC Irvine’s, Claire Trevor School of the Arts. Los Angeles. USA.

2010

‘Visual Dispositif – Social Dispositif‘ – Seminar, Visual Culture Research Center, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Ukraine.

Selected Public Screenings And Lectures (selective)

2020

Picasso’s Heritage, Programmed with Bik Van der Pol, FIELDWORK International Summer School 2020. Scotland

Conversation with Yael Bartana, The Alternative Art School. Visiting Artist Series

ART IN DARK TIMES VIDEO PROGRAMME, SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA, Berlin ART WEEK. Yael Bartana, Fatoş Irwen, Jelena Jureša. Co curator Erden Kosova. Bi’bak at Haus der Statistik

2019

How Do We Create Conditions for Muslim Immigrants to Be Returning to Europe, Instead of Arriving There For the First Time? Symposium – Transcending Realities, Overcoming Borders and Creating Structures. New Holland Island Pavilion, St Petersburg.

Syndrome of the present – Young Curators Academy in the context of the Berliner Herbstsalon. Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin.

2018

Curating in Dark Times, Tranzit, Iaşi. Romania.

Curating in Dark Times, Organized and moderated by Lia Perjovschi. Tranzit, Sibiu. Romania.

Curatorial Conversation together with Binna Choi and Simon Sheikh. Western Front, Vancouver. Canada.

Big Talk: Artur Zmijewski, IFFR PRO, Rotterdam

Big Talk: Yael Bartana, IFFR PRO, Rotterdam

2017

“Crises of Democracy”, Arendt Center Conference. Bard College. NY. USA

Road to Victory, panel discussion, Hordaland Art Centre. Bergen, Norway.

2016

In Art we Trust. Art House, Shkodra, Albania

Symposium Hagana, Gate 48, De Balie. Amsterdam. The Netherlands

The Catastrophe, The school of Kiev, Kiev Biennale. Kiev, Ukraine.

2015

Status quo, Change and Conflict. Between Dissent and Discipline: Art and Public Space. Produced by the Swedish Exhibition Agency and the Public Art Agency Sweden. Sweden

External Territories, CCA, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.

Catastrophe, narrator for the glossary of common knowledge, MG+MSUM. Ljubljana, Slovenia

Before and after censorship, de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam. The Netherlands

Curators talk, National Art Gallery, Pristina, Kosovo.

Beyond Global Curating, the Sao Paulo Case. Curatorial Methods and Conflicts.Art Cologne, Messeplatz, Cologne. Germany.

2014

International Biennial Association (IBA) – Institutional Critique – How to be Self-Critical in Biennial Work, HKW, Berlin, Germany

International Seminar ARTE! Brasileiros “Contemporary Art in 21st Century”, Sao Paulo and Rio. Brazil

2013

‘Art and Responsibility’, Limerick City Gallery of Art. Limerick, Ireland

Curating in a conflict zone, Art Athina Symposia, Athens, Greece.

2012

Kunst en de keerzijde van het archief: welke toekomst voor de kennismaatschappij? M – Museum Leuven, Belgium.

The war beyond the fire wall. Next level conference, Cologne. Germany

Liminal Spaces and its aftermaths Para/Site Art, Hong Kong spring, Para/Site art center, Hong Kong.

Diaspora, discussion, Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue. Vienna. Austria.

What Now? New Approaches to International Mobility and Collaboration. Art in general. New York. USA.

Afterlives: the Persistence of the Past within Contemporary Art Practice, Stedlijk Museum, Amsterdam. The Netherlands.

Response-ability, Konsthall C, Stockholm, Sweden

Yael Bartana’s trilogy and Europe will be stunned. Auditorium Moscow. A Sketch for a Public Space. Moscow, Russia.

2011

Caminul Cultu “The Chomsky-Foucault Debate” a discussion with Roza el Hassan and Galit Eilat. Bucharest. Romania.

‘Do radical times promise radical changes?’ Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria.

2010

Curators Ethic in Conflict Zone, ‘Scandalous’ – A symposium on Art & Ethics, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.

Exhibition Making as Activism – Whose Politics? Frieze Talks. London, England.

Becoming Nation: Undoing Equations in Contested Zones, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2009

Visual Dispositif – Social Dispositif Conference, Visual Culture Research Center, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

Radical Education: conference, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana. Slovenia.

CIMAM Conference, Mexico City, Mexico.

Mobile Archive, Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, NYC.

Between the Past and the Present: Does Art Criticism Have a Future In De-territorialized Contexts? Symposium. AICA, Erevan, Armenia.

On the Mobile Archive and Mobility, Viafarini, DOCVA, Milano, Italy.

2008

Curator’s Talk, CCA Glasgow, Scotland.

Archive Frenzy, lecture, Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana.

Active Camera, Jewish Museum, Frankfurt. Germany

Eyes Wide Open, Berlin Biennial. Eyes Wide Open“, lecture, Berlin Biennale 2008. Germany.

Collaboration Dictionary of War conference, Kuda, Novi Sad. Belgrade.

War and The Moving Image, Nova Galley, Zagreb, Croatia.

2007

War and The Moving Image, screening, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw.

War and Cinema, screening, Centre Pompidou. Paris.

North African and Middle Eastern Curatorial Symposium, MOMA NYC .

We Are All Army, screening, Hamburg Kunstverein, Hamburg.

[be]coming Dutch, workshop, panel, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven .

Juries / Advisory Board, Selection (selective)

2016

Award nominator, Prince Claus Fund Awards. The Netherlands.

Jury ,Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art, Oldenburg, Germany

2014

Jury, Shpilman International Prize for Excellence in Photography at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem Israel.

2013

Jury, 55th Venice Biennial, Polish pavilion. Zacheta Gallery.Warsaw.

Advisory board, Visible Award, Cittadellarte, Pistoletto Foundation, Fondazione Zegna, Italy.  

Selection Committee, International Award for Participatory Art.  Legislative Assembly of the Region Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

2013-17

Member of the Akademie der Künste der Welt. Cologne, Germany

2012-16

Prize nominator, Art and Politics, Vera List Center, New School, NYC. USA.

2007

Jury member, Young Israeli Artist Award. Ministry of Culture and education. Israel  

2005-06

Advisory Committee, The Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Israel.

2002-06

Artistic Board, “Amanut Haaretz” annual arts festival. Tel Aviv. Israel.