Maayan Sheleff is an independent art curator and researcher based in Tel Aviv, Israel. Her projects explore social and political issues through participatory practices, at the intersection of art and technology. Sheleff holds a Ph.D. in Practice in Curating in a joint program of the Department of Art at the University of Reading and the postgraduate program in Curating at the Zurich University of the Arts.[1]

Maayan Sheleff
Born
Tel Aviv, Israel
NationalityIsraeli
OccupationArt curator
Years active2006–

Biography

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Sheleff was raised in Kiryat Ono, Israel. She studied plastic arts at the Thelma Yellin High School of Arts, Givatayim. Sheleff graduated Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design with a B.Des in industrial design, also studying at the Rhode Island School of Design and Politecnico di Milano. She later pursued postgraduate studies at the Interdisciplinary Arts Program, Tel Aviv University. She received her PhD from the Curatorial Platform in Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and Reading University, UK.[2] Sheleff has been regularly teaching at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, department of photography, the International Curatorial Studies Program of the Kibbutzim College, Tel Aviv, at the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School, Jerusalem and at Sapir Academic College, Sderot. She has been a guest lecturer in many institutions such as HaMidrasha – Faculty of the Arts, and the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology's Division of Continuing Education and External Studies curating program.

Curatorial positions

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  • 2014– Artistic Advisor and chair of artistic committee at the Art Cube Artists' Studios, Jerusalem and curator of its international residency program, LowRes Jerusalem[3][4]
  • 2009–2012 – Curator at the Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
  • 2009–2012 – Assistant Director at the International Curatorial Studies Program of the Kibbutzim College and the CCA Tel Aviv
  • 2006–2009 – Director and chief curator of Line 16, a public gallery for contemporary art[5]

Awards, grants and residencies

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Selected exhibitions

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Selected publications

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  • 2022 – InConcrete Stones, participating artists: Hannan Abu-Hussein, Nikolaus Eckhard, Avner Pinchover, Christoph Weber, Arkadi Zaides, Art Cube Artists' Studios, Jerusalem[17]
  • 2021 – M/otherland, Ruth Patir & Maayan Sheleff, OnCurating, Zurich. ISBN 9798744646660
  • 2019 – (Un)Commoning Voices and (Non)Communal Bodies, Maayan Sheleff & Sarah Spies (Eds.), OnCurating, Zurich. ISBN 9798744646660
  • 2019 – Grand Kenyon, participating artists: Ronit Porat, Guy Konigstein, Art Cube Artists' Studios, Jerusalem. ISBN 978-965-7655-21-4
  • 2018 – Rendering Borders, participating artists: Morehshin Allahyari, Lior Zalmanson, Art Cube Artists' Studios, Jerusalem. ISBN 978-965-7655-15-3
  • 2017 – Fear and Love in Graz: Steirischer Herbst’s Truth Is Concrete (2012), in Empty Stages, Crowded Flats – Performativity as Curatorial Strategy – Performing Urgency #4, Florian Malzacher and Janna Warsza (Eds.), Alexander Verlag, Berlin[18] ISBN 978-3-89581-443-3
  • 2017 – "Jerusalem of Gold" vs. "The Yelllow Fleet" & "The Day When Nothing Happened", Art Cube Artists' Studios, Jerusalem. ISBN 978-965-7655-115
  • 2017 – 50 Years, B'Tselem[19]
  • 2016 – »The Infiltrators« – Crossing Borders with Participatory Art,[20] in Geflüchtete und Kulturelle Bildung Formate und Konzepte für ein neues Praxisfeld, Maren Ziese & Caroline Gritschke (Ed.), Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld. ISBN 978-3-8394-3453-6
  • 2016 – The Chosen People - A Small Guide For a Big Revolution, a conversation with Andy Bichlbaum from The Yes Men, Tohu online magazine
  • 2014 – The Infiltrators, Artport Tel Aviv
  • 2012 – Secondary Witness, International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP). ISBN 9780985574109
  • 2012 – World Order, Dana Levy, Braverman Gallery and CCA Tel Aviv.[21] ISBN 9789657463161
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Further reading

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References

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  1. ^ "Postgraduate Programme in Curating Zürich". www.curating.org. Retrieved 17 March 2024.
  2. ^ Maayan Sheleff, Echoing with a Difference––Curating Voices and the Politics of Participation, at the page of the PhD in Contemporary Curating program, ZHdK website
  3. ^ Members of artistic committee, Art Cube Artists' Studios, Jerusalem
  4. ^ LowRes Jerusalem international residency program, Art Cube Artists' Studios Jerusalem website Archived 20 July 2017 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ (in Hebrew) תערוכה חדשה בגלריה קו 16 (New exhibition at the Line 16 Gallery), City Mouse, 9 April 2006
  6. ^ ICR 2015 – selected curators, Vessel website
  7. ^ 2014 | NYC | Curator: Maayan Sheleff, Residency Unlimited website
  8. ^ Maayan Sheleff grantee page at the Artis website
  9. ^ Poland ↔ Israel exhibition page, Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków website, 30.06.2017–24 September 2017
  10. ^ Preaching to the Choir exhibition page, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art website
  11. ^ The Infiltrators exhibition website
  12. ^ The Promised Land exhibition page, The Embassy of Israel in Japan website
  13. ^ Other Lives exhibition page, Bloomfield Science Museum website
  14. ^ Secondary Witness exhibition page, International Studio & Curatorial Program website
  15. ^ Prolonged Exposure exhibition page, CCA Tel Aviv website
  16. ^ Transit project page, CCA Tel Aviv website
  17. ^ "InConcrete Stones". Art Cube Artists' Studios. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
  18. ^ "EMPTY STAGES, CROWDED FLATS - Alexander Verlag". www.alexander-verlag.com. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
  19. ^ ""50 Years": Fifty portraits of Palestinians born in 1967 in B'Tselem photography exhibition". B'Tselem. 3 November 2017.
  20. ^ transcript. "Geflüchtete und Kulturelle Bildung". transcript Verlag (in German). Retrieved 20 April 2022.
  21. ^ "World Order". Sternthal Books. Retrieved 20 April 2022.