Maayan Sheleff

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Maayan Sheleff ({{Langx|he|מעיין שלף}}) 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.{{Cite web |title=Postgraduate Programme in Curating Zürich |url=https://www.curating.org/phd-in-practice-in-curating-information/ |access-date=2024-03-17 |website=www.curating.org}}

Biography

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.[https://www.curating.org/maayan-sheleff/ 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

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

2014– Artistic Advisor and chair of artistic committee at the Art Cube Artists' Studios, Jerusalem and curator of its international residency program, LowRes Jerusalem[http://www.artiststudiosjlm.org/members-of-artistic-committee.html Members of artistic committee], Art Cube Artists' Studios, Jerusalem[http://www.artiststudiosjlm.org/151414931499150414971514-1513149214931514-148815021503-148914971504150014881493150214971514--lowres-jerusalem.html LowRes Jerusalem international residency program], Art Cube Artists' Studios Jerusalem website {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170720201816/http://www.artiststudiosjlm.org/151414931499150414971514-1513149214931514-148815021503-148914971504150014881493150214971514--lowres-jerusalem.html |date=20 July 2017 }}
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{{in lang|he}} [http://www.mouse.co.il/general-articles/1.3332860 תערוכה חדשה בגלריה קו 16] (New exhibition at the Line 16 Gallery), City Mouse, 9 April 2006

Awards, grants and residencies

2015 – International Curatorial Retreat, organized by Vessel/Mada, Bari, Italy[http://www.vesselartproject.org/en/2015/03/11/icr-2015-curatori-selezionati/ ICR 2015 – selected curators], Vessel website
2014 – Residency Unlimited, NYC[http://residencyunlimited.org/residencies/maayan-sheleff/ 2014 | NYC | Curator: Maayan Sheleff], Residency Unlimited website
2014 – Quartier 21, Vienna, invited by Paraflows Festival for Digital Art
2012 – Truth is Concrete, Steirischer Herbst Festival, Graz, Austria
2012–2013 – Artport residency, Tel Aviv
2012 – Artis grant recipient
2012 – International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) Curator Award
2010 – Independent Curators International (ICI) Curatorial Intensive, New York City
2010 – Artis grant recipient[http://artis.art/grantees/maayan-sheleff-curatorial-intensive-curating-in-the-public-realm/ Maayan Sheleff grantee page] at the Artis website

Selected exhibitions

2017 – Poland ↔ Israel, Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków (co-curated with Agnieszka Sachar, in collaboration with Miri Segal)[https://en.mocak.pl/poland-israel Poland ↔ Israel exhibition page], Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków website, 30.06.2017–24 September 2017
2015 – Preaching to the Choir, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art[http://www.herzliyamuseum.co.il/english/september-2015/preaching-to-the-choir/about Preaching to the Choir exhibition page], Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art website
2014 – The Infiltrators, Artport Tel Aviv[http://cargocollective.com/INFILTRATORS The Infiltrators exhibition website]
2013 – The Promised Land, The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan[http://embassies.gov.il/tokyo-en/NewsAndEvents/calendar-of-events/Pages/Yebisu-International-Festival-for-Art-and-Alternative-Visions.aspx The Promised Land exhibition page], The Embassy of Israel in Japan website
2012 – Other Lives, Bloomfield Science Museum, Jerusalem, a new-media exhibition inspired by scientist Allan Turing[https://www.mada.org.il/en/exhibitions/other-lives Other Lives exhibition page], Bloomfield Science Museum website
2012 – Secondary Witness, International Studio & Curatorial Program, Brooklyn, New York City[http://iscp-nyc.org/event/secondary-witness Secondary Witness exhibition page], International Studio & Curatorial Program website
2012 – Connected, An Exhibition About Girls and the Internet, Bat Yam Promenade
2012 – Prolonged Exposure, The Center for Contemporary Art (CCA), Tel Aviv[http://cca.org.il/en/prolonged-exposure/ Prolonged Exposure exhibition page], CCA Tel Aviv website
2009–2010 – Co-curator, Transit project, cooperation between The Center for Contemporary Art (CCA), Tel Aviv and MADRE, Naples, Italy[http://cca.org.il/en/transit-3/ Transit project page], CCA Tel Aviv website
2009 – Co-curator, ARTLV – the 1st Tel Aviv-Yafo Biennial

Selected publications

2022 – InConcrete Stones, participating artists: Hannan Abu-Hussein, Nikolaus Eckhard, Avner Pinchover, Christoph Weber, Arkadi Zaides, Art Cube Artists' Studios, Jerusalem{{Cite web |title=InConcrete Stones |url=https://www.artiststudiosjlm.org/inconcrete-stones.html |access-date=2022-04-20 |website=Art Cube Artists' Studios |language=en}}
2021 – [https://www.on-curating.org/files/oc/dateiverwaltung/books/M_otherland/M_otherland_Web.pdf M/otherland], Ruth Patir & Maayan Sheleff, OnCurating, Zurich. {{ISBN|9798744646660}}
2019 – [https://www.on-curating.org/files/oc/dateiverwaltung/books/Spies_Sheleff/uncommoning_digital.pdf (Un)Commoning Voices and (Non)Communal Bodies], Maayan Sheleff & Sarah Spies (Eds.), OnCurating, Zurich. {{ISBN|9798744646660}}
2019 – [https://www.artiststudiosjlm.org/grand-kenyon-catalog.html Grand Kenyon], participating artists: Ronit Porat, Guy Konigstein, Art Cube Artists' Studios, Jerusalem. {{ISBN|978-965-7655-21-4}}
2018 – [https://www.artiststudiosjlm.org/rendering-borders-catalog.html 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{{Cite web |title=EMPTY STAGES, CROWDED FLATS - Alexander Verlag |url=https://www.alexander-verlag.com/english/titel/399-empty-stages-crowded-flats.html |access-date=2022-04-20 |website=www.alexander-verlag.com}} {{ISBN|978-3-89581-443-3}}
2017 – [https://www.artiststudiosjlm.org/jerusalem-of-gold-vs-the-yellow-fleet-the-day-when-nothing-happened-catalog.html "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{{Cite web |date=3 November 2017 |title=“50 Years”: Fifty portraits of Palestinians born in 1967 in B’Tselem photography exhibition |url=https://www.btselem.org/press_releases/201711_50_years_exhibition |website=B'Tselem}}
2016 – [https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783839434536-011/html »The Infiltrators« – Crossing Borders with Participatory Art],{{Cite web |last=transcript |title=Geflüchtete und Kulturelle Bildung |url=https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-3453-2/gefluechtete-und-kulturelle-bildung/ |access-date=2022-04-20 |website=transcript Verlag |language=de}} 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 – [http://tohumagazine.com/article/chosen-people-small-guide-big-revolution The Chosen People - A Small Guide For a Big Revolution], a conversation with Andy Bichlbaum from The Yes Men, Tohu online magazine
2014 – [https://www.artport.art/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/eng-articles-infeltrators.pdf The Infiltrators], Artport Tel Aviv
2012 – [https://iscp-nyc.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/web-Secondary-Witness.pdf Secondary Witness], International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP). {{ISBN|9780985574109}}
2012 – World Order, Dana Levy, Braverman Gallery and CCA Tel Aviv.{{Cite web |title=World Order |url=https://sternthalbooks.com/book/world-order/ |access-date=2022-04-20 |website=Sternthal Books |language=en-US}} {{ISBN|9789657463161}}

External links

[http://curatorsintl.org/collaborators/maayan_sheleff Maayan Sheleff] at the Independent Curators International website
[http://www.frankieproject.com/ Frankie the Documentation Robot] website, a project by Maayan Sheleff, Gal Eshel and Eran Hadas