11/04/2018
gathering
Talk with Aya Lurie, director and chief curator of the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art
within the frames of Curating Institution series
- Aya Lurie, PhD
- The Director and Chief Curator of The Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Lecturer at The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Jaffa in the program of Israeli Art studies, and serves in several quality committees (Museum & Curatorship) and prizes committees in the visual arts department at the Ministry of Culture . She was the former Chief curator of the Shpilman institute for Photography. Lurie holds a doctorate in art history from Tel Aviv University (supervised by the late Prof. Mordechai Omer), Her doctoral dissertation was concerned with representations of identity in local pre-state portraiture, 1906–1948. Lurie has served as an academic coordinator and lecturer in the museum studies department, Tel Aviv University. As an independent curator she has curated a wide range of solo exhibitions and thematic group exhibitions featuring local and international artists in major Israeli art institutions and museums, including: Deganit Berest, Gabriel Klasmer and Yitzhak Livne: The Mechanized Sublime (Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University, (1998); Exposure – Recent Acquisitions from the Doron Sebbag Art Collection, (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2000); Liliane Klapisch – Paintings 1949–2003 (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2003); Treasured in the Heart: Haim Gliksberg's Portraits (Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2005) and A Road to Nowhere (Ashdod Museum of Art, 2005). For the past three years, as the chief curator of the Shpilman Institute for Photography, Tel Aviv, she was responsible of developing the program and collection of the institute alongside she curated the exhibitions: Luma – Modern Photography in the First Half of the 20th Century (2012), which was devoted to the New Vision movement; the Shpilman Institute's pavilion at the International Photography Festival (2012); and the exhibition The Naked Eye :Surrealist Photography in the First Half of the 20th Century (2013). Lurie's exhibitions are accompanied by articles and wide range catalogues.
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