Maayan Sheleff is the artistic advisor of The Art Cube Artists’ Studios in Jerusalem and the curator of its international residency program, LowRes Jerusalem. She was the curator at CCA Tel Aviv and the assistant director of its curatorial studies program. Her projects take a reflexive approach towards participation and activism. She is currently studying for a Practice-Based PHD at the Curatorial platform, the University of Reading (UK) and Zhdk (CH), exploring the use of the voice in participatory practices, in relation to protest movements of the last decade. Some of her recent projects include “Voice Over” at the Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Holland (opens October 2020) and “(Un)commoning Voices and (Non)communal Bodies” for Reading: International, UK (2019). Sheleff curated exhibitions in various institutions and in the public sphere, among them at the Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Madre museum in Naples, Shift festival in Basel, Herzliya Museum, Israel, and the Bloomfield Science Museum in Jerusalem. She was co-curator of the first Tel Aviv- Yaffo biennial (ARTLV 2009). She teaches in Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem, and lectured as a guest in many other academic institutions, among them Stockholm University, School of Visual Arts, NY, The Graduate Center at the City University of New York, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem,Tel Aviv University and others. She is on the advisory board of OnCurating.
Some of her recent publications include:
Rendering Borders- curatorial text for Morehshin Allahyari and Lior Zalmanson’s exhibition catalogue, Art Cube Artists' Studios, 2018.
Fear and Love in Graz, (in:) Empty Stages, Crowded Flats. Performativity as Curatorial Strategy, performing urgency #4, Editors Florian Malzacher and Janna Warsza, House on Fire publishing, 2017.
The Infiltrators - Crossing Borders With Participatory Art, (in:) Refugees and Cultural Education- Formats and strategies for a new field of practice, editors Caroline Gritschke and Maren Ziese, Transcript publishing, Germany, 2016
The Chosen People - A Small Guide For a Big Revolution, a conversation with The Yes Men's Andy Bichlbaum, Tohu online magazine, January 2016.
