Smadar Sheffi

Smadar Sheffi is an independent curator, founder and editor of the bilingual art criticism blog, "The Window."^[1]

Biography

Smadar Sheffi holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She lectures at The Diploma Program in Curatorial and Museum Studies, The David and Yolanda Katz Faculty of the Arts, Tel Aviv University, and has lectured in the History of Art Department, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at the Israeli Art Educational and Research Institute, The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo. Her research interests comprise, among others, representations of Holocaust memory in contemporary art, Israeli art, and Modernism. Sheffi’s dissertation, "From Vienna to Jerusalem: Forgotten Portraits by Grete Wolf Krakauer," was written under the guidance of Prof. Gannit Ankori.

Dr. Sheffi is the art critic for Galei Zahal Radio since 2007, and for 20 years was the art critic for leading Haaretz^[2]. She is the author of numerous catalog articles and gallery texts, an art consultant, and leader of in-depth Israeli and international art tours.

Curated exhibitions

• 2012, New Directions I – Beit Mani, Tel Aviv. (Participating artists: Shay Azoulay, Dana Yoeli, Roy Mordechay, Tali Navon, Yehudit Raviv, Alon Kedem)^[3]
• 2013 Screening Layers, Beverly Barkat, Tel Aviv Artists’ House^[4]
• 2013 New Directions II – Beit Mani,Tel Aviv. (Participating artists: Shira Gopstein Moskowitz, Eitan Ben-Moshe, Yair Barak)
• 2013 Art Intervention Project I, "To eternity’s end, beyond the sea?", Beit Bialik Museum,Tel Aviv. (Participating artists: Nir Adoni , Eliyahou Eric Bokobza, Haya Rukin
• 2014 Simon Adjiashvili, One city, one summer, Gallery Rothschild Fine Art Gallery , Tel Aviv ^[5]
• 2014 Art Intervention Project II: Revealment and Concealment, Beit Bialik Museum, Tel Aviv. (Participating artists: Itzik Badash, Nitzan Mintz, Adi Oz-Ari, Yaara Zach, Daphna Shalom)
• 2015 United Colors of Judaica – Eliahou Eric Bokobza – Beit Hatfutsot Museum of the Jewish People Ramat Aviv^[6].
• 2015 Lisa Gross, Turmoil, Tel Aviv Artists’ House
• 2015 Art Intervention Project III: Behind the fence, Beit Bialik Museum, Tel Aviv. (Participating artists: Roni Hajaj, Jan Tichy, Tali Navon, Avi Sabah, Haimi Fenichel, Miki Kratsman)
• 2016 genius loci, Rothschild Fine Art Gallery Tel Aviv. (Participating artists: Yehuda Armoni, Uri Bleier, Hadar Gad, Tali Navon, Mosh Kashi, Stuart Shils, Eleanor Ray^[7]
• 2016 Intricate Affinities: Recollections of Western Tradition in Local Contemporary Art, Petah Tikva Museum of Art. (Participating artists: Amir Shefet, Gili Lavy, Ilana Hamawi, Nadav Naor, Simon Adjiashvili, Sasha Okun, Meydad Eliyahu, Yossi Mark, Mosh Kashi)^[8]
• 2016 Art Intervention IV: Property and Festish, Beit Bialik Museum, Tel Aviv (Participating artists: Eli Gur-Arie, Shay Id Alony, Guy Zagursky, Rotem Ritov).
• 2017 Partial Portrait: Fragmentation of Identity, Jerusalem Artists’ House (Participating artists: : Asaf Shaham, Aram Gershuni, Yaron Lapid, Michal Heiman)^[9]
• 2017 Eliyahou Eric Bokobza, Labor and Craft ,Beit Bialik Museum, Tel Aviv
• 2018 Grete Wolf Krakauer: From Vienna to Jerusalem, Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod (Guest artists: Gaston Zvi Ickowicz, Anna Yam, Marik Lechner)

Publications

• 2013 - Catalog for solo exhibition by Beverly Barkat
• 2015 - Catalog for solo exhibition by Eric Eliahou Bokobza – United Colors of Judaica
• 2015 - Booklet for solo exhibition by Lisa Gross Turmoil
• 2016 - Exhibition Catalog, Intricate Affinities: Recollections of Western Tradition in Local Contemporary Art, Petach Tikva Museum of Art
• 2018 - Catalog of the exhibition, Grete Wolf Krakauer: From Vienna to Jerusalem

Interviews and podcasts

• Interviewed by Goel Pinto, Kan TV cultural program, on “Partial portrait: Fragmentation of identity” (from 1:06:52)
• Podcast on Kan TV with Shiri Lev-Ari "War here, war there," Part 1 and Part 2
• Interview by London et Kirshenbaum 04.04.18 on "Grete Wolf Krakauer: From Vienna to Jerusalem" (from 0:38:04)

References