Amsterdam-based independent curator and writer, Galit Eilat, has been announced as the fourth recipient of the Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism. The annual $80,000 (£60,000) fellowship, made possible by a five-year grant of $400,000 from the Keith Haring Foundation, encourages researchers, artists and activists to teach and conduct research at CCS Bard and the Human Rights Project, focusing on multidisciplinary studies of the sociopolitical roles of art.
Eilat is the founder of the non-profit Israeli Center for Digital Art at Holon, Israel, where she served as director from 2001 to 2010, developing collaborations between Israeli and Palestinian artists. Over the years, she has served as curator at the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, advisor for the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and artistic director of the Akademie der Künste der Welt in Cologne. In 2004, she cofounded Maarav, an online Israeli art and culture magazine, and worked as its editor in chief until 2010. Among many exhibition projects, Eilat cocurated the 31st Bienal de São Paulo in 2014, and was the curator of the Polish Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011.
3 August 2017
