Avi Lubin Explained

Avi Lubin
Birth Date:	1977
Nationality:	Israeli
Occupation:	Art curator

Avi Lubin (he|אבי לובין); born 1977, is an Israeli curator of contemporary art. As of 2023 he is the chief curator of Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod. Between 2018-2023 he was the curator of Hamidrasha Gallery. Lubin is also the co-founder and co-editor of Tohu Magazine, and the curator of Field Hospital X – Aya Ben Ron's work, which represented Israel at the 58th Venice Biennale, 2019.

Biography

Avi Lubin was born in 1977. He received his M.A. from Tel Aviv University in 2009.Since 2010, Lubin has curated exhibitions at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Apexart in New York, the Kosova National Art Gallery, Kunstverein KunstHaus Potsdam, Beit Uri and Rami Nehoshtan in Ashdot Ya'akov, the National Gallery of Macedonia, and the Israeli Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Lubin has been teaching at HaMidrasha – Faculty of the Arts since 2013, first as the head of theory studies of the postgraduate program in fine arts and, since 2018, as the curator of Hamidrasha Gallery – Hayarkon 19, where he curated group exhibitions such as “Seven Rituals to Change the Mood” and “America” by The New Barbizon, as well as solo shows by various artists, including Jonas Mekas, David Reeb,^[4] Tamar Getter, Erkan Özgen, Dor Zlekha Levy,^[5] Raffi Lavie, Efrat Hakimi^[6] and Oree Holban.

Between 2013-2017 Lubin was a lecturer at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology's curating program. He frequently gives lectures, workshops and seminars as a guest lecturer in different academic institutions around the world such as The School of Visual Arts in New-York,^[7] the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Potsdam University of Applied Studies, Germany, and Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art, as well as in art institutions and museums such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art,^[8] das Weisse Haus in Vienna, The National Gallery of Kosovo,^[9] Residency Unlimited,^[10] and Contexts International Festival for Ephemeral Art in Sokolowkso.^[11]

In 2015, Lubin co-founded Tohu Magazine together with curator Leah Abir. Tohu is a non-profit online art magazine registered in Israel (n. 580613073), and is published in three languages: Hebrew, Arabic and English.

In 2018 he was selected along with artist Aya Ben Ron, to represent Israel in the 58th Venice Biennale, 2019.^[12]

His partner is artist Tomer Sapir.^[13]

Curated exhibitions

As of 2022, all exhibitions listed that are not affiliated with the Hamidrasha Gallery were independently curated by Lubin.

Year	Location	Venue	Exhibition	Artist/s	Ref
2010		Chelouche Gallery	Grandfather Paradox	Noa Giniger, Guy Goldstein, Gaston Zvi Ickowicz, Tomer Sapir	^[14]
2011			Groundwork	Gideon Gechtman, Moshe Gershuni, Michal Helfman, Shahar Yahalom, Shahar Freddy Kislev, Ohad Meromi, Tomer Sapir
		Künstlerhaus Speckstraße and Kutscherhäuser	The End of History	Alona Rodeh, Dagmar Rauwald, Gaston Zvi Ickowicz, Guy Goldstein, Hans Stuetzer, Jenny Michel, Michael Hoepfel, Nir Alon, Noa Giniger, Victoria Heifetz, Thomas Baldischwyler, Tomer Sapir	^[15]
2012		Art Cube Artists' Studios	ENTROPY	Guy Goldstein, Victoria Heifetz, Hilla Toony Navok	^[16]
	Tel Aviv, Israel	Chelouche Gallery	Terra Incognita	Tomer Sapir	^[17]
2013	Jerusalem, Israel	Art Cube Artists' Studios	Vestige		^[18]
2014	Tel Aviv, Israel		Dark Times	Miroslaw Balka, Jenny Brockmann, Noa Giniger, Victoria Heifetz, Ryan Trecartin, Michal Na'aman, Tomer Sapir	^[19]
			The Hidden Passengers		^[20] ^[21]
2015	Jerusalem, Israel	Art Cube Artists' Studios	Half Moon Half Sun		^[22]
2016		Kunstverein Kunsthaus	Circular Movements		^[23]
	Tel Aviv, Israel	Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art	Art School	Michal Na'aman, Dganit Berest, Gabi Klasmer, Roee Rosen, Angela Klein, Miri Segal, Anisa Ashkar, Tsibi Geva, Philip Rantzer, Ben Hagari, Shahar Yahalom, Einat Amir, Raafat Hattab, Noa Gross, Uri Noam, Dor Zlekkha Levy, Hinda Weiss, Lior Shvil, others	^[24] ^[25] ^[26]
2017		Givon Gallery	Perhaps it's Dark, Perhaps Undarkened	Udi Charka	^[27]
2018		MOM ART SPACE	Mixed Chromosome	Guy Aon, Karam Natour, Jacqueline Pearl, Tomer Sapir	^[28]
			The Magic Kingdom	Bat Chen Abramovitch, Mirosław Bałka, Guy Goldstein, Hamodi Gannam, Mark Dion, Oree Holban, Eti Jacobi, Orit Ishay, Erez Israeli, Paul McCarthy, Michal Na'aman, Roee Rosen and Netally Schlosser, Beit Uri, Rami Neshoshtan	^[29]
	Tel Aviv, Israel	Chelouche Gallery	Something's Happened to Us, Father	Tomer Sapir
		Hamidrasha Gallery	Interrogations	David Reeb, Ido Gordon, Ignas Krunglevicius
			SACRUM		^[30]
			Seven Rituals to Change the Mood
			Fog	Albert Allgaier, Driton Selmani, Fatmir Mustafa-Karllo, Gazmend Ejupi, Luan Bajraktari	^[31]
2019	Tel Aviv, Israel	Hamidrasha Gallery	Two solo shows	Jonas Mekas "My Two Families" Efrat Hakimi: "Zion"
			Kinderland
			Shomer	Dor Zlekha Levy	^[32]
				Aya Ben Ron "Field Hospital X"	^[33] ^[34]

Publications

Lubin co-edited the 19th issue of Hamidrasha Journal: Art School.

• 2005 - "Society's symbolic order and political trials: Toward sacrificing the self for the 'big other'". American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 65(4), 367-379.
• 2009 - From political action to depoliticizing politics: Hannah Arendt, Tali Fahima and the encounter between politics and Israeli criminal law. [Unpublished master's thesis]. Tel Aviv University.
• 2017 - Nimrod, S. (trans.). "Perhaps it is no coincidence that the horse's tail is also used for making paintbrushes, a catalogue essay for Tamar Getter: Hēliotropion at the Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod." Publication unknown.
• 2018 - "White Noise, Black Silence, a catalogue essay for Guy Golddstein exhibition Once, a Beat, Second Heat at the Petach Tikva Museum of Art." Publication unknown.
• 2018 - Foreword. In: Sapir, T. Research for the Full Crypto-Taxidermical Index (A. Lubin, Ed.). Unknown Publisher.
• 2019 - "In focus: Aya Ben Ron, a conversation." EIKON, 106.

External links

• Tohu Magazine
• Field Hospital X
• Field Hospital X at The Biennale Channel
• The Civic Role of the Curators – a conversation at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute

Notes and References

1. Web site: Avi Lubin . TELAVIVIAN. April 22, 2020.
2. Web site: The pros and cons of trauma-based art. Hacohen. Hagay. 9 May 2019. The Jerusalem Post.
3. Web site: Israel unveils hospital to cure social ills at Venice Art Biennale. Tercatin. Rossella. May 12, 2019. The Jerusalem Post.
4. News: The Israeli Political Artist Who Dabbles Both Inside and Outside the Occupation . Haaretz . May 3, 2020.
5. Web site: The keeper of false memories . Jerusalem Post . May 3, 2020.
6. Web site: Efrat Hakimi . 60 WRD/MIN Art Critic . May 3, 2020.
7. Web site: Lecture by Avi Lubin . SVA Bio Art Lab . April 22, 2020.
8. Web site: A Constant Space of Negotiation: Establishing a Tri-lingual Publication in the Middle East: a presentation by Avi Lubin, co-founder and co-editor of Tohu Magazine . arlis na new york . April 22, 2020.
9. Web site: Fog . National Gallery of Kosovo . May 3, 2020.
10. Web site: Meet Over Lunch: Avi Lubin . Residency Unlimited . 27 February 2018 . April 22, 2020.
11. Web site: AVI LUBIN . Contexts . May 3, 2020.
12. Web site: Labiennale - National Participants: Israel . Labiennale . 6 May 2019 . April 22, 2020.
13. Web site: Tomer Sapir - Somthing's Happened to Us, Father . Chelouche Gallery . April 22, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200919014943/https://chelouchegallery.com/artistExhibition.php?exhibition_id=1313&id=102. September 19, 2020.
14. Web site: Grandfather Paradox . Chelouche Gallery . December 15, 2018.
15. Web site: The End of History . https://web.archive.org/web/20160314075023/http://www.schir.net/1212/the-end-of-history.html . dead . 14 March 2016 . archive . December 15, 2018.
16. Web site: ENTROPY . Art Cube Artists' Studios . December 15, 2018.
17. Web site: Terra Incognita . Chelouche Gallery . December 15, 2018.
18. Web site: Vestige . Art Cube Artists' Studios . December 15, 2018.
19. Web site: Dark Times . arts.tau . May 3, 2020.
20. Web site: The Hidden Passengers . Apexart . December 15, 2018.
21. Web site: The Hidden Passengers at apexart . Daily Serving . May 3, 2020.
22. Web site: Half Moon Half Sun . Art Cube Artists' Studios . December 15, 2018.
23. Web site: Circular Movements . Kunstverein KunstHaus Potsdam . December 15, 2018.
24. Web site: Art School: Hamidrasha Faculty of Arts at Seventy . Tel Aviv Museum of Art . December 15, 2018.
25. Web site: When the art school becomes the subject of its own art . The Times of Israel . May 3, 2020.
26. Web site: Hamidrasha marks 70 years of making art . Jerusalem Post . May 3, 2020.
27. Web site: Perhaps it's Dark, Perhaps Undarkened . Givon Gallery . December 15, 2018. 2017-04-05 .
28. Web site: Mixed Chromosome . Das Gaengeviertel . December 15, 2018.
29. Web site: The Magic Kingdom . Uri and Rami Museum . December 15, 2018.
30. Web site: Tamar Getter – Sacrum (Tailbone) . The Window . 14 November 2018 . May 3, 2020.
31. Web site: Driton Selmani: In our region the role of the artist is to try to touch a nerve . Kosovo 2.0 . December 15, 2018. 2018-06-19 .
32. Web site: Dor Levy . Dor Levy . 22 March 2020 . April 21, 2020.
33. Web site: Field Hospital X . Field Hospital X . April 22, 2020.
34. Web site: 58TH VENICE BIENNALE, PART 2: NATIONAL PAVILIONS IN THE GIARDINI . Art Asia Pacific . May 3, 2020.