# Avi Lubin

Avi Lubin (Hebrew: 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.
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, Tamar Getter, Erkan Özgen, Dor Zlekha Levy, Raffi Lavie, Efrat Hakimi 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, 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, das Weisse Haus in Vienna, The National Gallery of Kosovo, Residency Unlimited, and Contexts International Festival for Ephemeral Art in Sokolowkso.
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.
His partner is artist Tomer Sapir.

## 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 |
| 2010 | Tel Aviv, Israel | Chelouche Gallery | Grandfather Paradox | Noa Giniger, Guy Goldstein, Gaston Zvi Ickowicz, Tomer Sapir |
| 2011 | Tel Aviv, Israel | Sommer Contemporary Art | Groundwork | Gideon Gechtman, Moshe Gershuni, Michal Helfman, Shahar Yahalom, Shahar Freddy Kislev, Ohad Meromi, Tomer Sapir |
| 2011 | Hamburg, Germany | 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 |
| 2012 | Jerusalem, Israel | Art Cube Artists' Studios | ENTROPY | Guy Goldstein, Victoria Heifetz, Hilla Toony Navok |
| 2012 | Tel Aviv, Israel | Chelouche Gallery | Terra Incognita | Tomer Sapir |
| 2013 | Jerusalem, Israel | Art Cube Artists' Studios | Vestige | Miri Segal, Gideon Gechtman |
| 2014 | Tel Aviv, Israel | Tel Aviv University | Dark Times | Miroslaw Balka, Jenny Brockmann, Noa Giniger, Victoria Heifetz, Ryan Trecartin, Michal Na'aman, Tomer Sapir |
| 2014 | Manhattan, New York City, USA | Apexart | The Hidden Passengers | Mark Dion, Michael Hoepfel & Jenny Michel, Pierre Huyghe, Roxy Paine, Tomer Sapir, Guido van der Werve |
| 2015 | Jerusalem, Israel | Art Cube Artists' Studios | Half Moon Half Sun | Orit Ishay |
| 2016 | Potsdam, Germany | Kunstverein Kunsthaus | Circular Movements | Miroslaw Balka, Jenny Brockmann, Victoria Heifetz, Thomas Hirschhorn, Tomer Sapir, Ragnar Kjartansson |
| 2016 | 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 |
| 2017 | Tel Aviv, Israel | Givon Gallery | Perhaps it's Dark, Perhaps Undarkened | Udi Charka |
| 2018 | Hamburg, Germany | MOM ART SPACE | Mixed Chromosome | Guy Aon, Karam Natour, Jacqueline Pearl, Tomer Sapir |
| 2018 | Ashdot Ya'akov | | 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 |
| 2018 | Tel Aviv, Israel | Chelouche Gallery | Something's Happened to Us, Father | Tomer Sapir |
| 2018 | Tel Aviv, Israel | Hamidrasha Gallery | Interrogations | David Reeb, Ido Gordon, Ignas Krunglevicius |
| 2018 | Tel Aviv, Israel | Hamidrasha Gallery | SACRUM | Tamar Getter |
| 2018 | Tel Aviv, Israel | Hamidrasha Gallery | Seven Rituals to Change the Mood | Sharon Glazberg, Hadassa Goldvicht, Hani Khatib, Karam Natour, Aya Zaiger, Enrique Ramirez, Assi Meshullam, Public Movement |
| 2018 | Pristina, Kosovo | Kosova National Art Gallery | Fog | Albert Allgaier, Driton Selmani, Fatmir Mustafa-Karllo, Gazmend Ejupi, Luan Bajraktari |
| 2019 | Tel Aviv, Israel | Hamidrasha Gallery | Two solo shows | Jonas Mekas: "My Two Families" Efrat Hakimi: "Zion" |
| 2019 | Tel Aviv, Israel | Hamidrasha Gallery | Kinderland | Erkan Ozgen, Oree Holban, Raffi Lavie |
| 2019 | Tel Aviv, Israel | Hamidrasha Gallery | Shomer | Dor Zlekha Levy |
| 2019 | Venice, Italy | Israeli Pavilion | Venice Biennale | Aya Ben Ron: "Field Hospital X" |

## 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. doi:10.1007/s11231-005-7888-3
* 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.