Svetlana Reingold ( he, סבטלנה ריינגולד) is an

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

i museologist and curator, who is currently serving as Chief Curator of

Haifa Museum of Art The Haifa Museum of Art ( he, מוזיאון חיפה לאמנות, ar, متحف حيفا للفنون), established in 1951, is located in a historic building built in the 1930s in Wadi Nisnas, downtown Haifa. Ranking as Israel's third largest a ...

Biography

Svetlana Reingold graduated from

Haifa University The University of Haifa ( he, אוניברסיטת חיפה Arabic: جامعة حيفا) is a university located on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel. Founded in 1963, the University of Haifa received full academic accreditation in 1972, becoming Is ...

in 1996 with BA degree and in 2000 received MA degree from the same university. Reingold worked in different positions in Haifa Museums from 1996 till 2010, when she was appointed curator of the Mane Katz Museum. She was additionally appointed to be curator of Hermann Struck Museum in 2013. Reingold was appointed curator of

in March 2015. In her work as curator, Reingold is a major proponent of "Artivism" and the idea that art is not only here for beauty, but also is a major part of changing the world.

Exhibitions

Svetlana Reingold curated the "Mané-Katz: The Jewish Heritage" exhibition in Mane Katz Museum in 2011, "SANCTITY - ART - AESTHETICS" in 2012 and "The Wandering Jew: an Artistic Reflection" exhibition in 2015 in the same museum. Her first exhibition cluster in

was a project called "Seven Solo Exhibitions". Reingold curated the exhibition "Steinhardt and Struck, An Artist and His Mentor" in the

Hermann Struck Hermann Struck (6 March 1876 – 11 January 1944) was a German Jewish artist known for his etchings. Biography Hermann Struck (Chaim Aaron ben David) was born in Berlin. He studied at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts. In 1904, he joined the mod ...

Museum in 2016. Since her appointment as a chief curator at the

, she has created and curated two major exhibition clusters. The first, ''Dangerous Art'', opened in December 2017. In 2018, she curated an exhibition of feminist works in Mane Katz museum, called "

Chana Orloff Chana Orloff ( he, חנה אורלוף; 12 July 1888 – 16 December 1968) was Ukrainian-born Israeli Art deco and figurative art sculptor. Biography Chana Orloff was born in Starokonstantinov Russian Empire (now Ukraine). She immigrated to ...

: Feminist Sculpture in Israel". The exhibition sparked a controversy, since many of the sculptures depicted the naked female body in unconventional forms. In 2018, she curated the exhibition cluster "Shop It" at the Haifa Museum of Art, connecting the themes of shopping, art and

Consumerism Consumerism is a social and economic order that encourages the acquisition of goods and services in ever-increasing amounts. With the Industrial Revolution, but particularly in the 20th century, mass production led to overproduction—the supp ...

. The same year Reingold curated the exhibition "Artist Books in the Digital Age" at the National Maritime Museum of Israel. In 2011 she curated an exhibit entitled "War of the Languages," commemorating the centennial of the founding of the Technion. The title of the exhibit was taken from the so-called

War of the Languages The war of the languages ( he, מלחמת השפות; ) was a heated debate in Ottoman Palestine over the language of instruction in the country's new Jewish schools. This "language war" was a cornerstone event in the history of the revival of the ...

, a "war" fought with words over the question of whether the new Technion would teach its students in Hebrew or in German, then the language of the world's leading scientific universities and research.

Publications

References

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