Maya Bamberger

An independent curator and learner based in New Haven, Connecticut.

Holds a master’s degree in Curating from the Zurich University of the Arts and a bachelor’s degree in Art History and Cognitive Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; yet her true teachers are the artists with whom she works. She approaches curating as social practice, developing methods that resist the subordination of art to the discipline of art history. She invites artists to form temporary research communities around urgent questions, encouraging them to imagine and realize alternative ways of being together.

From 2019 to 2023, she served as the curator of RawArt Gallery in Tel Aviv, where she curated many solo and group exhibitions, including Noam Toran’s We Crave Blood, Ester Schneider’s Temperance, Keren Gueller’s Wet Collection and Dov Heller’s Nirim.

Among her independent curatorial projects are Aniam Dery’s solo exhibition Where the Earth Rises held at the Art Cube Artists’ Studios in Jerusalem, the online group exhibition Understandable Misunderstandings: How to Be with Art, and Hilla Toony Navok’s Choreographing the Public: Rolling Rooms, held at OnCurating in Zurich.

She also led the Shuttle Project, which supports emerging artists; participated in the 2024 cohort of the School of Commons; initiated and edited the inaugural issue of Shoket – a curatorial journal published by the Israeli Curators’ Union; and participated in several artist residency and fellowship programs, including Residency Unlimited, Triangle – in collaboration with Artis, and the Alma Fellowship Program.

About the exhibition Haunting