Nurit Tal Tenne
Independent curator, arts writer and speaker
MA in Art History, Tel Aviv University | Chairperson of the Ministry of Culture and Sports Young Artist Award committee 2022 | Member of the administrative board of the Association for Women’s Art and Gender Research in Israel, launched the Semi-Spontaneous video series on the Association’s website (March 2024) | Author of Ursa Major: Postpartum Depression (Pardes Publishing), 2019
Tal Tenne practices an eclectic approach in her curatorial work, which has spanned dozens of solo and group exhibitions to date. Her work includes a wide range of research exhibitions at MUZA Eretz Israel Museum, Nahum Gutman Museum of Art, Janco Dada Museum, and at alternative galleries and exhibition spaces in Israel. Combining a wide range of disciplines to touch on diverse social issues, Tal Tenne has often adopted the curator-as-auteur approach, also experimenting with a more radical version of this concept—the self-coined curator-as-core idea.
Among the notable exhibitions she curated:
2023 Ruth Schloss in Umm el-Fahem – A Hundred Years to her Birth, Umm el-Fahm Art Gallery
2022 A Tale to Tell: Rape and Sexual Violence, in collaboration with The Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel
2021 Alex Levac/A Situation, a retrospective exhibition, Basis for Art & Culture, Herzliya
2019 Myth Meets Land: Adi Nes and Elie Shamir, MUZA Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2019/20 Data Mining Shahar Marcus, MUZA Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2018 About Breastfeeding and Nourishment, in collaboration with Na’amat (the Women’s Movement of Israel) and the Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts
2013 I-Mahut: Postpartum Depression, Gerstein Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo
Tal Tenne has also curated art exhibitions and sales for the benefit of non-profit organizations, including There is Nothing More Complete than a Broken Heart: Daniella and Shai Azoulay, for the Tamar Association, and an art auction for the ALS Association, both in collaboration with Sotheby’s.
Between 2012-2022, she founded and curated the annual Artist of the Valley exhibition, featuring such artists as Yaakov Dorchin alongside art brut artists with disabilities from Petach Tikva.
About the exhibition Mindfulness at Rothschild
