Maya Bamberger
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Maya Bamberger (born 1991, Jerusalem) is an independent curator based in New Haven and Tel Aviv.
In her practice, she explores the boundaries of knowledge production and how the imaginary can intervene in writing about art, offering new encounters between the artwork and the viewer.
Previously the curator of RawArt Gallery in Tel Aviv, a gallery dedicated to representing emerging and experimental artists, Bamberger has curated several solo exhibitions, including Noam Toran’s We Crave Blood (2023), Ester Schneider’s Temperance (2023), Keren Gueller’s Wet Collection (2022), Dov Heller’s Nirim (2021), Sharon Glazberg’s Nowhere (2021), and Sagie Azoulay’s Ernie (2020). One of her primary initiatives at the gallery was the Shuttle project, which promoted artists at the beginning of their careers. She also curated group exhibitions and led various projects and collaborations.
As an independent curator, she co-curated with Ronny Koren, accompanied by Sergio Edelzstein, an exhibition of artist Hilla Toony Navok at the OnCurating Project Space in Zurich for the multi-format series Choreographing the Public. Bamberger was a curator-in-residence at Triangle Arts Association in Brooklyn from September 1–November 30, 2021.
Bamberger holds an MAS in curatorial studies from Zurich University of the Arts and a B.A. in art history and cognitive science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is a member of the 2024 cohort of School of Commons, was a fellow in the Alma program from 2021 to 2023, writes for OnCurating magazine, and is one of the founders and editors of Shoket, a magazine for curating by the Israeli Association of Curators.
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