Contemporary Art Curator and Cultural Researcher
Drorit Gur Arie is a curator whose work explores culture and contemporary art, with a focus on multiculturalism and cultural dynamics in the geopolitical sphere. In addition to her independent curatorial projects, she serves as Chief Curator of Ahad Ha'am 9 Art Gallery of the Faculty of Arts, Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology, and the Arts, Tel Aviv, and Chief Curator of Balcony-an international network of curators working within academic gallery contexts.
In her capacity as Director and Chief Curator of Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Petach Tikva, Israel (2000-19), she led the Museum's relaunch as a pivotal museum of contemporary art. Since 2020, she has headed the Visual Literacy and Curatorship Program at the Kibbutzim Academic College. She has taught at various academic institutions, including the Faculty of the Arts at Tel Aviv University, Sapir Academic College, and currently teaches at the Institute for Israeli Art at the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yafo.
Over the years, she has curated numerous exhibitions featuring Israeli and international artists in Israel and abroad. In 2012 and 2016, she was a curator at the Mediations Biennial, Poznań, Poland, and in 2017 and 2019 at the OSTRALE Biennale, Germany. She curated the first exhibition of contemporary Israeli art in Cyprus, and an exhibition of contemporary Israeli art at the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi (2018). In 2022, at the invitation of the Israeli Embassy, she curated a video art exhibition in Riga, Latvia.
She received the Curator Award from the Israeli Ministry of Culture; was named a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the Government of France (2019), was listed as one of the most influential curators and artists in Israeli art by Time Out magazine (2018), and one of the 10 most influential curators in the Israeli art field by Forbes magazine (2012). She was selected as Best Curator in the International Museum Report of Monocle magazine (2010). In 2024, she received the Landau Prize for Curatorship from the Israel National Lottery Council for Culture and Arts, and in 2025 was one of the four curators of the OSTRALE Biennale, Dresden.
