Suzanne Landau

Suzanne Landau (Hebrew: סוזן לנדאי‎ (born 1946) is an Israeli art museum curator. She was appointed the Director and Chief Curator of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in September 2012. She had previously been Curator of Contemporary Art at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem starting 1982 and its Chief Curator of Fine Arts there from 1988. Since her appointment in Tel Aviv, she has organized for the museum the Friends of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the Acquisition Committee for Israeli Art.

Suzanne Landau
Born1946
Czechoslovakia
NationalityIsraeli
OccupationArt Curator

Career

Landau was named Curator of Contemporary Art at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem in 1982. In 1998, she became the museum's Chief Curator of Fine Arts.[1] In her 34 years at the Israel Museum, she presided over several internationally famous solo exhibits.[2][3][4] She was named the most influential person in the world of Israeli art by Haaretz in 2013.[5][6]

Landau began a collaboration with businessman Steve Nassima in late 2020, after the Israeli government permitted the limited reopening of the nation's largest museums. The result was "Nassima Landau", an art space in central Tel Aviv.[7]

Curator of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Landau was appointed Director and Chief Curator of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in September 2012 by its board of directors, filling the vacancy left by Mordechai Omer's death in office. Her selection was welcomed by the Israeli contemporary art community, which had criticized the Israel Museum's board of directors for a lack of transparency and for not consulting Israeli artists in the decision-making process. Former Israel Museum curator Martin Weil, who had collaborated with Landau to enlarge its collection of contemporary Israeli art, also congratulated her appointment.[2]

In early March 2015, Landau accepted an invitation to exhibit pieces of work by German artists whose work had been deemed "degenerate" by the Nazis at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin. 72 pieces were transferred from the Tel Aviv Museum of Art to Berlin in the first exhibition of the Tel Aviv Museum's collection in Germany.[8]

Citations
  1. Moher, Deborag (13 December 2016). "Meet Suzanne Landau, Director And Chief Curator Of Tel Aviv Museum Of Art". Culture Trip. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
  2. Sheffi, Smadar; Rauchwerger, Daniel (26 February 2012). "Tel Aviv Museum Surprises Art World With Staid Choice of Curator". Haaretz. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  3. Black, Rick (3 September 1990). "In Time of Uncertainty, Israel Museum Rejoices". New York Times. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  4. David, Ariel (7 September 2010). "Linking the Past and the Present Through Art". New York Times. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  5. Yahav, Galia; Azoulay, Ellie Armon (10 January 2018). "The Top Ten Most Influential People in Israeli Art". Haaretz. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  6. Yahav, Galia; Azoulay, Ellie Armon (2 August 2013). "Israeli Art's No. 1: Suzanne Landau". Haartez. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  7. "Art world stalling? Not according to this int'l spot in Israel". Jerusalem Post. 27 November 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  8. "Tel Aviv Museum of Art visits Berlin". Jerusalem Post. 23 March 2012. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
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