Ronit Eden is an independent curator living and working in Amsterdam. She holds a degree in design and architecture. Since 1989 she has worked as an interior architect, and as an exhibition designer for major museums in Israel and the Netherlands.

As of the last fifteen years, she has been curating and producing exhibitions about contemporary art in and around the Netherlands. She is especially interested in art that incorporates historical and cultural events that shape political identity. She also curates exhibitions that integrate discussions on the museum's role in preserving memory; exhibitions that question the museum’s role in creating personal identity and community affiliation.

In addition, she prepared and guided research trips into the art scene of Israel/Palestinian society with more than 65 professionals from the Dutch art scene.

With her experience in both design and curating, she teaches workshops about the relationships between space and objects, for students of Art and Architecture. In these courses they exploring  through practical and theoretical exercises from  the core learning experience.

She is a member of IKT, International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art

• Exhibitions

  2024

  A group exhibition with Uri K. (working title), a group exhibition, curatorship and exhibition design, planned for winter 2024

  2023

  In het Licht (In to the Light), designing the exhibition , KRONA museum, Uden, Netherlands

  Empty Playground, a site specific installation of Amos van Gelder, curatorship and exhibition design, Etty Hillesum center, Deventer, Netherlands

  Boaz Tal (working title), solo exhibition of Boaz Tal, curatorship together with Dana Tal Segev, Indi Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel, planned for winter 2023

  Lecture: Art as an Agent of Memory, a lecture about three in situ interventions realised with contemporary artists in different places across the Netherlands, H401  culture center, Amsterdam

   

   

   

   

   

  2022

  The Great Dress, solo exhibition of Gili Avissar, curatorship and exhibition design, Sapir Academic College, Hanegev, Israel

  Workshop: Between Space and Object, Pardes, school of visual arts, Givat Washington, Israel

  Workshop: Between Space and Object, Sapir Academic College, Hanegev, Israel

  Workshop: Between Space and Object,FH Bielefeld, Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences Faculty of Design

  Dali. Bible, Surrealism, Games, Designing exhibition of prints by Salvador Dali, KRONA museum, Uden, Netherlands

   

  2021

  Chagall between Worlds, a group exhibition, curatorship and exhibition design (in cooperation with Joel Cahen and Wouter Prins, director of  KRONA Museum) , KRONA, Museum of Religious Art, Uden, The Netherlands

  2020

  Workshop: Between Space and Object, teaching at the department of ​Fine ​Arts, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel

  2019

  Workshop: Between Space and Object, teaching at the department of ​Fine ​Arts, Emuna College, Jerusalem, Israel

  2018

  No Limits, solo exhibition of artist Chaim Oren, curatorship and exhibition design, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  Fake News, artists: Ronit Porat, Amira Ziyan, Rami Maymon, Davi Barell, Keren Zaltz, curated online art exhibitions

  De Getekenden, a sitespesific installation of Amos van Gelder, curatorship and exhibition design Museum Sjoel Elburg, The Netherlands

  The Institute of Ongoing Things, solo exhibition of Uri Katzenstein, curatorship and exhibition design,The Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  2016

  Memories of Places which I have never Visited, Solo exhibition of the artist Atousa Bandeh, curatorship and exhibition design, gallery de Witte Voet, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

  VIRUS, Solo exhibition of the artist Eyal Assulin,curatorship and exhibition design, Beelden aan Zee museum, The Hague, The Netherland 

  2015

  From the series: Nature Centers into Balls, part of work in process,curatorial advisor, Mirit Cohen Caspi, Artspace Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel 

  WASSERETTE, Solo exhibition of the artist Amos van Gelder, curatorship and exhibition design, Groningen Synagogue, Groningen, The Netherlands 

  2014

  In Search of Lost Time,a group of nternational artists share a personal memory via visual tools, curatorship and exhibition design, Castrum Peregrini, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

  Food Chain Project,solo exhibition of the artist Itamar Gilboa, curatorship and exhibition design New Dakota gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (

  Wanderings, solo exhibition of the artist Eliahou Eric Bokobza, curatorship and exhibition design, the Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

  Languagescape, Amos van Gelder, curatorial text, Buren, The Netherlands 

  2013

  To Live Inside a Drop of Water, solo exhibition of the Photographer Felix Kris, curatorship and exhibition design, Barbur gallery, Jerusalem, Israel 

  Embroidered in the First, Solo exhibition of  Mirit Cohen-Caspi, curatorship, Artists House, Tel Aviv, Israel 

  2012

  The Gatewatcher, group exhibition of international artists address the boundaries of gender,  curatorship and exhibition design, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, The Netherland 

  The Spider's Strategy, solo exhibition of the Artist Ruthi Helbiz-Cohen, curatorship and exhibition design, Beelden aan Zee museum, The Hague, The Netherland 

  Jacques Lipchitz, Retrospactive, exhibition design, Beelden aan Zee museum, The Hague, The Netherland 

  2011

  INDISPLACE, Memories from places I have never visit, a group exhibition, curatorship and exhibition design, GAL-ON gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

  Notes Concerning the Past, works of Armando and Reli Avrahami, curatorship and exhibition design (in cooperation with Yvonne Ploum, director of  Armando Museum), Armando museum, Amersfoort, The Netherlands 

  2010

  My Ghetto, a video installation of Itay Ziv, artistic advicer, Hollandsche Schouwburg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

  Family Files, contemporary photography and video art from Israel, curatorship and exhibition design(in cooperation with the Galia Gur Zeev), Jewish museum Munich, Germany 

  2009

  SOMA, light installation by Ayala Serfaty, curator in charge, Beelden aan Zee museum, Den Haag, The Netherlands 

  2008

  Territorial Bodies, contemporary Sculpture from Israel, curatorship and exhibition design, Beelden aan Zee museum, The Hague, The Netherlands 

  2007

  Ver-huizing,a group exhibition of international artists, curatorship and exhibition design, Jan Cunen Museum, Oss, The Netherlands 

  2005

  The Right  to Remain Silent, curatorship and exhibition design (in cooperation with other curators) 66 East exhibition space, Amsterdam, The Netherlands   

  2001

  Illustrated hand drawings, exhibition design, Diaspora Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel

  2000

  Him Too...?, Oz Almog, solo exhibition, exhibition design, Diaspora Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel 

  1999, 2000

  The Yitzhak Rabin center for Israel Studies, memorial exhibitions, curatorship and exhibition design, Tel Aviv, Israel 

  1999

  Prisoners showing their Art works, curatorship and exhibition design, Ayalon prison, Ramle, Israel 

  1998, 2001

  Shabat, exhibition design and production, the department of Jewish studies, Bar Ilan university, Tel Aviv, Israel 

  1998

  Menora,exhibition design and production, (in cooperation with the museum designer Elisheva Yarchi)  Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel 

  1997

  Sotheby’s Pavilion, exhibition design, The International Convention Center (ICC) - Binyanei HaUma, Jerusalem, Israel 

  1993

  From discoveries to Diaspora, exhibition design, (in cooperation with the designer Ori Abramson) Gulbenkian museum, Lisbon, Portugal

  1992

  From discoveries to Diaspora, exhibition design and production, (in cooperation with the designer Ori Abramson) Diaspora Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel 

  Works of the photographer Fredrick Brener, exhibition design and production, (in cooperation with the designer Ori Abramson)  Diaspora Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel 

  1991

  Toledo synagogue, exhibition design and production, The University Gallery, Tel Aviv university, Israel 

  1990-1997

  Israel Museum, exhibition design and production, departments of graphics (in cooperation with the chief designer David Gal), photography & modern art, the permanent collection and the Jacques Lipchitz Collection, Jerusalem , Israel 

  Ilana Gur Museum, Nahum Gutman Museum, The Diamonds Museum, KKL Museum, exhibition design and production, (in cooperation with the chief designer David Gal) Israel

• Projects

  2000

  study and children center, Diaspora Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel (Interior design)

  1990-2002

  Privet houses,  Israel (Interior architecture and design)

  1999

  The Yitzhak Rabin center for Israel Studies, Tel Aviv, Israel (Interior architecture and design)

  1998

  Goethe institute,  Tel Aviv , Israel (Interior design)

  1995

  The national electric company, visitors center [3rd price], Hadera, Israel (exhibition design)

  1991

  Israel museum foyer, Jerusalem , Israel (Interior design)

  Khan theater,  Street and shows signs design,Jerusalem, Israel

• Education

  1999-2000

  "Camera Obscura"  School of Art, graduate of The New Seminar for Visual Culture and Critical Studies, Tel Aviv, Israel

  1991

  "Bezalel" Academy of Arts and Design, external studies, Intrudaction to architucture conservation Jerusalem, Israel

  1989-2001

  I.F.I. International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers

  A.A.P. The Association of Interior Architects in Israel

  1984-1988

  ”Hasadna”, graduate of design and interior architecture department , Tel Aviv, Israel