Galit Eilat

(b. 1965) is an Israeli-born art critic and curator.

She is a founding director of the Israeli Center for Digital Art in Holon and a research curator at the Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. She also occupies a post of editor in chief of the Maarav online magazine. Her research interest focus on problems of social and political activism within the field of arts, as well as current politics in the Middle East. She curated and co-curated major art exhibitions such as Politics of Collection, Collection of Politics (Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 2010), The Real War, solo show with Sean Snyder, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon (2010); Evil to the Core, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon (2009–2010); Never Looked Better, Beth Hatefutsoth, Tel Aviv (2008–2009); Chosen (Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdańsk and The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, 2008–2009), Mobile Archive travelling seminar (Hamburger Kunstverein and The Israeli Center for Digital Art in Holon, 2009), Liminal Spaces flying seminar (Israel and Palestine, 2006–2008), People, Land, State (The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, 2006) and This is Not America (Art Project Gallery, Tel Aviv, 2006). In collaboration with Sebastian Cichocki from the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, she recently curated Yael Bartana’s exhibition … and Europe will be stunned held at the Polish Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011.

At Auditorium Moscow, Galit Eilat will present Yael Bartana’s trilogy and Europe will be stunned, as well as the accompanying volume A Cookbook for the Political Imaginary.