Galit Eilat

Galit Eilat was born in 1965 in Haifa

Galit Eilat was born in Haifa in 1965. She earned a bachelor's degree in art at the Kalisher School of Art, where her final project brought 5 curators together for a recorded discussion. She then completed a master's degree in the Netherlands.

In 2001 she returned to Israel and became the founding director of the Israeli Center for Digital Art in Holon, which she ran until 2010. There she curated the trilogy Hilchot Shchenim and started the Mobile Archive of video works in Hamburg in 2007. From 2004 to 2010 she was chief editor of Ma'arav, an online arts and culture magazine she founded with Michel Kessus Gdaliyovich.

With Eyal Danon, Reem Fadda and Phil Misselwitz she developed the Liminal Spaces traveling seminars, which focused on Road 60 between Jerusalem and Ramallah. A book on the project appeared in 2009.

In 2010 she moved to the Netherlands and worked as a research curator at the Van Abbemuseum until 2013. In 2011 she curated Yael Bartana's presentation at the Polish Pavilion of the Venice Biennale, and she co-curated the 31st São Paulo Biennial. She was a founding member and first president of the Academy of the Arts of the World in Cologne.

Since June 2018 she has directed the Meduza Foundation. In 2022 she announced a new international center for ecological art in Hatzeva, together with the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel.