Joshua Simon

Joshua Simon is an Israeli curator, writer, poet and filmmaker who directed MoBY, the Museums of Bat Yam.

born 1979Directing MoBY, Museums of Bat YamThe first Herzliya BiennialCo-editing the journal MaayanThe book Neomaterialism

Occupation: journalist, film director, poet, curator

Joshua Simon was born in 1979 in Jaffa

Joshua Simon was born in 1979. He holds a doctorate from Goldsmiths, University of London.

In 2000 he co-founded Babun, a group of young filmmakers making independent films, and directed films such as The Extremists (2000) and The Words and the Things (2004). He began curating in his rooftop apartment in Tel Aviv, which he called The Free Academy Pavilion of Art. Its first show, I Slept With Ari Libsker, opened in 2001.

He curated exhibitions such as Sharon (2004), Doron and Iran (2012), and the first Herzliya Biennial in 2007. He helped set up the postgraduate program at Hamidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl College, and headed its theory studies from 2009 to 2014. From 2012 he was director and chief curator of MoBY, the Museums of Bat Yam.

As a poet he published National Citizens in 2001, and he co-edits the journal Maayan with Roy Chicky Arad. In 2013 he published the book Neomaterialism. In 2024 he curated the project SLIME at the Vienna Secession, and he lives in Philadelphia.