Ben Livne Weitzman is a curator and writer based in Frankfurt. He is the Editor-in-Chief of PASSE-AVANT, an online magazine for contemporary art. Ben runs the online exhibition space inaroom.xyz and is the founder of WAVA, an augmented exhibition platform currently under development. He holds a Master's degree in Curatorial Studies from the Städelschule and the Goethe University in Frankfurt and a Bachelor's degree from the Interdisciplinary Honors Program in the Humanities and the Arts, Tel Aviv University.
Among Ben's recent curatorial projects one could name the exhibition "Framing Movements" at the Suzanne Dellal Centre in Tel Aviv (2021) and the exhibition "In-visible Realness" at the PS120 Gallery in Berlin (2019). In 2020 and 2021, Ben was running the BOX project space at the HfG in Offenbach am Main. In 2018, he co-curated the graduate show of the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee, a group show titled "Upward, behind the onstreaming, it mooned" at the Gussglashalle, Berlin, and a solo exhibition for renowned Israeli artist Michal Heiman as at Frankfurt’s fffriedrich. His writings were published in several catalogues and publications, as well as in magazines such as Arts of the Working Class and Frieze.
Throughout the years and my expanding practice in photography, video, sound, spatial installations, curating, and writing, I find myself in a constant search for evasive moments of encounter. Moments of in-betweenness, in which a clearing could open, and a community might gather.
Framing Movements. Suzanne Dellal Center, Tel Aviv. 2021.
Co-curated with Tamir Eting.
Kwangmyeong New-Town. Sungsoo Lee. BOX.
Offenbach am Main. 2021.
mädchenname. Asli Özdemir. BOX.
Offenbach am Main. 2021.
Hybridized. Verdiana Albano & Armin Amiri. BOX.
Offenbach am Main. 2021.
Fata Morgana. Hyeonyoung Lee. BOX.
Offenbach am Main. 2021.
100 sunsets. Johanna Schlegel, BOX.
Offenbach am Main. 2020.
I Was Thinking of Numbers. Rudi Weisbeck, Basis Elbestraße Projektraum, Frankfurt am Main. 2020.
Außerhalb der Zeit. Tatiana Vdovenko, BOX. Offenbach am Main. 2020. Co-curated with Isabelle Tondre.
Queer(ing) Xmas. Sonntags-Club, Berlin. 2019.
Co-curated with Mesaoo Wered.
In-visible Realness. PS120, Berlin. 2019.
Co-curated with Justin Polera.
SOUNDBATHING. fffriedrich, Frankfurt am Mein. 2019.
Upward, behind the onstreaming, it Mooned. Gussglashalle, Berlin. 2019. Co-curated with Hendrike Nagel.
Subject:Fwd:Unknown / Michal Heiman. fffriedrich, Frankfurt am Mein. 2019. Co-curated with Alice Chardenet, Sarah Heuberger and Vicky Kouvaraki.
Defying Currents. Graduates show kunsthochschule berlin weißensee, Berlin. 2018. Co-curated with Alice Chardenet and Alexandra Lange.
Exhibitions (artist)
The Spring Exhibition, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, 2017. Curators: Torben Ribe, Stig L. Andersson, Hanna Nilsson, Line Clausen Pedersen.
Krappy Kamera Competition, Soho Photo Gallery, New York, 2017. Curator: Russell Joslin. (Honorable Mention)
Form Follows Funktion, Prince Charles, Berlin, 2017.
Capture The Moment, Galleri Norrsken, Stockholm, 2017 Curators: Daniel Nagy, Alice Maselnikova.
Zweibahnstraße, Sprachsalon, Berlin, 2016.
OD RA DEK, Pflügerstraße 70, Berlin, 2016.
Hamekarer, Tel Aviv, 2015. Curators: Iris Pshedezki, Gili Zeidman, Omri Ben Arzi.
40+08 Art Marathon,
Education
2017 - 2021
Curatorial Studies | Theorie – Geschichte – Kritik
Master thesis written under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Daniel Birnbaum and Dr. Stefanie Heraeus under the title “Curating, Augmenting, Listening: Virtual Possibilities in Public Space Art.”
Frankfurt am Main
2012 - 2015
The Honours Program in the Humanities and Arts
B.A. | cum laude
Tel Aviv University
2010 - 2013
Film Studies
Evening program | Graduated with Honours
Camera Obscura School of Arts | Tel Aviv
2008
Film Department
The Jerusalem High School for the Arts