Ben Livne Weitzman

Speaker

Curator

Frankfurt am Main, Germany

www.wava.ar

Ben Livne Weitzman is a curator and writer based in Frankfurt. He is CEO and co-founder of WAVA, an augmented exhibition platform. Ben earned his Master’s in Curatorial Studies from the Städelschule and the Goethe University in Frankfurt, and a Bachelor’s degree from the Interdisciplinary Honours Program in the Humanities and the Arts at Tel Aviv University. As a curator, Ben is working with the Crespo Foundation’s Glenkeen Garden artist-in-residence program in West Cork, Ireland.

 

Noteworthy exhibitions curated by him include the virtual exhibition “DEMO-” (2023) in Frankfurt’s public space, “Framing Movements” at the Suzanne Dellal Centre in Tel Aviv (2021 and 2022), and “In-visible Realness” at the PS120 Gallery in Berlin (2019). In 2020-2021, Ben directed the BOX project-space at the HfG in Offenbach, and in 2018, he co-curated the graduate show of the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee. An Editor-at-Large at PASSE-AVANT, Ben’s writings have been featured in various catalogues, publications, and magazines, including Arts of the Working Class, Ocula, and Frieze.

 

Photo by Ivan Murzin