Bio

Alfa Haimov is an independent curator, active since 2010. Alfa is a graduate (M.Arch.) of La Villette School of Architecture in Paris where she lived and worked as an architect for a decade. She later graduated with distinction from Hamidrasha Art School at Beit Berl College, and completed a masters degree in theory and curatorial studies at Bezalel Academy of Arts in Jerusalem.

Alfa served as general manager of the Supreme Court Heritage Museum in Jerusalem, and was manager and curator of Hamelaha print shop and gallery in Tel Aviv, fusing curatorial thought processes within the creative work in the shop.

More recent work includes initiating and curating exhibitions in numerous NPO art spaces, among which are: Domestica at Hansen Media center, One Foot in the Sea at the Lobby gallery, The Fourth Wall at Ramat Eliyahu Art Studio and Mifgash-Neeman at Jerusalem Artist Studios.

Her texts have appeared in the catalog of the Israeli Pavillion at the Venice Architecture Biennial (2014, ed. Roy Brand) and the Israel Museum exhibition No Place Like Home (2017, curated by Adina Kamien-Kazhdan).