Or Tshuva
Photo: Ania Krupiakov
Selected Press and Publications:
Exhibition Research Lab: Ofri Cnaani, The Contactless Condition, A conversation between Or Tshuva, Ofri Cnaani, and Annet Dekker, NECSUS, 2025
Scanning the Horizon in Turbulent Times: Participatory Public Art as a Counter-space, a conversation between Or Tshuva, Bill Balaskas, and Stephen Walker, OnCurating #60, 2025
'The Co-llection' – Attempting to Introduce a (Truly) Public Art Collection, Stedelijk Studies #13, 2023 (peer reviewed)
Interview with Or Tshuva for Portfolio Magazine, 2021 (Hebrew)
Changing the Conversation, Jerusalem Post, 2017
About
Or Tshuva (she/her) is a curator, writer, and cultural organiser based in Manchester, where in 2022 she founded the Arts Council England-funded 422 Arts. She is an AHRC M4C doctoral researcher at the Birmingham School of Art and the University of Warwick, examining curatorial reframings of publicness, sustainability, and social responsibility in times of polycrisis. Before that, she was a curator at the Petach Tikva Museum of Art, where between 2016-2021, she curated large-scale exhibitions and commissioned new artworks and interventional projects for the museum's collection gallery. Her curatorial projects were exhibited at the Petach Tikva Museum of Art, National Gallery of Modern Art (New Delhi, IN), Jerusalem Design Week, ERL gallery at Liverpool John Moores University, Artport Tel Aviv, Beit Hagefen: Arab-Jewish Cultural Centre and more. She was involved in curatorial and research residencies at the MuCEM (Marseille, FR), Liverpool Biennial, and Residency Unlimited (Brooklyn, NY).
Or is passionate about institutional rethinking and works with artists and organisations to facilitate meaningful public engagement and reimagine organisational practices. Her work is often site and context-specific and responds to a certain need or question raised by the community or place itself. She specialises in developing new commissions and research-based projects spanning new media, installation, and performance. Her writings and curatorial projects have previously dealt with activism, memory, commemoration, global histories, decolonial practices, feminism, institutional critique and globalisation.
Or gained her master's degree with distinction from Goldsmiths University of London's Visual Cultures department and a postgraduate diploma in Arts and Cultural Management from Tel Aviv University. She was a lecturer in curatorial studies at Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology, and the Arts in Tel Aviv, a visiting lecturer in Museology and Curatorial Studies at Tel Aviv University and Bar Ilan University, and a guest speaker at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Manchester School of Art, HaMidrasha School of Art, King's College London.
In 2017, she co-authored (together with Danielle Heiblum) the book 'Altering Narratives: Essential Political Practices in Visual Culture', which won a Lottery Fund research grant for new publications in visual culture.