Dalia Levin
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| Native name | דליה לוין |
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Dalia Levin (born September 18, 1946) is the former director and chief curator of Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (1993-2014). Levin was also chief curator of Petach Tikva Museum of Art (1988-1993).
Dalia Levin was born in Tel-Aviv, Israel. She graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Law School. She then studied Art history and Museology in Tel Aviv University. She mastered in painting with Israeli artist Eliahu Gat. In 1987 she started to work as curator in Petach Tikva Museum of Art, which was then a small peripheral museum, the house of local schools art exhibitions. Levin started to exhibit contemporary art shows, and it became part of "The Periphery Forum" of art institutions in Israel.
In 1993 Levin was nominated to the position of Director of The Herzliya Museum. Under her supervision, this became The Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, an internationally leading museum of its regime. While in the Museum she served in a number of major committees, such as: The 50th Venice Biennale international committee of judges of the Golden Lion award; the committees of judges of the Israel Prize in the Arts; the Wolf Prize committee of judges in the Arts.
Levin is the mother of two daughters and a son, and has 6 grandchildren.
When Levin started managing the museum, it was merely a part of the Yad La'banim memorial institution house in the city (just as was the museum which Levin managed previously). Levin wanted from the outset to exhibit contemporary art of significant artistic value, while then newly elected mayor, Yael German, wished to use the museum in order to support and promote local artists. Levin persuaded German that the quality of work must be the defining criterion, and not the artist place of residency. She wished to establish the museum as an experimental platform of quality contemporary art. Since then, the financial support by German and the City grew substantially. In addition, Yaacov Alkov, a Hertzlia resident, donated his entire private art collection, as well as money donation, to the museum.
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