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Noam Alon is a contemporary art curator and critic based in Paris. Currently preparing his Museology PhD dissertation and teaching at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris.
His curatorial research ranges between two main axes: the first is the investigation of the different manners that our psyche, and our apprehension of emotional states, are being structured by social diktats since the beginning of the industrial era, with the rise of psychoanalysis, till the new age trend and the domination of popular positive psychology. Noam is working with different artists that attempt to breach the link between mental stability and efficient work performance, proposing each their singular way to emancipate this scheme ; the second research axis is related to the examination of natural phenomenon resulted by climate crisis, being adopted by different authorities as contemporary myths of doomsday. It seems their use of fear, pessimism and omnipotence serves to create social fragmentation - individual guilt instead of collective action. Noam dialogues with artists questioning the anthropocene while suggesting options to deconstruct dogmatic perspectives and beliefs.
The main axis of Noam’s academic practice is the revelation of invisible infrastructures and power relations within the artworld, aiming to propose methodologies based on horizontality and experimentation instead of hierarchy and fashionism.
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Curator
2024
Channel, Nîmes Contemporary Art Center, FR
CRUELLA DE-VIL, Sultana Gallery, Arles
Vanishing Act, Jousse Entreprise, Material Art Fair, Mexico City
2023
Curated By Noam Alon, Docent Art
Spring Water, collective exhibition, Edmond de Rothschild Center, Tel-Aviv
2022
La Veillée d’Armes, duo show for Jousse Entreprise Gallery, Paris + Art Basel, October
Before the Train, solo show of Tal Kronkop, Bet Habeer, Jaffa, September-October
Shortest Way To Happiness, collective exhibition, Givon Art Forum, Tel Aviv, June-August
Après nous, le Déluge, collective exhibition,
galeriepcp, Paris, February-March
2021
I Scream Ice Cream, collective exhibition, Espace Niemeyer, Paris, September
Apple Flavour, collective exhibition,
Binyamin Gallery, Tel-Aviv, July
Jardin Secret, Collective exhibition,
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Paris, April-May
SYSTEM_FAILURE, collective exhibition, galeriepcp, Paris, October
2019
Butthash, Tal Engelstein, Petite Galerie, Cité internationale des Arts, Paris, Septembre
Expand and Collapse, Badr Ali, Corridor,
Cité internationale des Arts, Paris, July
The signs that mock me as I go,
Rotem Gerstel, DOC! Paris, March
2018
Orchard, Elise Courcol-Rozès,
Atelier Janssens, ENSBA Paris, January
Critic
Residency
2024
Text for the solo show of Madeleine Roger-Lacan, Eigen+Art, Berlin
Portfolio Editorial, Elise Courcol-Rozès, Marges contemporary Art Journal, Paris
Text for Mathilde Denize, Perrotin, Paris
2023
Text for the Solo Show of Kolja Kartner Sainz, DS Gallery, Paris
Text for the Solo show of Gal Schindler “Dust Proof”, Sultana Gallery, Paris
Editor in Chief of the FR-EN Contemporary Art Review FigureFigure
2022
Curated Written Exhibition Overcooked Leftovers, for Compost - Tel Aviv Museum of Contemporary Art Magazine
Text for the Solo Show Time Entanglement
of Elena Giolo, Plan_B, Amsterdam
2021
Review of the exhibition
Anticorps - Palais de Tokyo,
Journal of curatorial studies, Canada
Tyutah, Magazine of Israeli contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv
2020
Editor-in-chief, catalog of the 70th edition of the annual salon of Jeune Création, Paris
LeChassis, Contemporary Art Review, Paris
P/////AKT gallery, Amsterdam, Introduction for the Artist’s book of Pia Hinz
2019
Catalogue of the 69th edition of the annual salon Jeune Création, Paris
2018
Galerie Charlot, le Marais, Paris
2015-2019
Ma’akaf, magazine of contemporary live arts
2024
Maison Artagon, Orléans
2023
French Institut UK, Fluxus London, Curatorial Research Grant
2022
ARTPORT, Tel-Aviv
2021
ENS des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris
Lecturer
2024
Catholique Institut of Paris, guest lecturer, conference cycle Art & Pedagogy
International Committee of Museology ICOFOM International Conference, Qatar
Exhibition Critique, Teacher at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, Mediation Culturelle Bachelor & Museum Studies Master’s
2023
Congrès Rotondes, National Institut of Art History, INHA, Paris
Sapir College, Fine Arts Departement
2022
Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art, Tel-Aviv
2021
‘Contemporary Art in Paris’ Katedra, Interdisciplinary Study Center, Tel-Aviv
2020
‘Contemporary Art in Paris’ Open University, Tel-Aviv
2018-2020
Conference guide of Private Art Gallery Tours, Arternative, Marais, Paris
2019
Pedagogical Responsable of the Nomadic School, International Exchange Program Directed by Silvia Bottiroli and Guy Gutman
AssistantCurator
2022
Nicolas Trembley, Guest Curator, Musée Guimet ; La Monnaie de Paris
2020-2021
Anne Dressen, Curator of the Contemporary Art department, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris
2017
Yair Vardi, Curator of the interdisciplinary festival, A-Genre, Tmu-na Theater, Tel-Aviv
2016
Tamar Raban, artistic director, SHELTER209 Performance-Art Platform, Tel-Aviv
2013
Smadar Yaaron, Curator of the interdisciplinary festival Nisuy Kelim, Tel Aviv
Education
2022-present
PhD fellow, Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris
Museology Departement ; advisor: François Mairesse
2019-2020
Masters in Images, Visual Cultures, Art History, EHESS School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris advisor: Emanuele Coccia,
Graduation with honors and Jury’s Congratulations
2018-2019
Masters in Aesthetics, Practice, Contemporary Art History, PARIS 8 University, advisor: Manuela de Barros, Graduation with honors
2013 – 2017
School of Visual Theater, Jerusalem,
Interdisciplinary Art department
2017
Extra-curriculum program in philosophie,
Hebrew University, Jerusalem
2016
Participant in “Culture Lab”, Festival d’Avignon, France
2012 – 2013
School of costume and stage design,
directed by Rakefet Levy, Tel-Aviv
