Producer . Curator . Writer
Producer . Curator . Writer
A selection of curatorial projects
FENTSTER: A Window onto Jewish Life through Art
Founder / Curator | 2016 - ongoing
FENTSTER (Yiddish for "window") began as an independent, artist-run exhibition space located in the storefront window of Makom on College Street. For nearly 9 years, FENTSTER presented rotating, site-specific installations of contemporary art connected to the Jewish experience in that window in downtown Toronto.
Providing a window onto Jewish life through art, FENTSTER’s work is now moving beyond the window gallery space - catalyzing critical conversations through exhibitions, programs, gatherings, and other initiatives, such as SHVILIM, furthering a commitment to creating a world free from oppression and to telling diverse stories connected to the Jewish experience.
Pictured: A Place for Wholesome Amusement by Shellie Zhang, 2018
Past exhibiting artists include Ella Cooper, Meichen Waxer, Mindy Stricke, Simon Glass, Bernice Eisenstein, Aaron Vincent Elkaim, Evan Tapper, Lynne Heller, Robert Shostak, Helena Czernek and Aleksander Prugar, Robert Davidovitz, Jess Riva Cooper, Rachel Miller, Daniel Toretsky, Aya Rosen and Yaara Eshet, Adam McKinney and Daniel Banks, David Kaufman, and a group of over 20 Muslim and Jewish women.
To view all past exhibitions and public programs, please visit: fentster.org
On the Doorposts
Helena Czernek and Aleksander Prugar, MI POLIN
Combining photography, historic documentation and unique Jewish ritual objects, this original exhibition tells the story of MI POLIN’s remarkable project to preserve traces of mezuzot still found on doorposts across Poland, creating new art out of traces of the past.
October 31 to November 27, 2019
Miles Nadal JCC, Toronto
Curated together with Rachel Libman | Presented by FENTSTER, the Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre and the Miles Nadal JCC.
For more information, click here
The Room in the Elephant
A multi-disciplinary exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Benny Ferdman
August 28 to September 3, 2018
Ashkenaz Festival at Harbourfront Centre, Toronto
For a full project description, click here
Spin Off: Contemporary Art Circling the Mandala
Aya Ben Ron (Israel), Mircea Cantor (France / Romania), Vandana Jain (USA), Gary James Joynes/Clinker (Canada), Melissa Shiff (Canada), Jennifer Zackin (USA)
September 22 to December 4, 2011
Koffler Gallery Off-Site | 80 Spadina Avenue
Click here to read the digital illustrated exhibition publication
The Postumous Landscape: Jewish Sites of Memory in Poland Today
Photographs by David Kaufman
October 2013 - March 2014 | Reuben & Helene Dennis Museum, Toronto
To read the full illustrated exhibition guide, click here
Pictured: Overgrown gravestones, Miodowa St. Jewish Cemetery, Krakow, 2011