Avital Barak
is an art curator and cultural scholar based in Lisbon. Since 2024, she has been a research fellow at CineLab/IFILNOVA, NOVA University Lisbon. Her doctoral research examined the potential for resistance manifested through performative bodily movement in public space, situating artistic practice within broader social and political contexts. Her curatorial practice focuses on research-based exhibitions, artistic mentorship, project development, and the organisation of public programmes. She has extensive experience in facilitating transdisciplinary research groups working with the method of “collective investigation,” which emphasises the production of shared knowledge through non-hierarchical group encounters. Rooted in artistic research, this methodology supports both spatial and digital modes of inquiry. Over the past decade, she has published in leading academic journals and edited volumes, served as editor of the online magazine Ma’arav, and co-edited the book The Mount, The Dome and The Gaze – The Temple Mount in Israeli Visual Culture (2017).
