Kate Finkelstein is an independent artist and curator from Israel, focused on social problematic issues such as democracy rights, equality, identity trauma, postcolonial art, etc. She preferably works with a site- and time-specific art approach, developing contemporary art projects in art centers, galleries as well as non-conventional environments.

As an artist and curator she focused on social problematic issues such as democracy rights, equality, identity trauma, postcolonial art, etc. She preferably works with a site- and time-specific art approach, developing contemporary art projects in art centers, galleries as well as non-conventional environments.

The main idea of her art practice – to create art-work is to create a field of multidimensional human experience: “I do not make art-objects, I create art-fields”. The artist works multidisciplinary, mainly in the genre of site-specific installation using a variety of mediums. Kate Finkelstein rethinks mental / conscious/ unconscious / social phenomena, creating bizarre forms – connecting various objects, ready-mades, photography, video, plants and tissues with silicone, soap and other materials. Also Kate Finkelstein works with a variety forms of participatory and public engaged forms of art: fluxus, performance, happening, laboratory, etc.

Kate Finkelstein curated about 30 art projects. The status “Especially outstanding artist” was assigned by the Ministry of Aliyah and Integration. Her initiatives were supported by independent grant institutions (“Chetverg” Foundation and etc.), and included into the program of 8th International Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art.

Kate Finkelstein is the main curator SVIVA art space (Tel Aviv), invited curator at Talis Gallery (Jerusalem), co founder “ArtNeuroVerse Biennale” for artists with neurodivergence, and a founder of an online platform for independent curatorial projects and self-organization “Art Makes Sense”, founder of Site-Specific ARTLAB (Tel Aviv).

Finkelstein was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. She graduated from British High School of Art and Design “Contemporary art” and is about to graduate from High School “Learning Environment”, “Theory of contemporary art” in 2023.

Her art works are presented in ASTRA Gallery, BIZAR.

Based in Israel.