Suzanne Landau

Suzanne Landau (; born 1946) is an Israeli art museum curator. She was appointed the Director and Chief Curator of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in September 2012. She had previously been Curator of Contemporary Art at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem starting 1982 and its Chief Curator of Fine Arts there from 1988. Since her appointment in Tel Aviv, she has organized for the museum the Friends of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the Acquisition Committee for Israeli Art.
Early life and education.
Suzanne Landau was born in Czechoslovakia to a pair of Holocaust survivors. Her family migrated to Israel in 1968 following the Prague Spring. She studied art history at the Hebrew University.
Career.
Landau began her career in 1978, when she became a registrar at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. She was named the museum's Curator of Contemporary Art in 1982 and then its Chief Curator of Fine Arts in 1998. In her 34-year tenure at the Israel Museum, Landau presided over several internationally famous solo exhibits. She was named the most influential person in the world of Israeli art by "Haaretz" in 2013.
Landau began a collaboration with businessman Steve Nassima in late 2020, after the Israeli government permitted the limited reopening of the nation's largest museums. The result was the opening of Nassima Landau, an art space in central Tel Aviv specializing in group exhibitions of international artists, in November.
Curator of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
Landau was appointed Director and Chief Curator of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in September 2012 by its board of directors, filling the vacancy left by Mordechai Omer's death in office. Her selection was welcomed by the Israeli contemporary art community, which had criticized the Israel Museum's board of directors for a lack of transparency and for not consulting Israeli artists in the decision-making process. Former Israel Museum curator Martin Weil, who had collaborated with Landau to enlarge its collection of contemporary Israeli art, also congratulated her appointment.
In early March 2015, Landau accepted an invitation to exhibit pieces of work by German artists whose work had been deemed "degenerate" by the Nazis at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin. 72 pieces were transferred from the Tel Aviv Museum of Art to Berlin in the first exhibition of the Tel Aviv Museum's collection in Germany.