Gilly Karjevsky is an independent curator of critical spatial practice (Rendell) based in Berlin. She works at the intersection of ethics of care and the curatorial, looking at languages of practice, in relation to site and situation. 

She is a founding member of (soft agency) where she was curator for “Caring” (HKW, 2020), “Climate Care” (Floating University, 2019) and “Formats of Care” (UDK and Vienna Academy of Arts, 2019). She is Program lead at the Floating University where she is investigating a collaborative lexicon process – “Silent Conversation” (since 2018). She was curator of “Jardin Essentiel” for Parckdesign biennal (Brussels, 2016).  She has acted as curator for various artist residencies in municipal departments (Brussels, 2016, Holon 2014, Jerusalem, 2012). She is co-director of 72 Hour Urban Action, with editions in various European cities since 2010.

Gilly acts as jury for various boards among which the international artistic boards of Visible – the social practice prize from Fondazione Pistolleto, and the residency program at the ZK/U – Centre for Art and Urbanism in Berlin. She lectures on her practice internationally, and have given presentations and workshops at Central Saint Martins, UDK Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Harvard GSD, HKW, Strelka Institute, Queens museum and P.S.1 among many others. Gilly’s writings have been published in several readers, magazines, monographs and compilations, and she is editor of a forthcoming Arch+ publication summarizing a decade of 72HUA.