Jonathan Turner has been working as an art critic, writer, editor and independent curator for more than 35 years, based in Rome, Sydney and Amsterdam. Over this time, as curator, he has organized more than 350 solo shows and group exhibitions for a large number of international modern and contemporary artists in art galleries and public museums throughout Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, Belgium, Sweden, Germany, Slovakia, the U.K., China, Macau, Korea, Australia, New Zealand and the U.S, including career retrospectives and performance events, publishing numerous monographs, catalogues and artists' books aligned to these exhibitions.

Since the early 1990s, at the International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, he has worked closely with artists for different exhibitions as well as for the National pavilions of the Netherlands, Australia, Italy and Malta, including as part of the executive committee of Aperto in 1993 with Biennale artistic director Achille Bonito Oliva.

Artists + Allies x Hebron (AAH) aims to draw the attention of the international community to the situation in Hebron H2, where Israel exercises military control, enforcing a modern-day apartheid and using cut-edge surveillance technologies to monitor every aspect of Palestinian life throughout the West Bank, violating their fundamental human right of privacy. AAH broadcasts projects performed in H2 outwards to a global network of cultural venues and associated digital platforms. It also invites high-profile figures of the art world to visit Hebron, where they have the opportunity to engage with local artists and activists as well as to gain a genuine and firsthand understanding of the situation on the ground.

AAH was founded by Issa Amro and Adam Broomberg. Amro is a Palestinian activist based in Hebron and is the co-founder of the grassroots group Youth Against Settlements. He advocates nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience to fight the Israeli Occupation of the Palestinian Territories. In 2010, he was declared “human rights defender of the year in Palestine” by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Broomberg is an artist, educator and activist based in Berlin. As a former anti-apartheid activist belonging to a family of Jewish Holocaust survivors, he has a unique podium from which to declare his outspoken opposition to the occupation of Palestine, dedicating his time to using his leverage in the art world for actions in Palestine.

Dar Jacir for Art and Research, founded in 2014, is a multi-disciplinary space devoted to educational, cultural, and agricultural exchanges in Bethlehem, Palestine. A process and practice-oriented platform, it is an experimental learning hub for the Bethlehem community and beyond. Through a participatory approach, collective knowledge is created, new works are produced, and structures for care and repair are fostered. Dar Jacir is the only artist-led space in the Southern West Bank that provides arts education and residency programs for both Palestinians and internationals, operating across visual arts, sound, cinema, performance, dance, literature, and agriculture. Aline Khoury and Emily Jacir are the co-directors.

Dar Jacir has participated in symposiums, exhibitions, and festivals around the world, including: ARCO Madrid (2023), CiMAM Annual Conference (Spain, 2022), MANIFESTIAMO-Villa Romana (Italy, 2022), National College of Art and Design (Dublin, 2022), Rethinking Residencies (New York, 2021), KORA-Contemporary Arts Center (Italy, 2021), Experimenter Curator’s Hub (India, 2021) and others. Dar Jacir was a finalist for the Visible Award (2019), a winner of KADIST CIRCLE AWARD (2018), and was one of five finalists for the Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice (2018-2020).