Omer Krieger is an artist who composes performative actions, social situations, forms of assembly and civic choreographies in public spaces. Krieger studies the public experience, the common behaviour and the performance of politics, and is interested in the relations between art, citizenship, politics, and action. Co-founder and leader (2006-11) of the performative research body Public Movement, Krieger served as artistic director of Under the Mountain: New Public Art Festival, in Jerusalem (2011-15). Krieger stages actions and lectures internationally, in collaboration with institutions in the fields of art, theatre, dance, education and government. In 2017 he translated to Hebrew Stephen Wright’s Toward a Lexicon of Usership, and between 2018-20 he was the founding artistic director of 1:1 - Center for Art and Politics in Tel-Aviv.
