Dr. Sophia Dekel Caspi is an art historian, researcher, and freelance curator. She earned her PhD from the Faculty of Arts at Tel Aviv University in 2023. Her dissertation, The Perception of Neighborhood and Housing in David Reznik’s Architecture (1924–2012): Identity, Society, and Culture, reflects her profound engagement with the geopolitical and socio-cultural dimensions of architecture.
Dr. Dekel Caspi has curated prominent solo exhibitions, including Architect Moshe Safdie: If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem: Between Memory and Identity, Museums He Designed in Israel and Abroad (1998-1999), and a retrospective on Architect David Reznik (2005), both presented at the distinguished Gania Schreiber Art Gallery at Tel Aviv University.
Her curatorial approach merges architecture, design, and art to investigate personal and collective narratives of identity. Among her notable group exhibitions are Had Gadya: Horror Cycle (2022), Israeli Object: A Matter of Time (2002/2003), and Ad-Dress: Thoughts on Garments (2011), all exhibited at the Artists’ House in Jerusalem.
Additionally, she has curated solo exhibitions for ceramic artists Nora and Naomi, Escape, at the Ein Harod Museum, as well as for artist and designer Ilana Goor, Hybrids, and textile designer Tzuri Guetta SI51, at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Her curatorial work includes an exhibition featuring renowned fashion photographer Ben Lam, Editorial Fashion at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art.
During the 1980s, Dekel Caspi began her journalism career at H’air Tel Aviv. She later served as the fashion editor for Olam Haisha magazine and as a writer and editor at Monitin magazine.
Her most notable role was serving as the founding editor of the culture supplement Galleria at Haaretz newspaper from 1989 to 1991. In this position, she developed its concept and editorial vision. This editorial experience significantly influenced her curatorial perspective, allowing her to engage with multicultural visual images in an interdisciplinary way.