Michaela Sidenberg is Czech-born art historian and theoretician. Following her graduation from Charles University in Prague (Art History, 1996) she joined the Jewish Museum in Prague as the museum's visual arts curator. Since then she has participated in many international exhibition projects across the North American continent, Australia, and Europe. In 2001 she has initiated the Prague Jewish Museum contemporary art series entitled Jewish Presence in Contemporary Visual Art, within which she seeks to bring together the ancient tradition of Jewish culture and the use of the newest technologies and artistic strategies. Her latest curatorial projects include:

MAHARAL 5769: Augmented Reality Project for the Jewish Quarter of Prague (an inter-disciplinary creative lab developing an interactive system for visitors and residents of Prague who want to learn more about local Jewish History and Culture) [work in progress, envisaged for September-December 2009]

Melissa Shiff, ARK (large-scale outdoor video sculpture) [2006/07]

Melissa Shiff, Reframing Ritual: Postmodern Jewish Wedding (video-installation in the Spanish Synagogue) [2006]

Michael Bielicky, This Year in Jerusalem (telematic installation connecting Prague and Jerusalem) [2005/06]

Robert J. Gluck & Cynthia B. Rubin, Layered Histories: The Wandering Bible of Marseilles (interactive installation featuring imaginary wanderings of a 13th Century Hebrew manuscript) [2005]

Mel Alexenberg, Cyberangels: Aesthetic Peace Plan for the Middle East [2004]

Besides her curatorial work Sidenberg has been active in looted art provenance research. One of six experts commissioned by the government of the Czech Republic she participated in researching and evaluating Holocaust-Era looted art scattered across Czech public collections and co-authored the first report written on this topic. She presented the results of her research carried out within this expert commission work at the Vilnius International Forum on Holocaust-Era Looted Cultural Assets organized as a follow-up of the Washington Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets on Oct. 3 – 5, 2000.

Her texts appear mostly in the exhibition catalogues published by the Jewish Museum in Prague and in volumes of collected conference papers.