Belu-Simion Fainaru lives in Haifa, Israel and Antwerp, Belgium. Fainaru also works as a curator. In 1993 he was the co-founder of the Pyramid organisation in Haifa and in 2010 was one of the initiators and curators of The Mediterranean Biennale. In 2014 he founded the Free International Art Academy—FIAA, together with the German curator Hubertus Wunschik.