THE EMERGENCY WILL REPLACE THE CONTEMPORARY /ARCO ART FAIR SPAIN

list of speakers

Nancy Adajania. A Bombay-based cultural theorist and independent curator. She is co-artistic director, 9th Gwangju Biennale.

Al-Thani, Abdulla bin Ali. President of Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Doha. Founder of East Wing, Dubai, Founder of Al-Markhiya Gallery, Qatar. He is also Vice President of Education at Qatar Foundation and Chairman of the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE). He is one of the most prominent Art collectors in the Middle East region.

Darsie Alexander. She was appointed in November 2008 to the position of Chief Curator at the Walker Art Center, where she supervises the curatorial program for Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Film/Video, Design, and the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden.

Xabier Arakistain. Feminist, curator and critic.

Magali Arriola. Curator, Colección Jumex, Mexico City.

Zdenka Badovinac. Curator and writer, who has served as Director of the Moderna galerija in Ljubljana, comprised of: the Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova.

Bart de Baere. Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA). He writes, he has been curator for Documenta IX and made various exhibitions, such as ‘This is the Show and the Show is Many Things’.

Ferrán Barenblit. Director of CA2M, the Community of Madrid's Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, since it was founded, in 2008. Member of the board of directors of IKT, the international association of contemporary art curators.

Ute Meta Bauer. Curator and professor of contemporary art. She is currently Dean of Fine Art at the Royal College of Art, London.

Emre Baykal. Curator, Exhibitions Director, ARTER - space for art. Emre Baykal worked for the Istanbul Biennial as Assistant Director from 1995 to 2000 and as Director from 2000 to 2005.

Pascal Beausse. Art Critic and Curator. He is the Head of Photographic Collections at CNAP, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris.

Judith Benhamou-Huet. Journalist specialised in art market (Les EChos, Le Point. Paris). Curator: Warhol TV (Paris, Lisbon, Rio, Sao Paulo). Rodin/Mapplethorpe (Paris).

Tobia Bezzola. He was for many years senior curator at the Kunsthaus Zurich. Since 2013 is director of the Museum Folkwang in Essen. He has organized a great number of international exhibitions and has written extensively for books and catalogues on Modern and Contemporary Art and Photography.

Manuel Blanco. Professor of Architectural Design. School of Architecture. Polytechnic University of Madrid. ETSAM UPM.

Holly Block. Director of The Bronx Museum of the Arts since July 2006, where she served as curator from 1985 to 1988. Ms Block is also acting as a co-curator of the US pavilion and artist Sarah Sze at the 2013 Venice Biennale.

Ellen Blumenstein. Newly appointed chief curator of KW Institute. Previously, founder of Salon Populaire project space and curatorial collective THE OFFICE. Lives and works in Berlin.

Roberta Bosco. Journalist specialized in contemporary art and new media. He has written for El País since 1998. Creator of the blog "El Arte en la Edad del Silicio" (Art in the Silicone Age).

Paloma Botín. Spokesperson of the Board of Trustees of the Botín Foundation, Santander. Founder of Es Arte Deleitosa, a company specialising in art evaluation and insurance.

Andrea Buddensieg. Curator of Gam-Global Art and the Museum at ZKM | Karlsruhe. Before she was Head of PR Department at ZKM.

Allegra Burnette. Creative Director of Digital Media at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, overseeing MoMA’s website, mobile, and other digital projects.

Stefano Caldana. Journalist specialized in digital culture. Creator and editor of the blog "El Arte en la Edad del Silicio" (Art in the Silicone Age).

Jesús Mª Carrillo. Director since July 2008 of the Cultural Programmes Department of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. He is professor of the History and Theory of Art at the Autonomous University of Madrid.

Grégory Castéra. (Paris) is a curator of art researches (co-director of Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers from 2010 to 2012) and co-author of L’Encyclopedie de la parole.

César Cervantes. Chairman and Managing Director of Taco Inn. Noted promoter of culture based on his contemporary art collection, built up in the last 15 years and comprising nearly 800 items, with a specialist library containing over 7,000 books.

Patrick Charpenel. Director, Colección Jumex, Mexico City.

Tadeu Chiarelli. Professor USP. Director of the MAC USP. Former curator of the MAM SP (1996-2000). Freelance curator. He has published books on modern and contemporary Brazilian art.

Raphael Chikukwa. He has worked mainly as an independent curator for the past ten years before joining the National Gallery of Zimbabwe as its Chief Curator. He curated the inaugural Zimbabwe Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale 2011 and has been appointed the curator of the 2nd Zimbabwe Pavilion at the 55th Venice biennale 2013.

Consuelo Císcar. Director of the IVAM, corresponding academic of the Academia Nacional de BBAA in Buenos Aires and a member of the CVC.

Anna Colin. Is an independent curator based in London. Previously, she was associate director of Bétonsalon, Paris (2011-12) and curator at Gasworks, London (2007-10).

Stefano Collicelli. (Padova, 1978) coordinates the Young Curators Residency programme at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino.

Paolo Colombo. Art Advisor, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Curator 6th Istanbul Biennial (1999), 3rd Thessaloniki Biennial (2011), 2nd Mardin Biennial (2012).

Kevin E. Consey. He was an Art Museum Director, specializing in Contemporary Art Museums, from 1977 to 2008. He teaches contemporary art and museum studies at the graduate school level, currently at the San Francisco Art Institute, and serves as Executive Vice President of the Harriet and Esteban Vicente Foundation.

Lauren Cornell. Curator, 2015 Triennial, Museum as Hub and Digital Projects at the New Museum. She was previously Executive Director of Rhizome.

Moisés Cosio. A father, husband, businessman, collector and film director and the founder of the Alumnos47 Foundation, which promotes contemporary art practice.

Sarah Cossulich. (b. Trieste 1974) She has worked internationally as curator, writer and adviser. She is now Director of Artissima International Fair of Contemporary Art in Torino, Italy.

Suzanne Cotter. Director of the Serralves Museum in Porto. Previously Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Curator for the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Project, she has also served as curator at the Whitechapel Gallery, London and Hayward Gallery, London, and at Modern Art Oxford.

Alfredo Cramerotti. Art & Media Curator, Editor and Writer based in the UK. Director of MOSTYN | Wales, Co-curator of Manifesta 8, Spain and Wales Pavilion in Venice 2013. Author of Aesthetic Journalism: How to Inform without Informing, and Editor of book series Critical Photography (Intellect).

Joselina Cruz. Director/Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Manila; 2008 Singapore Biennale, Co-Curator.

Jason DaPonte. Managing Director & Executive Producer at THE SWARM. DaPonte has over 15 years experience working at the junction where media and technology collide – and he loves it.

Vanessa Desclaux. Independent curator and writer based in Paris. She teaches at the École nationale supérieure d’art et de design de Dijon.

Pilar DM. Author of the contemporary art blog, El Dado del Arte, 2006. Cultural communicator, online teacher and member of the team responsible for the La Exposición Expandida project.

Mariette Dölle. Artistic Director of TENT Rotterdam, platform for contemporary art that has its roots in Rotterdam. She curates a programme committed to highlighting artists who generate discursive connections between otherwise disparate fields, media and communities. Current show: Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson.

Julia DraganoviÄ‡. Curator for contemporary art whose interest is focused on new artistic strategies. She has curated shows in Germany, Italy, Spain, the USA and Taiwan, including the curatorial projects of Bologna Art First 2010 - 2012 and at Art Miami since 2009.

Luisa Duarte. Resident of São Paulo. Art critic and independent curator of exhibitions. She holds a Master's degree in Philosophy from PUC-SP. Member of the board of consultants of the MAM-SP. Visual arts critic for the newspaper El Globo.

Övül Durmusoglu. Curator and writer based in Berlin and Istanbul. She has contributed to different catalogues, publications and magazines such as Frieze d/e, Flash Art International and ment. Durmusoglu currently works as the curator of the festival Sofia Contemporary 2013.

Sevda & Can Elgiz. In 2001, the Collectors founded the first institution of contemporary art under the name of 'Proje4L/Istanbul Museum of Contemporary Art'. Established with a mission to promote the development of contemporary art in Turkey, the initiative focused on providing space, support and international visibility to projects by young Turkish artists. As of 2005, the space has been housing the Elgiz Collection under the name of Proje 4L/ Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art.

Fulya Erdemci. Curator of the 13th Istanbul Biennial, 2013; Director the SKOR | Foundation for art and Public Domain, Amsterdam (June 2008 - September 2012); Curator of the Turkish Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Art Biennial, 2011. www.iksv.org.

Özge Ersoy. Writer and curator based in Istanbul. Currently Program Manager at Collectorspace, and Editor at m-est.org.

Mireya Escalante. She joined the art world in 1983, focusing initially on modern Mexican art. She began working with Agustin Coppel in 1991, establishing a collection that was originally based on modern Mexican art and later extended to include international contemporary art. She has been the Director of the Isabel and Agustin Coppel Collection (CIAC) since 2000.

Charles Esche. (Born 28.08.62, England). Director, van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, NL (since 2004). Editorial Director and Research Fellow, AFTERALL journal and books, University of Central Saint Martins College of Art, London (since 1998). Board Member, Emanuel Hoffmann Stiftung, Basel (since 1996).

Jacob Fabricius. Director at Malmö Konsthall, Sweden, since 2008, and have recently been appointed director at Kunsthal Charlotteborg, Copenhagen. Founder of Pork Salad Press. Currently curator of the exhibition Leisure, Discipline and Punishment - Contour 2013 / 6th Biennial of Moving Image in Mechelen, Belgium.

João Fernandes. Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.

João Carlos de Figueiredo Ferraz. Founder and president of Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz (IFF). The IFF collection had already been exhibited at museums like MoMA (NY), Reina Sofia (Spain), and the Brazilians Iberê Camargo, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, MAM and Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo.

Annie Fletcher. Curator of Exhibitions at the Van Abbemuseum. Former director of “If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution” with Frederique Bergholtz (2005–2010).

Richard Flood. Director of Special Projects and Curator at Large at the New Museum.

Ella Fontanals-Cisneros. Collector and entrepreneur, founding chairman of Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO). Her collection includes international contemporary and abstract art. She is currently a member of the American Patrons of the Tate Modern and the MoCA in Miami.

Charlotte Ford. NY collector established Artists' Talks at the New Museum, is a trustee of The Kitchen and photo committee member Metropolitan Museum (or MMA). A focus on emerging artists such as Ryan Trecartin, Andrea Bowers, Johannes Kahrs, Anne Collier, with a commitment supporting artists through Museum acquisitions, loans, exhibitions, and publications.

Lara Fresko. Writer and art worker based in Istanbul, Turkey.

Juan A. Gaitan. Independent curator and writer, recently appointed Curator for the 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (2014). He lives and works between Mexico City and Berlin.

Ann Gallagher. Co-Head of Tate's Collection. She specialises in modern and contemporary British art and Latin American art from 1950. Recent exhibitions: Susan Hiller (2011) Damien Hirst (2012).

Carmelo di Gennaro. Director of Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Madrid. Musicologist and music historian, has worked for RAI.

Anna de Golferichs. Art blogger and creator of Camila y el Arte. She has an art history degree and in the past was a gallery assistant at Studio Invernizzi, Barbie and Sotheby’s.

Agnès de Gouvion Saint-Cyr. Curator and author of numerous catalogues and monographs, including Brassaï en Amérique. Artistic head of photography at the Piasa auction house in Paris.

Menene Gras. Director of Culture and Exhibitions, Casa Asia, Barcelona/Madrid. Latest projects curated: Beijing Time, Crossing East-West Narratives by the End of Video Art, Chiharu Shiota: Synchronising Threads and Rhizome, Ma Yansong - Between Modernity (Global) and Tradition (Local).

Catherine Grenier. Associate Director of the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, and Chief Curator for Research and Globalisation. Curator of many exhibitions, she has also contributed to numerous publications and has written several monographs, essays and conversations with artists.

Joseph Grima. Editor in chief of Domus magazine, co-curator of 1st Istanbul Design Biennial.

Elke Gruhn. After working at the Joseph Beuys Archive, she became director of the Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Germany and initiated the Stipend Follow Fluxus.

Carles Guerra. (Amposta 1965) is the Chief Curator the Museu d'Art Contemporani Barcelona (MACBA). Between 2009 and 2011 he was the director of La Virreina Centre de la Imatge. Since 2005 he has been an associate professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

Rui Guerra. Researches and develops online strategies and creates critical interventions that reflect on art, technology and society.

Inti Guerrero. Curator, art critic and Associate artistic director of TEOR/éTica (Costa Rica). His most recent curatorial projects include Men Amongst the Ruins (TEOR/éTica, 2012).

Jaap Guldemond. Director of Exhibitions and Curator at Eye Filmmuseum. Former curator at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam and Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.

Miguel von Hafe. Miguel von Hafe Pérez. Director of the CGAC, Santiago de Compostela, since 2009. He is preparing the one-person exhibitions of Miguel Palma, Graham Gussin and Ricardo Basbaum, as well as the 93 group exhibition, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the CGAC.

Giancarlo Hannud. Art historian. Since 2010 Hannud has been a curator at the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo.

Hou Hanru. Writer and curator. He worked at San Francisco Art Institute as Director of Exhibitions and Public Program and Chair of Exhibition and Museum Studies from 2006 to 2012. He is currently curating the 5th Auckland Triennial, Auckland, New Zealand, 2012.

Larissa Harris. Developing shows with Pedro Reyes, the Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD), and the Warhol Museum for the Queens Museum’s expansion in Fall 2013.

Yuko Hasegawa. Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (MOT) and professor at Tama Art University in Tokyo.

Margareta Hauschild. Director of the Goethe-Institut Madrid. She joined the Goethe-Institut in 1982 and since that time has held several positions both in the Goethe-Institut's headquarters in Munich and in its centres abroad.

Sofía Hernández Chong-Cuy. Since 2011, Sofía is the curator of contemporary art for Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, and was recently appointed chief curator of the 9th Mercosul Biennial, opening in 2013 in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Yaiza Hernández Velázquez. Researcher. She has formerly worked, among other things, as Head of Public Programmes at MACBA and Director at CENDEAC.

Montaña Hurtado Muñoz. Art historian specialising in interactive museography and innovation, curator of exhibitions and author of the blog Zapatos Rosas.

Mia Jankowicz. Artistic Director of Contemporary Image Collective 2009-2013, she has left this position to pursue freelance writing and curating.

Carlos Jiménez. Essayist, art critic and blogger. He has been the art critic of El País, Arte contexto and ArtNexus, among other media. Lives and works in Madrid.

Abdellah Karroum. Artistic Director of "Inventing the World: the Artist as Citizen" for Biennale Benin, and associate curator for «Intense Proximity» for La Triennale in Paris.

Mami Kataoka. Chief Curator at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. She was one of the co-Artistic Directors of 9th Gwangju Biennale and International Curator at the Hayward Gallery between 2007 and 09.

Natalie Kates. “Style Curator” Natalie Kates is an art advisor, curator and collector, Arts Editor of VAGA Magazine and has directed a top fashion agency in NYC for over 15 years.

Magda Kardasz. Curator of the Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, since 2006 also runs a program of the Zacheta Project Room.

Ruba Katrib. She is Curator at SculptureCenter, New York.

Ali Khadra. Lebanese-born art patron and philanthropist. He is also the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Canvas, the premier magazine for art and culture from the Middle East and Arab world. He sits on the boards of numerous art committees including Art Dubai, parasol unit for contemporary art, the ABRAAJ Capital Art Prize, the V&A’s Jameel Prize and is also a consultant for Christie’s.

Jack Kirkland. After reading history at Christ Church, Oxford, Jack studied law at BPP Law School and worked for the City law firm Lovells. He then worked in real estate and investments with the Abstract Group before becoming a director of Bowmer & Kirkland, one of the largest privately held construction companies in the UK. Jack is a trustee of the ICA, London, and a member of the International Council and the Latin American and Photography Acquisitions Committees of Tate.

Riyas Komu. He is a multi-media artist, co-founder and Secretary of the Kochi Biennale Foundation. He is the Director of Programmes and co-curator of the inaugural Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2012.

Vasif Kortun. Director of Research and Programs of SALT in Istanbul. Curator, writer and lecturer in the field of contemporary visual art, its institutions and exhibition practices.

Rodolfo Kronfle. Art historian and freelance curator based in Guayaquil. Editor of riorevuelto.net, the biggest virtual contemporary art archive in Ecuador.

Gunnar Kvaran. Since 2001, he has been the director of the Astrup Fearnley Museum in Oslo. President of the jury at the Paris School of Fine Arts in 2012. Curator of the 2013 Lyon Biennial.

Pablo León de la Barra. Exhibition maker, kunst-worker, independent curator, researcher, editor, blogger, museum/art fairs/collections adviser, occasional writer, snap-shot photographer, retired architect, aesthetic dilettante, etc.

Ruben Levi. He holds a PhD in Physics from MIT, he develops molecular diagnostics. He and his family are collecting young artists for three generations.

Sabrina van der Ley. Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art - National Museum of Norway in Oslo.

Maria Lind. Director, Tonsta Konsthall Stockholm.

Brett Littman. He has been the Executive Director of The Drawing Center since 2007. Previously he was the Deputy Director at MOMA PS1.

Catalina Lozano. Independent curator and researcher and co-founder of de_sitio a curatorial platform in Mexico City.

Enrico Lunghi. Artistic director of Casino Luxembourg from 1996 to December 2008. General Director of Mudam Luxembourg since January 2009. President of IKT (international association of curators) from 2005 to 2011

Sarat Maharaj. Professor of Visual Arts, Malmo and Research Professor, Goldsmiths London.

Natalia Majluf. Art historian, she was Chief Curator at MALI, Art Museum Lima (1995-2000). Now she is the Director of the Museum.

Bartomeu Marí. Director of the MACBA since 2008. Secretary-treasurer of the CIMAM since 2010. In 2002, together with Chia-Chi Jason Wan, he was the curator of the Taipei Biennial. Among others he has curated exhibitions on Rasul Hausman, Juan Muñoz, and Lawrence Winner.

Nicola Mariani. Sociologist and freelance critic specialising in contemporary art and cultural trends. Founder of the blog www.nicolamariani.es on art and contemporary culture.

Richard Marshall. Curator of The Lever House Art Collection. He is also a well-known collector, independent curator and critic who was curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art for twenty years.

Juan Martín Prada. Professor at the Universidad de Cádiz. Among other books he is the author of Prácticas artísticas e Internet en la época de las redes sociales (2012).

Chus Martínez. Chief Curator, Museo de El Barrio.

Rosa Martínez. Curator and collections consultant (Barcelona). Director of the Venice Biennale (2005) and curator of the cycle “What To Think, What To Desire, What To Do” at Caixaforum (2012-13).

Lisa Melandri. Director of the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, with nearly 20 years of experience as a curator of contemporary art.

Justo Pastor Mellado. Art critic, freelance curator. Cabinet advisor to the Ministry of Culture. Director of the Parque Cultural de Valparaíso.

Julia Morandeira. Researcher and curator. She is currently the Artistic Director of Projects at LOOP/Screen Projects and a member of the research group Estéticas y Conocimientos Decoloniales at Goldsmiths and Matadero.

Frances Morris. Head of Collections, International Art at Tate London. Recent projects include major retrospective exhibitions of Louise Bourgeois (2007) and Yayoi Kusama (2012).

Jan Mot. Studied art history and museology in Leuven (BE) and Amsterdam (NL). After graduation he worked as a freelance curator before opening a gallery in Brussels in 1996.

Aaron Moulton. Senior Curator of Exhibitions at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art. He has worked as an editor for a variety of artist monographs in addition to working as an arts journalist around Europe and America.

Sandra Hegedus Mulliez. Founder of SAM Art Projects, Paris. She began her contemporary art collection in 2005. In 2009 her and her husband founded SAM Art Projects, a foundation created to promote, through a residency programme and a yearly prize, foreign contemporary artists in France and French artists in foreign countries.

Raúl Naón. He is a board member of the Fundación Espigas, Reference Centre for the History of the Visual Arts in Argentina. Also a member of the LACF (Latin American and Caribbean Fund committee) and MOMA (The Museum of Modern Art) New York.

Ann-Sofi Noring. Co-Director, Moderna Museet. Has worked as curator for the Swedish Travelling Exhibitions and the National Public Art Fund, joined Moderna Museet in 2001.

David Norr. Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, which opened its new building in October of 2012.

Hans Ulrich Obrist. Co-Director of the Serpentine Gallery in London. He has co-curated over 250 exhibitions and contributed to over 200 book projects.

Ricardo Ohtake. President of the Instituto Tomie Ohtake, a totally private exhibition and education centre focusing on the plastic arts, design and architecture.

Bige Örer. Director of the Istanbul Biennial, is an independent expert of the European Union Division for Cultural Funds, a consultant to several artistic projects. She teaches at Istanbul Bilgi University.

Luiz Camillo Osorio. Chief Curator at Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, professor at the philosophy department at PUC-Rio.

Tobias Ostrander. Chief Curator and Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs of the Miami Art Museum.

Alfred Pacquement. Director, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris. He joined the staff of the Centre Georges Pompidou, becoming curator at the Musée National d’Art Moderne, (from 1974 to 1987) then the first Director of the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume (1990-1993). Since September 2000 Director of the Musée National d’Art Moderne at the Centre Georges Pompidou. Curator of exhibitions, critic and art historian.

Anna Pahissa. Director of Múltiplos –www.multiplosbooks.org-, a project of dissemination and distribution of artists’ publications.

Costanza Paissan. Curator, based in Rome. She has been curator at MACRO, Rome (2008-11) and at La Galerie, Noisy-le-Sec (2012). She works at cura. magazine.

Adriano Pedrosa. Curator and writer based in São Paulo. He was co-curator of the 12th Istanbul Biennial and is director of PIESP-Programa Independente da Escola São Paulo.

Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro. Curator and director of the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros. From 2002 to 2008 he was curator of Latin American Art at the Blanton Museum (Texas).

Agustín Pérez-Rubio. Historian, art critic and independent curator. Director of MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, 2009-2013. Chief Curator at MUSAC 2003-2009.

Ramón Pernas. As a writer, journalist, editor and scriptwriter, his professional activity has always had a focus on culture. He has collaborated as a literary critic and columnist in publications such as Tiempo and Interviú, and as a columnist for Cuadernos del Norte and for the agency OTR. He is currently the director of Ámbito Cultural (El Corte Inglés' cultural organisation) and works as a columnist in media such as La Voz de Galicia.

Emily Pethick. Director of The Showroom, London, since 2008.

Allegra Pesenti. Curator, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts at the Hammer Museum. She was previously at the Getty Museum where she worked on Italian Renaissance drawings. Her recent exhibitions have focused on modern and contemporary works on paper. She initiated a series of artist-curated exhibitions at the Hammer Museum called Houseguest.

Glòria Picazo. Director of Centre d'Art la Panera, Lleida, Spain.

Taiyana Pimentel. Director of Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros and La Tallera in Mexico City, and contemporary art curator.

Laura Raicovich. Director of Global Initiatives at Creative Time. She oversees the Creative Time Summit and Global Residencies, and is Editorial Director of Creative Time Reports, a website featuring artists’ analysis of global news.

Mónica Ramírez-Montagut. Senior Curator at the San Jose Museum of Art, a museum dedicated to modern and contemporary art in Silicon Valley, California.

Gabriela Rangel. Director, Visual Arts, Americas Society.

Yasmil Raymond. Curator of Dia Art Foundation.

Veronica Roberts. Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Blanton Museum in Austin, Texas.

José Roca. Colombian curator working from Bogotá. He is currently the Estrellita B. Brodsky Adjunct Curator of Latin American Art at Tate, London, and Artistic Director of FLORA ars+natura, an independent space for contemporary art in Bogotá.

María Inés Rodríguez. Senior Curator at the MUAC in Mexico since 2011. She was Chief Curator at the MUSAC, León from 2009 to 2011 and the Satellite curator at Jeu de Paume, Paris.

Yolanda Romero. Director of Centro José Guerrero, Granada, Spain. She has organised and curated numerous exhibitions, educational projects and art research projects.

Lisa Rosendahl. Director of Iaspis, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s international program for visual art, architecture and design.

Evan Roth. Multimedia artist, applies the hacker's philosophy to a creative practice which is transferred to the public space, the internet and popular culture.

Beatrix Ruf. Director and curator of the Kunsthalle Zürich. 2008 co-curator Yokohama Triennial, 2006 Curator Tate Triennial. Since 1995 she is also the artistic director of the Ringier collection.

Alma Ruiz. Senior curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Los Angeles and has curated numerous exhibitions focusing on the postwar period in Italy and Latin America.

Anca Rujoiu. Curator at FormContent and currently coordinates special projects for the School of Fine Art, Royal College of Art, London.

Muriel Salem. Muriel and Freddy Salem are supporters of the Cranford Collection, which comprises works of art ranging from emerging to highly established artists. It engages with artists to commission and support projects, with the aim of moving beyond the white walls of the museum.

Osvaldo Sánchez. Curator and art critic. Former director of the Carrillo Gil and Tamayo museums. Artistic director of the inSite Project in 2005 and director of the modern art museum in Mexico City from 2007 to 2011.

Manuel Segade. Freelance curator and researcher, currently based in Paris. His recent projects include Lara Almárcegui exhibitions at CA2M and MUSAC.

Simon Sheikh. Freelance Curator and theorist. He is Senior Lecturer and Programme Director of Curating, at Goldsmiths, London. He is a correspondent for Springerin magazine, Vienna, and a columnist for e-flux journal, New York.

Suzana Sousa. Living and working in Luanda as independent curator. Suzana Sousa is one of the curators of the 2013 Trienal de Luanda in November and December.

Michael Spalter. Chairman of the Board, Rhode Island School of Design, Trustee American Friends of the Louvre, Governance Advisory Board Cultural Entrepreneurship Harvard University.

Francesco Stocchi. Senior Curator for Modern and Contemporary Art at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and founding editor of AGMA magazine. He has recently published the monographs Francesca Woodman Photographs and Jorge Peris 1997-2011.

Alexia Tala. Independent curator. She was co-curator of the 8th Mercosur Biennial (Brazil). She is artistic director of Plataforma Atacama and chief curator of Latin American Roaming Art (LARA).

Pelin Tan. Sociologist & Art Historian Assistant Professor at Kadir Has University, New Media, Istanbul. She was an associate curator of 1.Istanbul Design Biennale - Adhocracy and is a co-director of 2084 -episode I (a video of future artists run practices, with A. Vidokle).

Gorgun Taner. (b. 1959) General Director of the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (Ä°KSV), a non-profit, non-governmental organisation organises the Istanbul Biennial, also he is currently Faculty Member of the Cultural Management Program of Istanbul Bilgi University and a board member of the Istanbul Modern Arts Museum as well as the European Cultural Foundation.

Valentina Tanni. Italian art critic, curator and blogger. Her research is focused on the relationship between art and new media, with particular attention to Internet culture. Co-founder and managing editor at Artribune.com.

Cristiana Tejo. She co-curated the 32th Panorama da Arte Brasileira (MAM of Sao Paulo). Since 2007, she is the curator of the Made in Mirrors project.

Sandra Terdjman. Founding director of the Kadist Art Foundation and one of the advisors for its collection.

Andrea Thal. He runs Les Complices*, a self-organised space located in Zurich, and realises projects as an independent curator, writer and editor, such as Chewing the Scenery, Venice Biennial 2011.

Alfonso de la Torre. (Madrid, 1960) Art theorist and critic who specialises in Spanish art. He is an exhibition curator, has published essays and poetry and taught courses in various institutions. Curator of Ámbito Cultural's projects in collaboration with ARCOmadrid since 2006.

Leire Vergara. Freelance curator who lives and works in Bilbao. Since 2010 she has been with Bulegoa zenbaki barik, an art and knowledge office based in Bilbao.

Daniela Zyman. Chief Curator at Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna – a foundation established in 2002 by Francesca von Habsburg in perpetuation of the Thyssen’s family collection.

Museum of American Art – Berlin, MoAA. Technical assistant.

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