Christoph Gurk (1962, Ratingen, Germany) is a curator and dramaturge. Between 1998 and 1999 he was a curator at steirischer herbst, from 2001 to 2009 a dramaturge under Frank Castorf at the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin. In 2009, Matthias Lilienthal brought him to HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, before joining joined Lilienthal at the Münchner Kammerspiele in 2015, where he served as dramaturge and curator for fringe theater and music and as a member of the artistic directorate until 2020. Christoph Gurk is currently director of the joint arts and culture project St. Pölten 2024 of the city of St. Pölten and the state of Lower Austria.

Flo Kasearu (1985, Tallinn, Estonia) is an artist whose videos, drawings, paintings, installations, and performances are all based upon social and collaborative processes. Her work ironically plays with the boundary of public versus private and personal versus political, tackling themes such as freedom, economic depression, nationalism, and domestic violence. She lives in Tallinn.

Matteo Lucchetti (1984, Sarzana, Italy) is a curator, art historian, and writer. His main curatorial interests are focused on artistic practices that redefine the role of art and the artist in society. Since 2010, he curates, with Judith Wielander, Visible, a research project and the first European biennial award for socially engaged artistic practices in a global context, founded by Cittadellarte—Pistoletto Foundation and Fondazione Zegna. Lucchetti worked as curator of Exhibitions and Public Programs at BAK, Utrecht, in 2017–2018. He lives in Brussels.

Aneta Rostkowska (1979, Szczecin, Poland) is a curator and writer. In 2012, together with Jakub Woynarowski, she developed the concept of “gonzo curating,” a creative practice of the appropriation of any phenomena by means of constructing a semi-fictional narrative around it. In the spirit of “gonzo curating” they founded the fictitious institution “Wawel Castle Centre of Contemporary Art.” From 2016–2019 she worked as a curator at the Academy of the Arts of the World, Cologne. Since 2019, she has been director of Temporary Gallery, Centre for Contemporary Art, Cologne. She lives in Cologne.

Sabina Sabolović (1975, Zagreb, Yugoslavia) is a curator and a member of the curatorial collective What, How & for Whom / WHW, formed in Zagreb in 1999 (together with Ivet Ćurlin, Ana Dević, and Nataša Ilić). WHW organizes production, exhibition, and publishing projects and is involved in long-term collaborative platforms and cultural politics. Since 2000, the collective has made major contributions to curatorial discourse, opening the nonprofit Galerija Nova in Zagreb in 2003. In March 2019, Sabina Sabolović and two other members of the collective (Ivet Ćurlin and Nataša Ilić) were appointed as directors of Kunsthalle Wien. Sabina Sabolović lives in Vienna.

Tino Sehgal (1976, London, United Kingdom) is an artist who works in “constructed situations.” Using voice, reenactment, language, movement, dramaturgy, and interaction to shape visitors’ experiences, Sehgal’s pieces are regularly staged in museums or galleries and continuously executed by trained individuals he refers to as “interpreters.” He lives in Berlin.

Mounira Al Solh (1978, Beirut, Lebanon) is an artist who works with a mix of videos, video installation, painting, drawing, embroidery, and performative gestures. Always self-reflexive and ironic, her work delves into feminist issues and personal histories and can be political and escapist all at once. She lives in Beirut and Zutphen.

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