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Neïl Beloufa was born in 1985 in Paris. He studied at the National School of Fine Arts and the National Higher School of Decorative Arts. The artist participated in numerous group exhibitions including at Prague International Triennial of Contemporary Art (2008), Manifesta 8 (2010), La Triennale de Paris (2012), and MoMA PS1, New York (2013).

Solo exhibitions of Beloufa’s work took place, among other venues, at White Box, New York (2008), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2012), and Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria (2012). The artist’s videos have been screened at many film festivals, winning awards at the 54th and 57th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany. Beloufa received the Audi Talent Award (2011) and the Meurice Prize for contemporary art (2013).

Rossella Biscotti (Italy)

Rossella Biscotti was born in 1978 in Molfetta, Italy.

She lives between Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Brussels, Belgium. She took part at major international exhibitions including 55th Venice Biennale and 13th Istanbul Biennale (2013), dOCUMENTA 13 (2012), and Manifesta 9 (2012). Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions at Wiels in Brussels, Sculpture Center in New York (2014) Secession in Vienna (2013) CAC Vilnius (2012); and between others she has exhibited in group exhibitions at the ICA London (2014) MAXXI, Rome (2010–11), Museu Serralves, Porto (2010).

Biscotti received several art awards including Premio Italia, Maxxi Museum in Rome (2010).

James Bridle (UK)

James Bridle is a writer, artist, publisher and technologist based in London. His work has been exhibited in galleries across Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia, and has been commissioned by organisations such as Artangel, MU Eindhoven, and the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC. He was an artist-in-residence at Lighthouse Gallery, UK (2012) and was awarded the Excellence Award at the Japan Media Arts Festival and the Graphics Award at the Design Museum’s Designs of the Year (2014).

Kudzanai Chiurai (Zimbabwe)

Kudzanai Chiurai was born in 1981 in Zimbabwe. He lives and works in South Africa. He was the first black student to graduate with a BFA from the University of Pretoria. Chiurai has held numerous solo exhibitions since 2003 and has participated in various local and international exhibitions including at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as well as dOCUMENTA (13). His film Iyeza was one of the few African films to be included in the New Frontier shorts programme at the Sundance Film Festival in 2013. Chiurai has also held numerous solo exhibitions with the Goodman Gallery (South Africa).

Cécile B. Evans (USA / Belgium)

Cécile B. Evans was born in 1983. She lives and works in Berlin and London. Evans has received commissions from the Serpentine Galleries, London and the Palais de Tokyo, Paris and participated in group exhibitions at Bergen Kuntsmuseum (Norway), Jerwood Foundation (London), Pilar Corrias Gallery (London) and Kunstverein München (Munich). She has a solo exhibition at Seventeen Gallery (London) and her films have been screened at the BFI (London), Grand Century (NY), Hamburg Film Festival, and Art Basel Miami. Evans received art awards including the Frieze Art Fair’s Emdash Award (2012) and Palais de Tokyo/Orange’s Push Your Art Prize (2013), and a number of grants and residencies such as Wysing Arts Centre (UK), CCA Andratx (SP), and the Arts Council of England.

Aslan Gaisumov (Grozny, Chechen Republic, Russia)

Aslan Gaisumov was born in 1991 in Grozny, Chechen Republic, Russia. He lives and works in Grozny and Moscow. Gaisumov graduated from the Institute of Contemporary Art in Moscow (2012) and was granted residence at Bad Gastein, Austria in 2013. His work was shown in group exhibitions at the 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2013), Festival TodaysArt in the Hague (2013), and in parallel program of Manifesta 10 (2014). Gaisumov’s solo exhibitions took place in Moscow (2011) and Berlin (2014). He won the main prize of the 3rd Moscow International Biennale for Young Art in 2012.

Ximena Garrido-Lecca (Peru)

Ximena Garrido-Lecca was born in 1980 in Lima, Peru. She is based in London and Lima. Garrido-Lecca studied at Universidad Católica del Perú and received her MA from Byam Shaw School of Art, London. She participated in group exhibitions including at Saatchi Gallery, London (2010), the Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (2011), International Biennale of Arezzo (2013), Bienal de Cuenca (2014), and the Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum Biennale, Beijing (2014). Her solo exhibitions took place, among other venues, at Frieze Art Fair, London (2011), Middlesborough Institute of Modern Art (2012), Casado Santapau, Madrid (2013), and Museo Mario Testino, Lima (2014).

He Xiangyu (China)

He Xiangyu was born in 1986 in Liaoning Province, China. He currently lives and works in Beijing. Xiangyu graduated from Shenyang Normal University in 2008. Since 2004, when he first started exhibiting, Xiangyu has taken part in numerous group exhibitions in China, Taiwan, Japan, the USA, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland. His work was also exhibited internationally in solo shows, including at Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral, Bad Ems, Germany (2011), 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, Australia (2012), and White Cube Gallery, London, UK (2014).

Jia Aili (China)

Jia Aili was born in 1979 in Dandong, China. He lives and works in Beijing. Aili graduated from Lu Xun Academy of Fine Art in 2006. He has participated in a number of group shows – among others, at Shanghai Art Museum (2007), Saatchi Gallery, London (2009), Contemporary Art Institute in Beijing (2010), the 54th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale (2011), and National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul (2013).

His solo work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including at the Institute of International Visual Art, London (2010), Singapore Art Museum (2012), and Platform China, Hong Kong (2012).

Mykyta Kadan (Ukraine)

Mykyta Kadan was born 1982 in Kyiv, Ukraine, where he lives and works today. In 2007 he graduated from the National Academy of Art and Architecture in Kyiv. He is a painter, graphic artist, author of objects and installations. Kadan was nominated for the PinchukArtCentre Prize in 2009 and won it in 2011. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including exhibitions at the Index Contemporary Art Centre, Stockholm (2008), the first Kyiv Biennale at Art Arsenal (2012) and at the PinchukArtCentre (“Fear and Hope” exhibition, 2013) both in Kyiv.

Zhanna Kadyrova (Ukraine)

Born 1981 in Brovary in the Kyiv region, Ukraine, where she currently lives and works. She graduated from Taras Shevchenko State Art School and received the Kazimir Malevich Artist Award, the Sergey Kuryokhin Modern Art Award for Public Art, the Grand Prix of the Kyiv Sculpture Project (all 2012) as well as a PinchukArtCentre Special Prize (2011) and Main Prize Winner (2013). Her works have been extensively exhibited worldwide, recently at the 55th Venice Biennale, the Moscow Biennale and the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (all 2013). Kadyrova’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including exhibitions at National Art Museum of Ukraine, Museum of Modern Art in Poland (both in 2012), PinchukArtCentre (2012, 2013) in Ukraine.

Mauricio Limón (Mexico)

Mauricio Limón was born in1979 in Mexico City. He has studied visual arts at National Autonomous University of Mexico. Limón is known in Mexico and internationally as an interdisciplinary artist who works between drawing, painting, video and performance. His work was exhibited in various venues including Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico (2003, 2006), Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2005), P74 Center and Gallery, Ljubljana (2007), Musee d'art Contemporain du Val de Marne, Paris (2007), Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico (2008), and Centre Pompidou, Paris (2008). The artist also had many solo shows in Mexico. He was awarded the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in 2010.

Adrian Melis (Cuba)

Adrian Melis was born in 1985 in Havana, Cuba. He is based in Barcelona. Melis graduated from High Institute of Art in Havana in 2010. Currently, he is an artist-in-residence at the Royal Academy of Visual Arts in Amsterdam. Melis participated in a number of group shows including ART BRUSSELS (2013) and ARCO Madrid (2013 and 2014). Solo shows of the artist’s work took place in 2012-2013 in Spain and Switzerland. His work has become a part of contemporary art collections including at Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art and Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.

Nástio Mosquito (Angola)

Nástio Mosquito was born in 1981 in Angola. A multimedia artist, he creates performances, videos, music, and poetry. Mosquito’s work was first exhibited in 2006 and has been shown in many exhibitions since. Important group shows involving Mosquito’s work include Venice Biennale (2007), ARCO Madrid (2009), the 29th Biennial of São Paulo (2010), Gwangju Biennial (2012), and exhibition at Tate Modern (2012).

Carlos Motta (Colombia)

Carlos Motta was born in 1978 in Bogotá, Colombia. He lives and works in New York. Motta obtained his MFA from Bard College, New York in 2003. He was named a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow in 2008, and received grants from Art Matters (2008), New York State Council on the Art (2010), and the Kindle Project (2012). He is part of the faculty at Parsons The New School of Design and The School of Visual Arts. Motta’s work has been presented internationally including at Tate Modern, Guggenheim Museum, MoMA/PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens and other venues.

Cally Spooner (UK)

Cally Spooner was born 1983 in Ascot, UK. She lives and works in London. Her work has been widely exhibited both nationally and internationally since 2008. Group shows of Spooner’s work include exhibitions at Serpentine Gallery, London, Biennale d’Art Contemporain, Rennes, France, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (all 2012), Jeu de Paume, Paris (2013), Kunstverein München inMunich (2014) and others. Her solo shows took place, most notably, at Artissima Art Fair in Turin (2012), MOTINTERNATIONAL, Brussels and the National Academy, New York (both 2013), as well as Tate Modern (2014). She has received a number of awards and grants for her work, both in the UK and abroad.

Pilar Quintero (Chile)

Pilar Quinteros was born in 1988 in Santiago, Chile. She holds a BA from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2011), where she has worked over the past few years as a teaching assistant. She first started exhibiting in 2010 and has participated in a number of group shows in Argentina, Chile, Spain, and the USA since then. Her solo shows took place, among other venues, at Contemporary Art Museum in Santiago, Chile (2010) and Centro Social La Tabacalera, Madrid, Spain (2011). The artist received the 2012 Jean Claude Reynal Scholarship from the Fondation de France and the Fine Arts Museum of Bordeaux.

Jon Rafman (Canada)

Jon Rafman was born in 1981 in Montreal, Canada. He obtained his MFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2008. His work was shown in a number of exhibitions including at Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (2010), International Photography Festival, Arles, France (2011), Yaffo23, Jerusalem, Israel (2012), Le Mois de la Photo, Montréal, Canada (2013) and the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale (2014). He had solo exhibitions in Canada, the USA, the UK, Germany and France. His work is housed in the collections of such museums as Musee Des Beaux Arts, Montreal, and Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome.

Allyson Vieira (USA)

Allyson Vieira is an American artist born in 1979. She lives and works in New York. Vieira obtained her MFA from Bard College (USA) in 2009. She first started exhibiting her work in 2004. Vieira’s work was shown in many group and solo exhibitions including at Queens Museum of Art, Flushing, USA (2012), Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, USA (2013), Swiss Institute in New York (2013), and Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2013).

GCC Group

GCC Group is a multidisciplinary collective founded in 2013. The group consists of eight artists: Nanu Al-Hamad, Khalid Al Gharaballi, Abdullah Al-Mutairi, Fatima Al Qadiri, Monira Al Qadiri, Aziz Al Qatami, Barrak Alzaid, and Amal Khalaf. The group took part in exhibitions at New Museum, New York, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, and Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany (all 2014). The group’s solo shows took place in New York, Berlin, London, and Kuwait in 2013-2014.

Public Movement

Public Movement was founded in 2006 by Dana Yahahlomi and Omer Krieger, with Yahahlomi taking over as the group’s leader in 2011. The group has organized many public actions both nationally, in Israel, and internationally, including at Performa, New York (2011), Berlin Biennial (2012), and New Museum Triennial: ‘The Ungovernables’ in New York (2012). The group has also held a number of lectures and workshops and participated in residence programs including in Poland (2008), Sweden (2011 and 2012), and the USA (2012 and 2013).

Jury

Francesco Bonami
Curator, Director of the 50th Biennale di Venezia (Italy)

Francesco Bonami is the Artistic Director of the Fondazione Sandretto ReRebaudengo per l’Arte in Torino and the curator of Enel Contemporanea. In 2012 he has been the advisor for programming contemporary Art for the department of culture of the City of Milan.

In 2003 he was the director of the 50th edition of the Biennale di Venezia for Visual Arts: “Dreams and Conflitcs: The dictatorship of the viewer“. In 2010 Bonami curated the 75th Whitney Biennial of American Art. In 2000 he curated Manifesta 3 in Ljubliana and 1997 he curated the Site Santa Fe’ Biennial. From 1999 to 2009 Bonami was the Manilow Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago where he organized the Rudolf Stingel survey and the first Jeff Koons retrospective in 20 years. In 2010 he presented “For The Love of God” by Damien Hirst in Florence and L.O.V.E. by Maurizio Cattelan for the City of Milan. In 2008 for the Pinault Foundation Bonami curated “Italics: Arte Italiana Fra Tradizione e Rivoluzione” and in 2009 “Mapping The Studio” the inaugural exhibition for the renovated space of Punta della Dogana. For the Qatar Museum Authority he has curated “Yan Pei Ming: Painting the History” in 2012 and the retrospective of Damien Hirst in 2013.

Bonami is a regular contributor for: Artforum, Frieze, Parkett, Panorama, Vanity Fair Italia, Donna Moderna, Wired, Grazia Casa, Uomo Vogue, Flair, IL, W Magazine, Tate etc., La Stampa, La Gazzetta dello Sport. He is the Chief Editor of ANEW magazine and Cabana and author of about 10 books.

In 2010 Bonami received the honor of the Chevalier dans l’ordre del Legion d’Honneur of the French Republic.

Doris Salcedo
Artist (Colombia)

Doris Salcedo was born in 1958 in Bogotá where she continues to live and work. Recognized since the early 1990s as one of the leading sculptors of her generation, her work has been included in numerous exhibitions such as “Carnegie International 1995,” Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh; “Roteiros, XXIV Bienal de São Paulo,” Brazil (1998); “Trace, The Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art” (1999); “Documenta 11,” Kassel (2002); “8^th International Istanbul Biennial” (2003); “The 80s: A Topology,” Museu Serralves, Porto (2007) and her installation of ‘Shibboleth’ in Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London, also in 2007. From April 2010 through February 2013, the artist’s most recent installation, ‘Plegaria Muda,’ has and will travel to museums throughout Europe and South America. Her work will be included in the exhibition “This Will Have Been: Art, Love, & Politics in the 1980s” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, which will subsequently travel to the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.

Bisi Silva
Independent curator, Director for the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos (Nigeria)

Bisi Silva is an independent curator and the founder/director of Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos (CCA,Lagos) where she has curated and co-curated several solo and group exhibitions including most recently Kelani Abass: Asiko and El Anatsui: Playing with Chance both in 2014. Her international work has included co-curating The Progress of Love, a transcontinental collaboration across three venues in Nigeria and America. (Oct 2012-Jan2013), J.D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere: Moments of Beauty, Kiasma, Helsinki (April-Nov2011). She was co-curator for the 2^nd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Greece, ‘Praxis:Art in Times of Uncertainty’ September 2009. In 2006 Silva was one of the curators for the Dakar Biennale in Senegal.

Silva has participated in several international conferences, symposia, juries and written essays for many publications as well as for international art magazines and journals such as Artforum, Third Text, The Exhibitionist, and is on the editorial board of Art South Africa and N.Paradoxa. She is guest editor for Manifesta Journal: Around Curatorial Practices No17 (Jan 2014). She was a member of the international jury for the 55^th Venice Biennale (June 2013).

She has been the recipient of several prestigious international fellowships and residencies including most recently Clark/Mellon Curatorial Fellowship at Clark Art Institute, MA, 2011, the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Scholars’ Residency Programme, Italy in July 2012 and Sacatar Institute, Bahia, Brazil, (July –Sept 2013).

Philip Tinari
Director of the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing (China)

Philip Tinari is director of the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. There he oversees an exhibition program devoted to established figures and rising talents both Chinese and international, aimed at an annual public of more than half a million visitors.

Prior to joining UCCA in 2011 he was founding editorial director of the bilingual, international art magazine LEAP, published by Modern Media. He previously served as China advisor to Art Basel, founding editor of Artforum’s Chinese-language edition artforum.com.cn, and lecturer at the Central Academy of Fine Arts.

He has written and lectured extensively on contemporary art in China, and sits on advisory boards including the Guggenheim Asian Art Council and the Asia Society Hong Kong Center gallery committee. In March, he curated the Focus: China section of The Armory Show in New York.

Jan Fabre
Artist (Belgium)

Jan Fabre is a Belgian artist. He first attained international recognition with works such as The Hour Blue (1977–1992) and his 1980 performance Ilad of the Bic-Art. Over the last thirty-five years, he has occupied a leading international position as a groundbreaking visual artist, theatre maker and author. Fabre has shown worldwide in solo and group exhibitions at leading institutions, among them a large-scale retrospective at the Louvre in Paris 2008.

Adam Szymczyk
Artistic director of documenta 14 (Poland)

Eckhard Schneider is General Director of the PinchukArtCentre in Kiev, Ukraine, since 2008.

Adam Szymczyk (born 1970 in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland) is Artistic Director of documenta 14 and until the end of this year Director and Chief Curator at Kunsthalle Basel. He was a co-founder of the Foksal Gallery Foundation in Warsaw, at which he worked as Curator from 1997 till 2003, when he assumed his new post in Basel. At Kunsthalle Basel, he organized exhibitions including Piotr Uklanski: Earth, Wind and Fire (2004); Tomma Abts (2005); Gustav Metzger: In Memoriam and Lee Lozano: Win First Don't Last Win Last Don't Care (both 2006); Micol Assaël: Chizhevsky Lessons (2007); Danh Vo: Where the Lions Are (2009); Moyra Davey: Speaker Receiver (2010); Sung Hwan Kim: Line Wall (2011); Paul Sietsema and Adriana Lara: S.S.O.R. (both 2012), as well as group shows including Strange Comfort (Afforded by the Profession) (with Salvatore Lacagnina, 2010), How to Work/How to Work (More for) Less (both in 2011). In 2008 he co-curated with Elena Filipovic the 5^th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art under the title When Things Cast No Shadow and in 2012 he curated Olinka, or Where Movement Is Created at Museo Tamayo in Mexico City. He is a Member of the Board of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. In 2011, he was recipient of the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement at the Menil Foundation in Houston.

Eckhard Schneider
General Director of the PinchukArtCentre (Ukraine)

Eckhard Schneider is General Director of the PinchukArtCentre in Kiev, Ukraine, since 2008.

After being director of several institutions in Germany, he was Director of the Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria, from 2000 to 2008 which he established as reference for contemporary art in dedicating Peter Zumthor’s sublime, minimalist building to inspire artists and their work. Among others he put on solo shows by D. Buren, O. Eliasson, J. Koons, H. Sugimoto, D. Gordon, L. Bourgeois, P. Huyghe, D. Aitken, M. Mori, F. West, A. Kapoor, J. Holzer, T. Demand, R. Whiteread, R. Lichtenstein, T. Sehgal, C. Sherman, P. Zumthor, M. Cattelan, C. Hoeller, R. Serra, J. Fabre, A. Gormley, T. Oursler and shows like Reobject with D. Hirst, J.Koons, G. Merz, M. Duchaump and Mythos with J. Beuys, D. Gordon, M. Barney, C. Twombly.

Eckhard Schneider was a member of several international committees and juries like the DAAD program in Berlin and the Turner Prize in London. He has written extensively on modern art and is editor of more then 100 publications about the work of leading contemporary artists.

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Raphael Chikukwa – Chief curator of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe).

Born in Zimbabwe and worked mainly as an independent curator for the past ten years before joining the National Gallery of Zimbabwe mid 2010 as its Chief Curator. He is currently the Zimbabwe Pavilion curator for the 55th Venice Biennale. Chikukwa is the 1st Zimbabwe Pavilion curator at the 54th Venice Biennale 2011. After taking Zimbabwe to Venice in 2011, Chikukwa has taken part in a number of Forums that include, Re Zimbabwe Pavilion talk at INIVA (London), 1st World Biennale Forum in South Korea, KLA 2012 (Uganda), Condition Report forum in Senegal and Arco Madrid 2013.

His qualifications and international experience earned this position at the national institution, which he hopes to change the visual arts landscape of Zimbabwe. Chikukwa was awarded the 2006 - 2007 Chevening Scholar now holds an MA Curating Contemporary Design from Kingston University London. The 2nd Johannesburg Biennale in 1997 provided an impetus to Raphael’s curatorial career after working as a volunteer guide for the Biennale. He later moved to his home country Zimbabwe as a process of relocation to his motherland. Chikukwa is a founding stuff member of the PUMA funded Creative Africa Network as an editor and advisor of the project from 2008 – 2009. Recently he was among seven Curators from Africa attending the Tate Modern Symposium “Curating Africa where he presented a paper on his curatorial practice. In 2008, Chikukwa represented Africa at the 2008 Art Basel Miami Conversations in the United States of America. The American Centre Foundation also awarded Raphael a curatorial research grant in 2006 – 2007 and he travelled in West Africa for his curatorial research.

Proposed by Bisi Silva.

Sun Dongdong – independent curator (China).

Sun Dongdong (born. 1977, Nanjing, China) is senior editor at LEAP magazine, where he has worked since the magazine’s founding in 2010. He received his M.F.A. from the Nanjing Academy of Art in 2005. Since 2001, Sun has been involved with contemporary art exhibitions, worked as a critic, and curated shows at the Nanjing Sifang Art Museum (2006), the Iberia Center of Contemporary Art (2008), Today Art Museum (2011) and Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (2013).

Proposed by Philip Tinari.

Björn Geldhof – Deputy Artistic Director of the PinchukArtCentre (Ukraine).

Bjorn Geldhof is the Deputy Artistic Director of the PinchukArtCentre. He curated various projects and exhibitions among others the Future Generation Art Prize 2010 and 2012, Future Generation Art Prize @ Venice 2011 and solo exhibitions with Candice Breitz, Damian Ortega, Olafur Eliasson, Jeff Wall, Gary Hume, Anish Kapoor, Tony Oursler, Chapman brothers, etc.

Prior to that, he worked together with the Belgian artist Jan Fabre, curating, coordinating, and organizing exhibitions. From 2004 to 2006, Bjorn Geldhof managed the magazine Janus, devoted to contemporary art, philosophy, theatre, architecture, literature and science.

Proposed by Eckhard Schneider.

Simon Castets– Director of Swiss Institute (USA).

Simon Castets is the Director and Curator of the Swiss Institute, New York. Along with Hans Ulrich Obrist, he is also the co-founder of the research project 89plus, which investigates the generation of artists born with the introduction of the World Wide Web, and was first introduced at DLD13. He holds an MA in Curatorial Studies from Columbia University, New York and a MA in Cultural Management from Sciences Po, Paris. Recently, he co-curated the group exhibition “Champs Elysées” with Julie Boukobza and Nicola Trezzi, at Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Other recent projects include a solo exhibition of Sarah Ortmeyer at Federico Vavassori, Milan, the group exhibitions "Cherry Picking" at Karma International, Zurich, "A Stone Left Unturned" at Yvon Lambert, Paris, and "Aftermath" at Taka Ishii Gallery, Kyoto. His writing has appeared in numerous catalogues and periodicals including Mousse, PIN UP, Artforum, Flash Art and Kaleidoscope.

Proposed by Fransesco Bonami.

Giacinto di Pietrantonio – Director of the GAMeC (Italy).

Giacinto Di Pietrantonio is the director of GAMeC. He is the professor of Theory and History of Representation Methods and of Editorial Systems for Art at the Academy of Brera, and he was the Editor-in-Chief and Deputy Director of Flash Art Italia between 1986 and 1992. From 1994 to 1996 he was the visual arts consultant for the Abruzzo Region. In addition to the exhibition at the GAMeC in Bergamo, he also organized the exhibition by Russian artists within the “Passaggi ad Oriente” exhibition at the Biennale di Venezia in 1993, “Fuori Uso” (editions 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2012), “Over the Edges” with Jan Hoet in Ghent (Belgium) and Vanessa Beecroft, PAC, Milan, 2010, Jan Fabre during Venice Biennal, Venice, 2005, 2007, 2009.

He is consultant of the Furla – Querini Stampalia Award for Art and he is a member of the AMACI (Association of the Italian Museums of Contemporary Art) Board of Directors.

He is a member of the scientific committee of the Center for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci, Prato. He has been in charge of the Per diritto di Cronaca feature in Artribune since 2011.

He was the curator of the Advanced Course in Visual Arts at the Antonio Ratti Foundation in Como from 1995 to 2004. He was the director of I love Museums, the Association’s periodical as well as of the contemporary art magazine Perché/?. In 2005, he was a commissioner at the Quadriennale in Rome. He was the consultant of MiArt Fiera Internazionale d’Arte di Milano from 2008 to 2010.

Proposed by Jan Fabre.

Taiyana Pimentel Paradoa –Director of Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros-La Tallera (Mexico).

Taiyana Pimentel is the Director of Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros and La Tallera in Mexico City since 2009. She conceived and coordinated the renovation project of La Tallera in Cuernavaca, Morelos. She has curated a series of exhibitions such as “No Lone Zone-The Redeeming Institution”, a collaboration between SAPS and Tate Modern, London-Mexico City, 2012; “Institutional Empowerment” with Colectivo Tercerunquinto at Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico, 2008; “Injured: Project for Ecatepec” Fundación Colección Jumex, Mexico, 2007; “1549 State’s Crimes,” Santiago Sierra, Centro Cultural Tlatelolco, Mexico 2007; “Bridge”, Francis Alÿs, La Habana-Key West, 2006; “Tijuana Sessions: Contemporary Art from Tijuana,” Contemporary Art Center Alcalá 31, Madrid, 2005. From 1999 to 2001, she worked at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Rufino Tamayo as the curator of “Sala 7: Proyectos de Arte Contemporáneo”, which included: “I am Happy because Everyone Loves Me”, Javier Téllez; “Better Life Corp” Minerva Cuevas; “465 Remunerated People” Santiago Sierra and “Adolescent Young Person” with Miguel Calderon. She recently participated in the program “9 curators present their projects” in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Santiago, Chile. In 2009-2010, Pimentel was appointed curator of Plataforma. She has a B.A. in Art History from the University of Havana and a M.A. in Art History from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

Proposed by Doris Salcedo.

David Riff – independent artist, writer and curator (Germany).

David Riff is a writer, translator, artist, and curator based in Moscow and Berlin. He has written widely on the history and present of contemporary art in Russia as an art critic, and has translated extensively, his most recent project a forthcoming volume of the work of Soviet aesthetic philosopher Mikhail Lifshitz. He is a member of the workgroup Chto delat/What is to be done, whose newspaper he coedited 2003-2008. He has also been involved in other artistic collaborations such as the Learning Film Group or the Karl Marx School of the English Language. Recent curatorial projects have included the international exhibition The Potosi Principle (as a curatorial correspondent), 2010–2011; the Ural Industrial Biennial (with Cosmin Costinaş and Ekaterina Degot), 2010; Auditorium Moscow, a discussion platform and exhibition (with Ekaterina Degot and Joanna Mytkowska), 2011, and Monday Begins on Saturday (with Ekaterina Degot), 2013. Riff teaches at the Rodchenko School of Photography and Media Art, Moscow, and is a member of the Academy of the Arts of the World, Cologne.

Proposed by Adam Szymczyk.

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