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THOMAS BA | Italy
Thomas Ba is a curator based in Varese. He gained a bachelor in culture, criticism and curation with a first class honours from Central Saint Martins. He has collaborated since 2016 with Video Sound Art Festival, a new media art festival in Milan.

MATTEO BINCI | Italy
Matteo Binci is a researcher and art curator. His research is focused on the relationship between aesthetics and politics, with particular attention to the topics of archives and social movements.

IARA BOUBNOVA | Bulgaria
Art historian and curator, she is the co-founder director of the ICA-Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia, the director of the National Gallery for Foreign Art, Sofia, and the commissioner of the Bulgarian Pavilion, Biennale Arte 2019.

PAOLA BRISTOT | Italy
She is an art curator and a professor of history of art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. She is the president of Viva Comix and in the frame of this association’s activities annually organizes the “Piccolo Festival dell’Animazione”. Together with Andrea Martignoni, she is the curator of the ongoing series of DVDs “Animazioni” (Viva Comix, Ottomani).

LUCREZIA CALABRÒ VISCONTI | Italy
She is an independent curator and researcher based in Turin, where she runs the Young Curators Residency Programme by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. Recent projects include “Abracadabra”, 6th International Biennale for Young Art (Moscow), “Why Is Everybody Being So Nice?”, De Appel and Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam) and CLOG (Turin). In 2017 she co-founded “The School of the End of Time” with Ambra Pittoni and Paul-Flavien Enriquez-Sarano. She completed her education at De Appel (Amsterdam), CAMPO (Turin) and IUAV (Venice).

GIULIANA CARBI JESURUN | Italy
Art historian and curator, she was professor of history of contemporary art at the University of Trieste up to 1991. Since 1981, and together with Franco Jesurun until 2010, she is running the Studio Tommaseo in Trieste. She is the co-founder president of Trieste Contemporanea.

MAJA ĆIRIĆ | Serbia
She is an independent curator experienced in leading and contributing to international projects. Her logic of practice cannot be defined by the dominant geopolitical structures and their impact on the art world; rather she tries to think about the art world differently, in terms of criticality and post-globalism. Her concerns span from curating as institutional critique through to the research of methodology and epistemology of curating.

GIULIA CIVARDI | Italy
She is an independent curator and writer based in London and Paris. In 2016, she founded the non-profit research-driven platform Grey Cube 113. Her recent projects and exhibitions include “Grey Cube 113” at Tate Modern in London (2017), and “The insider outside” at Rupert at Centre for Art and Education in Vilnius (2018). She holds a master’s degree in art theory from Goldsmiths University and a BA in culture, criticism and curation from Central Saint Martins. Her latest research deals primarily with archival practices in visual arts and questions of performance and performativity.

SABINA DAMIANI | Croatia / Slovenia
After completing her studies in visual arts and pedagogy at the Venice Academy and in photography at the Brera Academy in Milan she has been working both as a practicing artist and a curator. The latest development of her curatorial work and interests are going in the direction of environmental art, intermedia production as well as science and art contaminations.

BARBARA FABRO | Italy
Senior executive officer of the Central European Initiative, Trieste, Italy

JAKUB GAWKOWSKI | Poland / Hungary
He is an art writer and curator. His last projects include group exhibitions “Skip the line! Populism and contemporary promise” and “The Most Beautiful Catastrophe”. Graduate student at the history department of the Central European University, he lives and works between Warsaw and Budapest.

CHIARA IANESELLI | Italy
She is a PhD candidate at IMT Lucca and a curator. Her research focuses on the use of titles in modern and contemporary art and in particular on the “untitled”. She worked for Artissima, dOCUMENTA (13), 55th Venice Biennale, 14th Istanbul Biennial among others. Since 2014 she has been coordinating the project “Les Gares”, fostering research in anatomy theaters.

ALICIA KNOCK | France
Curator at the Contemporary art and Prospective department of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, she is the curator of the Albanian Pavilion, Biennale Arte 2019.

GIUSEPPE LA BRUNA | Italy
Director of the Academy of Fine Art in Venice

NEVA LUKIĆ | Croatia / The Netherlands
Curator and writer living between Croatia and The Netherlands, she got a degree in art history and archaeology from the University of Zagreb, and in theory of modern and contemporary art from the Leiden University. She has professional experience in museum curatorship (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka), as a freelance curator (Croatian Association of Artists – Zagreb, Arti et Amicitiae – Amsterdam, See Lab – The Hague, etc.) and as an art critic (active member of Croatian section of AICA, Kontura Art Magazine). She has participated in various residencies and programs, latest including Het Wilde Weten in Rotterdam (2018), and What Could/Should Curating Do (2018) for which she was supported by Mondriaan Fundation.

BERAL MADRA | Turkey
Prominent art critic and curator, living and working in Istanbul. She has been the director of the BM Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, since 1980.

VERONICA MAZZUCCO | Italy
She is an independent curator based in Pordenone, Italy. She attended the CAMPO curatorial programme promoted by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, and collaborated with many contemporary art institutions among which La Biennale di Venezia, Peggy Guggenheim Collection and Dolomiti Contemporanee.

ROBERTO PACI DALÒ | Italy
He is a director, a composer / performer, a visual and sound artist and a radio hacktivist who leads the group Giardini Pensili. His work has been presented worldwide in biennials, museums, theatres, festivals, and the public space and has got admiration and support from – amongst the others – Aleksandr Sokurov, Predrag Matvejević, Robert Ashley, Giya Kancheli and John Cage. Winner of the Premio Napoli and recipient of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD fellowship. Member of the Internationale Heiner Müller Gesellschaft and the British Cartographic Society. Professor of interaction design at UNIRSM, founder and director of Usmaradio, and expert / artist at the European Commission.

ANA PERAICA | Croatia
She is the author of “Fotografija kao Dokaz” (Multimedijalni institut, Zagreb, 2018), “Culture of the Selfie” (Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2017) and “Sub/versions” (Revolver, Berlin, 2009). She is also the editor of “Smuggling Anthologies” (MMSU, Rijeka, 2015), “Victims Symptom” (Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2009), and “Žena na raskrižju ideologija” (HULU, Split, 2007). She teaches at MA Media Art Histories program by University of Danube in Krems and on the MA Media Art Cultures (ERASMUS MUNDUS) program by University of Danube, Aalborg, Poznan and Singapore. Peraica lives and works in Diocletian’s palace, in Split (Croatia) where she runs Atelier Perajica, a family photo shop, and actively engages on preservation of life inside this inhabited Roman monument on WH list.

NATAŠA RADOJEVIĆ | Serbia
She is the founder of Logic Art Space (Florence) and the curator of Drina Gallery (Belgrade). As an art historian, curator, consultant and producer, she collaborates with local and international artists, galleries, institutions, private and public collections. She lives between Belgrade, Florence and Rome.

RALUCA VOINEA | Romania
She is a curator and an art critic based in Bucharest. She has been co-director of tranzit.ro (part of the tranzit.org network) since 2012 and a co-editor of IDEA arts + society magazine since 2008. She was the curator of the Romanian Pavilion in Venice in 2013, with the project “An Immaterial Retrospective of the Venice Biennale”, presenting Romanian artists Alexandra Pirici and Manuel Pelmus.

JANKA VUKMIR | Croatia
Art historian, art critic and curator based in Zagreb, she is a co-founder and the director of the Institute for Contemporary Art, Zagreb, after having been the director of the former SCCA Zagreb. She is a member of several international networks, including YVAA – Young Visual Artists Awards and Continental Breakfast, and co-founder of the Radoslav Putar Award. She was also president of CIP – Croatian Independent Publishers.