Charles Esche

Charles Esche is a curator, writer, museum director, and educator whose work has significantly shaped contemporary art discourse and institutional practice. Director of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven from 2004 to 2024 and Professor of Contemporary Art and Curating at the University of the Arts London, he is known for experimental exhibition models and socially engaged approaches to collections, biennials, and public programs.

R. Siva Kumar

R. Siva Kumar is an internationally recognized art historian, critic, and curator, known for his pioneering research on early Indian modernism and the Santiniketan School. He has authored influential books, contributed to major reference projects such as Art Journal, Grove Art Online, and The Dictionary of Art (Oxford University Press), and curated landmark exhibitions including Santiniketan: The Making of a Contextual Modernism and The Last Harvest: Paintings of Rabindranath Tagore, as well as retrospectives of key modern Indian artists.

Samantha A. Noël

Samantha A. Noël is Associate Professor of Art History and Hawkins Ferry Endowed Chair in Modern and Contemporary Art at Wayne State University. Her research focuses on the art, visual culture, and performance of the Black diaspora, and she is the author of Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism (Duke University Press, 2021). Her work has appeared in journals such as Small Axe, Third Text, Art Journal, and Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, and has been supported by institutions including the Terra Foundation and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Eileen Legaspi Ramirez

Eileen Legaspi Ramirez is an art historian, curator, educator, and writer. Now Associate Professors at the University of the Philippines Diliman Department of Art Studies. His research focuses on art as a means of collective memory, forms of historiographical criticism from below, and the reactivation of “contested” spaces. She presently serves as editorial collective member of the journal Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, and as Research Advisory Committee member of The Flow of History collaborative project.

Shukla Sawant

Shukla Sawant is an artist and academic whose work explores themes of colonialism, postcolonial theory, and the intersection of art and history, challenging viewers to reconsider established perspectives. Founder of the Indian Printmakers Guild, Sawant research delves into art in colonial India, South Asian modernism, and contemporary art movements.

Nada Shabout

Nada Shabout is an art historian, curator, and educator renowned for her pioneering scholarship and curatorial work on modern and contemporary Arab art. Founding president of of the Association for Modern and Contemporary Art from the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey, her research addresses the art historical neglect of modern and contemporary Arab art and its absence from the art history canon.

Natalia de la Rosa

Natalia de la Rosa is an art historian and curator. Now associate Researcher at the Institute of Aesthetic Research, her work poses fundamental questions about the interrelations between art, politics and economics in Modern and Contemporary Art in Latin America.

Midori Yoshimoto

Midori Yoshimoto is professor of art history and gallery director at New Jersey City University. As art historian, Yoshimoto specializes in post-1945 Japanese art and its diaspora with a focus on women artists, Fluxus, and intermedia.

Beáta Hock

Beáta Hock is a scholar and curator specializing in the art and cultural history of East-Central Europe, with a strong focus on feminism and transnational perspectives. Her research extends on post-war art and culture with a focus on the gender dimension. Lectures across different universities and curators of international exhibitions in Germany and Hungary.

Đỗ Tường Linh

Đỗ Tường Linh is a curator, art researcher, and writer based between Hanoi (Vietnam) and New York City (United States). Part of the team of the 2th Berlin Biennial, she has engaged in various exhibitions and research projects across Vietnam, Southeast Asia, Europe, and beyond since 2005. Her work expands on themes of post‑colonial identity, and the re‑mapping of Vietnamese and Southeast Asian contemporary art within global art discourses.

Raphael Chikukwa

Raphael Chikukwa is a Zimbabwean curator and institutional leader, serving since 2020 as Executive Director of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe (NGZ). His curatorial work includes significant exhibitions such as Visions of Zimbabwe (Manchester, 2004), and collaborative or regional projects like Kabbo Ka Muwala: Migration and Mobility in Contemporary Art (2016) and African Voices (2017).

Gaudêncio Fidelis

Gaudêncio Fidelis is an art historian and curator with extensive experience in curating exhibitions (he has curated more than 50 exhibitions) and publishing. His work mainly focuses on Brazilian and Latin American art, institutional and cultural politics, and issues of social inclusion, identity, and freedom of expression in the arts. Now Adjunct Associate Professor at the City University of New York.

Caroline Vercoe

Caroline Vercoe is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. Actively involved in teaching, curating, and researching, she specializes in contemporary Pacific art and performance, with a particular focus on issues of race, gender, and representation.

Morad Montazami

Morad Montazami is an art historian, a publisher and a curator. After serving at Tate Modern, she is now the founder of the platform Zamân Books & Curating, committing her studies to transnational studies of Arab, Asian and African modern and contemporary art.

Junghyun Kim

Junghyun Kim is a curator and researcher based between New York and Seoul. A transdisciplinary and eclectic curator, she often works across exhibitions, publications, and collaborative platforms. Her practice explores the evolving relationship between technology, ecology, and contemporary image-making, with a particular focus on digital art.

Viktor Misiano

Viktor Misiano is a curator, editor and theorist. He has curated multiple artistic institutions and major artistic events, including the Pushkin National Museum of Fine Arts and the Central Asia Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. He is also the founder of the Manifesta Journal: Journal of Contemporary Curatorship (Amsterdam). His main research focuses on post-Soviet and East-European contemporary art, and the social and geopolitical role of curatorial practice.

Nicolas Bourriaud

Nicolas Bourriaud is a curator, art critic, and theorist internationally recognized for shaping contemporary art discourse. He is best known for developing the concept of Relational Aesthetics in the 1990s, published in 1998, which has had a lasting impact on global artistic practice. A prolific writer and curator for major art institutions, he continues to influence debates on globalization, cultural hybridity, and the role of art in society.

Anda Rottenberg

Anna Rottenberg is a prominent art historian, curator, writer, and critic, renowned for her significant contributions to the development of contemporary art in Poland. A prolific writer, Rottenborg has been recognized for her critical engagement with art and her commitment to fostering a deeper understanding of Polish and Central European artistic practices.

Tandazani Dhlakama

Tandazani Dhlakama is now Curator of Global Africa at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), Toronto. Through her work, Dhlakama explores the complex and interconnected histories of African art and the African diaspora, amplifying marginalized voices, interrogating identity, memory and heritage, and reimagining museum narratives to reflect global and diasporic perspectives.

Cecilia Fajardo-Hill

Cecilia Fajardo-Hill is an art historian and curator in modern and contemporary art. Her work focuses on Latin American and Latinx art, developing a decolonial art history project focused on gender, ethnicity, indigeneity, African heritage, and popular culture. She has held research fellowships at Princeton, the Clark Art Institute, Harvard, and UCLA, and is now Associate Professor of Museum Studies and Art History and Director of Northlight Gallery at Arizona State University.

Pauline J. Yao

Pauline J. Yao is a curator and writer specializing in contemporary Chinese and Asian art. She co-founded the Beijing-based artist-run space Arrow Factory and has held curatorial positions at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, and M+ in Hong Kong. Her work focuses on building cross-cultural museum collections and supporting critical artistic networks.

Ute Meta Bauer

Ute Meta Bauer is a curator and professor whose work connects contemporary art, film, video, and sound through transdisciplinary formats. Founding Director of NTU CCA Singapore and full professor at Nanyang Technological University’s School of Art, Design and Media, she has held key curatorial roles at major international exhibitions, including Documenta11, the 3rd Berlin Biennale, the Nordic Pavilion at the 50th Venice Biennale, and the 17th Istanbul Biennial.