Salma Tuqan is a contemporary art and design curator and cultural Strategist. She is the Deputy Director of Delfina Foundation (London), a cross disciplinary non profit dedicated to developing creative practice through international residencies, exhibitions and public programming. Prior to this, she was the Contemporary Middle East Curator at the V&A, responsible for Middle Eastern art and design programming, co-curator of the international biennial Jameel Prize exhibition, and co founder of the Culture in Crisis stream. She has contributed to projects as an independent curator, including Palestine c/o Venice at the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009), the Wind Tunnel Project (2014) and Until my veins collapse at Mac Lyon (2022). She works closely with cultural organisations on strategy and is an advisory member of the Santo Domingo Centre of Excellence for Latin American Research at the British Museum (London), Rivers Institute (New Orelans), Art on the Underground (London), Arab Image Foundation (Beirut) and NuMu (Guatemala City)

Gala Porras-Kim lives and works in Los Angeles. She received an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2009 and an MA in Latin American Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2012. Recent solo exhibitions and projects have been held at Gasworks, London (2022); Amant, Brooklyn (2022); and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2019). Porras-Kim’s work has been included in group exhibitions at 34th Bienal de São Paulo (2021); 13th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2021); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2021, 2017); Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2021, 2019); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2019, 2016); PinchukArtCentre, Kiev (2019); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2019, 2017); Para Site, Hong Kong (2019); and Seoul Museum of Art (2017). Porras-Kim is the recipient of the Art Matters Foundation Award (2019), Artadia Los Angeles Award (2017), Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Grant (2016), Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (2015), and Creative Capital Grant (2015). Porras-Kim has been in residency at Getty Research Institute (2021-22), Delfina Foundation (2021), Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University (2020), and La Tallera, Proyecto Siqueiros (2019).

Claudia Segura is a curator and cultural producer based in Barcelona where she is Curator of Exhibitions and Collections at MACBA. She holds a BA from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, and an MA in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths University, London. She was Director and Chief Curator of NC-arte in Bogotá, Colombia (2015-2019), where she curated several exhibitions and site-specific projects by different artists (Amalia Pica, Luis Camnitzer, Xavier Le Roy, Nicolás Paris, Nicolás Consuegra, Los Carpinteros, Alia Farid, among others). She was coordinator of cultural initiatives at the Fundació ”la Caixa”, Barcelona (2010-2012); an external curator of the Mardin Biennial, Turkey (2014-2015); and mentor of the Sala d’Art Jove, Barcelona (2014), and at the Cano Laboratory at the Art Museum of the National University of Colombia (2018). In addition, she has been a visiting lecturer at the National University of the Andes, Bogotá (2017).

Segura has curated and co-curated projects including To be known as Infinite: María José Arjona, MAMBO, Bogotá (2018); Here the border is you, ProyectosLA, Los Angeles (2017); Límites Nómadas, Biennial of the Borders of Mexico (2015); Fifty (Pipilotti Rist) from Han Nefkens H+F Collection, Collectorspace, Istanbul (2014); Copy/Paste – Recodifying the gesture, Instituto Cervantes, London; Like Tears in Rain, Palace of the Arts, Porto; and Producing Urban Order, Goldsmiths University, London (2008).

She was editorial coordinator of Florae 2015 magazine of Flora ars + natura, Bogotá, and writes regularly for diverse specialised arts platforms. Segura is part of various research platforms such as De vuelta y vuelta and Para abrir boca.

Last update 20th september 2022