Chus Martínez is head of the Institute Art Gender Nature at the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW. She is also an associate curator for TBA21 Academy, curator-at-large at the Vuslat Foundation, and Artistic Director of the 36th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts (2025). Martínez lectures and writes regularly, including numerous catalogue texts and critical essays, and is a regular contributor to Artforum among other international journals. Recent publications include Coding Care: Towards a Technology for Nature (2022) and Like This: Natural Intelligence as Seen by Art (2022). Martínez has curated numerous exhibitions globally and continues to play a key role in shaping contemporary art discourse through her projects and writing.

Researcher, writer, and curator. He holds a French-Italian Ph.D. in Aesthetics and Theory of Art. From 2013 to 2017 he has been the artistic director of Viafarini – Nonprofit Organization for Contemporary Artistic Research (Milan, IT). He currently co-directs Live Works – Performance Act Award at Centrale Fies (Trento, IT) and  A Natural Oasis? Transnational Research Programme organized by Little Constellation – Network of Contemporary Art focused on Geo-cultural Micro-areas and Small States of Europe. He’s Professor of Theory of Contemporary Art at Fine Arts and Design Academy in Grenoble (FR) – where he founded the workshop and residency-based research program Pratique d’Hospitalité . In 2016 he was one of the ten curators of the 16th edition of Quadriennale of Rome and in 2018 he was a guest curator at Museion (Bozen) where he presented the program Somatechnics. Transparent travelers and obscure nobodies. In 2020 he will be co-directing the 19th edition of the Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, dedicated to artists, practitioners and researchers coming from or based in Euro-Mediterranean Countries, Balkans, Arab Countries, and the Middle East.

Last update: November 11th,  2019

Dora García was born in Spain and studied in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. As a young artist she moved to Brussels where she lived for 16 years; and she moved to Barcelona five years ago. She has always been interested in anti-heroic and marginal personas as a prototype to study the social status of the artist, and in narratives of resistance and counterculture. In this regard, Dora García has developed films on the DDR political police, the Stasi (“Rooms, Conversations”, film, 24 ‘, 2006), on the charismatic figure of US stand up comedian Lenny Bruce (“Just because everything is different it does not mean that anything has changed, Lenny Bruce in Sydney”, one-time performance and 60 min. film, Sydney Biennale, 2008) or on the origins of antipsychiatry (“The Deviant Majority”, film, 34′, 2010). Lately she has frequented Finnegans Wake reading groups (“The Joycean Society”, film, 53’, 2013). She is currently preparing a feature length film on Argentinian author Oscar Masotta.

Visual artist and curator. Her practice investigates the conditions engendered by interpretation; how objects and ideas undergo status changes and exist within different realities and interpretations simultaneously. In her work the essential quality of things and their existence within newly created frames of reference is questioned. She is the co-founder of the Plicnik Space Initiative, an online experimental curatorial project showcasing over 20 artists’ works. She has previously organised and participated in shows in independent artist venues (Unstable Grounds: 37 Warren Street, 2016) and established art galleries (Counterfeit: Bermondsey project space, 2018).

Last update: November 16th, 2020

Visual artist whose practice explores notions of authenticity and the complexities of authority. This generally involves the deconstruction of power structures through the emulation of their modus operandi. Melle has previously exhibited works in the United States of America, the Netherlands, Italy and the United Kingdom. As a curator Melle Nieling co-founded the experimental curatorial platform Plicnik Space Initiative.

Last update: November 16th, 2020

Last update: November 16th, 2020