Cristina Garrido (b. 1986, Madrid, Spain) is an artist based in Madrid. Having studied Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid (2004-2009) and Camberwell College of Arts (2007-2008), she obtained an MA Fine Art at Wimbledon College of Art (2010 2011).

She has been awarded by the Fundació “la Caixa” Grant for Postgraduate studies in Great Britain, received the prize Generación 2015 Proyectos de Arte Fundación Montemadrid and has recently been awarded with the the XV Arco Comunidad de Madrid Prize for Young Artist 2018 and the Fundación Botín Visual Arts Grant 2017-2018. Her work has been exhibited internationally.

Her work has been exhibited internationally in European and Latin American countries, with shows in the CASS Sculpture Foundation, the British Museum in London, the Botín Center in Santander as well as the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo and the Alcobendas Art Center, both in Madrid.

Last update: 22nd October, 2020

The multi-disciplinary artist Marianna Simnett works with film, installation, drawing, and sculpture. Her works center around the overlapping and at times incongruous themes of vulnerability, autonomy, control, pain, metamorphosis, and care. She uses narrative structures gleaned from fairytales, fables, and personal experience to creative immersive, visceral scenarios that engage notions of physical distress and release, focusing on the social, historical, and economic systems deployed to control human and animal bodies. Marianna Simnett (b. 1986) lives and works in Berlin. Her work has been exhibited internationally in solo exhibitions at venues including Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem; Kunsthalle Zürich; MMK, Frankfurt; and the New Museum, New York. Selected recent group exhibitions include the The Milk of Dreams,Venice Biennal (2022); Espressioni: The Epilogue, Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2022); British Art Show 9, various cities (2021); A Fire in my Belly, Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin (2021).

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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

Samantha Rosenwald received her BA in Art History from Vassar College in 2016 and her MFA in Fine Art from California College of the Arts in 2018. Rosenwald has shown with galleries such as Steve Turner (Los Angeles, CA), Eve Leibe Gallery (London, UK), Zevitas Marcus (Los Angeles, CA), Plan X Gallery (Milan, Italy), and Mostyn (Wales, UK), and has been featured in publications such as New American Paintings, Art Maze Magazine, and Art of Choice. Rosenwald is based in LA and works primarily in paint and colored pencil. By threading together contemporary culture, visual pun, and the dogmas of art history, she creates absurd, personal, and darkly funny portraits which illustrate what it feels like to be alive.

Last update: 16th November, 2020

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Salma Tuqan is a Contemporary Art and Design curator and cultural strategist. She is Deputy Director of Delfina Foundation, a non-profit inter-disciplinary foundation dedicated to artistic exchange through global residencies, exhibitions, commissions and public programming. Prior to this, she held the inaugural role of Contemporary Middle East curator at the V&A where she helped shape programming and laid the foundation for its permanent Contemporary Arab art and design collection.

Last update: November 16th, 2020

Elena Forin is an independent curator, a member of LaRete Art Projects and a member of IKT, (International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art). Her approach combines the interest for to the most recent artistic developments – video, installation, performance, new technologies, collaborations; participatory, site-specific and social practices – and for their specific historical roots of the 60’s and 70’s.

Between 2009 and 2011 she curated several exhibitions at MACRO (Museum of Contemporary Art Rome). She collaborated with many institutions (among these: Galleria D’Arte Moderna Achille Forti a Palazzo della Ragione, Verona, Italy; Galleria Civica, Modena, Italy; Elgiz Collection Istanbul, Turkey; Laznia Center for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, Poland) and independent/non for profit art spaces like Bartnik Projects Room in Osnabrück, Germany.

Since September 2017 she runs Today’s Special, a series of shows in her garden house, and You Are Invited for Lunch, a series of lunches and dinners on Skype fostering dialogue with artists, curators and collectors – avoiding the idea that physical distance is a bad condition for exchange.

For the Italian art fair ArtVerona she’s curating Sculpture&TheCity, a project devoted to public sculpture aiming to connect marble companies and artists, and she also operates as a VIP and Corporate Manager.

Last update: 17th November, 2020

Chiara Cartuccia is an independent curator and researcher based in London. Her work focuses mainly on practice and theory of performativity in contemporary arts, and the potentialities of performance as a generative epistemological tool.

Between 2012 and 2015, Chiara has been Curator of Performance Art at SAVVY Contemporary Berlin, and in 2017 she was appointed Curatorial Coordinator at Manifesta 12 Palermo. For Manifesta, Chiara co-curated the Planetary Garden Public Programme. She is co-founder and director of the curatorial and editorial platform EX NUNC.

Chiara holds an MA in Visual Cultures-Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths College, and she is a Ph.D. candidate at Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, UvA.

Last update: November 11th, 2019