Théo-Mario Coppola is a curator and arts writer. They are currently based in Paris, France.

Théo-Mario Coppola has contributed to catalogues, magazines and online publications. They regularly lecture on radical aesthetic practices at art schools and universities.

Last update: November 17th, 2022

Ruth Direktor is the Curator of Contemporary art at Tel Aviv Museum of Art, since 2014. A major part of her curatorial practice is based on video art and performance.

In the early 1990s, she began working as an independent curator, and from 2005 was the curator of several institutions, including, in the years 2011-2014, the Chief Curator of Haifa Museum of Art. From 1984 till 2008 she wrote regularly, as an art critic, in some of the most prominent newspapers and weekly magazines in Israel. Her articles and reviews about contemporary art, Israeli and international, were published in many catalogues and other publications.
Over the years she has taught at various art academies, her courses focus on various issues of contemporary art, both Israeli and International.

Last updated, November 13th, 2022

Victoria Ioudina is a film graduate of the university ESCAC (University of Cinema and Audiovisuals of Catalonia). In 2022 she made her debut as a director with Hitomi, a project consisting of a hybrid between a short film and a video art piece integrated into an art installation. In 2021, Victoria was part of the short film The Silent Cry of the Trees as production director. This film is her Final Degree Project and is notable for being filmed in a vertical format. The short film is currently in distribution.
Victoria’s goal as an audiovisual creator is to find new ways of viewing and making films, as well as, to share her aesthetic sensitivity through interactive art.

Last updated: November 11th, 2022

Kairo Urban is a film student at ESCAC (University of Cinema and Audiovisuals of Catalonia). After producing several fiction short
films throughout his college career, Kai has participated in Hitomi as production director, and during the process of post-production, he has opened a new line
of exploration regarding the distribution of the piece by taking as reference video art and artistic installations alike.
For Kai, Hitomi is a piece that represents the past, present, but above all, the future of cinema.

Last updated: November 11th, 2022

Pedro Torres (Brazil, 1982) focuses his artistic practice on subjects related to the notions of time, distance, memory, language, and image, using a variety of media to develop his works and research projects. His works have been recently displayed at Aragon Park II (Madrid), The Green Parrot (Barcelona), Casal Solleric (Palma de Mallorca), Centro Párraga* (Murcia), Casa Seat* / LOOP Barcelona 2020, Chiquita Room* (Barcelona), Errant. Itinerarios de arte y pensamiento* (Iglesia vieja de El Pont de Suert), Festival Poesia i + (Caldes d’Estrach), Fabra i Coats: Centre d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, OTR. espacio de arte (Madrid), Swab Barcelona, Dilalica (Barcelona), the Cuenca Biennale (Ecuador), ArtBo (Bogotá, Colombia), CaixaForum Barcelona, BienalSUR (Casa Nacional del Bicentenario, Buenos Aires, Argentina), Festival Embarrat (Tárrega), NC-arte (Bogotá, Colombia), ARCO Lisboa (Portugal), at the Galería Travesía Cuatro and La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Galería Luis Adelantado* (Valencia), the Mardin Biennale (Turkey), the Las Fronteras Biennale (Mexico), the Blueproject Foundation* and the Fundació Antoni Tàpies (Barcelona). His videos have been screened at a number of festivals in Europe, South America, and Asia. He has been awarded scholarships and prizes including PostBrossa (2021), the Exchange art3/Homesession scholarship (2021), the S.O.S ARTE/CULTURA endowments for creation from Vegap (2021), the Production Awards from the “la Caixa” foundation (2020), he was a finalist at the Antoni Gelabert visual arts award of the city of Palma (2020), the research scholarship from the department of culture of the Catalan regional government (2020, 2013), the production award from the Sala d’Art Jove of Barcelona (2013) and the Fundación Botín scholarship (2007), among others. He has been a resident artist in Skagaströnd (Iceland), Seoul (South Korea), Berlin (Germany) and Barcelona (Spain). Some of his works and publications have been featured in the collections of institutions such as MadridAbierto, Fundación Botín, the Blueproject Foundation, the olorVISUAL collection, ICP New York, UPV/Colección de libros de artista and other private collections. He lives and works in Barcelona, where he is a resident artist at the Hangar visual arts production and research centre.

* individual exhibitions

Last update 5th November 2021

Camille Llobet is a French video artist born in 1982, she lives and works in Sallanches (FR), a small mountain town between Geneva and Chamonix. She graduated from the École supérieure d’art d’Annecy (FR) in 2007, and participated in the Salon de Montrouge in 2016 (Paris) and in several group exhibitions in France and Europe such as recently “L’Art d’apprendre. Une école des créateurs” (Centre Pompidou-Metz, 2022), “Oral Texte” (Fondation d’entreprise Pernod Ricard, 2022). She has had several solo exhibitions such as “Majelich” (Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, 2018) and “Risvolto” (Recontemporary, Turin, Italy, 2019). In 2023, she will present a major solo exhibition at the Institut d’art contemporain de Villeurbanne (FR). She is the winner of the Movimenta prize for young creation (Nice, 2017) and of the 2nd prize of the Around video Art fair jury (Lille, 2021). Her works are part of several French public collections.

Melanie Smith was born in England in 1965. She lives and works between Mexico City and London. Her work, in diverse media, has reflected on the extended field of painting within the history of art and its entanglement with moving image. She is interested in fragmented montage, and creates filmic and performative experiences that often allude to behind the scene productions and political farse. Mostly, her work shatters any rational significance, as a way of thinking through contingent forms and being.

She has exhibited at numerous institutions including PS1 and MOMA, New York; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Tate, London; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City. In 2011 she represented Mexico at the 54th Venice Biennale. “Melanie Smith: Farce and Artifice” a panoramic survey, was presented at MACBA Barcelona in 2018, and traveled to MUAC Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Museo Amparo Puebla, 2019 and MARCO Monterrey in 2020.