Christine Van Assche is a contemporary art historian, curator, and critic specializing in audiovisual art. As the Chief Curator at Centre Pompidou between 1982 and 2013, she built up the institution’s first video and new media art collection, featuring 1,600 works including those by David Claerbout, James Coleman, Stan Douglas, Valie Export, Esther Ferrer, Jean-Luc Godard, Douglas Gordon, Mona Hatoum, Pierre Huyghe, Isaac Julien, Mike Kelley, Chris Marker, Tony Oursler, Nam June Paik, Pipilotti Rist, etc. She curated a number of thematic exhibitions such as Passages des l’image in 1990, Sonic Process in 2000, Vidéo, un art, une histoir that toured internationally between 2005 and 2012, Une vision du monde. La collection des Lemaître in 2006, Video Vintage in 2012 and 2013, as well as numerous solo exhibitions accompanied by catalogs devoted to artists such as Nam June Paik, Tony Oursler, Mona Hatoum, Johan Grimonprez, Douglas Gordon, James Coleman, Chris Marker, Bruce Nauman, Pierre Huyghe, Ugo Rondinone, Isaac Julien, among others.

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Cristina Goberna Pesudo is a practitioner architect, educator, and critic. She is the founder partner of Epic Architecture and Fake Industries, Architectural Agonism (FKAA). FKAA is an architectural practice of horizontal structure and collaborative nature which has been awarded the AIA New Voices Award, The Architectural League Young Architects Forum, Europan 7,8, 9, 10, the international competition for a new velodrome for Medellin and which was finalist in Moma PS1 YAP, Art Basel Miami and the Guggenheim Helsinki competitions. FKAA’s work has been widely exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collection of the Pompidou Centre in Paris and the Chicago Art Institute. As a Fulbright Scholar Cristina was awarded an MS. in Advance Architectural Design (AAD) and an Advance Architectural Research (AAR) certificate by GSAPP at Columbia University. She is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Architecture of Barcelona and at the Switzerland based European Graduate School in the Philosophy and Critical Thought program. She has been jury in the Architectural League Prize Young Architect Forum, MoMa PS1 YAP, and Europan Norway. She has held academic positions at Columbia University, Sydney UTS, MIT and Cooper Union. She currently coordinates Undergraduate Thesis in Cooper Union and is a Fellow in the New Museum Columbia University New Incubator Program in New York.

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Andrea Rodriguez Novoa is an architect, curator, and writer based in Spain, France, and Switzerland.

Since 2022 she is co-Director and Head of the Professional Program for Barcelona Gallery Weekend. She’s co-founder and director of BAR project and @mia_architectures. She is a member of IKT, International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art and of C-E-A Commissaires d’exposition associés (France). She was a Member of the Acquisition Committee for the Collection of the FRAC Normandie in Caen, France (2017-2021). Since 2018, she collaborates with Leopold Banchini Architects in Geneva.

Regarding her curatorial practice, her reflection expands on space and time, image and story. A special focus on language and its declinations, highly informs her fictional-like critical texts and written projects. She develops curatorial projects and writes from and on affection to speak about art and artists. She is interested in forms and formats of contemporary art diffusion and transmission, and on architectures with a capacity for building into the social and political public realm. She has developed curatorial projects together with a number of collaborators such as Centre Pompidou (Paris), Villa Arson (Nice), French Institute (Barcelona), Casa Velazquez (Madrid), STROOM (The Hague), SOMA Mexico (Ciudad de México), 40m3(Rennes), Gwangju Biennale (South Korea), Quimper Fine Arts School, FRAC Normandie Caen, among others.

Some curated exhibitions and projects include: Slow Gala, SixtyEight Art Insitute, Copenhaguen; A guided visit, Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam, 2018; Whenever you do(not) feel like, keep going, Plataforma Révolver, Lisbon, 2017 ; Le silence n’est pas la simple absence de bruit, ESAM Caen Cherbourg, 2017 ; Unveiling (Reflections on scape), Primo Piano, Paris, 2016-17; One Night Stand: At-homeness despite it all, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, L. A., 2016; Scoping Scapes,18^th St. Art Center, L. A., 2016; Plagiarizing the future, Hangar, Lisbon, 2015 ; Icaria no es una avinguda, curatorialclube.com, 2015 ; A(p)partment, MAIO Architects, Barcelona, 2014 ; Promenade architecturale, CAC Fort du Bruissin, Grand Lyon, 2014 ; Towards a hypothesis, CAC Fort du Bruissin, XII Lyon’s Biennial, 2013

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She’s currently the deputy director and chief curator at Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest.

Previous Positions

2013 –2016 chief curator (collections, exhibitions and scientific research) Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art

2013 head of exhibitions, Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest

2009 – 2013 head of collections, Ludwig Museum

2008 – 2009 chief curator (collections and exhibitions), Ludwig Museum

2008- Lecturer at Pázmány Péter University (contemporary art)

2006 – 2008 deputy director, Ludwig Museum

1995-2017 editor, Balkon, Contemporary Art Magazine, Budapest

1997-2006 chief curator (collections and exhibitions), Ludwig Museum

1994-1996 curator, Ludwig Museum, Budapest

1992-1993 curator, Hungarian National Gallery, Contemporary Art Collection, Budapest

Academic Studies and Professional Training:

2010 “Promoting Tolerance through the Arts”, International Visitor Leadership Program, organized by the U.S. Department of State, USA

1999 “Central and Eastern European Museum Professionals Workshop”; professional training organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York

1994 “Contemporary Art in the International Context of Exhibitions and Museums”; professional training organized by the Institut für Kulturwissenschaft, Wien

1985-1992 MA degree in History of Art / Hungarian Linguistics and Literature, ELTE (Eötvös Loránd University), Budapest

Professional Membership

2015- Jury member for Hungarian Pavilion / Venice Biennial

1996- Member of Hungarian Section of AICA

Awards

2012 Németh Lajos-díj (Hungarian state award for art historians, art

theorists and art critiques)

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Juan Pablo Porta is an architect from the University of Buenos Aires FADU-UBA (1998) and Master in Landscape Urbanism from the Architectural Association of London (2002). He has taught and has been guest critic at different institutions and schools of design and architecture in Spain, Argentina, the United States, and the United Arab Emirates. He is currently a partner in Skin Architecture where he develops projects for Argentina, Chile, and Spain while serving as an associate professor at the School of Architecture and Urban Studies of the Torcuato Di Tella University and as a Director of the Landscape Architecture Graduate Program at the same University.

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To use his own terminology, Emmanuel Lambion is a Brussels-based art worker i.e. curator, critic, and producer

Founder of Bn PROJECTS asbl, he is currently Deputy Director of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Brussels, and Artistic Director of Maison Grégoire, an independent art centre, the second oldest in the Belgian capital, based in a listed modernist house by Henry Van de Velde. Lambion has also been developing a number of extra muros projects, in Belgium as abroad such as the cycle of exhibitions called Found in Translation, initiated in 2011. Besides, Lambion is also the conceptor of projects conceived for the public space, often apprehended in an immaterial and virtual understanding of the word: B-1010/be-DIX_TIEN, Park58, The Bn Project, La Biennale des Biennales, or PIETRO in Beaumont (FR) in the framework of the programme Nouveaux Commanditaires of Fondation de France. Generally, his practice revolves around a concept of decompartmentalization, originating in the questioning of norms and codes, reactivated in a creative way. Emmanuel Lambion is currently Vice-President of IKT, the international association for curators in contemporary art and Board Member of  AICA Belgium.

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