Katia Roessel is currently developing her first feature film in France. Her work has been shown in festivals, galleries, collective projects and open-air events such as POINT IN THE ENDLESS UNIVERSE, Moscow (2014), Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris (2011), AVIFF Cannes (2014), OCAT Shanghai (2014), Collection VIDEO SALON, Galerija Duplex 100m2, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (2016), and PARISARTISTES # (2017) among others. Her GLEE video series focuses on the fundamental technology of artificial light and the evolving dominance of screen-based light and its implications. Natural light, screen light, and filmed light intertwine. Since within the installations different temporalities emerge and shun into another frame/art scale – the light of the screen has brought us ever more realistic simulations, including simulations of intelligence and of life, and draws us into its reality. This reality and natural reality are in an escalating competition for our “hearts and minds.”

Last update: November 11th,  2019

Esteban Andueza is Cultural Manager of Instituto Cervantes in China. He has curated numerous art exhibitions in several countries and has organised countless cultural activities, events and festivals linked to the cultural exchange between Spain and Asia. He collaborates with institutions like Casa Asia and works with internationally renowned artists such as Antoni Muntadas curating, producing and promoting his work and artistic projects.

Last update: November 11th, 2022

He is a visual artist. He has made several individual exhibitions in Spain and abroad, among which are the following: Macba in Barcelona (2005), the Serralves Foundation of Porto (Portugal, 2006), the IKON Gallery of Birmingham (the United Kingdom, 2006), the Karlsruhe ZKM (Germany, 2006), the Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paulo, Brazil (2010), the Artium Museum of Vitoria (2012), the Reina Sofía National Art Center Museum (2015), the Foundation
Miró, Barcelona (2016), the Museum of Art of the National University of
Colombia, Bogotá (2017), the Kula Gallery (Split) and the Art Museum
Contemporary Zagreb, Croatia (2018). He has exhibited in various
occasions in the following galleries: Estrany de la Mota in Barcelona, ​​Elba Benítez de
Madrid and Meessen de Clercq in Brussels. He has also recently exhibited
in the galleries Project Parallel (Mexico City, Mexico), Thomas
Bernard-Cortex Athletico (Paris, France), Pedro Oliveira (Porto, Portugal) and
Nordenhake (Berlin, Germany).

He has participated in the 52nd Venice Biennale (2007), the 8th Sharjah Biennial
(the United Arab Emirates, 2007), the 11th Sydney Biennial (1998), the 4th Triennial of
Guangzhou, China (2012) and the 13th Cuenca Biennial (Ecuador, 2016)

In 2015 he received the V Joan Miró Prize.

Last update: November 11th, 2019

Anna Maria Guasch is a Professor of Global Art History and Art Criticism at the University of Barcelona.  In the last fifteen years, Guasch has focused on the study of international art from the second half of the 20th Century and has analyzed the expositions it has generated. This line of investigation has lead to publications The Art of the 20th Century and Its Exhibitions: 1945-1995 (Serbal Editions, Barcelona, 2009) and The Manifestos of Postmodern Art: Texts of Expositions 1980-1995 (Akal/Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, 2000) with contributions by C. Joachimides, D. Kuspit, A. Bonito Oliva, K. Power, D. Crimp, H. Foster, T. Crow, H. Szeemann, C. David, J.H. Martin y T. McEvilley, among others.

Currently, Guasch focuses her investigations on three areas: Archiving – Memory and Contemporary Art, Art History and Visual Studies, and Contemporary Art and Globalization. The first of these foci was developed and exhibited in Visual Autobiographies: Between the Archive and the Index (Siruela, Madrid, 2009), and Art and Archive: Genealogies, Typologies, and Discontinuities(Madrid, Akal/Arte Contemporáneo, 2011), and in presentations at conferences of related sciences such as the 20th ANPAP Meeting (Rio de Janeiro, 2011) in which she presented Contemporary Archival Practices: Between the Domestic and the Public, Memory and History, Global and Local.

In her research on Contemporary Art and Globalization, her noteworthy contributions to international conferences and seminars include From Here: Context and Internationalization presented at the 3rd Summit of Critics and Investigators (Valparaiso, Chile, 2011) and her invitation to the international conferences Refocusing on Issuers: Ink Painting through a Perspective of Art History (Shanghai, May 2012) and Art, Criticism and the Forces of Globalization (Winchester School of Art / University of Southhampton and Tate, Liverpool, September 2012). Concerning the theme generally, her notable work includes the text The Global Effect: Art in the Era of Mobility, Translation, and Memory(in press) and her commission at the exposition The Memory of the Other in the Global Era in Bogota, Colombia (2009), Santiago, Chile (2010), and Havana, Cuba (2011).

Between 2000 and 2011, Guasch has been a Visiting Fellow in the Universities of Princeton, Yale, Columbia, San Diego, and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2002, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles and completed her research residency in 2008. She has taught seminars and courses at many institutions including the Pontificia Catholic University of Chile (2002), Esmeralda Institute of Fine Arts (Mexico City, 2003), and San Antonio School of Cinema of Los Baños, (Havana, Cuba, 2005), as well as the Universities of Antioquia(Medellin) and the Bogota National University (Colombia, 2004, 2006, 2007) and at the University of Nuevo León (Monterrey, Mexico, 2006).

Last update: November 11th, 2019

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)

Last update: November 11th, 2019

Vanina Saracino (she/they) is an independent curator, film programmer, writer, and lecturer.

Her work focuses on theories and art practices that explicitly question anthropocentric and binary worldviews from an intersectional perspective, with an emphasis on lens-based and time-based art. Her latest project, Other Minds, is the fourth edition of the Screen City Biennial (curated with Daniela Arriado), which took place at the astronomical observatory Archenhold Sternwarte and other venues in Berlin in 2022.

Since 2021, Saracino has been teaching at the Institute of Time-based Art – IZM, Universität der Künste (UdK) in Berlin, with Prof. Nina Fischer. She has collaborated with Kumu Art Museum and EKKM (Tallinn), Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi (Venice), TBA21 – Academy, Cinemateca Brasileira (São Paulo), Cinemateca do MAM (Rio de Janeiro), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Salzburger Kunstverein (Salzburg), The EYE Film Institute (Amsterdam), and Centro Párraga (Murcia), among others. Saracino has realized residencies at ISCP (New York, 2023), Q21 – MuseumsQuartier (Vienna, 2021), Fire Station Artists’ Studios (Dublin, 2019), CPR – Curatorial Program for Research (Reykjavik, Tórshavn, Tromsø, Boden, Luleå, Hyrynsalmi, Helsinki, 2018), and GENERATOR – 40mcube/EESAB (Rennes, 2018). Graduated in Communication Sciences, Saracino holds an MA in Arts Management (GIOCA, Università di Bologna) and in Philosophy and Art Theory (UAB, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona). She has been a member of IKT since 2015.

Last update: 17th November , 2023

Irit Batsry is an artist working mainly in video and installations probing perception, image-making and collective and personal
memory and identity.

Her work has been shown extensively in 35 different countries. She was awarded the prestigious Whitney Biennial Bucksbaum
Award(2002) given to ”an artist whose work demonstrates a singular combination of talent and imagination – a person who
promises to make a significant contribution to the visual arts”. She received the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 1992 and
the Grand Prix Video de Création of the Société Civile des Auteurs Multimedia, Paris (1996 and 2001) as well as many festival awards.

Selected shows include the National Gallery in Washington, theNational Film Theater and the ICA (London), Reina Sofia Museum (Madrid), Museu d’Arte Moderna (Rio), Ludwig Museum (Koln), Tel Aviv Museum, Artists Space, the Whitney and the MOMA in NYC. In 2006 the Jeu de Paume in Paris organized a retrospective of her videotapes (1981- 2006).

Last update: 11th November, 2019

Tobias Arndt started his career in e-commerce both in consulting and publishing (publications e.g. Electronic Marketplaces, Galileo Press, 2000) he moved on to managing a European health federation in the area of rare diseases. With regards to publishing, he currently works on various projects on patient and consumer safety. Arndt collects young contemporary art systematically since 2004. Conceptual photography constitutes one aspect of the collection with works from artists such as Sven Johne and Adrian Sauer, more recent acquisitions are from Viktoria Binschtok Tobias and Lawrence Abu Hamdan. A further focus rests on North American artists such as Matt Saunders and Dasha Shishkin. In recent years Tobias interest moved onto Latin American art (e.g. Tatiana Blass, Carlos Motta, Rita Ponce de Leon, and Edgardo Aragon) and on Video Art with works from artists such as Julia Scher, Dias and Riedweg, Guilherme Peters, Paul Sétubal, Sayre Gomez or Adrian Balseca.

Last update: November 11th, 2019

Gabriella Torres-Ferrer lives and works in Barcelona and San Juan.

A multimedia artist and researcher. She has an architecture BA from the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico. Her work has been selected and featured nationally and internationally including the Occupy Museum’s 2017 participation at the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), El Museo del Barrio and online at The Wrong New Digital Art Biennale. In 2019 she participated in the Scaleability Project at A.I.R. cooperative feminist art collective (New York), This Synthetic Moment (The Replicant) at Phillip Martin gallery (Los Angeles), XYXX010101000 at Curro gallery (Mexico) and Stage of Maneuvers at Gianni Manhattan (Vienna). In 2012 she was a fellow in Beta Local (San Juan) and for 2020 she’s got the CERN’s (Genève) guest artists prize and also won the Akademie Schloss Solitude international Artist-in-Residence fellowship around the topic “Mutations” (Stuttgart).

Last update: November 11th, 2019