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

Tom van Vliet initiated in 1982 the renowned World Wide Video Festival and directed the festival until 2004. From 1984 till 1996 he was also director of the Kijkhuis, center of contemporary art. He curated exhibitions by Tony Oursler, Nan Hoover, Madelon Hooykaas & Elsa Stansfield, Nam June Paik, Keith Piper, Klaus vom Bruch, Gary Hill, Marie-Jo Lafontaine, Walid Ra’ad, Darya von Berner and the exhibition Double Vision on the aesthetic and conceptual aspects of the multiple image. He commissioned and produced several video installations by, among others, Nalini Malani, Michal Rovner and Eder Santos and curated exhibitions for the Stedelijk Museum, Reina Sofia Museum, Biennale of Fukui, Paisagem de Luz and Pusan Biennial. Tom van Vliet initiated a 360 degree moving image panorama and has commissioned works to various artists. He also curated a series of outdoor projections and mapping among others with Pipilotti Rist, General Idea, and Pablo Valbuena. Currently Tom van Vliet is curating a series of exhibitions for the Museum of Contempory Art in Chongqing, China.

Last update: 16th November, 2020

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Lucia Papčová graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 2013. During her doctoral studies at Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava she was a visiting student researcher at Central Saint Martins in London. She participated at exhibitions in Europe and USA, including Kunstlerhaus Klagenfurt, Sudek Atelier in Prague, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Essl Museum in Klosteneuburg, Christian Duvernois Gallery in New York City. She was awarded CEE Calling AIR in Klagenfurt, Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, AIR at Residency Unlimited in NY, AIR Krems and Essl Award CEE VIG. Her artwork is included in Albertina Museum Collection, Nitra Gallery and in private collections in Slovakia, Germany, Portugal and USA.

Last update: 4th November, 2020

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

Ester Partegàs was born in La Garriga, Barcelona, Spain, in 1972. Lives and works in New York, US. Her most important solo exhibitions include: ´Poems for Supermarkets´, REMA1000 Supermarket, Copenhague (2016); ´Window´, FOUR AM, Lower East Side, New York (2016); ´The Source’, Public Sculpture for Percent For Art, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Commission, New York, US (2015); ‘The Restless Gardens. Curating the Collection’, Centre d’Art La Panera, Lleida, Spain (2015); ‘Samesation’, Domus Artium 2, Salamanca, Spain (2013), ‘Tale of Two Gardens’, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, US (2012). She has also taken part in group shows as: ´No todo es color´, Sala la Pasión, Valladolid, Spain (2018); ‘Art in the Open. Fifty Years of Public Art in New York City’, Museum of the city of New York, New York, US (2017); ‘Matèria Primera’, Fabra i Coats, Barcelona, Spain (2017); ‘Gut feelings’, Zuckerman Museum of Art Galleries, Kennesaw University, Georgia, US (2017); ‘Una Mirada abierta. Colección Coca-Cola’, La conservera, Murcia, Spain (2016); ‘El desarreglo. El curioso caso del arte despeinado. Colección Artium’, Artium, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain (2015); ‘In __ We Trust: Art and Money’, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbia, US (2015); ‘Los jardines inquietos’, Centre d’Art la Panera, Lleida, Spain (2015); ‘Especies de Espacio’, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain (2015); ‘Branched. Trees in Contemporary Art’, Museum Sinclair Haus / Altana Kultur Stiftung, Bad Homburg, Germany (2014).

Last Update: October, 2020

Milan/Berlin/Baku-based curator and museum specialist experienced working with leading cultural institutions in Europe and USA on cultural diplomacy, education and exhibition projects (V&A Museum, UK; GWU Textile Museum and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA; Islamic Art Museum of Berlin, Germany; Pinacoteca di Brera, Italy; National Academy of Sciences, Italy; UNESCO, Goethe Institut, etc.). Founder of Ta(r)dino 6 Art Platform that promotes contemporary art from Azerbaijan and beyond. With a gallery in the historic old city of Icheri Sheher, and a vintage flat near the urban core of Baku’s downtown, the platform fills in the niche in providing art professionals the opportunity to explore their ideas in depth. Programs to date include commissioned site-specific artworks, artist talks, professional coaching and workshops by local and international artists and curators to help grow Baku’s emerging art community and to support the discourse on Azerbaijani contemporary art.

Last update: November 11th, 2019

Art historian and curator. He is currently the curator of Fundación Casa Wabi and a contributing researcher and writer for Colección Isabel y Agustín Coppel.

He holds a MA in art history from The Courtauld Institute of Art, London (2014) and a BA in art history and french literature from Macalester College, Minneapolis (2011).

As curator of Fundación Casa Wabi, he has worked on individual exhibitions by Daniel Buren, Michel François, Harold Ancart, Jannis Kounellis, Ugo Rondinone and Izumi Kato; developed the residencies program in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca and Tokyo welcoming over three hundred art professionals from all over the world to work in a community project, and promoted emerging Mexican artists through its exhibition platform in Mexico City. Previously, he held positions at the curatorial teams of the Museo Tamayo (2011-2013) in Mexico, the Minneapolis Institute of Art (2011) in the USA and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection (2010) in Venice.

As an independent curator, he has focused his research on the analysis of the recent sculptural production practices in the region, working on the development of sustainable projects for the exhibition and study of emerging artists and independent spaces.