Lavinia Filippi is an art historian, curator and contributor currently based in London, from where she co-directs the international platform Translocalia and she works on special projects and publications at Belmacz. In 2018 she curated the solo exhibitions Estée Lauder seriesby Michela de Mattei and The house on the lakeby Franko B at the Italian Cultural Institute in London, in 2016 she co-curated PROJECT_16in the urban contexts of Lahore, Sāo Paulo and London and in 2015 INTERSTITIAL ZONEat The Showroom and Matt’s Gallery, London. Before, she lived in Pakistan where she is Associate Professor at the National College of Arts in Lahore. In 2014 she curated the exhibitions I.Dfor the Islamabad Literature Festival and co-curated Still of Peace and everyday livesat the Museo Capitolare, Atri, Italy. From 2010 to 2013 she founded and directed the project  castellodirivoli.tv for Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, in Turin, Italy. From 2007 to 2012, Lavinia Filippi also contributed as correspondent and author to television shows on art and culture for the Italian national channel RAI. Since 2004, she has been writing for magazines including Flash Art, ARTEiN, Artribune, Muftah and ArtNow Pakistan. She holds a MA in Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art, an MA in Art History from the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ and a BA in Social Sciences from the University of Ottawa.

Yunnia Yang is a curator, art historian and art critic based in Taipei, Taiwan. In 1997 she received a MA in Art History from the St. Petersburg State University in Russia, and in 2009 she completed her PhD in Arts from National Taiwan Normal University with a thesis on the paranoic criticism of Salvador Dalì, with which she was awarded a S-An Aesthetics Award in 2010. Since 2011, she runs the long-term curatorial research on ‘ The Postmodern Condition in the contemporary art of Russia and Eastern Europe’. Among her most representative curatorial projects are: “ The Apocalyptic Sensibility: The New Media Art from Taiwan” (WRO Media Art Biennale 2013, Taipei Fine Art Museum in 2015), “Imagining Crisis” (MOCA Taipei in 2014, the contemporary art centers in Poland, Serbia, Bulgaria, Colombia and 34th Asolo Art Film Festival during 2014-2015) and “ TAIWAN VIDEA: the Taiwanese Avant-garde Video Exhibition” ( 2015 Asolo Art Film Festival). In 2016, she was invited by Asolo Art Film Festival Committee to present “Eco as a verb” and another video project, “TAIWAN VIDEA2.0:Cultural Encounter”. In May 2017, Yunnia was incited to present these two projects in the official program of the St. Petersburg Museum Night 2017. In 2017, her curatorial project “TAIWAN VIDEA 2017 Selection” has been touring internationally in Macedonia ( The Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje), Croatia (Galerija AŽ in Zagreb), Slovenia ( SCCA-Ljubljana), Germany (Rosalux in Berlin), and Italy (36th Asolo Art Film Festival). In 2017, Yunnia was also guest curator at the Yo-Chang Art Museum in National Taiwan University of Arts. Her latest curatorial project is The Eastern Europe/Russia Video Research “The In-Between State of Mind” commissed by 36th Asolo Art Film Festival in 2018 for the special program of BRICS ART. Dr. Yunnia Yang is currently Adjunct Associate Professor of the Department of Sculpture at the National Taiwan University of Arts.

Coordinator for Culture and Exhibitions department of CASA ASIA(Barcelona, Spain, since 2008 to the present); Chief Coordinator of the AFFBCN | Asian Film Festival Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain, since 2014 to the present); Director of the MXaBCN | International Festival of Mexico in Barcelona(Barcelona, Spain, 2015); Director of the Fiesta para el Mezquital Festival(Itinerant Festival in various small
villages of Valle del Mezquital, Hidalgo, Mexico,since 2007 to 2014).

Master in Curating, Cultural Management and New Media (MECAD | Media Center d’Art i Disenny, Barcelona), and Master in Architecture, Art and Ephemeral Spaces (UPC | Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya).

Dr Sylwia Serafinowicz is a Curator at a/political, a London-based non-profit organisation supporting politically and socially-engaged artists, and a regular contributor to Artforum magazine. She curated numerous exhibitions, including Shikeith: This Was His Body/ His Body Finally His (2017), Ewa Axelrad: Shtamah (2017), Wild at Heart (2018), Labor Relations (2016), Punxdefektuozoz: Dr Lakra and Laureana Toledo (2015). Prior to a/political, she collaborated with the festival Art Night 2017, The Institute of Contemporary Arts and The Whitechapel Gallery in London, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and was a Collections Curator at the Wroclaw Contemporary Museum (2014 – 2017) in Poland.
She received her PhD in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London in 2015 and an MA in History of Art from the University of Warsaw in 2009. She is a member of the AICA UK.

Daniela Arriado is a Chilean-Norwegian Curator and Producer. She is the founder and the Director of the Art Republic platform, commissioning contemporary moving image, and the artistic director of Screen City Biennial, dedicated to the expanded moving image in public space. Her curatorial research deals with current social, political, and ecological issues, and explore the relation between image, sound and architecture – often seeking to expand the borders of the cinematic experience.

Arriado also works as an advisor for artist studios, organizations and collectors with a focus on contemporary moving image. She holds an MA in Curatorial Studies from the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen. Since 2021, she is a board member of IKT – International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art, and a member of The Norwegian Association of Curators. Based between Berlin and Oslo www.artrepublic.no

Last update: November 11th, 2022

Bart Dekker is a keen collector of Contemporary Asian art since the early 1990’s, initially with a focus on Contemporary Art from China, Hong Kong and Japan. In 2007 he founded  artinasia.com , which was one of the first comprehensive online directories of Asian artists, galleries, events, and institutions. Lately his art collecting has concentrated on Video and Photography, as well as flea market paintings and vintage prints. He’s a regular speaker on art collecting. Bart came to Asia in 1991 and now spends most of his time in Hong Kong and Taipei.

Patricia Carrasco is a serial art entrepreneur who has been working in the contemporary art for more than 10 years.
After several years working in various art galleries, she opened in 2011 her own space, La Galeria Encantada, a new type of space in Barcelona, with less than 10m2 and outside the galleries circuit. In 3 years hosted more than 30 exhibitions, performances and activities.
In 2018 she opened, together with Espai Tactel Valencia and Toormix a new space in Barcelona. She is also interested in independent art projects and she has been working as communication manager in Halfhouse and Loveandart, both independent spaces based in Barcelon and in London.

Mario Gutiérrez Cru graduated in Fine Arts University UPV (Spain), artist, curator and creative. 

Last update: November 23rd, 2023