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.

Last update: November 11th, 2019

Ane Rodríguez Armendariz has worked in the field of cultural management in different Spanish institutions in the last 15 years. She was the cultural director of Tabakalera from 2012 to 2019. During this time, she led the configuration of the opening of the center and the implementation of the cultural project that included a programme based in contemporary art and visual cultures, with exhibitions, residencies, public programmes, mediation, and a cinema programme, amongst others. Throughout those years she worked with artists such as Maryam Jafri, Yto Barrada, Eric Baudelaire, Itziar Okariz, Adrià Julià, Jumana Manna, Uriel Orlow and Filipa César among others, working in a network with different international partners and paying special attention to educational programmes and the configuration of the institutions as a space of learning and community building.

Her experience in Spanish art institutions includes the contemporary art fair in Madrid, ARCO (2006-2010), where she was in charge of curated programmes and international galleries; MUSAC, the contemporary art museum of Castilla y León, where she was general coordinator and management assistant (2010-2011), and Matadero Madrid, as part of the programming team (2011-2012).

Trained as a journalist, she soon joined artistic management after her experience in London in several galleries and after having studied several postgraduate degrees in film and art. Back in Spain in 2004, she was part of the Manifesta 5 biennial team in San Sebastian. She has also collaborated in the San Sebastian Film Festival in several editions.

She is currently pursuing a postgraduate programme at Goldsmiths College in London.

Last update: November 11th, 2019

Hélène Mariéthoz holds a degree in philosophy and literature from the University of Lausanne and is a cultural journalist. She was in charge of Lancy’s cultural department from 2000 to 2017. She is developing an exhibition programme at the Villa Bernasconi Art Centre focusing on contemporary art and illustration and exploring the links between performing and contemporary art through partnerships with several festivals. As an independent curator, she is in charge of the co-programming of the Food Culture Days (Vevey) and coordinates public art projects in collaboration with public, associative or private institutions.

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Sören Meschede is a cultural manager, curator, and producer based in Madrid. In recent years he has focused his attention mainly on the field of collaborative and participatory artistic practices; projects that seek to fuse visual and performative arts; and in the conception and development of artist residencies. Since August 2018, Sören is working as coordinator of Concomitentes. This newly funded platform helps groups of citizens to commission the work of art that they consider essential for their context.

Up to July 2018, Sören was the Coordinator of hablarenarte, one of the pioneering independent institutions in Spain, where he developed social and cultural programmes, on a national as well on an international level, for example as a partner of the CAPP Network as well as the founder of the Curators’ Network.

Photo credit: Joseph Carr

Last update: November 11th, 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

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