Myriam Rubio studied Visual Arts at the University of Barcelona and the Winchester School of Arts, Southampton University, as well as the Theory of Art at the Institute of Aesthetics in Madrid. Since 2000, she has worked at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA) in the Department of Public Programs in the programming, production, and dissemination of projects related to public programs, exhibitions, cinema, and education. From 2011/2018 she has been the Academic Coordinator of four editions of the Independent Studies Program (PEI), under the direction of Xavier Antich, Paul B. Preciado and Marcelo Expósito, and Pablo Martínez. And since 2019, she is the curatorial coordinator of the Department Exhibitions and Collection, researching about the politics of Performance in the museum. She is also interested in the research in collaborative artistic processes in the underground Spanish art from 1988 to the early 90s.

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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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Collezione Taurisano is a private collection of contemporary art based in Naples. Started in the 70 by Paolo Taurisano, now is flourishing thanks to the passion of his son Francesco, together with his wife Sveva D’Antonio. The main focus of the collection now is on living artists who deal with thematics linked to our everyday society. There are no restrictions on medium but instead, when the relationship with the artist is fruitful there is an attention on the process of the making of an artwork. The collection now is composed of almost 400 pieces.

Francesco manages from the beginning with his father and his brother their family business, the leader in promoting and distributing Technical Industrial Articles in Italy and Europe. He shares with his father the passion for art since he was a little child and for this reason, he started to study Italian art from ’70 but not only. Thanks to a friendship with a Neapolitan gallerist he discovered and started to collect some of the artists from the transavanguardia movement, later on, he will be interested in European movements like Nouveau Realisme and the Nuclear movement. Art pushes him to travel a lot, another great passion, and to meet the woman that he will marry Sveva. Graduated in History of Art at Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples in 2013 with a thesis on how certain types of movies can be transformed in artworks and enter the museum space.

Sveva D’Antonio after various internships in contemporary art galleries in Naples and in Brussels started to work at Laveronica Arte Contemporanea initially as an assistant and in 2016 she has become a partner. The gallery focused its research on the human condition through politically and socially oriented art. The program itself through the artists’ projects creates a strong link with the local community and it gives the gallery the possibility to exit from the white cube entering the public space actively.

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Itziar Barrio is a multimedia artist who produces long-term projects, involving different agents and collaborators. In her work, she analyzes social contracts and the construction of realities and identities. The means of production and exchange used in social negotiations – language, economy, technology, social class, symbols, desire, among others – come to light in her work as a subtext, and they point at to what unites them: power. The fine line between fiction and non-fiction, as well as the mechanism for constructing realities,  are also elements present in her practice.

Barrio uses various media such as video, performance, sculpture or graphics to create non-linear narratives based on elements, symptoms and deconstructed signs of contemporary mythologies; the language of popular culture, cinema, and mass media among others. In his work the text navigates through multiple platforms and textures, meaning post-structural explanations of the performativity and bodies in the work.

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Antje Ehmann is a curator, author, and artist

Curatorial projects (selection):
Harun Farocki: Who is in Charge? (with Heloisa Espada), Instituto
Moreira Salles, Rio de Janeiro, IMS Sao Paulo, Brazil 2018 | Harun
Farocki. What ought to be done. Life and work, (with Eunhee Kim),
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South-Korea,
2018 | Harun Farocki Retrospective (with Marius Babias), Berlin 2017 |
By other Means (with Carles Guerra), NBK, Berlin 2017 | Harun Farocki.
Empathy (with Carles Guerra), Fundació Antoni Tapies, Barcelona 2016
| Harun Farocki. What is at Stake (with Carles Guerra), Institut Valencia
d’Art Modern | Harun Farocki. 4 films from 1967-1997, Angels Gallery
Barcelona 2014

Artistic projects (selection): How shall I name what I am missing? (with
Jan Ralske), Forum Expanded 2015 | Labour in a Single Shot. A Project
together with Harun Farocki, 2011 – 2014, with Eva Stotz, since 2017 |
War Tropes, (with Harun Farocki), Gorki Theater, Berlin 2011 | Feasting
or Flying (with Harun Farocki), Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana 2009
Publications (selection):
Harun Farocki, What Ought to be Done? Work and Life (with Eunhee
Kim), Seoul 2018 | Harun Farocki, 10, 20, 30, 40. Fragment einer
Autobiographie (with Marius Babias), Berlin 2017 | Harun Farocki,
Another Kind of Empathy (with Carles Guerra), Cologne 2016 | Serious
Games. War – Media – Art (with Ralf Beil), Ostfildern 2011

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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.

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