Pierre Bismuth is a contemporary artist, who lives and works in London and Brussels. Through efficient and often humorous gestures, Bismuth interrupts pre-established codes of reading the images and objects that pervade daily life – from Hollywood films, headline stories in newspapers to magazine clippings from gentlemen’s magazines. In 2005 he won the Best Original Screenplay Academy Award along with Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman for ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’. Bismuth and Gondry extended their collaboration with the video installation ‘All Seeing Eye, the Easy Teenage Version’ (2005) which was shown at the International Film Festival in Rotterdam with the courtesy of Lisson Gallery (London) and Cosmic Gallery (Paris). His work has been widely exhibited in Europe, in galleries such as Team Gallery (New York), Jan Mot (Brussels), Bugada Cargnel (Paris) and Christine Konig (Vienna).

Bartomeu Marí is the Director of the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) and since August 2013 he is also the President of the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art (CIMAM). Between 1989 and 1993, he has been the Curator of Exhibitions at the Foundation pour l’Architecture in Brussels, and was appointed Curator of the IVAM-Centre Julio González in Valencia in 1994. From 1996 to 2002 he has been the Director of the Witte de With, Centre for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, and the coordinator of the Centro Internacional de Cultura Contemporánea in Donostia-San Sebastian from 2002 to 2004. In 2002 he co-curated the Taipei Biennal with Chia-chi Jason Wang, and in 2005 he was appointed curator of the Spanish Pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale. Between 2004 and 2008 he worked as Chief Curator at the MACBA.