Elvira Dyangani Ose is Director of the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona. Previously, she was Director of The Showroom, London. She is affiliated to the Thought Council at the Fondazione Prada. She has previously been Curator of the Göteborg International Biennial of Contemporary Art; Curator of International Art at Tate Modern, London; Artistic Director of Rencontres Picha – Lubumbashi Biennial, Democratic Republic of the Congo; Curator of Contemporary Art at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Seville; Senior Curator at Creative Time in New York; and Curator of Contemporary Art at the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM) in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria. She recently joined Tate Modern Advisory Council. Her curatorial projects are of a multidisciplinary nature aimed at observing the telling of history as a collective experience, intervention in public space, and the recovery of non-Western narratives and epistemologies, including Carrie Maes Weems: A Great Turn in the Possible (2022), A Story Within A Story… (2015), Ibrahim El-Salahi: A Visionary Modernist (2013), Across the Board (2012–2014), Carrie Mae Weems: Social Studies (2010), Arte Invisible (2009, 2010), and Olvida Quien Soy/Erase Me From Who I Am (2006). 

Haro Cumbusyan, currently based in Zurich, is a social entrepreneur and a collector of media art. He is the Founding Director of collectorspace, a nonprofit organisation that through its exhibition program, off-site events, and publications, aims to open up private collections to public view as well as to critical review. Haro is also the founder of EK BİÇ YE İÇ (Sow’n Mow, Eat’n Drink), a social enterprise with the mission of exploring options for a healthy, pleasant, and sustainable life in big cities. Haro serves on the Board of Directors of Protocinema, New York/Istanbul; and is a former Board Member of Studio Voltaire, London; is a member of New York MoMA’s Acquisition Committee of Media and Performance Art; and sits on the Selection Committee of LOOP Barcelona.

Last update 11th October, 2018

Julia Paoli is a curator and institutional leader based in Toronto. In February 2023 she was appointed Director & Curator of The Vega Foundation, providing critical support for artists’ film and video through meaningful investments in the production of ambitious new work and the stewardship of a growing collection. She has worked with artists including Ali Cherri; Aria Dean; Alia Farid; Danielle Dean; Lap-See Lam and has forthcoming commissions with Basma Al Sharif; Lucy Raven; Sharon Lockhart; and Stephanie Comilang. Prior to her tenure at Vega, Julia was Director & Curator of Mercer Union, a centre for contemporary art (2017-2023), where she organized exhibitions with artists Bambitchell; Beatrice Gibson; Erdem Tasdelen; Lawrence Abu Hamdan; Lydia Ourahmane; Onyeka Igwe; Native Art Department International and others. While there, she curated numerous projects in collaboration with organizations such as Bergen Kunsthall; Camden Art Centre, London; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Sculpture Center, New York; and Spike Island, Bristol. Julia was previously Associate Curator at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery (2012-2017) and holds a Master’s of Art from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York. 

Vassilis Oikonomopoulos is Director of Exhibitions and Programs with LUMA Arles. His work focuses on the conceptualization and implementation of the institution’s program of exhibitions in close collaboration with its President Maja Hoffmann and leading Artistic Consultants, Tom Eccles, and Hans-Ulrich Obrist. Vassilis Oikonomopoulos has realized a number of key commissions and exhibitions that were part of the opening program for LUMA. In 2021, working with artists such as Liam Gillick, Philippe Parreno, Carsten Höller, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Pierre Huyghe among many others. Prior to joining LUMA, Vassilis Oikonomopoulos worked in other International institutions. He has been Assistant Curator, Collections International Art at Tate Modern where he worked with Tate’s Middle East and North Africa Acquisitions Committee. During his tenure at Tate, he co-curated a number of exhibitions and commissions and worked on Tate’s collection displays. He has also held curatorial positions at Atopos Contemporary Visual Culture (Athens) and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA/AMO, Rotterdam).

Sinazo Chiya is a writer and director at Stevenson, based in Cape Town. She is among the 2019 writing fellows at the Institute of Creative Arts at the University of Cape Town, lecturing as part of the university’s Summer School program from 2023. Chiya has contributed chapters to Restless Infections: Public Art and a Transforming City, forthcoming from Wits University Press and Your History With Me: The Films of Penny Siopis, published by Duke University Press in 2024. She is the editor of Mawande Ka Zenzile’s monograph, Uhambo luyazilawula (2020) and published 9 More Weeks, a book of artist interviews in 2018. Alongside talks and participation in curatorial projects in South Africa and Nigeria, Chiya has written for arts publications including Contemporary And, Art Africa, Artthrob, Adjective and the Center for Curating the Archive.

Chus Martínez is head of the Institute Art Gender Nature at the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW. She is also an associate curator for TBA21 Academy, curator-at-large at the Vuslat Foundation, and Artistic Director of the 36th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts (2025). Martínez lectures and writes regularly, including numerous catalogue texts and critical essays, and is a regular contributor to Artforum among other international journals. Recent publications include Coding Care: Towards a Technology for Nature (2022) and Like This: Natural Intelligence as Seen by Art (2022). Martínez has curated numerous exhibitions globally and continues to play a key role in shaping contemporary art discourse through her projects and writing.