Gabriel Abrantes’ films have premiered at Cannes, the Berlinale, Locarno Film Festival, the Venice Biennial, and the Toronto International Film Festival. They have been distinguished with a number of awards, including the Grand Prix at the Semaine de la Critique, the EFA prize at Berlinale, the Pardino d’Oro at Locarno Film Festival, and the EDP Young Artist Award. His work has been exhibited at the Whitechapel Gallery and Tate Modern (London), the Palais de Tokyo (Paris), the MIT List Visual Arts Center (Boston), Kunst Werke (Berlin) and Serralves Museum (Porto). He participated in the 32nd São Paulo Biennial, the 2016 Bienal Tropical, and the 2014 Bienal d’Image Mouvement. His work has been shown in retrospective screening series at the Lincoln Center (New York) and BAFICI (Buenos Aires).

Leonardo Bigazzi is curator at Fondazione In Between Art Film for which he co-curated the exhibitions “Penumbra” and “Nebula” on the occasion of the Venice Biennale in 2022 and 2024. He is also the curator of Lo schermo dell’arte – Contemporary Art and Cinema Festival, Florence (2008–); founder and curator of VISIO – European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images (2012–); and was founder and codirector of Feature Expanded (2015–18). For the festival he was also responsible for projects with artists Rosa Barba, Omer Fast, Hassan Khan, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Hito Steyerl. He curated exhibitions and film programs at Paul Klee Zentrum, Bern; Museu Tàpies, Barcelona; MAXXI Museum, Rome; and Palazzo Strozzi, Florence; among others. He commissioned and/or produced over thirty artist’s films that were presented at Tate, London; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Biennale Arte, Venice; and Manifesta 14, among others. “Machine Boys” by Karimah Ashadu, that he produced, was awarded the Silver Lion for a Promising Young Artist at the Biennale Arte in Venice in 2024.

Hilde Teerlinck is CEO/Artistic Director of the Han Nefkens Foundation. From 1994 to 1999 she was coordinator of the Mies van der Rohe in Barcelona where she invited renowned artists such as Jeff Wall, Panamarenko, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Thomas Ruff to create site-specific interventions. Not much later, she moved to Perpignan, where she founded an art center linked to the École de Beaux-arts. In 2002, she was appointed director of the Center Rhénan d’Art Contemporain (CRAC Alsace) in Altkirch and from 2006 to 2014 she was the director of the FRAC (Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain) Nord-Pas-de-Calais where she developed a new building with the architects Lacaton & Vassal. She has curated a large number of exhibitions worldwide and was part of the curatorial teams for the Beaufort Biennial 2016, Palais de Tokyo at the Lyon Biennale 2015, Triennale Kortrijk 2018-2024  amongst others. Recently, she was curator for the Belgian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale with Francis Alÿs in 2022. She is an advisor and board member for several international museums and foundations.

Anna Lena Vaney is a producer and artistic director. For over 25 years, she has realized projects with artists outside traditional exhibition spaces. She produced Penelope by Jorge Pardo, an exhibition without a space. Long time collaborator of Philippe Parreno and Pierre Huyghe, she produced the series No Ghost Just A Shell, in which she was also invited to participate. Her contribution, Asleep in The Deep was exhibited at Tate Modern and Van Abbemuseum. She collaborated on the creation of Café Etienne Marcel in Paris with Huyghe, Parreno, and M/M Paris, and she developed a series, The Sun is Gone, but We’ve Got A Light where she invited artists to imagine mutant objects. She has produced numerous audiovisual works such as Zidane, A 21st Century Portrait by Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno as well as many films by Pierre Huyghe and Sophia Al Maria amongst many others. Over the years, she has also compiled and directed a series of art archives. In 2022, she co-created The Vega Foundation with Elisa Nuyten, serving as its Artistic Director for the first year. She is now focusing on feature length films and is the artistic director of The Feral.

Filipa Ramos, PhD, is Lecturer at the Arts Institute of the HGK/FHNW, Basel. Her research focuses on how contemporary art engages with nature and ecology. Ramos has been curator of the Art Basel Film sector (2020-24) and co-founded the online artists’ cinema Vdrome). Current projects include BESTIARI, the Catalan representation at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2024) and the festival The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish (since 2018, with Lucia Pietroiusti). In 2024, she curated Songs for the Changing Seasons, 1. Klima Biennale Wien and in 2022, Persons Personen, 8th Biennale Gherdëina (both w/ Lucia Pietroiusti). In 2021, she co-curated Bodies of Water, the 13th Shanghai Biennale.