Katarina Pierre is the director of the Bildmuseet visual arts museum at Umeå University. Under her direction, the Bildmuseet has established itself as one of the key institutions in the field of international contemporary art. Katarina has been instrumental in developing the Bildmuseet's artistic profile, curating and coordinating a large number of collaborations which have resulted in critically acclaimed exhibitions in recent years, including: Grada Kilomba / A World of Illusions (2019); Ângela Ferreira / Pan African Unity Mural (2018); Animalesque / Art Across Species and Beings (2019); John Akomfrah / Purple (2018); Eco Visionaries (2018); Do Ho Suh / Passages (2017); Ana Mendieta(2017); Jumana Emil Abboud (2017); Perpetual Uncertainty / Contemporary Art in the Nuclear Anthropocene (2016).

Manuel Fontán del Junco is Museums and Exhibitions Director at the Fundación Juan March in Madrid. A PhD in Philosophy, he has written on aesthetics, art theory and artists and several curatorial subjects and translated works of Boris Groys, Peter Sloterdijk, Martin Heidegger, Franz Marc and Paul Klee, among others. Since 2006 he has organized and in many cases curated or co-curated more than seventy exhibitions, among them The Abstraction of Landscape. From Northern Romanticism to Abstract Expressionism (2007);Aleksandr Deineka. An Avantgarde for the Proletariat (2011); Listening with the Eyes: Sound Art in Spain, 1961–2016 (2016); The Play of Art. Education, Art and Design (2019) and Genealogies of Art, or: the History of Art as Visual Art (2019-2020).

Maria Vlachou is a Cultural Management and Communications consultant. Founding member and Executive Director of Acesso Cultura, promoting access – physical, social, intellectual – to cultural participation. Author of the bilingual blog Musing on Culture, where she writes about culture, the arts, museums, cultural management and communication, access. She is the manager of the Facebook group ‘Museum texts / Textos em museus’ and co-manager of the blog Museums and Migration. In the past, she was Communications Director of São Luiz Municipal Theatre and Head of Communication of Pavilion of Knowledge – Ciência Viva (Lisbon). Board member of ICOM Portugal (2005-2014) and editor of its bulletin. She has collaborated with different programmes of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Fellow of ISPA – International Society for the Performing Arts (2018, 2020); Alumna of the DeVos Institute of Arts Management at the Kennedy Center in Washington (2011-2013); she has a M.A. in Museum Studies (University College London, 1994) and a B.A. in History and Archaeology (University of Ioannina, Greece, 1992).

Penelope Curtis is currently the director of the MCG, and  was previously the Director of Tate Britain. She is especially known for her work on modern sculpture, and has worked with many contemporary artists and written texts for them. She has curated a wide range of exhibitions, notably of a transhistorical nature, oversaw the rehang of Tate Britain in 2013,  and gave the Mellon Lectures in the National Gallery and at Yale in 2015. She is the author of three monographs, published by Oxford (1999), Getty (2008) and Yale (2017).