2006

Member of the Istanbul Biennial permanent team

Ceren Erdem graduated from the Industrial Design Department of the Faculty of Architecture at Istanbul Technical University in 2002 and completed her M.F.A. degree in Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design at the Sabanci University, Istanbul, in 2004. She started working in the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts as the assistant of Lucia Koch in the 8^th International Istanbul Biennial, Poetic Justice, curated by Dan Cameron in 2003. Since the 9^th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, curated by Charles Esche and Vasif Kortun in 2005, Ceren Erdem works as the exhibition manager responsible for the artists' projects as a member of the Istanbul Biennial permanent team.

Adam Szymczyk is Artistic Director of Documenta 14. He was a co-founder of the Foksal Gallery Foundation in Warsaw, at which he worked as a Curator from 1997 till 2003, when he assumed his new post as Director at Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland. In Basel, he organised exhibitions including 'Piotr Uklanski: Earth, Wind and Fire' (2004); 'Tomma Abts' (2005); 'Gustav Metzger: In Memoriam' and 'Lee Lozano: Win First Don't Last Win Last Don't Care' (both 2006); 'Micol Assaël: Chizhevsky Lessons' (2007); 'Danh Vo: Where the Lions Are' (2009); 'Moyra Davey: Speaker Receiver' (2010); 'Sung Hwan Kim: Line Wall' (2011); 'Paul Sietsema and Adriana Lara: S.S.O.R.' (both 2012), as well as group shows including 'Strange Comfort (Afforded by the Profession)' (with Salvatore Lacagnina, 2010), 'How to Work/How to Work (More for) Less' (both in 2011); 'Michel Auder: Stories, Myths, Ironies, and Other Songs: Conceived, Directed, Edited, and Produced by M. Auder' (2013) and 'Naeem Mohaiemen: Prisoners of Shothik Itihash' (2014).

In 2008 he co-curated with Elena Filipovic the 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art under the title 'When Things Cast No Shadow' and in 2012 he curated 'Olinka, or Where Movement Is Created' at Museo Tamayo in Mexico City. He is a Member of the Board of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. In 2011, he was a recipient of the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement at the Menil Foundation in Houston.

Szymczyk's visit in August 2016 coincides with the presentation of Documenta 14's journal South in Kárášjohka, Sápmi (Karasjok, Norway), allowing the Documenta 14 team to encounter current artistic practices and conduct research regarding recent history and developments within communities in Sápmi and northern Norway.

Gerardo Mosquera is a freelance curator and an art critic. He has worked as Adjunct Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, advisor at the Rijksakademie van Beeldenden Kunsten, Amsterdam, and he has been a member of the advisory board of several art journals. He was a founder of the Havana Biennial and has curated many exhibitions, including the international urban art event MultipleCity. ArtPanama 2003, Panorama da Arte Brasileira Contemporanea/ (Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Recife, Vigo, 2003-2004), It's Not What You See. Perverting Minimalism (Madrid, 2000), Cildo Meireles (New York, 1999), Important & Exportant (2nd. Johannesburg Biennale, 1997), Ante America (Bogota, Caracas, New York, San Francisco, San Diego..., 1992-1994). Author of numerous books and texts on contemporary art and art theory, Mosquera co-edited Over Here. International Perspectives on Art and Culture (Cambridge, 2004), and edited Beyond the Fantastic: Contemporary Art Criticism from Latin America (London, 1995).

John Rasmussen is the founder and curator of Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, a non profit gallery committed to encouraging innovation and diversity in the visual arts. He has curated exhibitions in the gallery's initial 5 years that have included artists such as Guyton/Walker, Aaron Young, Omer Fast, Michaela Meise, Rebecca Morris, Brice Dellsperger, Jorge Queiroz, Santiago Cucullu, Carter, and Jesper Just. Forthcoming Midway exhibitions and publications include Nate Lowman, Jay Heikes, Lisa Lapinski, and Todd Norsten.

Marilu Knode has organized over fifty one-person and thematic group shows with artists from around the globe. Artists with whom she has worked include: Pascale Marthine Tayou (Cameroon), Ghada Amer, Mona Marzouk (Egypt), Takehito Koganezawa (Japan), Surasi Kulsolwong (Thailand), Matts Leiderstam (Sweden), Gitte Villesen (Denmark), Monique Prieto, Sam Durant and Andrea Bowers (United States), among others. She is currently working on a project with Scandinavian artists; an exhibition on celebrity; a traveling show of new works by Pae White; and a group exhibition with artists from North Africa/Middle East with the Museum for African Art, New York. Her primary areas of research include the Middle East and the impact of non-Western art in broadening the boundaries of contemporary modernism. She has contributed to publications Nu, Art in America, Art Papers, Tema Celeste and Flash Art.

The Frac Burgundy is one of the 22 Fracs based in the 22 regions in which France is divided. Every Frac has the same three main missions: Informing, Collecting, Disseminating contemporary art. But not every Frac has of course, the same programme of exhibition or the same collection (or same acquisition policy), or the same field of interests. Since her appointment in 2003 to the Frac Burgundy, her artistic orientations have been articulated in particular around the questions related to the perception and the function of space. Architecture and town planning, private space and public space, legislation and personal freedom or the space exhibition room are in the heart of my concerns as attest the acquisitions of works (and exhibitions) by Jordi Colomer, Jonas Dahlberg, Gaylen Gerber, Lara Almarcegui, Ann Veronica Janssens, Koenraad Dedobbeleer, Guillaume Leblon, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Knut Åsdam or Peter Downsbrough.

These three curators are here to do research for the Ars Baltica Triennial of Photographic Art: Under the motto Don't Worry - Be Curious!, artists, curators, and academics from five western and five eastern European countries bordering the Baltic Sea will address the problems and fear resulting from upheavals in present-day society. The project comprises an exhibition to be shown in Kiel (DE), Tallinn (EE), Pori (FI) and other locations in the Baltic Sea region; an interdisciplinary conference, for which a collaboration with the Muthesius Hochschule in Kiel is planned; and an artist-in-residence program for which several artists will develop new works in the partner countries.

Hu Fang is the Artistic Director and co-founder of Vitamin Creative Space, a project and gallery space dedicated to contemporary art-exchange and to analysing and combining different forms of contemporary cultures. As a novelist and curator, Hu Fang has published the novels "Sense Trilogy". His curating and co-curating projects include Xu Tan: "Loose", 1996; "Perfect Journey", a presentation of the works of 8 photographers, architects and artists, 1995; Zheng Guogu: "My Home is Your Museum", 2005 and "Object System: Doing Nothing", 2004. His essays and art critics have since 1997 appeared in major Chinese art/literature and international art/culture magazines such as Domus, Yishu, Avant-Garde Today and Art World. Hu Fang graduated from the Chinese Literature Department of Wuhan University in 1992. He is currently working as coordinating editor of Documenta 12 magazines.

Sven-Olov Wallenstein teaches Philosophy at Södertörn University College and researches at the KTH School of Architecture at The Swedish Museum of Architecture, in Stockholm, Sweden. He is also the Editor in Chief of SITE. He has published numerous books, recent themes being aesthetic theory, contemporary painting, and modern architectural theory. Recent translations to Swedish include volumes by Immanuel Kant, Gilles Deleuze, Martin Heidegger, Giorgio Agamben, and G W F Hegel. Wallenstein comes to Norway to participate in the LIAF seminar - Lofoten International Art Festival, 17 June-30 July.

Peter Eleey is Curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he recently organized an exhibition surveying the visual art of the dancer and choreographer Trisha Brown. Prior to joining the Walker, he was Curator & Producer at Creative Time in New York, where he curated a wide range of multidisciplinary programs including exhibitions, projects and commissions with Mike Nelson, Cai Guo-Qiang, Jenny Holzer, William Forsythe, Doug Aitken, Jim Hodges, Shirazeh Houshiary and Haluk Akakçe, among others. He has also organized multi-artist projects and exhibitions for Creative Time such as The Dreamland Artist Club (2004 - 2005).

Tihomir Milovac is Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, where he currently directs the Experimental Research Department. As a curator and art critic, he has prepared many exhibitions and other visual arts projects both in Croatia and internationally, often researching contemporary phenomena in visual arts, in addition to the historical avant-garde. He has curated numerous exhibitions, among them Kasimir Malevich (Retrospectie), 1990; Ukrainian Avantgarde, 1910 - 1930, Zagreb, 1990/91; Jan Fabre: Passage, 1997/98; The Future is Now - Ukrainian Art in the Nineties, 1999 - 2000;The Baltic Times - Contemporary Art from Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, 2002; Misfits: Conceptual Strategies in Croatian Contemporary Art , 2002 System of Coordinate - Russian Art Today, 2004; and Insert - Retrospective of Croatian Video Art, Zagreb, 2005. He has curated several solo exhibitions with Croatian contemporary artists, including Sanja Ivekovć, Dalibor Martinis, Mladen Stilinović, Goran Petercol, Zlatko Kopljar, and Kristina Leko.

Director, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston

Terrie Sultan is the Director and Chief Curator of the Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston, Texas, a position she has held since June 2000. She has organized many exhibitions with accompanying catalogues featuring artists of international scope, including Terry Allan, Alain Bublex, Nancy Burson, Donald Lipski, Francisco Ruiz de Infante, James Surls, Jessica Stockholder, and Chuck Close. She has traveled extensively throughout the United States and abroad, and lectured and published numerous books and articles on issues related to contemporary visual art and culture. She was a member of the founding board of Etant donné, the French-American Endowment for Contemporary Art, and co-commissioner for the international exhibition at the Taijon South Korea International World exhibition. She was recently honored by the French Government with a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Prior to joining the Blaffer Gallery, Ms. Sultan was curator of contemporary art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, a position she held for 12 years. During that time, Ms. Sultan organized some 40 exhibitions and publications. She was born in Asheville, North Carolina, received her BFA in Painting at Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts, and her MA in Museum Studies at the John F. Kennedy University Center for Museum Studies in San Francisco.

Edi Muka studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Tirana. In 1995 he attended an international course on curatorial devices, organized by Soros Foundation in Kiev, Ukraine. He became an assistant professor at the AFA in Tirana, where he continues today as a guest professor at the Contemporary Art Atelier. In 1999 Muka was appointed Director of the International Center of Culture, Tirana, where he developed an active programme of visual art exhibitions, unconventional theatre performances, and music events. While at the ICC, he instituted its Gallery of Contemporary Art in 2000. In 1998 he curated Permanent Instability, the first international contemporary art show in Albania, which turned into an annual event, also curating the next two instalments, In & Out (2000) and Small Brother (2002). In 1999 he organized Albania Today, The Time of Ironic Optimism, the first Albanian contribution to the Venice Biennale. As one of the co-founders behind the Tirana Biennale, Edi Muka was the curator and general coordinator of Tirana Biennale 1 held in 2001 and Co-Director of the 2003 instalment. In 2005 he co-curated the Temptations exhibition as part of the biennale's third instalment. Muka continues to serve as Co-Director of the Tirana Biennale and is also currently a Curator at the National Gallery in Tirana in charge of the International Program. In addition, Muka has curated numerous exhibitions internationally in cities such as Milan, Berlin, Stockholm, Amsterdam, and Tel Aviv. Muka's writings on contemporary art have been published in various exhibition catalogues as well as in journals and magazines such as Perpjekja, PamorArt, FlashArt, Springerin, Camera Austria, and Manifesta Journal. At present, Muka is developing an exhibition for Apex Art in New York City.

Lívia Páldi has been curator at Mücsarnok/Kunsthalle, Budapest since Sept 2005. She was co-director of Institute of Contemporary Art Dunaújváros, Hungary, 1997-2000. After having taking part in the De Appel Curatorial Training Programme, Amsterdam (2000-2001), she started working as a freelance curator and critic, contributing regularily to various publications. She has curated, among other exhibitions, Modesty (with Gregor Podnar), Pavel Haus, Laafeld and Mala galerija/Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana, 2002-2003; green box, Trafo Gallery, Budapest, 2004; and Surfacing, Episode 1 of the Who if not we?? exhibition series, Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, 2004; and Second Present, Trafo Gallery, 2005. She was the editor of the exhibition catalogue Marjetica Potrc: Last Stop: Kiosk, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana and Revolver, Frankfurt, 2003; and was working as a collaborating editor in East Art Map, a project by Irwin, 2002-2005.

Jörg Heiser is co-editor of Frieze Magazine, London, and writes for Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich. Recent curated projects include Funky Lessons, Büro Friedrich, Berlin; and BAWAG Foundation, Vienna, 2004/2005. Heiser is currently preparing a travelling exhibition on Romantic Conceptualism, to be launced in Spring 2007. Recent catalogue and book contributions include essays on Susan Hiller (DAAD Berlin and Compton Verney UK, 2005), Gerwald Rockenschaub (Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna 2004), Chris Cunningham (kestnergesellschaft, Hanover 2004), Thomas Scheibitz (Venice Biennale 2005), and Tal R (CFA, 2005).

Martin Herbert is a writer and critic. He is a London correspondent for Artforum, and his writings on art have also appeared in magazines including Frieze, Art Monthly, Modern Painters and Flash Art.

Barbara London founded MoMA's video exhibition and collection programmes, and has guided them over a pioneering career. Her recent activity at MoMA includes 'Looking at Music 3.0', exploring the influence of music on contemporary art practices, focusing on New York in the 1980s and 90s; 'Mirage', an installation by Joan Jonas; 'Looking at Music: Side 2', featuring artists such as Patti Smith, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jenny Holzer and Blondie; 'Automatic Update', with installations by Cory Arcangel, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Paul Pfeiffer and Xu Bing. She was also responsible for 'Through the Weeping Glass' at the Mütter Museum, Philadelphia, USA and a series of web projects such as 'Stir-fry', China; 'InterNyet', Russia and 'dot.jp', Japan. She has also written and lectured widely.