Visitors 2024

Liz Park is the Richard Armstrong Curator of Contemporary Art at Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA, where she is currently working on the reinstallation of the museum’s collection and organizing the 59th Carnegie International in 2026 with co-curators Ryan Inouye and Danielle Jackson. She was most recently curator of exhibitions at the University at Buffalo Art Galleries, State University of New York, and was associate curator of the 2018 Carnegie International. She was the Helena Rubinstein Fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program (2011–2012) and the Whitney-Lauder Curatorial Fellow at ICA Philadelphia (2013–2015). She received her BFA in visual art and MA in curatorial studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

Dagmara Wyskiel graduated in Industrial Design and did her doctorate at the Faculty of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. She has been living in Chile since 2001. Co-founder and artistic director of the SACO Contemporary Art International Biennial. She realised large-scale actions in the Valley of Meteorites in the Atacama Desert, at the ALMA astronomical observatory, on the shores of Lake Amargo in the Strait of Magellan and Chilean Antarctica region, in the Kazimierz district of Krakow and in the port of Valparaiso. She has made several interventions on salt lakes in the Argentine Andes; in public spaces in Manizales, Medellín and Bogotá, Colombia; on the steps of the presidential palace of La Paz, Bolivia; in London and Hastings, England; in Antofagasta, Coliumo and Castro, Chile. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions at the National Museum of Bolivia, the Center for Contemporary Art in Montevideo, Uruguay, twice at the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago de Chile, as well as in the United States, Spain, Poland and in group exhibitions in China, Mexico, Russia, Indonesia and Argentina and her films have been awarded at many festivals. She is the winner of the Grand Prize at the 17th Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh, 2016.

Mia Locks is an independent curator and Executive Director of Museums Moving Forward, a research organization devoted to envisioning and creating a more just museum sector by 2030. She was previously a curator at MoMA PS1, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), where she organized exhibitions including the 2017 Whitney Biennial and Greater New York 2015. She also organized solo exhibitions with artists including Math Bass, Samara Golden, and Ulrike Müller.

Her current projects include an exhibition of works by Cauleen Smith,The Deep West Assembly, at Astrup Fearnley Museet in Oslo, and an exhibition of works by Miranda July, New Society, at the Fondazione Prada, in Milan.

Dr Cliff Lauson is currently Director of Exhibitions at Somerset House, London overseeing the exhibitions and commissions programme. He has personally curated commissions by international artists such as Jitish Kallat, Zheng Bo, Amba Sayal-Bennet and Theresa Weber. Until 2022, Cliff was Senior Curator at the Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, having organised major exhibitions of work by Matthew Barney, Bridget Riley, Martin Creed, Ernesto Neto, Tracey Emin, and David Shrigley as well as the critically-acclaimed group exhibitions Strange Clay, Light Show and Space Shifters. Independently, he recently curated Rana Begum: Dappled Light at Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, which toured internationally. Cliff has held previous positions at Tate Modern and at the UBC Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver. He currently serves on the steering group for the Artfund Curatorial Diversity Programme, is a former trustee of Film and Video Umbrella, and a fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts.

Laura Raicovich is a New York City-based writer and curator. Her recent book, Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest, was published in 2021 by Verso Books. She is also editor and curator of Protodispatch, a digital publication featuring artists’ takes on the local and global conditions that make their work necessary; she initiated the forum with Mari Spirito and Protocinema in 2022. With a collective of artists, musicians, and culture workers, Raicovich opened The Francis Kite Club, a bar/cultural/activist space in NYC’s East Village in 2023. Prior to these projects, Raicovich served as Director of the Queens Museum and Interim Director of the Leslie Lohman Museum of Art; she was a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow at the Bellagio Center, and the Tremaine Curatorial Fellow for Journalism at Hyperallergic.