2025

Kari Conte is a curator and writer focused on global contemporary art, ecological thinking, and feminist perspectives, based in New York and Turkey. She is Senior Advisor at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), where she was previously Director of Programs and Exhibitions for nearly a decade. She is also Adjunct Curator at City as Living Laboratory in New York and Residency Curator at Kai Art Center in Tallinn. Conte has curated over 40 exhibitions, collaborated with institutions across cities from Mumbai to Beirut, and has been involved in biennials, as an advisor for the Helsinki Biennial and as a guest curator for the Aichi Triennale and Performa Biennial. A former Fulbright Senior Research Scholar, she has held fellowships at Tokyo Arts and Space, the Getty Leadership Institute, and more. She teaches at Parsons School of Design and has written for Metropolis M, Mousse, Sternberg Press, and others. She previously worked at Whitechapel Gallery, and holds an M.A. in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art.

Karin Laansoo is Founding Director and board member of the Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center (ECADC) and co-founder and Artistic Director of Kai Art Center, a cultural landmark in Tallinn and one of the preeminent contemporary art institutions in the Baltics. With deep ties to both Estonia and New York, she has successfully fundraised for major projects and partnered on key biennials. She also founded the Estonian chapter of the internationally-renowned arts philanthropy platform Outset Contemporary Art Fund and is a published author and director. Laansoo has a substantial background in contemporary art leadership roles, with over 15 years of international experience through programming, fundraising, and curating for art institutions and nonprofits, as well as fostering collaborations, projects, and networks between the private and public sectors in both the US and Europe.

Fleur van Muiswinkel is director at Museum Hilversum since 2023. The museum is specialised in contemporary photography and situated in The Netherlands. The program is ranging from news, documentary photography to art photography. Before starting at Museum Hilversum she was Director at BredaPhoto (2020-2022) an international photography biennial, was artistic director of the Contour Biennial in Belgium (2017-2019). She has worked as curator since 2005 and curated shows and performance events at De Appel, Amsterdam (NL), De Oude Kerk, Amsterdam (NL), STUK Kunstencentrum, Leuven (BE), SKOR Art in Public Space Foundation, Amsterdam (NL), Zabludowisc Connection, Londen (UK), SE8 Gallery London, (UK), Pigeon Wing, Londen (UK), 1857 Gallery, Oslo (NO). Between 2006 and 2009, she was working at OCA as Coordinator International Studio Program.

Aindrea Emelife is a Nigerian-British curator and art historian specialising in modern and contemporary art, with a focus on questions around colonial and decolonial histories in Africa, transnationalism and the politics of representation. Emelife has been the inaugural Curator of MOWAA (Museum of West African Art) in Benin City, Nigeria since 2023. Emelife is on the Board of Trustees for New Curators.

Joanna Nordin is a curator and the Artistic Director of Bonniers Konsthall, a privately funded gallery and a leading institution for contemporary art in Sweden. Previously Nordin worked as Museum Director at the Carl Eldh studio Museum, unfolding the setting of the early 20th century museum and collection through experimental exhibitions and events. She also held positions as curator of contemporary art at Sörmland’s Museum, Nyköping, and as curator of learning at Index the Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm.