2025

Part of the CPD Trip to Sápmi and Norway. Organised in collaboration with the Contemporary Art Society in London.

Kate O’Donoghue completed her MSc in History of Art, Theory and Display at the University of Edinburgh. Following this she was a participant in the National Gallery Curatorial Traineeship programme, supported by Art Fund with the assistance of the Vivmar Foundation. She is now Curator of International Fine Art at National Museums Liverpool and was the Lead Curator for Renaissance Rediscovered, the major redevelopment of the Walker Art Gallery’s permanent Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque galleries, opening in July 2023. She has also worked on several temporary exhibitions and displays, including the Walker Art Gallery’s exhibition National Treasures: Velázquez in Liverpool in 2024, as part of the National Gallery’s 200th anniversary celebrations. This placed the Velázquez masterpiece in conversation with both historical and contemporary works, exploring themes of queer and feminine gaze.

Part of the CPD Trip to Sápmi and Norway. Organised in collaboration with the Contemporary Art Society in London.

Susan Lord have worked in the arts and cultural sector since 2001, primarily with collections, curating exhibitions, contributing toward curatorial and collections management policies, leading on museum accreditation bids and grant applications. Collaboration and working in partnership with artists, universities, art biennials, and other arts organisations both nationally and internationally has been a prominent part of my career. In her spare time she an actor, writer and produce plays.

Part of the CPD Trip to Sápmi and Norway. Organised in collaboration with the Contemporary Art Society in London.

Dr Rosy Gray is Head of Living Art at the Sainsbury Centre. As Head of Living Art, Rosy cares for over 5,000 artworks, overseeing acquisitions, collections research, loans, and conservation. In previous roles, Rosy has developed collections, projects, exhibitions, and artist commissions across a range of public institutions, including Ferens Art Gallery for Hull City of Culture 2017 and Norwich Castle as Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art.

Part of the CPD Trip to Sápmi and Norway. Organised in collaboration with the Contemporary Art Society in London.

Olivia Heron is a curator with expertise across exhibitions, collections, and socially engaged practice. She has been Curator at the Whitworth, The University of Manchester, since 2021. Recent exhibitions and projects include Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-90 (Tate touring, 2025), Bobby Baker: An Edible Family in a Mobile Home (1976/2025), John Lyons: Carnivalesque (2024, and touring to The Box, Plymouth in 2025), and Open House (2022-3). Previous curatorial roles were at MIMA, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, where she curated Chila Kumari Singh Burman: Tales of Valiant Queens (2018), and at the Mercer Art Gallery. Her writing has appeared in artist monographs and online. Olivia has a BA from Manchester School of Art, and an MA from the University of Manchester. She studied Textiles in Bergen, Norway under the ERASMUS scheme.

Part of the CPD Trip to Sápmi and Norway. Organised in collaboration with the Contemporary Art Society in London.

With over 25 years’ experience as an art curator in galleries, museums and unusual spaces, Lara Goodband works at the intersection between contemporary art curation and museum collections. She is currently Contemporary Art Curator and Programmer at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, Exeter City Council. Recent commissions there include Michelle Williams Gamaker’s 'The Silver Wave', a film inspired by RAMM’s Arctic collections; Joy Gregory’s 'The Sweetest Thing' for the exhibition In Plain Sight: Transatlantic slavery and Devon; and work by Emma Hart, Grace Ndiritu, Florence Peake, and Lucy Stein for the exhibition Earth Spells: Witches of the Anthropocene. Before moving to Exeter, she co-curated Offshore: artists explore the sea for Hull 2017. Lara is a Trustee for Bernard Leach (St Ives) Trust; a Research Associate at the University of Exeter, an Associate of the Museums Association, and is working towards the Fellowship.

Part of the CPD Trip to Sápmi and Norway. Organised in collaboration with the Contemporary Art Society in London.

Katie Irwin is Curator of Exhibitions at Sheffield Museums Trust, holding responsibility for temporary exhibitions and visual art displays. Between 2023-25 she also curated redisplays of the Graves Gallery’s portraiture collection and 20th century abstract art galleries. Her work spans a broad range of modern and contemporary British art, and particular interests include dialogues between contemporary artists and museum collections. She has previously held positions at the Wallace Collection, Laing Art Gallery, Ashmolean Museum and the Bowes Museum.

Part of the CPD Trip to Sápmi and Norway. Organised in collaboration with the Contemporary Art Society in London.

Elizabeth Scott has worked in London museums her entire career. She has been Director of Guildhall Art Gallery & London’s Roman Amphitheatre since 2017. Most recently she led the ‘Revealing the City’s Past project’ to reinterpret two statues of historically prominent City figures who profited from the Transatlantic Trade in Enslaved Africans. Between 2014 and 2017 she was Head Curator at the London Transport Museum, and prior to that she was Exhibitions Manager at the Imperial War Museum for its three London branches, IWM London, Churchill War Rooms and HMS Belfast. Elizabeth started her career at the Museum of London, where she was an Exhibitions Project Manager, and before that Assistant Curator.

Part of the CPD Trip to Sápmi and Norway. Organised in collaboration with the Contemporary Art Society in London.

Anna Robertson is Fine and Applied Art Manager, for Leisure & Culture Dundee and is based at The McManus: Dundee's Art Gallery and Museum She is an enthusiastic advocate for its fine and applied art collection which is recognised as a collection of national significance. Over a thirty-year career she has worked in a variety of museum and arts development roles – a highlight being one of two lead curators coordinating the creation of new displays across eight galleries during the HLF funded redevelopment of The McManus. She has significant expertise in Scottish art from the 19th century to the present day and has curated many exhibitions, most recently drawing out some of the hidden histories contained within Dundee’s art collection. She continues to develop this collection through acquisitions with a key current theme to acquire artwork that amplifies Dundee’s historic role in polar exploration.

Part of the CPD Trip to Sápmi and Norway. Organised in collaboration with the Contemporary Art Society in London.

Dr. Paula Zambrano is an art historian, curator, writer, and researcher, working as Curator of Programmes at the Contemporary Art Society, London, where she develops artistic programmes that connect contemporary practice with collections across the UK and internationally. Her curatorial work began in Mexico after a BA in Art History at Universidad Iberoamericana and early experience at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Oaxaca. She later moved to the UK, completing an MA in Curating at the Royal College of Art and a PhD in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, where her thesis, Curating Time, Contingency, Anachronism, Flirtation, examined counter-temporalities in curatorial practice. She has curated projects such as Against Time (Glasgow International), Cuts to Violence (FUSO, Lisbon), and Correspondence (Rufino Tamayo Museum, Oaxaca), and has taught or guest lectured at the Jan van Eyck Academie, the RCA, Chelsea College of Arts, Goldsmiths, and the of York and Leeds. She also maintains a writing practice, publishing in the Journal of Curatorial Studies and contributing exhibition reviews and Friday Dispatches at CAS.

Carol Yinghua LU holds a Doctorate in art history from University of Melbourne and has been directing Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum since 2017. She was artistic director and senior curator of OCAT, Shenzhen (2012-2015), guest curator at Museion, Bolzano (2013) and China researcher for Asia Art Archive (2005-2007). She was a recipient of ARIAH East Asia Fellowship (2017) and a visiting fellow in the Asia-Pacific Fellowship Program at Tate Research Centre (2013). She was co-artistic director of Gwangju Biennale (2012) and co-artistic director of the 8th Yokohama Triennale with Liu Ding (2024). She was a jury member for Golden Lion Award, Venice Biennale (2011).

What, How & for Whom/WHW is a curatorial collective formed in 1999 and is based in Zagreb and Berlin. Its members are Ivet Ćurlin, Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić and Sabina Sabolović. The WHW collective established an international study programme for emerging artists called WHW Akademija in 2018 based in Zagreb and will begin collaborating with new exhibition space in the city in 2026. From 2003 to 2023 WHW curated the programme of Gallery Nova, a city-owned gallery in Zagreb.
In 2019–2024, part of the collective (Ivet Ćurlin, Nataša Ilić and Sabina Sabolović) were artistic directors of Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna, and in 2024 they were announced as artistic directors of Skulptur Projekte Münster 2027.
Over the years, WHW has organised production, exhibition, education and publishing projects in various geographical and cultural contexts and on different institutional scales. Their curatorial work is inspired by queer-feminist, anti-fascist and decolonialising ideas with the intention of giving new impulses to aesthetic and ideological debates in the field of contemporary art.

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Helen O’Malley is an Irish curator, writer and researcher. She currently holds the position of Curator, International Art at Tate Modern Gallery in London, where she’s responsible for developing exhibitions, collection displays and new commissions, with a special focus on socially engaged, collaborative and participatory practice. Recent projects include Cecilia Vicuna: Brain Forest Quipu, Richard Bell: Embassy, Topher Campbell: My rukus! Heart, Vidya Patel: Good Mourning Earth, Abbas Zahedi: Begin Again and the group exhibition, Gathering Ground which featured work by Carolina Caycedo, Abbas Akhavan, Outi Pieski, Bruce Conner, Zheng Bo, Edgar Calel, Gauri Gill and Rajesh Vangad. She’s curating the 2025 Turbine Hall commission of Sámi artist, Máret Ánne Sara. As part of her role, O’Malley also works with the Tate Neighbours, who are a collective of people with live and work in SE1, London. Originally formed in 2018 as part of Tania Bruguera’s 10,148,451 commission, the aim of the group is to support Tate Modern’s continuing development as a useful space, that serves the collective needs of local people and has a reciprocal and positive relationship with its neighbourhood. She holds a MA in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths University of London, and a BA in Fine Art and Visual Culture from the National College of Art and Design in Dublin.

Julia Eichler is curator at Museum MMK für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Recently, she co-curated the exhibitions “Undermining the Immediacy”, “Gustav Metzger” and “Channeling” at Museum MMK. She has worked with Elom 20ce, Eline Benjaminsen, Musquiqui Chihying, Jilian Crochet, Taína Cruz, Hamishi Farah, Olia Fedorova, Gregor Kasper, Alexandre Khondji, Atiéna Kilfa, Elias Kimaiyo, Mire Lee, Jason Loebs, Guadalupe Maravilla, Park McArthur, Shaun Motsi, Christelle Oyiri, César Olhagaray, Finnegan Shannon, Coumba Samba, Dolly Sen, Christine Sun Kim, Drago Trumbetaš, Helena Uambembe, Constantina Zavitsanos, the Marcel Duchamp Estate, the Elizabeth Catlett Estate, and the Gustav Metzger Estate, between many others. Together with Fabian Ginsberg she co-organizes the collective “Counterinsurgency Strategies” founded in 2018 in Berlin. SdA enables exhibitions, talks, symposiums, and other formats to discuss, translate, listen and teach means of communication. From 2017 to 2020, she worked for the Kienzle Art Foundation in Berlin.

Sebastian Cichocki is the Senior Curator at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland, where he was a curator and member of the curatorial teams of "Banner. Engagement, Realism and Political Art" (2025), "Who Will Write the History of Tears: Artists on Women’s Rights" (2021), "Primary Forms" (2021-ongoing), "The Penumbral Age: Art in the Times of Planetary Crisis" (2020), "Never Again: Art against War and Fascism in the 20th and 21st centuries" (2019), "Making Use: Life in Postartistic Times" (2016), and other exhibition and research programmes. His recent projects include "The Gleaners Society" the 40th EVA International – Ireland's Biennial of Contemporary Art, “The Postartistic Assembly” at the 14th Gwangju Biennale and “Primary Forms” at the 3rd Thailand Biennale in Chiang Rai.

Sebastian Cichocki has been a member of the programme board at The Forum for Future of Culture at the Powszechny Theatre, Warsaw, a platform for feminist, ecological and antifascist activism and culture, and The Office for Postartistic Services—networks of art workers contributing to the pro-democratic and anti-authoritarian political struggles. Cichocki has published extensively and lectured at various venues, including Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Dhaka Art Summit, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kunsthalle Wien, Gwangju Biennale, The University of Malta, and Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. He runs The Guest Studio at the University of the Arts Poznań (UAP). Cichocki is a 2018 fellow at the Center for Curatorial Leadership, MoMA, New York.

Photo: Yulia Krivich

Kostas Stasinopoulos is a curator and writer. His current research focuses on performance, dance, and film, informed by legacies of oppression, queer politics, ecology and the flux of identity across personal and collective registers. He is Curator, Live Programmes at Serpentine, London, looking after the institution’s interdisciplinary programme. He has served as Associate Curator at The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center and has collaborated with the Whitechapel Gallery, White Cube, Frieze, Loop, Sadler’s Wells and the Athens Biennale among others. Kostas received his PhD in History of Art from University of York (2016), funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Onassis Foundation and NEON. He holds an MA in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art (2010), MA in Cultural and Creative Industries from King’s College (2009) and BSc in Biochemistry with Management from Imperial College London (2007). His research and writing has appeared in numerous symposia and international publications and together with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, Serpentine, he is the co-editor of 140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth (Penguin, 2021).

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Eliel Jones is the Curator, Performance and Time-based Media at Kanal – Centre Pompidou, a new interdisciplinary museum of modern and contemporary art due to open in Brussels in 2026. His research interests and methodologies stem from intersectional approaches to queer and feminist discourse and are guided by his involvement in direct community action and solidarity. Prior to KANAL he was the Curator of the 2nd Brent Biennial, which took place across 12 venues in Northwest London. He has also held curatorial positions at Metroland Cultures, Cell Project Space and Chisenhale Gallery (all in London), where he worked towards realising multidisciplinary commissions by emerging artists including Alex Baczynski-Jenkins, Hannah Black, Lydia Ourahmane, Paul Maheke, Krzysztof Baginski, Carlos Maria Romero (AKA Atabey Mamasita) and Jose Funnell, amongst others. Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic he curated ‘Queer Correspondence’, a mail-art initiative that reached nearly 1000 subscribers in 42 countries through monthly letter-sized commissioned projects by artists and writers. His independent curatorial projects include: Gelare Khosghozaran, ‘To Be the Author of One’s Own Travels’, Delfina Foundation, London; ‘do you host?’, Ujazdowski Castle CCA, Warsaw; ‘Acts of Translation’, Mohammed and Mahera Abu Ghazaleh Foundation, Jordan; and ‘Experiments on Public Space’, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas. Jones has written criticism on contemporary art and performance for various international platforms and publications, including e-flux, Frieze, Artforum, The Guardian, Flash Art, Mousse and X-TRA. He is currently a faculty member of the Curatorial Studies postgraduate programme at KASK School of Art & Conservatorium in Gent; a visiting tutor of De Ateliers in Amsterdam and curator of OFFSPRING 2025; and a Trustee of PEER in London.

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Laurencina Farrant is the artistic director of SongEun Art & Cultural Foundation in Seoul, as well as the founding director of Laurence Geoffrey's Ltd, an art consultancy in Korea specialising in arts strategy, development, and promotion. Over her 30-year career in Seoul, Korea, she has brought in numerous leading artists, worked with prominent museum and private collections, and provided consultation to corporations on sponsoring policies and to luxury brands on brand exposure planning through innovative cultural projects, resulting in a highly successful PR strategy in Korea.

More recently, Laurencina supervised the expansion of SongEun into a new, iconic Herzog and de Meuron building, which opened in September 2021. It is already becoming a popular landmark for its architecture and contemporary art programme.

Salma Tuqan is a contemporary art and design curator and cultural strategist. She is the Director of Nottingham Contemporary, a leading centre of contemporary art in Europe. Prior to this she was Deputy Director of Delfina Foundation, an interdisciplinary non profit dedicated to facilitating artistic exchange and developing creative practice through residencies, exhibitions and public programming. From 2011 – 2019 she worked as the Contemporary Middle East Curator of art and design at the V&A where she was responsible for Middle Eastern art and design programming and acquisitions at the museum, co-curated the biennial international Jameel Prize exhibition, and co-founded the Culture in Crisis stream.

She works closely with cultural organisations on strategy and is a committee member of the Santo Domingo Centre of Excellence for Latin American Research at the British Museum (London), Arab Image Foundation (Beirut), Art on the Underground (London) and Rivers Institute (New Orleans).

Sungwon Kim studied French literature, art history, and museology in Paris and currently works as Deputy Director and Chief Curator at Leeum Musem of Art and Professor at Department of Fine Arts, Seoul National University of Science and Technology. Prior to this position, Kim was Artistic Director at Natonal Asia Culture Center, Culture Station Seoul 284, Atelier Hermes, and Chief Curator at ArtSonje Center. She has curated group exhibitions, including Count Down (2011 ), La Vie mode d’emploi(2012), Playtime (2012), Springwave Festival (2006), the 2nd Anyang Public Art Project (2007 ), as well as solo exhibitions and publications of Pierre Huyghe, Philippe Parreno, Maurizio Cattelan, Tomas Saraceno, Sylvie Fleury, Christian Jankowski, Daniel Buren, Martin Boyce, Gary Webb, Jim Lambie, Park Chan-kyong, Chung Seoyoung, Donghee Koo, Sora Kim, and Kim Beom among others.

Sungah Serena Choo is a curator and writer whose work is engaged with the dynamics of contemporary artistic practices, spatial politics, and the ecosystem of independent spaces. Her curatorial focuses on the perspectives of materiality and the discursive of sculptural attitudes. She is attentive to the shifting conditions of artistic production and has actively worked with artists. Choo has been committed to discovering emerging voices and supporting the trajectories of mid-career artists, often positioning her curatorial work at the intersection of artistic experimentation and critical discourse. Her practice reflects a sustained interest in how these artists respond to reframe narrative structures and reshape institutional frameworks and transnational systems of circulation.

Currently working as an independent curator, she was formerly a curator at Leeum Museum of Art, and served as assistant curator at Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, and curatorial assistant at Seoul Museum of Art and Kumho Museum of Art. She has curated exhibitions, commissioned site-specific projects, and advised discursive and research-based programs across a variety of institutional and independent platforms. These include independent spaces such as Amado Art Space, Insa Art Space, d/p, N/A, Perigee Gallery, and Art Space Boan, among others where she has developed long-standing collaborations with artists committed to alternative forms of cultural production. Her practice is deeply informed by questions around how contemporary art can intervene in audience imaginaries, and how curatorial strategies might generate contingent spaces for reflection, resistance and community making within and beyond institutional boundaries.

KIM Sung woo is a curator and writer. He premises the notion of an exhibition as a kind of questionnaire and contemplates the possibility of discovering creative subjectivity of individuals in the process of responses to the image and its chains. He curates exhibitions based on an interest in alternative/temporary community beyond systemised forms of life. As chief curator, Kim directed the curatorial project/ exhibition and management of Amado Art Space, a non-profit alternative space in Seoul (2015-2019). He was also appointed as a curatorial advisor for the Busan Biennale 2020, SongEun Art Space (2019), and has curated the 12th Gwangju Biennale (2018) in the form of curatorial collective. Since 2022, he is working as an independent curator, and has also launched and manages an independent art space, Primary Practice, focusing on today’s art with contemporary curatorial practices, in Seoul.

Young-in Lee is an international relations officer at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), which is part of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in Korea. She joined the MMCA in 2011, and has been in charge of international project initiatives and cooperation with institutions abroad. Previously, she worked as managing editor at the National Museum of Korea and was head of the program team at the Busan International Film Festival. Having worked 20 years in the art and culture sector, Young-in has a comprehensive knowledge and expertise in the field of visual art, cinema, performing arts, institutions and government policies.

Young-in obtained an A. in Critical Studies from the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. She is a Joint PhD candidate in International Relations at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. From 2019 to 2021, she was a research fellow sent by the Ministry of Personnel Management to conduct a governmental study of the European Union’s cultural policy at the Brussels School of Governance.

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.

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.

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.