2025

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).

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. This is the first project by the renowned Korean architects. It is already becoming a popular landmark for its architecture and contemporary art programme.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.