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Sound artist and composer

Tarek Atoui is a musician, composer and sound artist working experimentally with custom-built electronic instruments. He initiates multidisciplinary interventions, concerts, performances and workshops worldwide. Over the past years, Atoui has researched the relationships between sound, vibrations, instruments and the body, starting with how sound is perceived in Deaf culture. He challenges, expands and revises our established and conventional ways of experiencing sound, while developing a permanent reflection on the concept of the instrument and the act of performance itself as a complex, open and dynamic process. He has exhibited his work at the 14th Gwangju Biennale (2023), the 58th International Art Exhibition of the Biennale di Venezia (2019), the Tate Modern, London (2016), dOCUMENTA 13 in Kassel (2012), the Serpentine Gallery in London (2012), the New Museum in New York (2010), and La Maison Rouge in Paris (2010), among many others. Tarek Atoui currently lives and works in Paris.

Art historian, curator, and director of Art Hub Copenhagen

Lars Bang Larsen is an art historian and curator, and currently serves as the director of Art Hub Copenhagen. He has curated exhibitions such as Chronoplasticity at the Raven Row in London (2024), documenta: Politik und Kunst at the Museum of German History in Berlin (2021–22), and Incerteza Viva, the 32nd São Paulo Biennial (2016). He gained his PhD in art history with a thesis titled A History of Irritated Material from the University of Copenhagen that traced psychedelia as a transcultural trope across neo-avant-garde art. His research often revolves around (social) histories of art, ideas, and media that are similarly diverse. Bang Larsen has published numerous books including Synnøve Anker Aurdal: Between the Threads (2024), Arte y norma (2016), and Networks (2015). He has been affiliated with institutions such as the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, the Haute École d’Art et de Design (HEAD) in Geneva, and the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.

Historian, curator, and heads the Archive of Haus der Kunst München

Sabine Brantl is a Munich-based historian and curator, and heads the Archive of Haus der Kunst München. Previously, Brantl has worked for Bavarian Television, the Jewish Museum in Munich, and as research assistant at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, where she also taught curatorial practice and art education. In 2004, she drew up a concept for the development of the Historical Archive at Haus der Kunst München. With Haus der Kunst, Munich. A Locality and Its History in National Socialism she published the first comprehensive monograph on the history of the exhibition centre in 2007. Her curatorial work concentrates on the programme of the Archiv Galerie at Haus der Kunst, which is dedicated to the history of the institution through a permanent display, alongside the presentation of exhibitions about autonomous archives and subcultural contexts.

Political scientist and urban planner

Gabriela Burkhalter is a political scientist and urban planner based in Basel. She is a researcher, writer, and consultant in the fields of play, architecture, and public space. Burkhalter has been documenting the history of playgrounds on www.architekturfuerkinder.ch since 2008 and is the curator and editor of The Playground Project, a travelling exhibition and catalogue which was first presented at the 2013 Carnegie International, at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. In 2016, it moved as a playable version to the Kunsthalle Zürich, before travelling to further international institutions such as the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, United Kingdom, the VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art in Carlow, Ireland, the Garage Museum in Moscow, Russia, the German institutions of the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) in Frankfurt/Main, and the Gropius Bau in Berlin, as well as the Lunds Konsthall in Sweden, and, lately, the Incinerator Gallery in Melbourne, Australia.

Curator, writer, and director of KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin

Emma Enderby is a curator, writer, and producer of contemporary art, currently serving as Director of KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. Her first year at KW included exhibitions by Matt Copson, Sung Tieu, Miloš Trakilović, Jessica Ekomane, Holly Herndon and Matt Dryhurst, and Kazuko Miyamoto. Previously, she was Head of Programmes and Research/Chief Curator at Haus der Kunst München, where she curated Liliane Lijn: Arise Alive and Tony Cokes: Fragments, or Just Moments, among other projects. In New York, she served as Chief Curator at The Shed, where she worked on forming the institution, its overall multidisciplinary programme, and curated exhibitions including Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates, Tomás Saraceno: Particular Matters, and Ian Cheng: Life after BOB, while founding the Open Call programme and working on commission-based exhibition projects with artists such as Trisha Donnelly, Oscar Murillo, Lynn Hershman Leeson, and Carrie Mae Weems. Enderby has also held roles at Public Art Fund in New York and the Serpentine Galleries in London, organising numerous exhibitions and commissions. Holding degrees from University College London and the University of Oxford, she has worked as a visiting lecturer, critic, and speaker at numerous universities and institutions, as well as an editor and writer for multiple publications and catalogues.

Filmmaker and author of graphic novels

Anna Faroqhi is a Berlin-based filmmaker and author of graphic novels. As a film essayist, she focuses on the most private aspects of daily life, which she first explores through observing and sketching street scenes and the people within her proximity. Her work reflects on the layers that people trace over the histories that are etched into the places they occupy. Born in Berlin, Faroqhi studied voice, mathematics and physics, before turning to film, which she studied at the Academy for TV and Film, Munich. Since 2004 she is on the faculty at the Hanns Eisler Academy for Music Berlin where she teaches Dramaturgy and Videography. Anna Faroqhi is the daughter of author and filmmaker Harun Farocki and appeared alongside her twin sister Lara Faroqhi in his short films Bedtime Stories from 1973 to 1977.

Multidisciplinary artist

Rahima Gambo is an artist who explores the conceptual and spatial territories around documentary, psycho-geography, sociopolitics, ecology, and autobiography. Her work is process driven with each project map-making and wayfinding through the processes of documentary, storytelling and moving image. Her work is circular, collaborative, and continuous in nature, with repetition and return as essential to her practice. Recent solo and group exhibitions at Liverpool Biennale (2023) Kunsthalle Bern (2022), Stevenson Gallery (2022), Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles (2022), MACAAL, Morocco (2020), Biennale Mercosur, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2020), Yokohama Triennale (2020), and the 11th and 12th editions of Rencontres de Bamako, Mali (2017-2019). She is currently enrolled at the Royal Academy Schools, London.

Artist, art educator, and member of the KEKS group

Gerd Grüneisl is an artist and art educator. He studied architecture, education, and art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and Paris. After several years of teaching at secondary schools, he has been working freelance in open cultural projects with children and young people since 1976. In the late 1960s, he became part of a group of young art teachers who called themselves KEKS. The group made AKTION their central concept, leaving the classroom to use the urban space as a living laboratory for experience. They focused on active participation rather than passive reception. With action as their central element, they questioned art and society and moved in the interstitial field between art and art education. In 1970, KEKS was invited to the 35th Venice Biennale. Their contribution, “Biennale Bambini,” brought them national recognition. In 1972, KEKS also became active in the Haus der Kunst. For the exhibition “World Cultures and Modern Art on the Occasion of the Olympic Games,” the group designed a children's and youth center. The museum was deliberately conceived as a space for action, with the aim of actively involving young visitors in art and culture. Gerd Grüneisl is now one of the project managers for the two large-scale projects Minimünchen and Kunst und Krempel.

Assistant professor of Contemporary Art / Global South Academy of Media Arts Cologne, co-founder and co-director, Keleketla! Library, Johannesburg

Rangoato Hlasane’s artistic research and praxis is a bold concern and commitment to the search for and collective experiments in the co-creation of meaningful impact at the intersection of cultural work and socio-spatial justice. His praxis is best manifested in co-founding Keleketla! Library, Johannesburg (est. 2008). Keleketla!’s collaborative work has shared manifestations at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (2024 and 2025), documenta fifteen (2022) and at the 10^th Berlin Biennale of Contemporary Art (2018). Rangoato’s artistic research and practice is an interdiscursive intervention into Indigenous Knowledge Systems, as seen through the lens of African Popular Culture and Black Public Humanities. He graduated in MAFA with the University of Johannesburg (2011) and completed PhD in African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Art historian, writer, and curator, Associate Curator at Haus der Kunst München

Lydia Korndoerfer is an art historian, writer, and curator. She is currently an Associate Curator at Haus der Kunst München, where the exhibition “For Children. Art Stories since 1968” has been central to her work since 2023. From 2020 to 2021, she was Artistic Director of the Kunstverein Arnsberg, curating a series of exhibitions, as well as performances, site-specific installations, and public artworks in cooperation with the city of Arnsberg. Since 2013, she has been working as an independent curator realising exhibitions such as Proyecto Eclipse at Matucana 100, Santiago de Chile (2019), and Hey, Mars! at Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin (2019); early years in her career she spent working at institutions such as Gropius Bau, Berlin, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Her research and curatorial projects often focus on interdisciplinary artistic practices that engage with contemporary and future realities, moving between the fields of politics, society, religion, science, technology, and nature. Korndoerfer studied at the Humboldt University in Berlin and the University of Bologna. She has contributed to exhibition catalogues and monographs as an author and editor, and has taught at art academies including the Berlin University of the Arts, the Braunschweig University of Art, and Burg Giebichenstein in Halle. 

Artistic Director of Haus der Kunst Munich

Andrea Lissoni has been Artistic Director of Haus der Kunst Munich since 2020. His programme, which began in April 2022, is based on transdisciplinary and intergenerational approaches in which all strands of artistic practice are closely interlinked. Previously, he was Senior Curator of International Art (Film) at Tate Modern in London, where he launched a cinema programme conceived as a year-round exhibition. He co-curated the BMW Live Exhibitions in 2017 and 2018 and curated the 2016 Hyundai Turbine Hall Commission by Philippe Parreno, as well as travelling exhibitions by Joan Jonas, Bruce Nauman and various projects in the Tanks – notably with artists Tony Conrad (2017), Lawrence Abu Hamdan (2018) and Pan Daijing (2019). He received his PhD from the University of Udine with a dissertation entitled "VariaVision – Beyond the Threshold of Disciplines." From 2011 to 2015, he was curator at HangarBicocca in Milan, where he organised retrospective exhibitions by Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi, Tomás Saraceno, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Mike Kelley and Céline Condorelli. In 2018, he was co-curator of the Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement at the Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève.

Researcher, curator, and professor of Modern and Contemporary Art

Ana Maria Maia is a researcher, curator, and professor of Modern and Contemporary Art based in São Paulo. Since 2019, Maia has worked at the Pinacoteca de São Paulo, where she currently serves as Chief Curator. Her latest exhibitions at include "Lygia Clark: Project for a Planet" (2024), "Marta Minujín: Live" (2023), and "Jonathas de Andrade: Pounce and Bounce" (2022). She holds a PhD in Art Theory, History, and Critics from the University of São Paulo, and is the author of the books Flávio de Carvalho (2014) and Arte-veículo: intervenções na mídia de massa brasileira (2015), the latter of which was awarded the Critical Production Stimulus Grant by the Brazilian Ministry of Culture.

Curator and organiser, director of Medupi publishing

Kabelo Malatsie is a curator and organiser living in Cape Town where she works as initiator and director of Medupi publishing. The house, practices in book and thought formations energised by the many worlds we inhabit. She was director of Kunsthalle Bern (2022-2024); director of Visual Arts Network of South Africa (VANSA) (2018-2019) and worked as an Associate at Stevenson gallery Cape Town and Johannesburg (2010-2016). Her ongoing curatorial research project explores the exhibitionary mode as unlikely starting points that place incongruous practices together, to instigate other ways of making and reading the world we inhabit through a project titled Punya. She co-curated the exhibition Deliberation on Discursive Justice for the Yokohama Triennale (Japan 2020), participated In the Open or in Stealth for Barcelona’s MACBA (Spain 2018), and curated solo exhibitions across various institutions in South Africa for artists such as Nicholas Hlobo, Moshekwa Langa and Sabelo Mlangeni.

Professor of Performance Studies at Aberystwyth University

Heike Roms is Professor of Performance Studies at Aberystwyth University. Her published work covers contemporary performance practice, the history of performance art in a British context, and performance historiography and archiving. She is interested in performance as a mode of knowledge formation and dissemination, and is researching the topic of performance and ecology. Her recent work explores the relationship between film and the emergence of performance art in the UK. From 2009 to 2011, her research on the historiography of early performance art was funded by a Large Research Grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), and in 2011 she won the Theatre and Performance Research Association's (TaPRA) David Bradby Award for Outstanding Research in International Theatre and Performance.

Musician, artivist & community builder at Schauburg Theatre for Young Audiences Munich. 

Asmir Šabić work connects art, education, and social engagement, with a focus on participation, memory culture, environmental awareness, and diversity. Since November 2024, he has been part of the community building team at the Schauburg Theatre for Young Audiences Munich. At the Schauburg Labor, he develops and facilitates creative formats for children, young people, and families, working closely with schools, artists, and local initiatives. Asmir is a board member of balkaNet e.V. and part of the Vielheit competence team. His professional path includes collaborations and positions at Refugio München, Glockenbachwerkstatt e.V., InitiativGruppe e.V. – MIKADO Jugendkultur und Bildung, Import Export, Bellevue di Monaco, and the Münchner Kammerspiele.

Artist, activist, and art educator at Haus der Kunst München

Mako Sangmongkhon lives and works in Munich as an artist, PhD student and parent. M moves along and between the intersections of antiracist and antifascist selforganisation as well as cultural and educational work that critiques power and hegemony. Mako prefers to gather and organise in groups. Mako is currently responsible for the role of “Outreach & Community Building” in the department of education and engagement at Haus der Kunst.

Independent cultural worker and curator

Kefiloe Siwisa is an independent Johannesburg-based cultural worker and curator whose practice is grounded in curatorial consciousness: a wakeful, sustainable approach that prioritises emotional literacy, empathy, collective presencing, and (rest)oration. Her previous positions include Senior Associate at the Stevenson Gallery in Johannesburg, Lead Curator of the Turbine Art Fair, and Assistant Curator of the public programme Forum at the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair. She has collaborated with institutions across the globe and produced projects including Creative Economy Futures: Perspectives, Policies and Practices for Tomorrow (2025) with the South African Cultural Observatory; Reimagining Heritage, Archives and Museums: Today/Tomorrow (2023/2024) with Institut Français d’Afrique du Sud; the ICA Live Art Festival at the Institute for Creative Acts in Cape Town (2022); Bird Sound Orientations (2022), a solo exhibition by Rahima Gambo at Stevenson Gallery; and Equations for a Body at Rest by Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi at the Birmingham Festival (2022). She is co-founder of Queertopia.za, a queer-centred multidisciplinary festival.

Visual artist and art educator, artistic director of Der Fahrende Raum

Angela Stiegler lives in Munich. In her artistic practice she makes use of different media such as video and performance and works in collaborative contexts with shared authorship. Stiegler shows the human body as a digital-sculptural image of actions and affects – a speculative body. She has studied and taught in Nuremberg, Munich, Karlsruhe and Athens and is currently teaching in Munich. She co-founded the self-organized initiative K that has taken place as a hybrid format in Karlsruhe (2013), Berlin (2015), Athens (2016), Hydra (2017) and Munich (2018, 2020). In 2020 she formed DIVA, an opera collective, together with the artists Samuel Fischer-Glaser, Nikolai Gümbel and Sophie Schmidt. Angela Stiegler volunteers at BBK (artists' association in Bavaria) and is on the board of Kunstraum Munich. Since 2025, she has been the artistic director of Der Fahrende Raum, an artistic action space at various locations in Munich.

Artist and spatial researcher (ZEITKAPSEL, Dritte*Orte Archiv)

Miriam Worek is an artist and spatial researcher with a background in sociology. Her work combines urban research, memory work and participatory artistic practice. She creates temporary, extra-institutional spaces and unusual formats for participation and mediation, develops frameworks and tools that enable people to contribute creatively according to their own possibilities. Since late 2019, she has been working with telephone boxes as a medium, among other things. Through ZEITKAPSEL, she experiments with various strategies and practices that facilitate encounters between people, generations, and disciplines, enabling them to interact and learn from each other. ZEITKAPSEL and the Dritte*Orte Archiv offer alternative perspectives on the city and its complexity. These works find expression in both digital and analogue spaces. She has been part of the interdisciplinary programme “Art as Social Practice” at the Hessian Theatre Academy / Crespo Foundation. Alongside her artistic work, she teaches in practice-based university contexts and works as a project manager at Guardini90 in Munich’s Dezentrale.

Professor, Inaugural Dean of the School for Cultural & Social Transformation

Kathryn Bond Stockton is Distinguished Professor of English, former Associate Vice President for Equity and Diversity, and former inaugural Dean of the School for Cultural & Social Transformation at the University of Utah. Two of her books—Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where “Black” Meets “Queer” and The Queer Child (Duke University Press)—were national finalists for the Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies and her book Making Out (NYU Press) was a 2020 finalist for the Next Generation Indie Book Award for memoir. Her newest book (with MIT Press) is Gender(s) and she has also authored God Between Their Lips (Stanford University Press). Along with her university’s top teaching award, she has received the NOW Lifetime Achievement Award, the YWCA Outstanding Achievement Award in Arts and Communication, the Crompton Noll Prize from the Modern Language Association, and the Rosenblatt Prize for Excellence, the highest honor granted by the University of Utah.