Chus Martínez
Born in Spain, Chus Martínez has a background in philosophy and art history. She is currently director of the Institute Art Gender Nature of the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW, Switzerland, and associate curator of TBA21 in Madrid and Venice. She is a member of the board of directors of CIMAM (International Committee for Museums) and serves on the scientific committees of numerous international art institutions, including Castello di Rivoli, Turin, and the Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin. She was Chief Curator at El Museo del Barrio in New York and head of department for dOCUMENTA (13). She previously held the position of Chief Curator at MACBA in Barcelona and was director of the Frankfurter Kunstverein. Martínez has curated multiple exhibitions and edited many publications with contemporary artists. She regularly holds conferences, she writes critical texts and essays for catalogues and is a frequent contributor to international journals. Her more recent publications include: The Complex Answer. On Art as a Non-Binary Intelligence (Sternberg Press, 2023); Like This. Natural Intelligence As Seen by Art (Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2022); Coding Care (co-edited with Sabine Himmelsbach, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2022); The Wild Book of Inventions (Sternberg Press, 2020); Corona Tales. Let Life Happen to You (Lenz, 2021).

Barbara Casavecchia
Barbara Casavecchia is a writer, independent curator and educator based in Milan, where she teaches at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts. She was QuiS Visiting Research Fellow at the Städelschule in Frankfurt in 2023/24. She is editor-in-chief of Mousse magazine, and her articles, essays and reviews – often focusing on Italian contemporary art, visual cultures and feminisms – have appeared in magazines such as Frieze, Art Agenda, Art Review, La Repubblica, Flash Art, Kaleidoscope, Nero, South/ documenta 14, Spike, and many others, as well as in artists’ books and catalogues. From 2021 to 2023 she led the transdisciplinary curatorial fellowship program The Current III – Mediterraneans: “Thus waves come in pairs” (after Etel Adnan) for TBA21-Academy, curating the exhibition by the same name at Ocean Space in Venice (22 April – 5 November 2023), featuring new commissions by Simone Fattal and Petrit Halilaj & Álvaro Urbano. She edited the book Thus Waves Come in Pairs. Thinking with the Mediterraneans (2023, Sternberg Press and TBA21).