Breakthroughs: on Difference, Laziness and Belonging

Stella Sideli
Curator, writer, mentor and researcher (UK, IT)

Stella Sideli is an independent curator, writer, mentor and researcher working in the UK, Europe and the Mediterranean. She is concerned with the intersection of institutional programmes and feminist/queer theories, decolonial practices and ethics of curating; the relationship between curator and artist; emerging technologies, capitalism and the ae… [read more]

Irene Campolmi
Curator (DK)

Irene Campolmi is a curator and researcher based in Copenhagen. She has focused her work on performance for many years, through which she researches postcolonial, queer and feminist theories. Currently, she is a curator and researcher at CC Copenhagen Contemporary on the project "Yet, it Moves!" which won the Bikuben Vision Award 2021, Denmark's mo… [read more]

Michelangelo Miccolis
Writer, Producer, Curator (CH, MX)

Michelangelo Miccolis (1981, Mexico) is an arts practitioner based between Zurich and Mexico City, whose performance-based practice extends into various formats, from participatory workshops to writing, production and curation. He is the founder and curator of IMMATERIAL, an annual performance program at Material Art Fair in Mexico City, since 2017… [read more]

Lisa Slominski
Curator, writer, and cultural producer (UK, US)

Lisa Slominski is an American curator, writer, and cultural producer based in East London. She advocates for neurodiversity in the current contemporary art discourse and actively examines the historical framework of underrepresented artists often considered 'self-taught' or 'outsiders'. Academically she lectures on the effects of artists assigned a… [read more]

Rebecca Marcus-Monks
Director Of Operations at The Koppel Project (UK)

Rebecca Marcus-Monks is a London based curator and creative director. She studied Contemporary Art at Sotheby's Institute of Art and started working directly with artists upon graduating - first running an artist-led art fair called Parallax, then setting up Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art gallery on the Upper East Side of New York, and then to The Koppe… [read more]

JL Murtaugh
Director, Autarkia (LT) & Syndicate (CA, DE, UK)

JL (Liam) Murtaugh is an artist, curator, writer, and consultant organising projects under the alias of Syndicate since 2014. Syndicate is a liquid contemporary art platform producing exhibitions, events, and publications with a group of long-term artist collaborators. It is active throughout Europe and the Americas and was formerly headquartered i… [read more]

Ruth Lie
Curator: Public programmes, Whitechapel Gallery (UK)

Ruth Lie is a curator and producer based in London, with specific experience in events based public programming and commissioning, as well as supporting and mentoring artists and designers from a broad range of creative disciplines. She is currently Senior Creative Producer at Somerset House Trust after being the Public Programme Curator (Maternity… [read more]

Karen Vestergaard Andersen and Nina Wöhlk
ARIEL Directors (UK)

ARIEL - Feminisms in the Aesthetics is a nomadic platform for intersectional feminist practices, originally situated in the Women's Building. ARIEL is a mobile and digital archive, publishing house and exhibition project, committed to supporting existing and facilitating new structures of care and sustainable collaborative practices, expanding noti… [read more]

Lesley Taker
Curator and Exhibitions Manager at FACT (UK)

Lesley Taker is Exhibitions Manager at FACT in Liverpool. Curatorial interests situate in contemporary art and technology; specifically ideas of embodiment, gender, experimentation with form, and issues of identity. Currently exploring concepts around Fear within contemporary art practice and experience. - For me, FACT has changed a lot o… [read more]

Brenda Guesnet
Curator and Deputy Director, Museum of Contemporary Art in Eupen / IKOB (BE)

Brenda Guesnet is the Curator and Deputy Director at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Eupen, Belgium (IKOB). Previously, she worked in the Artist Liaison department at White Cube, London (2017 - 2020) and as Curatorial Assistant at Tenderpixel Gallery (2016 - 17), after completing an MFA in Curating at Goldsmiths, University of London (2015 - 17).… [read more]

Colette Griffin
Artist Development Coordinator / Curator (UK)

Colette Griffin is a curator, creative producer, and artist based in Nottingham. Her interests and research centre on commissioning and programming that explores the architecture of our lives, the institutions and expectations that continue to shape everyday experiences, actions, and interactions. In 2021, Colette became the Regional Director … [read more]

Àngels Miralda Tena
Independent Curator and Writer (NL, ES)

Àngels Miralda Tena is an independent curator and writer. She is based in Amsterdam and Catalonia, and grew up between Barcelona, Cambridge UK, Philadelphia, and Princeton NJ. Àngels Miralda describes her curatorial practice as a secret politics of materiality with the belief that materials contain embedded meanings, relating to glob… [read more]

Linda Rocco
Independent Curator and Researcher (UK)

Linda Rocco is a London-based contemporary art curator and PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art with a LAHP/AHRC doctoral award. She has curated public programmes, exhibitions and residencies internationally, with established organisations such as Delfina Foundation and Goethe Institut London, and in the public sphere for the Mayor of London. … [read more]

Cairo Clarke
Independent Curator (UK, IT)

Cairo Clarke is a curator and writer whose work is informed by slowness. It centers forms of knowledge production and dissemination that slip between the cracks, are formed on unstable ground and take on multiple temporalities; supporting strands of theorising taking place in autonomous spaces and holding space for the mess. Cairo has worked c… [read more]

Lorenzo Xiques
Curator (IT)

Lorenzo Xiques (Caracas 1983) studied architecture in Naples, where he lives and works. In 2010 he began working as a production assistant for national and international exhibitions in the field of contemporary art, gathering experience as a design officer, construction manager, and social media communication manager. From 2013 to 2017 he worked at… [read more]

Laura Castagnini
Curator and writer (AUS)

Laura Castagnini is a curator and writer interested in the histories of feminism and their current articulations, especially as they intersect with the politics of sexuality and race, and their expression in modern and contemporary art. She has published widely and taught curating at various institutions, including a course on Queer and Feminist Cu… [read more]