Basel Abbas (1983, Cyprus) and Ruanne Abou-Rahme (1983, USA) currently live and work between Ramallah and New York. Solo presentations of their work have been held at Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo; Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Centraal Museum, Utrecht; Kunstverein Hamburg; Tale of A Tub, Rotterdam; Krannert Art Museum, Champaign (IL); Protocinema at Alt Bomonti, Istanbul; ICA, Philadelphia; Office for Contemporary Art, Oslo; Jameel Art Center, Dubai; and Delfina Foundation, London. Selected group exhibitions include Sharjah Biennial (2023); Berlin Biennale (2022); The Mistake Room, Los Angeles; Seoul International Media Art Biennale (2016); Kunsthalle Wien; ICA, London; Darat al Funun, Amman; São Paulo Biennial (2014); Gwangju Biennale (2014); Istanbul Biennial (2013). They were recipients of the Open Society Foundations fellowship, New York, in 2020–21, and they were artists in residence at Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Captiva, in 2023. Their current project May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth (2020–) is being released in three parts with Dia Art Foundation as part of their Artist Web Projects.

Giorgio Andreotta Calò (1979, Italy) studied Sculpture at the Academy of Venice and the Weißensee Kunsthochschule in Berlin. He was an assistant to Ilya and Emilia Kabakov from 2007–11. He participated in international residency programs such as the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, Villa Arson in Nice and the International Studio & Curatorial Program in New York. His work has been exhibited and presented in numerous personal and group exhibitions at institutions such as Oude Kerk, Amsterdam; and Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan. He has been the recipient of numerous prizes promoted by the Italian Ministry of Culture including the PAC – Piano per l’Arte Contemporanea (2021), the Italian Council (2017), the Premio Italia Arte Contemporanea (2012). He took part in the Biennale Arte 2011, and represented Italy at the Biennale Arte 2017. He lives and works in Venice where he teaches Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts.

Saodat Ismailova (1981, Uzbekistan) is a filmmaker and artist who lives and works between Tashkent and Paris. Her works have been presented in solo exhibitions at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing; Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam; the Center for Contemporary Art Tashkent; Tromsø Kunstforening; and the Kunstsammlungen & Museen Augsburg, among others. Ismailova’s works have also been featured in group shows at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Sharjah Biennal (2023); Para Site, Hong Kong; documenta fifteen, Kassel (2022); and Biennale Arte 2022 and 2013. Works by Ismailova are in the collections of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Almaty Museum of Arts; FRAC Corsica; and Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, Madrid, among others. In 2022, she was awarded the Eye Prize for Art and Film, Amsterdam. She is the initiator of the educational program CCA Lab and the Tashkent Film Encounters; and she is the founder of the DAVRA research group, which is dedicated to studying, documenting, and disseminating Central Asian culture and knowledge.

Basir Mahmood (1985, Pakistan/Netherlands) is an artist who lives and works between Lahore and Amsterdam. His works have been widely shown in institutions and international exhibitions, including Lahore Biennale (2020); Karachi Biennale (2019); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Berlin Biennale (2018); Contour Biennale, Mechelen (2017); Yinchuan Bienniale (2016); Sharjah Biennial (2013); and Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Mahmood’s works have been acquired by the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; the Centre national des arts plastiques; M HKA – Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, among others. Mahmood is an academic who teaches and delivers talks at notable art institutions, and served as Curator of VideoClub x IDFA at the Stedelijk Museum in 2018.

Cinthia Marcelle (1974, Brazil) and Tiago Mata Machado (1973, Brazil) are artists and filmmakers who live and work respectively in São Paulo and Belo Horizonte. Their works have been exhibited in museums, biennials, and institutions including Gallerie d’Italia, Turin; Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago; Pinacoteca de São Paulo; MAXXI, Rome; Biennale Jogja, Yogyakarta, and Biennale de Lubumbashi (both in 2017); Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement, Geneva (2016); KIASMA, Helsinki; Istanbul Biennial (2013); New Museum Triennial, New York (2012); Rochester Art Center; and Bienal de São Paulo (2010), among others. They worked together on a project that Marcelle presented as part of her representation of Brazil at the Biennale Arte 2017, which received a special mention.

Diego Marcon (1985, Italy) is an artist who centers his moving image practice on the investigation of cinematic archetypes, combining theoretical and structural approaches to filmmaking, with the sentimental attitudes of popular movie genres. Marcon has exhibited internationally with recent solo presentations at Kunsthalle Basel; Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato; Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan; and Museo MADRE, Naples. Recent group exhibitions include Biennale Arte 2022; Mudam, Luxembourg; Museo MACTE, Termoli; and Fondazione Prada, Milan. His films were presented in festivals such as Quinzaine des cinéastes, Cannes; International Film Festival Rotterdam; Viennale, Vienna; Festival du nouveau cinéma de Montréal; IndieLisboa, Lisbon; and BFI London Film Festival.

Ari Benjamin Meyers (1972, USA) is an artist who lives and works in Berlin. Trained as a composer and conductor at The Juilliard School, New York City (NY); Yale University, New Haven (CT), and The Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (MD), Meyers became widely known in the context of the visual and performative arts in 2007 as musical director and conductor of the group exhibition Il Tempo del Postino (Manchester International Festival in 2007, and Art Basel in 2009). Since then, Meyers’s works have been shown internationally in institutions and festivals including Berliner Festspiele; Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach; Festival d’Avignon; Hamburger Kunsthalle; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; MAAT, Lisbon; Beaufort Triennial; V–A–C Foundation, Moscow; OGR, Turin; Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara; Frac Franche-Comté, Besançon; Palazzo Grassi – Punta della Dogana, Venice; Liverpool Biennial; Nowy Teatr, Warsaw; Public Art Munich; Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam; Sonic Somatic Festival, Florence; Biennale de Lyon; and Lenbachhaus, Munich. His performances Unless and Forecast (LX23) are currently touring throughout Europe.

Christian Nyampeta is an artist who lives and works in New York, London, the Netherlands, and Rwanda. Nyampeta is a convenor of the Nyanza Working Group of ARAC – Another Roadmap School, which participated in documenta fifteen. His recent exhibitions were presented in institutions such as Shanghai Biennale (2023); Carnegie International, Pittsburgh; Istanbul Biennal; and Manifesta 14, Pristina (all in 2022). In 2019, Nyampeta was awarded with the Art Prize Future of Europe by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig, and the European Union Prize at the Bamako Encounters – African Biennial of Photography. Nyampeta was the convener of the Boda Boda Lounge 2022, a trans-African film and video art festival co-initiated by Centre d’Art Waza, Lubumbashi. Nyampeta is also a Member of Faculty at the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts, New York, where he teaches Performance. Nyampeta is a member of the Board of Directors at the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, and a board member of November magazine.