Shulamit Bruckstein is a thinker, curator, theory-artist and art critic. She is the founder of Taswir projects, a collaborative platform for artistic research and diasporic thinking (Berlin) and the curator of numerous international exhibitions in collaboration with museums, galleries, non-profit art spaces, and other agents of contemporary art. Bruckstein is the author of House of Taswir - Doing and Undoing Things. Notes on Epistemic Architecture(s) (2014), and held various professorships in philosophy and cultural theory in Berlin, Jerusalem, Basel, a.o. In 2010, she curated the Taswir exhibition at Martin-Gropius Bau in Berlin. Currently Shulamit holds an artists' fellowship at the Kulturakademie Tarabya.

Born in Detmold in 1972, Hanselle studied German philology and philosophy at the University of Bonn. After internships and editorial positions at various German daily and weekly newspapers, he has been working as a freelance journalist in Berlin and Vienna since 2000. His work focuses on photo and art criticism as well as reports from the fields of culture and intellectual life. His work is regularly published in magazines such as Cicero, monopol, mare, PHOTOGRAPHIE, fotoMAGAZIN and Madame as well as in the daily newspapers taz and Der Standard.

Jane Neal is an independent curator, art critic and advisor. Regarded as a leading expert on the contemporary art scene in Eastern Europe, ARTINFO and The Financial Times also described her as one of the most knowledgable independent curators working today in the field of figurative painting. Neal was formerly Artistic Director of Calvert 22 in London, a not for profit foundation specialising in Russian and Eastern European Contemporary Art. She has curated institutional and commercial exhibitions throughout the world and co-authored the best-selling art book: 'Art Cities of the Future: 21 Century Avant Gardes' for Phaidon. Neal was educated at Oxford University and the Courtauld Institute, London. She lives and works between Oxford, London and Berlin.