Artistic Director
Documenta 12, 2007
Kassel Germany
Roger Buergel is the artistic director of Documenta 12. An academic, curator and author, Buergel has curated numerous exhibitions of contemporary art dealing with governance together with his partner Ruth Noack. Among his past projects include: Things We Don't Understand (Generali Foundation, Vienna, 2000), Governmentality: Art in Conflict with the International Hyper-bourgeoisie and the National Petty Bourgeoisie (Alte Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, 2000); The Subject and Power – The Lyrical Voice (CHA Moscow, 2001); The Government (Kunstraum der Universität Lüneburg; MACBA-Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona; Miami Art Central; Secession, Vienna; Witte de With, Rotterdam, 2003 – 05). Buergel studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, the University of Vienna, MIT and Berkeley. He was the first recipient of the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement in 2003.
Curator
Dia Art Foundation
New York, USA
Lynne Cooke has been Curator at Dia Art Foundation since 1991. Co-curator of the 1991 Carnegie International, and Artistic Director of the 1996 Sydney Biennale she has also curated exhibitions in numerous venues in North America, Europe and elsewhere. In addition to teaching at Columbia University in the Graduate Fine Arts Department, she is a Visiting Critic at Yale University and is on the faculty for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. Among her numerous publications are recent essays on the works of Rodney Graham, Jorge Pardo, Diana Thater, and Agnes Martin.
Co-Editor of FRIEZE
Berlin, Germany
Jürg Heiser is co-editor of Frieze Magazine, a frequent contributor to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, a writer on art and culture (recent essays on Susan Hiller, Glenn Brown), and an occasional freelance curator: Funky Lessons (2004/2005, BueroFriedrich Berlin and BAWAG Foundation Vienna), Romantic Conceptualism (2007/2008, Kunsthalle Nuremberg, and other venues).
Director, Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Marta Kuzma is a curator and critic who more recently co/curated the International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Manifesta 5, in San Sebastian, Spain (June 2004). Formerly, the Director for Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) in Washington, DC, and Director of the Soros Center for Contemporary Art, in Kyiv, she also directed International Exhibitions at the International Center of Photography in NY, NY. A graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University, and post graduate of Art Theory and Aesthetics from the Centre for Modern European Philosophy at Middlesex University, London, Kuzma contributes to various journals of contemporary art and culture including Radical Philosophy, London, and Flash Art International. Kuzma is on the advisory board of Apex Curatorial in NYC and of the Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland.
Chief Curator
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA)
Bartomeu Mari was born in Eivissa, Spain, in 1966, and studied philosophy at the University of Barcelona. He is the Chief Curator at the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA). Previous to holding this position, Mari was Project Director for the International Center for Contemporary Culture in Donostia-San Sebastián, after six years as the director of the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Recent projects include The Great Theater of the World at the 2002 Taipei Biennial, which included the work of such artists as Oladele Bamgboye, Thomas Demand, and Joan Jonas. Mari has written on the work of David Lamelas, Thomas Schütte, Lawrence Weiner, Marcel Broothaers, Rachel Whiteread, and Juliao Sarmento, among many others.
Director
Wiels
Brussels, Belgium
Dirk Snauwaert is the founding director of the contemporary art center WIELS, which is due to open at the end of 2006 in Brussels, Belgium. Before this, Snauwaert served as co-director of the Institut d'Art Contemporain in Villeurbanne-Lyon, France; as director of the Kunstverein in Munich and as curator for contemporary art at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. Dirk Snauwaert has curated, published and lectured widely on topics related to contemporary art and visual culture He also served on the jury of the internationally reknown award - BlueOrange 06.