Roger Buergel
Roger M. Buergel was the artistic director of documenta 12. He is now the chief curator and deputy director of programs at the
Miami Art Museum. Previously Buergel has worked as an independent curator of museum exhibitions, he is a past professor of art
history at the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts, and a scholar of visual theory who has lectured at the University of Lüneburg, Germany.
Michael Leja
Michael Leja teaches History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania. His book Looking Askance: Skepticism and American Art from
Eakins to Duchamp (2004) traces the interactions between the visual arts and the skeptical forms of seeing engendered in modern
life in northeastern American cities between 1869 and 1917. He is currently at work on a book exploring changes in pictorial
forms and in social relations associated with the industrialisation of picture production and the development of a
mass market for images in the mid-nineteenth century.
Ruth Noack
Ruth Noack is an art historian, lecturer, independent curator and art critic. Together with Roger M. Buergel she co-curated documenta 12 in 2007.
Noack also teaches film theory at the University of Vienna. From 2002-03 she served as the President of the Association Internationale des Critiques
d'Art in Austria and from 1994 has served as an art critic for Camera Austria and Texte zur Kunst. Noack's publications include:
Shirin Neshat (2000), Double Life: Identity and Transformation in Contemporary Art (2002), Danica Dakic: Role-taking,
Role-making (2006) and documenta 12 Catalogue & Reader (2007).
Peter Osborne
Peter Osborne is a Professor of Modern European Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Research in Modern European
Philosophy, Middlesex University, London, and editor of the journal, Radical Philosophy. His books include The Politics
of Time: Modernity and Avant-Garde (1995), Philosophy in Cultural Theory (2000), Conceptual Art (2002)
and How to Read Marx (2005). He is the editor of the 3 volume Walter Benjamin: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory (2005).
Suely Rolnik
Suely Rolnik is a psychoanalyst, cultural critic, independent curator and Professor at the Universidade Católica de São Paulo and a
guest lecturer at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Contemporary Art History and Visual
Culture Master; the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona Independent Studies Program; and the Départament de Danse, Université de
Paris 8. She is the author, along with Félix Guattari, of Molecular Revolution in Brazil (Semiotext(e), 2007).