Gerardo Mosquera is a free lance curator and art critic based in Havana, Adjunct Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, advisor at the Rijksakademie van Beeldenden Kunsten, Amsterdam, and member of the advisory board of several art journals. He was a founder of the Havana Biennial, and has curated many exhibitions, including the international urban art event MultipleCity. ArtPanama 2003, Panorama da Arte Brasileira Contemporanea/ (Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Recife, Vigo, 2003-2004), It's Not What You See. Perverting Minimalism (Madrid, 2000), Cildo Meireles (New York, 1999), Important & Exportant (2nd. Johannesburg Biennale, 1997), Ante America (Bogota, Caracas, New York, San Francisco, San Diego..., 1992-1994). Author of numerous books and texts on contemporary art and art theory, Mosquera co-edited Over Here. International Perspectives on Art and Culture (Cambridge, 2004), and edited Beyond the Fantastic: Contemporary Art Criticism from Latin America (London, 1995).
Adam Szymczyk Photo: Hildegard Spielhofer
MA in Art History, Warsaw University, Poland. Participated in Curatorial Training Programme at De Appel, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (1995). Curator at the Foksal Gallery Foundation in Warsaw, Poland (1997-2003). Curator and writer, currently director of the Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland. Adam Szymczyk worked on exhibitions and publications with contemporary artists including Pawel Althamer, Christoph Büchel, Douglas Gordon, Susan Hiller, Edward Krasinski, Gustav Metzger, Rosalind Nashashibi, Gregor Schneider, Ahlam Shibli, Superflex, Piotr Uklanski, Krzysztof Wodiczko. Curated group exhibitions include 'Roundabout' (CCA, Warsaw, 1998), 'Amateur' (co-curated with Mark Kremer and Charles Esche, Kunstmuseum Göteborg, Sweden, 2000) 'Painters' Competition' (Galeria Bielska BWA, Bielsko-Biala, Poland, 2001), 'Hidden In a Daylight' (co- curated with Joanna Mytkowska and Andrzej Przywara, Hotel 'Pod brunatnym jeleniem', Cieszyn, Poland 2003). In 2008 Adam Szymczyk curated together with Elena Filipovic the 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, 'When things cast no shadow'.
John Rasmussen is the founder and curator of Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, a non profit gallery committed to encouraging innovation and diversity in the visual arts. He has curated exhibitions in the gallery's initial 5 years that have included artists such as Guyton/Walker, Aaron Young, Omer Fast, Michaela Meise, Rebecca Morris, Brice Dellsperger, Jorge Queiroz, Santiago Cucullu, Carter, and Jesper Just. Forthcoming Midway exhibitions and publications include Nate Lowman, Jay Heikes, Lisa Lapinski, and Todd Norsten.
