María Inés Plaza Lazo (*1989 in Ecuador) understands curating as informal research, class struggle and institutional critique. She practices her anti-academic stance as a guest lecturer at universities and colleges and as editor of the multilingual street newspaper "Arts of the Working Class".

Madeleine Planeix-Crocker is Associate Curator at Lafayette Anticipations. Madeleine is also co-director of the "Troubles, Alliances et Esthétiques" Chair at the Beaux-Arts de Paris and a permanent member of the Scientific Research Council of the ESAD, Reims. A graduate of Princeton University in cultural studies, Madeleine earned a Master's degree in Media, Art and Creation from HEC Paris and a Master's degree from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). There she led an arts-based research-action project with Women Safe non-profit, where she now facilitates a theater and creative writing workshop. Madeleine is currently a PhD candidate at the EHESS (CRAL), studying practices for commoning in contemporary performance. She has been practicing dance and theater since childhood.

Krist Gruijthuijsen Curator and art critic Krist Gruijthuijsen has been the director of KW Institute for Contemporary Art since July 1, 2016. He has curated exhibitions by Hanne Lippard, Ian Wilson, Adam Pendleton, Ronald Jones, Hiwa K, Willem de Rooij, Beatriz González, David Wojnarowicz, Hreinn Friðfinnsson, Hassan Sharif, Leonilson, and Peter Friedl, Michel Majerus, Martin Wong, and Enrico David among others, and has edited numerous publications. Krist Gruijthuijsen is internationally well-connected and has many years of experience as curator and director of leading international institutions for contemporary art. Gruijthuijsen was artistic director of the Grazer Kunstverein from 2012 until 2016 and held the position of course director of the MA Fine Arts Department at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam from 2011 until 2016. He is one of the co-founding directors of the Kunstverein in Amsterdam and has organized many exhibitions and projects over the past 15 years, including Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven, NL), Arnolfini (Bristol, GB), Project Arts Centre (Dublin), Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (Salt Lake City, US), Institute of Modern Art (Brisbane, AU), Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (Gateshead, GB), Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery (Vancouver, CA), with MoMA PS1 (New York), CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux (FR), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève (CH), Sharjah Art Foundation, Malmö Konsthall (SE) , and Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves (Porto, PT). Gruijthuijsen’s appointment was part of a structural repositioning of KW Institute for Contemporary Art. Based on an amendment to the statutes, KW will be represented by Krist Gruijthuijsen as director; Gabriele Horn, former director of KW and the Berlin Biennale, will serve as director of the Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art in the future. Foto_Credit: Krist Gruijthuijsen, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2020, Foto: Frank Sperling