Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019) was a Nigerian curator, author, university lecturer, and from 2011 to 2018 director at the Haus der Kunst in Munich. Unforgotten is Documenta 11, which he directed in 2006, but the highlight of his curatorial work is considered to be the 2015 Venice Biennale, which the press described as "an uninhibited, sovereign anthology of global contemporary art, with a strong emphasis on politically and socially motivated positions." Saskia Bos is a Dutch curator and exhibition organizer. From 1984 to 2005 she was artistic director and managing director of the Museum De Appel in Amsterdam, and before 1999 to 2002 she was president of the International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art. In 2005 she was appointed Dean of the School of Art at Cooper University New York City. As curator she has been involved in many international exhibition projects: 2009 Dutch Pavilion Biennale di Venezia, 2001 2nd Berlin Biennale, 1998 Dutch Commissioner Biennale of São Paulo, 1986 Sonsbeek '86 Arnhem. Doris von Drathen, born 1950, art historian, editor and author of numerous publications on contemporary artists, writes for art magazines such as Kunstforum International or Artforum. After guest professorships in Paris, London, Amsterdam, Lisbon, Helsinki, she worked from 2005-2007 at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, and at Columbia University New York.

Since 2007 she is professor at l'École SpÉciale d'Architecture Paris. She is currently working on experiences of de-territorialization in the face of art from the days of John Cage until today. Gilda Williams, is based in London since 1994 and a New York-born contemporary art critic, editor and teacher. She is since 2009 Senior Lecturer on the MFA in Curating programme, Goldsmiths College, and she also taught at the frieze academy, Sotheby's Institute of Art, the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University, and in the Guardian's Masterclass series. Adrian Searle has been art critic for the Guardian since 1996. Trained as a painter, he began writing in 1976 for Artscribe magazine. He has curated several exhibitions in the UK, Europe and the USA, including shows for the Hayward in 1994 and the Reina Sofia in Madrid in 2003. Most recently he curated the first retrospective of Brazilian sculptor Lucia Nogueira (1950-98), for the Serralves Museum in Porto.

He was a Turner Prize juror in 2004 and has taught at many art colleges and is a visiting professor at the Royal College of Art in London. Fiona Tan, is a visual artist and filmmaker and best known for her skillfully crafted video and film installations, in which explorations of memory, time, history and the role of visiual images are the key. Her installations and photographic works have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in international venues. In 2009 she represented The Netherlands at the 53rd Venice Biennale, and her works had been shown 2010 at the São Paulo Biennial, 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale, 2002 Documenta IX, and is collected at Tate Modern London, the Guggenheim Museum New York, and MCA Chicago. John Berger (1926-2017) was a British writer, painter and art critic. In 1972 he received the Booker Prize, half of the prize money of which he donated to the Black Panther Party. In the 1970s he worked closely with Alain Tanner and wrote the scripts for several of his films, including the eternal classic of the alternative scene Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 in 1975. Lynne Cooke, born 1952, is the Senior Curator, Special Projects in Modern Art, at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.

Prior to her present position, she was the deputy director and chief curator at the Museo Reina Sofia Madrid, Spain (2008 to 2012) and the curator at the Dia Art Foundation (1991 to 2008). She received her BA from Melbourne University and an MA and PhD in art history from the Courtauld Institute, University of London. She has taught and lectured regularly at the University Colle.