Matthia Lö bke (born 1963) is artistic director of the Kunstverein Heilbronn, is curator and publishes monographic catalogs, among others to Carina Brandes, Natalie Czech, Katja Davar, Olaf Metzel, Carl Ostendarp, Michael Venzia, Silke Wagner. She did her doctorate on Dan Flavin and did the office in Cologne for Donald Judd until his death. Anselm Reyle was born in Tü bingen in 1970. His father was a doctor, his mother a painter, and both espoused the political ideals of the ' 68 generation. The young artist grew up with his younger brother Georg in Heilbronn. About his upbringing he said: » I always tried to negate the good taste I was taught.« Reyle, who changed schools ten times in ten years and founded a punk band during his school years, managed to graduate from Highschool with difficulty; he broke off an apprenticeship as a landscape gardener after two years. He tha studied painting at the Academy in Karlsruhe.
Larissa Kikol (born 1986, lives in Cologne and Marseille) is an independent art critic and art historian. She writes for Kunstforum International, Die Zeit, art, Spiegel Onlin, and also publishes in artist catalogues, museum publications and for gallery exhibitions.