Thorsten Schneider is an art historian and critic. Since 2019, he has been a researcher at Leuphana University Lü neburg' s interdisciplinary graduate program Cultures of Critique, working on a dissertation about ideology critique in German-speaking art history around 1968 and its relevance for contemporary art criticism. Vladimir Vidar studied Philosophy and Journalism at Universita in Ljubljana. He worked at the City Museum of Ljubljana (2007- 2010) and as assistant to the artistic director of S kuc Gallery (2010- 2013). His curatorial projects include international exhibitions and research on institutional critique in Central and Southeast Europe. He co-curated » Children Want Communism« (Tel Aviv) and is preparing a project on 1990s Slovenian art with Tadej Pogacar. Since 2016, he has taught at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana and became a curator there at the MG+MSUM in 2024. Nikola Ukic (b.
1974 in Rijeka) studied Philosophy at the University of Rijeka (1993- 1994) and Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb (1995- 1999) before joining Georg Herold' s class at the Kunstakademie Dü sseldorf (2000- 2004). Between 2017 and 2024, he held teaching positions at the Kunstakademie Dü sseldorf and the University of Siegen before becoming Professor of Sculpture at the Technical University of Dortmund. Since 2000, he has received numerous awards and exhibited widely in Germany and former Yugoslavian countries, including a 2023 solo exhibition at MMSU - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka. Rolf Hengesbach founded his gallery in Wuppertal in 1991. After relocating temporarily to Cologne, he moved the gallery to Berlin in 2009, where he organized solo and group exhibitions in a renovated industrial hall until 2013. Since 2014, the gallery has been based again in Wuppertal. With nearly three decades of experience, Hengesbach' s artists are held in public and private collections and regularly participate in international exhibitions. Sabina Salamon is a curator at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka.
She studied Philosophy and Art History in Ljubljana and was a member of The Club of Young Artists of Rijeka in the 1990s. From 2002- 2005, she served as acting director of the Mediterranean Sculpture Symposium in Labin and later ran the City Gallery Labin' s program (2006- 2010). Since 2010, she has curated the Photography and New Media collections at MMSU, focusing on interdisciplinary approaches and promoting Croatian artists internationally.