Alex Farquharson has been Director of Nottingham Contemporary since April 2007, one of England’s leading and largest centres for contemporary art, which opened on 14 November 2009 with David Hockney in the 1960s and Frances Stark. Before this he was an independent curator, writer and lecturer. He curated If Everybody Had An Ocean at Tate St Ives and CAPC Bordeaux, 2005 - 2006, co-curated Le Voyage Interior at Espace Electra in Paris, 2005, and co-curated British Art Show 6 at Baltic and various venues in Manchester, Nottingham and Bristol in 2005 – 2006. His writings have appeared in Frieze, Artforum, Art Monthly and Metropolis M, and various exhibition catalogues and books  including Phaidon’s monograph on Isa Genzken and Whitechapel Art Gallery / MIT’s books on Gothic, on Utopia and The Artist’s Joke. He was Visiting Tutor and Research Fellow on the Curating Contemporary Art MA at Royal College of Art in London for a number of years.

In 2006, cultural researcher and curator Denis Isaia founded the Best Art Practices competition for young curators. In 2007, he won the Borsa Arte Giovane prize. In 2008, he worked as assistant for the Raqs Media Collective, with whom he curated the Tabula Rasa project. That year, he also launched the first Premio alle Passioni, “La Seconda Luna”. In 2009, he undertook Cosa Ho Visto di Bello, a study of the narration of beauty. He also began directing Anna Scalfi's "indeposito" project, a free deposit of artwork.

Daniel Baumann lives in Basel, Switzerland and is an art historian, freelance curator, and writer for among others Camera Austria, Kunst-Bulletin, Frog, Mousse, Parkett, Piktogram, and Spike Art. He is the director of the Adolf Wölfli Foundation, Museum of Fine Arts in Bern, Switzerland, the curator of Nordtangente-Kunsttangente, a project for art in public space in Basel, Switzerland, and the co-founder of New Jerseyy and Shift Festival in Basel. He advices Frieze Art Fair for Frame and curates since 2004 an ongoing exhibition series in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Pier Luigi Sacco is a professor of Cultural Economics, head of the Arts and Industrial Design Department and prorector of Communications and Publishing at IUAV University in Venice. He is the scientific director of Goodwill and the Fund Raising School and is on the scientific committee of the Festival dell'Arte Contemporanea di Faenza. He has edited Il fundraising per la cultura (Meltemi Editore), and is currently in the process of publishing his latest book, I distretti culturali evoluti. Un nuovo modello di sviluppo locale (Il Mulino). In addition to Mousse, he is a contributor to Il Sole 24 Ore and is on the editorial panel of Economia della Cultura, as well as writing columns for Exibart Onpaper and Flash Art.

After receiving his Pharmacy degree at the University of Padova, Massimo De Carlo became an art dealer in 1987. Driven by a keen passion for arts and inspired by contemporary jazz music, he dedicated himself to supporting the work of Italian artists while presenting foreign artists in Italy, with the aim of keeping up a dialogue with the most prestigious institutions, galleries, critics, curators and collectors all over the world.

Monika Szewczyk is a writer, editor and curator based in Berlin and Rotterdam. She is Head of Publications at the Witte de With Center for International Contemporary Art and professor at the Piet Zwart Institute, both in Rotterdam. She has co-edited the book Santhal Family: Positions Around an Indian Sculpture curated the exhibition “Harald Thys and Jos de Gruyter” at the Artspeak Gallery in Vancouver (2007) and edited the publication Paint: A Psychedelic Primer (2006). In addition to Mousse, she is a contributor to A Prior Magazine.

Valentinas Klimasauskas (b. 1977, Kaunas, Soviet Union), lives and works in Vilnius, Lithuania. He applied as a student at Manifesta 6 (Nicosia, Cyprus), which did not take place, and is a curator at Vilnius Contemporary Art Centre and author of Alfavilnius (kitos knygos, 2008). Among other projects, he recently curated the “Open Door Museum”, an exhibition on asteroid 2420 Ciurlionis, and “Introduction to the Galaxy of Gutenberg: Artist Book Exhibition”; co-curated “Expanding The Image Into Conversation” and “For the First and the Second Time”; and worked on the collective book project Yearbook.

Yann Chateigné Tytelman (b. 1977) is Head of Visual at Geneva University of Art and Design. He has been working as Chief Curator at CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art in Bordeaux after having worked at French Ministry of Culture and Pompidou Center in Paris. He curated and co-curated exhibitions such as Insiders. Practices, Uses, Know-how (CAPC, 2009), IDO. Explorations in French Psychedelia (CAPC, 2008), A Theater without Theater (Macba, Barcelona – Museu Berardo, Lisbon, 2007-08). To be published : “Double Meaning”, in Heimo Zobernig, Les Presses du Réel, 2009.

Raimundas Malasauskas is a writer and curator based in New York. Co-producer of CAC TV and So-Called Records, he is also a curator at Artists Space in New York. His exhibitions include: “24/7 Wilno – Nueva York” (CAC Vilnius, 2003); “PR 04 (A Tribute to the Messenger)”, Puerto Rico (2004), “Elektrodienos: Unidentified Audio Object” (CAC Vilnius, 2004), the “Bi-Fi” series of events (various locations, New York, 2001-2003), “Out Trip Out West, Pierre Bismuth & Jonathan Monk” (CAC Vilnius, 2001). He recently co-curated the 9th Baltic Triennial of International Art with Sofia Hernandez Chong Cuy and Alexis Vaillant.