Chus Martínez is a curator, art historian, and writer who currently serves as Head of the Institute Art Gender Nature at the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW, where she leads research and teaching at the intersections of art, ecology, and feminist theory. As associate curator for Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21), she contributes to international projects exploring ecological and societal urgencies through contemporary art. Appointed Artistic Director of the 36th Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts, titled “The Oracle: On Fantasy and Freedom” (June 6–October 12, 2025), across major venues in Ljubljana, including MGLC, the Museum of Modern Art (MG+), City Art Gallery Ljubljana, and Jakopič Promenade.

Her career includes leadership roles at El Museo del Barrio New York, the Core Agent Group of dOCUMENTA(13), and major contemporary art institutions across Europe. Martínez is known for her interdisciplinary approach, integrating posthumanist, decolonial, and environmental perspectives, and for publishing widely on contemporary art’s potential to foster new ways of knowing and relating to the world. She is board member of CIMAM (International Committee for Museums) and serves on the advisory boards of numerous international art institutions, including Castello di Rivoli, Turin and Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin. She lectures and writes regularly including numerous catalogue texts and critical essays, and is a regular contributor to international journals. 

Yevgenia Belorusets, author and artist, lives and works in Kyiv and Berlin. She is the co-founder of Prostory (2017), a newspaper for literature and art, and has been a member of the curatorial group Hudrada since 2009.

She works with photography and interlingual writing at the intersection of art, literature, and social activism. She has participated in a number of Ukrainian and international exhibitions and readings in the context of social criticism and socially engaged art (including the Ukrainian pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2015 and 2022 and the Kyiv Biennale in 2015 and 2017, where she co-curated the exhibition).

Since 2014, she has been involved in several human rights initiatives in eastern Ukraine, working with the Eastern Human Rights Group, among others. In 2019, her book “Happy Cases” was published, documenting the experiences of women who lived in the midst of war. The book was awarded the 2020 International Literature Prize. Since the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war, Yevgenia Belorusets has kept a diary for Spiegel Online, reporting from the embattled capital. Her book “Beginning of the War: Diaries from Kyiv” collects these texts and will be published in October 2022 by Matthes & Seitz Berlin.

The team at Studio Olafur Eliasson works with Eliasson to develop, produce, and install artworks, projects, and exhibitions, as well as on experimentation, archiving, research, publishing, and communications. In addition to realizing artworks in-house, Eliasson and the studio work with and collaborate worldwide with cultural practitioners, policymakers, and scientists. The studio hosts workshops and events in order to further artistic and intellectual exchanges with people and institutions outside the art world.