++++ Iara Boubnova, Founding Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia

++++ Nuria Enguita Mayo, Chief Curator at Fundació Tàpies in Barcelona

++++ Stéphanie Moisdon Trembley, independent curator and co-founder of bdv (bureau des videos), Paris

++++ Iara Boubnova, curator and art critic, born 1961 in Moscow and graduated from the Moscow State University in 1983. As an independent curator, she has curated over 25 individual and group shows in Bulgaria, where she lives since 1984 and abroad. Her most important projects include: ‘Locally Interested’, Sofia, ‘Station Sofia’ (together with Luchezar Boyadjiev) in ‘Translocation’, Vienna (both 1999); ‘Bulgariaavantgarde. Contending Forces II’, Munich (1998); ‘The Prying Game’ (together with the first-year students of the Centre for Curatorial Studies, Bard College), USA; ‘Menschenbilder. Foto- and Videokunst aus Bulgarien’, Berlin; ‘ARS EX NATIO. Made in BG’, Plovdiv, Bulgaria and ‘Erato’s Version’ (both together with Maria Vassileva) - all in 1997; ‘Bulgarian Glimpse Show’, Moscow (1996); ‘In Search of Self-Reflection’, Plovdiv (1994); ‘Object Bulgarian Style’, Sofia (1993). She curated and organized Bulgarian participation at the: 48 Biennale di Venezia (together with Nedko Solakov, the participating artist in 1999); the 3rd Biennial in Cetinje, Montenegro, Yugoslavia (1997); the 4th St. Petersburg Biennial (1996); the 4th Istanbul Biennial (1995); the 22nd Sao Paulo Biennial (1994) and the Tirana Biennial (2001). She was the co-curator of the ‘Reconstructions’, the 4th Biennial in Cetinje, Montenegro, Yugoslavia and of the ‘Boundless Borders’ Public Project, travelling 2002.

++++ Iara Boubnova is the founding Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art - Sofia. Since 1997, she has been a lecturer at the New Bulgarian University, Visual Arts and Communication Department.

++++ In 1999 she participated in The Getty Summer Institute for Art History and Cultural Studies at Rochester University, USA and in 1997 she was an Arts Link Program visiting lecturer at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, USA. In 1995 and 1994 she had fellowships to study Management of Art Institutions in Vienna and London. Iara Boubnova was a Getty Foundation’s Grant Program Fellow for 1995.

++++ Since 1985 she has been a registrar-curator for East-European Art and, since 1997, Chair of the Museum Board at the National Gallery for Foreign Art in Sofia. Iara Boubnova has more then 200 publications on contemporary art in Bulgarian and foreign periodicals as well as in international catalogues.
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++++ Born in Madrid 1967. Graduated in Art History & Theory at the Universidad Autónoma in Madrid. Between 1991 and January 1998 she worked at IVAM (Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno), where from 1995 onwards and in the capacity of curator she organized exhibitions devoted to Cildo Meireles, José Antonio Orts and Juan Downey, among other artists. Her association with the Fundació Antoni Tàpies began in 1996 with her collaboration as co-curator of the Lygia Clark exhibition. In May 1998 she organized the group show Scattered Affinities held at Apex Art in New York and subsequently at Fundación Telefónica in Madrid. Other international collaboration includes her selection of films and videos of the sixties and seventies for the permanent collection of the Serralves Museum, the contemporary art museum in Porto which opened on 6 June 1999.

++++ From June 1998 to the present day she has held the position of Chief Curator at Fundació Antoni Tàpies, where she works in close collaboration with Spanish and also international curators. The exhibition programming at the Foundation has focused, on one hand, on artists working in the nineties on the recovery of experiences which entailed, in the seventies, a frontal attack on high culture, creating an anti-hegemonic practice in the social and cultural fields, as exemplified in the shows devoted to Renée Green, Rainer Oldendorf and Eulàlia Valldosera. Another significant guiding line has been the presentation of the work of artists from the seventies whose oeuvres have contributed to breaking the hegemonic discourse through reflections on Marxism, structuralism, psychoanalysis and feminism (Victor Burgin), thanks to the mass media (Andy Warhol) or via the link between art and life (Hans-Peter Feldmann).

++++ In line with these initiatives, other projects have been presented as detailed studies such as Archive Cultures and Inside-Out: El jardí del Cambalache, which deal with the acknowledgement of social and political endeavours closely linked to artistic practice which prompt a reconsideration of history proper (such as we find in the work of Jean-Luc Godard, Federico Guzmán, Chris Marker and Basilio Martín Patino, also presented at the Foundation). Nuria Enguita Mayo is Member of directorial team at UNIA (International University of Sevilla), in the program Art and Thinking.
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++++ Born in 1967, lives and works in Paris. After studies in the semiology of image and cinematic research, she worked at the video and new media department of the Centre Georges Pompidou. There she edited the catalogue of the video collection and managed the annual programs for young creativity.

++++ In 1994 she founded ‘bdv’ (bureau des vidéos) with Nicolas Trembley, an agency for the production, distribution and broadcasting of unlimited editions of artists’ video works. She has curated exhibitions such as ‘X/Y’ at the Centre Georges Pompidou (1994), ‘Autoreverse’ at Le Magasin, Centre National d’Art Contemporain in Grenoble (1996), ‘XN 99’ at Espace des Arts, Chalon-sur-Saône (1999), ‘ZAC’ at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1999) and more recently ‘Présumés innocents’ at the Capc Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux (2000) and ‘Visitors’ for the ‘Printemps de Septembre’ in Toulouse (2001).

++++ She has been responsible for the monthly program on young artists ‘Prospect’, Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, since 1997. She curated and organized an intermediate space between art and cinema for the production and broadcasting company MK2. Teacher at the Paris III University from 1995 to 1999, she runs the Post Diplome of the Fine Arts School in Nantes (2000-2001). She is art editor of the magazine self service and writes monographic texts for exhibition catalogues and contributes regularly as an art critic to various magazines such as Art press, Beaux Arts Magazine, Purple, Hanatsubaki, Make, Documents sur l’art. She is the art editor of the magazine Self Service.
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