Art fair: viennacontemporary 2024

Bruno Mokross works as an artist, curator, and software developer in Vienna. He runs the independent exhibition space Pech and is one of the founders and main organizers of Independent Space Index, the network and eponymous festival of Viennese project spaces.

Since 2022 she has been the co-curator of Portikus, Frankfurt, together with Liberty Adrien, where she has worked on new commissions by Simone Fattal (2023), Lap-See Lam (2023), and Asad Raza (2022) as well as group shows featuring Luiz Roque, Sung Tieu, Cecilia Vicuña, and Slavs and Tatars, among others. Upcoming projects include a solo exhibition by Adrian Piper, opening in November. Previously Carina served for several years as an editor of frieze magazine. She is the founder of PASSE-AVANT, an online magazine for contemporary art, and her writings have appeared in various monographs and magazines, such as Mousse Magazine, Spike Art Magazine and Kunstchronik.Alongside these practices, she regularly teaches.

Currently Director of Camden Art Centre in London, and previously Director of Bergen Kunsthall, Norway and Tate St Ives, Cornwall, over the last 25 years he has curated and organised over 100 exhibitions, most recently with Matthew Krishanu, Lonnie Holley and Tamara Henderson. He has written widely on contemporary art and artists and in 2023 he served on the jury for the Turner Prize. He lives and works in London.

His programme is based on transdisciplinary approach in which all strands are deeply connected. His research and approach concerns the expansion of images within the field of contemporary arts and includes liveness, cinematic aspects, the digital realm, collection and conservation of time-based artworks, and new forms of sharing. Formerly he was Senior Curator, International Art (Film) at Tate Modern, London, and previously curator at HangarBicocca, Milan. In 2019, he co-curated the Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement The Sound of Screens imploding, Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève and OGR, Turin, and participated in the international opening of CCA Tashkent, the first public contemporary art centre in Uzbekistan.

Dr Isabella Maidment is a curator, art historian and Chief Curator of ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Denmark where she leads on the artistic programme. In previous curatorial roles at Tate Britain, Tate Modern and The Hepworth Wakefield, she curated critically acclaimed exhibitions including Hurvin Anderson: Salon Paintings, Isaac Julien: What Freedom Is To Me, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Fly In League With The Night, and Anne Imhof: Sex. A specialist in performance and innovative exhibition formats, she holds a PhD in History of Art from University College London.

Zane Onckule is Curator and Programme Director at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre in Riga (2010–2017 and from 2020). She was co-commissioner of 13.Baltic Triennial in 2018 and a co-commissioner of Latvian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale. Selected curatorial and collaborative projects: solo shows by Indriķis Ģelzis (2023), Ilya Lipkin (2022), Daiga Grantina (2022), Inga Meldere (2022), Sophie Thun (2021). Onckule's writing and reviews have appeared in Artforum, MoMA Post, Art Monthly, Echogonewrong.com, Kultūras Diena, Arterritory.com, and Foto Kvartāls among others.

Marek Pokorný (*1963) is an art critic and curator, since 2013 the director of the city gallery for contemporary art PLATO in Ostrava. From 2004 to 2012 he lead the Moravian Gallery in Brno and the International Biennial of Graphic Design Biennial Brno. In 2005 and 2013 he was the curator of the Czech-Slovak Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. As co-founder and editor, from 1995 to 2000 he was the editor of the visual arts magazine Detail. In the 90‘s, he was one of the profile art critics in Czech Republic who wrote for daily and weekly newspapers. He is focusing in reflecting on the role of cultural institutions in society. In 2022 he received the Ministry of Culture Award for his contribution to the visual arts.

Janne Villadsen has recently been appointed Director at one of Copenhagen’s larges theaters. The vision is to turn Nørrebro Theater into an international cross-cultural art institution focusing on inclusion and engagement. Furthermore, Janne is appointed member at Odense Art Council and chairwoman at Copenhagen Photo Festival. Previously Janne has been Program Director and part of the Directory at Heartland, a cultural festival taking place at Funen, Denmark as well as Head of Communication at Chart Art Fair in Copenhagen, the leading platform for contemporary art in the Nordic region.