Art fair: viennacontemporary 2025

Valentino Catricalà (Ph.D) is currently working in Saudi Arabia setting up a big new project for Saudi Arabia Ministry of Culture. Valentino is also artistic director of MODAL Gallery at SODA-School of Digital Art in Manchester and lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. Valentino has curated many exhibitions in important museum and Galleries such as the Dara Birnbaum solo show at Fondazione Prada (Milano, Tokyo)He is co-curator, along with Barbara London, of the D’ORO D’ART Project, in collaboration with Marian Goodman Gallery. Valentino is also a member of the Advisory Board of the ZKM-Zentrum Fur Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe and of the ESEA contemporary in Manchester.

Hila Cohen-Schneiderman, is an Israeli curator, the newly appointed director and chief curator of the Center for Contemporary Art (CCA), Tel Aviv —- Yafo. The recipient of the 2021 Minister of Culture and Sports Award for Curation (Israel). Cohen-Schneiderman specializes in site-specific projects based on artistic research and explores the relationship between artists and art to the public and the urban realm. Between 2018-2024 she acted as Chief Curator of MoBY: Museums of Bat Yam, Israel. Between 2016-17 she curated the Liebling Project – a multi-disciplinary artists residency in collaboration with the Tel Aviv Municipality Conservation Department, which was rethinking the concept of urban conservation.

Dávid Fehér is Director of the Central European Research Institute for Art History of the Museum of Fine Arts, curator of 20th century and contemporary art at the Museum of Fine Arts, and assistant professor at the Institute of Art History, Eötvös Loránd University. He was a DAAD fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin in 2013, and was awarded the Ernő Kállai Scholarship in 2011 and 2019–2020. He is a member of the Hungarian Section of AICA.

Miguel Mesquita is an Architect and Curator based in Portugal. In 2013, he was a Junior Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES), participating in interdisciplinary projects that connected architecture, sociology, and art. He began his curatorial practice at the Serralves Museum under curator João Ribas, later serving as Artistic Director of BAGINSKI gallery. Trained in agroforestry and regenerative agriculture, he co-founded CEENTAA with Jérémy Pajeanc and Graça Passos – a project that intertwines artistic and agricultural practices as a means of recognising ourselves as part of nature, and of recovering art as an essential dimension of life, testing escape routes for the current situation in the world.

Edit Pula is an accomplished cultural leader, curator, and producer with a distinguished career spanning public institutions, independent initiatives, and cross-disciplinary artistic projects. As Director of the Tirana Art Gallery since 2023, she has combined strategic management with curatorial vision, fostering national and international collaborations, expanding public access to the arts, and commissioning innovative participatory projects. Her leadership has brought landmark exhibitions such as 39 works by Andy Warhol from a private collection to Albanian audiences, while also championing both established and emerging Albanian artists. She also initiated the first Affordable Art Fair in Albania.

Dorothea Schöne has been the artistic director of Kunsthaus Dahlem in Berlin since 2014. She studied art history, political science, sociology, and philosophy at the University of Leipzig. From 2005 to 2006, she was a Fulbright scholar at the University of California, Riverside, and worked at the LA County Museum of Art from 2006 to 2009. In the summer of 2025, she was awarded the The Americas Award for Art and Culture by Arenet. This fall, she will be guest curator of the BienalSur for the exhibition Hilo Común at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca in Mexico, together with Greta de León.