Raphael Koenig is a postdoctoral Fellow at the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC), and a Research Associate at the Comparative Literature Department at Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. in November 2018. He is also a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and the Sorbonne in Paris. Raphael’s research focuses on French, German, and Yiddish avant-garde literature and visual culture, more specifically on the reception of the so-called “art of the insane” from the early 1920s to the late 1940s.

Thomas Röske, Ph.D., is the Director of the Museum Prinzhorn Collection, University Hospital of Heidelberg since 2002 and the President of the European Outsider Art Association since 2012. He teaches regularly at the art historical departments of the universities of Heidelberg and Frankfurt.

Curator and art historian Choghakate Kazarian was formerly a curator at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris and taught at the École du Louvre. She has curated exhibitions on artists such as Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni, Karel Appel, and Henry Darger, and she has edited various exhibition catalogues and published on postwar art, outsider art, Marcel Duchamp, and Louis Michel Eilshemius. She is Editor-at-Large at the Brooklyn Rail and is a ph.d. candidate at the Courtauld Institute of Art, where she is writing a dissertation on Albert Pinkham Ryder. She is currently a Terra Foundation fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.