Nil Yalter (b.1938, Cairo, Egypt) lives and works in Paris, where she has been since 1965. Yalter is considered an early leading figure of video art and installation in the Turkish speaking contemporary art scene. A pioneer in the French feminist art movement of the 1970s, she engaged in dance, theatre and painting during this time, and also practiced pantomime and travelled by foot to India. She participated in the French counter culture and revolutionary political movement of the late 1960s, immersing herself in debates around gender, migrant workers from Turkey, and other issues. Yalter’s works blend these influences with autobiographical elements, so that the personal and the political intertwine. She received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale 2024. 

Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu is a curator, writer, and educator working on constructive critiques of civilization, sustainability of intersectional futures, and practices of togetherness. She co-leads Art in Discourse at Braunschweig University of Art along with Ana Teixeira Pinto. Durmuşoğlu recently curated two major monographic exhibitions: Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz’s Portrait of a Movement at CA2M, Madrid, and Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm (2022–23), and Katrina Daschner’s Burn & Gloom, Glow & Moon: Thousand Years of Troubled Genders at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2022), also editing their publications.Between 2021 and 2023 she co-curated the 3rd and the 4th editions of Autostrada Biennale in Kosovo with Joanna Warsza. She lives and works in Berlin.

An artist-theorist and historian, Jill H. Casid holds the appointment of Professor of Visual Studies in the Departments of Art History and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Casid is bringing to completion Doing Things with Being Undone in the Necrocene, the first part of a two-book project on Form at the Edges of Life. Casid is the author of Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization (Minnesota, 2005), Scenes of Projection: Recasting the Enlightenment Subject (Minnesota, 2015) which is in Spanish translation (Metales Pesados, 2022), and the co-edited collection Art History in the Wake of the Global Turn (Yale, 2014). Casid’s artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally.