Melanie Bühler lives and works in Amsterdam. She is responsible for Lunch Bytes (http://www.lunch-bytes.com/) a platform/discussion series on art and digital culture. As a curator, her most recent projects include SURFACE POETRY at Boetzelaer/Nispen Amsterdam (January-February 2014) as well as BRANDS - CONCEPT/AFFECT/MODULARITY at SALTS Project Space, Birsfelden (April-Mai 2014).
Florian Cramer, is an applied research professor and director of Creating 010, the research center affiliated to Willem de Kooning Academy and Piet Zwart Institute at the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands.
Dr. Michaela de Pury is an expert in Contemporary Art, Design and Photography and holds a PHD in the fields of History of Art, Archaeology, Literature and Philosophy. She is Co-Founder and Partner of de Pury & de Pury, a company specialising in private treaty sales and advising major private collections. Until 2013 she was Senior Director of Phillips de Pury & Company and before Senior Partner. Prior to joining Phillips de Pury, she was the CEO and co-owner of Neumeister Auctions in Munich.
Simon de Pury is one of the leading figures in the art market. From 2000 to 2012 he was Chairman and Chief Auctioneer of Phillips de Pury & Company. Earlier in his career he was Chairman Europe and Chief Auctioneer Worldwide at Sotheby‘s. He was also curator of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection that today is housed in its own museum in Madrid. At the beginning of 2013, Simon founded together with his wife Michaela, de Pury de Pury, a company specializing in private transactions of Impressionist, Modern, Post War and Contemporary Art.
Annet Dekker is an independent curator and researcher. Currently she works as Researcher Digital Preservation at Tate, Post Doc Research Fellow at LSBU and The Photographers Gallery, London and tutor at Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. http://aaaan.net
Carl Kostyal is a London and Stockholm based private collector and dealer
Gabriel Lester is a visual artist, adventurer and film director living and working in Amsterdam and on the road. His practice encompasses music, cinema, spatial installation, performance art, sculpture,architecture, photography, and prose.
Hampus Lindwall is a Swedish, Paris based collector and musician.
Investment banker, entrepreneur, as well as passionate and committed collector of contemporary art, member of numerous art juries and collectors’ committee, and avid “information-sharer” via twitter (@aservais1) and blogs
Jane Suitor is a distracted wife and mother whose never ending passion is contemporary art. Having established Found Art in 1999 Jane assists in the buying and selling of modern and contemporary art.
After dealing in American art from the 1930s and 1940s for twenty years, Steve Turner opened Steve Turner Contemporary in 2007. Since then he has done thousands of studio visits, mounted hundreds of exhibitions and participated in scores of art fairs in the United States, Europe and Latin America. Among the artists he has worked with are Petra Cortright, Parker Ito, Jonas Lund, Pablo Rasgado, Camilo Restrepo, Rafaël Rozendaal and Michael Staniak.
Ben Vickers is a curator, writer, network analyst, technologist and luddite. Currently Curator of Digital at the Serpentine Gallery, he co-runs LIMAZULU Project Space, is NearNow Fellow and facilitates the development of unMonastery, a new civically minded social space prototyped in Matera, Southern Italy throughout 2014.
Leo Xu is a curator and writer based in Shanghai. He was the associate director at James Cohan Gallery, Shanghai (from 2009 to 2011), before founding his curatorial platform Leo Xu Projects in 2011.
Roy Zabludowicz graduated from Bard college where he worked at CCS Hessel museum and Roubini. Global Economics. He has spent a year at the pr firm Milltown Partners and is currently based in Las Vegas where he had been working on various development projects.