Malbran

Florencia Malbrán

Florencia Malbrán is a writer and independent curator. Most recently, she curated Unseen Voices: Alejandro Cesarco and Jorge Méndez Blake, at the Fundación Proa, and Gian Paolo Minelli: Villa Lugano + Zona Sur, at the Centro Cultural Recoleta, in Buenos Aires.

Malbrán has held curatorial positions in several art institutions. In 2007-2008, she was Hilla Rebay International Fellow at the Guggenheim Museums, working in contemporary and modern exhibitions across the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum, Bilbao; and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice. She has also actively collaborated with the Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo (2006), and the Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires (2004-2005).

Malbrán received an M.A. in Curatorial Studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York, where she was a Bruce T. Halle Family Foundation Fellow, and she presented her thesis exhibition including work by Ernesto Neto. She is currently completing a doctorate in arts and humanities at the National University of Rosario, Argentina, and is a PhD Fellow at the National Council of Scientific Research, Division of Arts, Argentina.

Asbury

Michael Asbury

Michael Asbury is an art historian, critic, and curator. He completed his PhD in the History and Theory of Art with the thesis 'Hélio Oiticica: Politics and Ambivalence in 20th Century Brazilian Art' (The London Institute, 1999-2003). In 2003, he was awarded an ACE award to research contemporary Brazilian Artists' Groups as well as a British Council grant to fund research on contemporary artists in five Brazilian cities (São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Brasilia and Recife). He has written extensively on contemporary transnational art, modernism and the politicisation of cultural practice in Brazil during the 1960s, and has contributed to and chaired numerous international symposia, study days and panel discussions, including 'Nation Identity and Modernity: India, Japan, Mexico 1860s-1940s' at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London in 2004  and 'Ideals of Modernity', a web-cast panel discussion about the 'Rio de Janeiro 1950 - 1964' section of the 'Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis' exhibition, Tate Modern in 2001. He has also curated and organised several exhibitions, including 'Antonio Manuel' at The Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus in 2005, and 'Sebastião Salgado' and 'Brazilian Faces' at Gallery 32 in association with the Brazilian Embassy in London, both in 2002.

Grau

Donatien Grau

Donatien Grau is an alumnus of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris and an 'agrégé' in Classics. A member of the editorial board of ‘La Règle du Jeu’, he has written on contemporary art, in France and internationally, for publications such as 'Art Press' and 'AnOther Magazine'. He is the co- author, with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Elie During, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, of a book on curating that is going to be published in 2011.

Kvaran

Gunnar B. Kvaran

Direktør ved Astrup Fearnley Museet Gunnar B. Kvaran, har i flere år hatt tette forbindelser til den unge kunstscenen i New York, hvor Gardar Eide Einarsson er en av de ledende skikkelsene. Hans innledning presenterer utstillingen og inviterer leseren på en fascinerende reise inn i Einarssons kunstneriske univers.