Jordan Wolfson: Ecce Homo / le Poseur

Martin Germann is senior curator at the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.) in Ghent. From 2008 to 2011, he worked as curator at the kestnergesellschaft in Hanover, and he has organized solo exhibitions and publications with artists such as Michael Borremans, Aaron Curry, Julian Go¨the, Joachim Koester, Elke Krystufek, Michael Sailstorfer, and Larry Sultan.

Esther Leslie is a writer and Professor of Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is the author of several books including Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism (2000), Hollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant-garde (2002), Synthetic Worlds: Nature, Art and the Chemical Industry (2006), and Derelicts: Thought Worms from the Wreckage (2014).

Aram Moshayedi is a writer and curator at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. He was formerly the associate curator of REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney / CalArts Theater) in Los Angeles, where he organized exhibitions and oversaw the production of new works by Jordan Wolfson, as well as Tony Cokes, Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda, Geoffrey Farmer, and Ming Wong. He previously served as curator from 2005 to 2010 at LAXART in Los Angeles.

Linda Norden is an independent curator, writer, and art historian. Norden’s writing has covered an extensive range of artists and critics, including Richard Artschwager, Robert Gober, Eva Hesse, Roni Horn, Pierre Huyghe, Lucy Lippard, Sharon Lockhart, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Ryman, and Cy Twombly.

Philippe Van Cauteren is artistic director of the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.) in Ghent. He has been selected to curate the Iraqi Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale. In 2002, he was curator of the first Bienal Ceara´ Ame´rica in Fortaleza, Brazil. He has worked as a freelance curator in Germany, Mexico, Chile, and Brazil, and regularly writes and lectures on contemporary art.