Tamuna Sirbiladze

Max Henry is a poet, independent curator, and art critic. He has written for Art Agenda, frieze, The Art Newspaper, the Saatchi gallery, Norton Museum of Art, and many other publications and catalogs. Currently he is working on a collection of poems, Venus Spleen, and a fabulist theatrical tale, “El Rey”, about Picasso in the twenty-first century. He has curated numerous gallery exhibitions.

Anna Kats is a Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Kats studied Slavic Languages and Literatures, and History of Art and Architecture at Barnard College of Columbia University, where her research focused on the interwar genealogy of architectural postmodernism in the Soviet Union and postcolonial critique in East Central Europe. She is also an alumna of the Fulbright Program. Her writing has appeared in a variety of books and publications, including Artforum and Architect Magazine. In her research on both contemporary and historic architecture and art, she treats historiography as a tool for dismantling hierarchies between cosmopolitan centers and provincial peripheries. She serves as Visiting Assistant Professor at the Pratt Institute in New York and as Contributing Editor at Metropolis Magazine.

Benedikt Ledebur is a literary critic, writer, translator, and poet born in 1964 in Munich. Curating and collaborating with artists, he was the editor of Der Ficker in 2005 and 2006—a resumption of Ludwig von Ficker’s Der Brenner—published on the occasion of exhibitions in Austria and Belgium showing the works of Franz West, Clegg & Guttman, Rudolf Polanszky, and Tamuna Sirbiladze. His other publications include Das Paradox des Realen: Essays zur Kunst (2014), Ein Fall für die Philosophie: Über Dichtung, Rhetorik und Mathematik (2014), ÜBER/TRANS/LATE/SPÄT (2001), and Poetisches Opfer (1998). He has also published translations of works by John Donne. He lives and works in Vienna.

Julie Ryan is a painter and curator who writes on art and culture. Following her time as a contributing editor to Index magazine, Ryan spent ten years in Vienna, and returned to Brooklyn in 2011, where she now lives. Ryan was also a longtime correspondent to Artnet.com and Tema Celeste magazines and has written essays for multiple artist catalogues. Ryan’s work is included in Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox, an exhibition organized by Luca lo Pinto at Kunsthalle Vienna in 2017. Ryan is currently writing a book of essays on the late Franz West, one of which will be included in the catalogue for West’s retrospective at Centre Pompidou opening in 2018, and traveling to the Tate Modern in 2019.