Prof. Dr. Hanne Loreck is a professor of art and cultural studies/gender studies and a member of the Theory and History study program. She also works as a freelance author and art critic. Her research focuses on subject theory, questions of aesthetic-political action, and theories of image and perception. She worked as a lecturer and visiting professor at numerous universities and art colleges before being appointed to the HFBK Hamburg in 2004. Mark Terkessidis (born 1966) is a German journalist, author, and migration researcher. His main areas of interest are youth and pop culture, migration, and racism. Thomas Wulffen (born February 5, 1954 in Bochum; died April 15, 2023 in Berlin) was a German art critic, journalist, and curator. From 2008 to 2011, he was president of the German section of AICA. Jochen Becker (Berlin) works as an author, curator, and lecturer and is co-founder of metroZones | Center for Urban Affairs and station urbaner kulturen/nGbK. He curated Chinafrika. under construction (Graz, Leipzig, Weimar, Shenzhen, Nuremberg) and accompanied the relocation of Dü sseldorf's FFT theater in terms of cultural policy, concept, and curation. There he developed the long-term project Stadt als Fabrik und Place Internationale (City as Factory and Place Internationale, 2017– 22). Andreas Wegner is an artist based in Berlin. Holger Kube Ventura (born August 21, 1966 in Dreieich) is a German art historian and curator. Marius Babias (born in Suceava in 1962) is a German art critic, author, and curator. He has been director of the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (NBK) since 2008. John Miller (b. 1954, Cleveland, Ohio) is an artist, critic, and musician whose work has been exhibited in major museums and collections worldwide. Vendula Fremlová works as a university lecturer at the Department of Art Education, Faculty of Education, Charles University. She works as a freelance curator of contemporary art exhibitions, art critic and theorist, author and editor of publications and articles in art periodicals. She focuses on topics of visual literacy and critical approaches to images, as well as the relationship between dominant culture and marginalized artistic expressions and their creators. Since 2020, she has been the editor-in-chief of the Umelecké besedy Ž ivot magazine. Rita Kersting (born 1969 in Goch) is a German art historian and curator. Peter Wä chtler, born in Hanover in 1979, lives and works in Berlin. He writes texts, makes films, draws, paints pictures, and creates sculptures and objects. Franciska Zó lyom (born 1973 in Budapest) is a Hungarian art historian and exhibition curator. She was the curator of the German contribution to the 2019 Venice Biennale. Markus Ambach is a German exhibition organizer, artist, curator, author, and initiator of art projects in public spaces. In 2002, he founded the project platform MAP. In 2022, he participated in Documenta fifteen with the project Eine Landschaft (A Landscape). Brigitte Franzen (born in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1966) is an art and cultural scholar and curator.