Hans-Jü rgen Hafner has been working as a freelance author, art and music critic since 2000 and as a curator since 2004. He has published articles in the art magazines Camera Austria, Spike Art Quarterly and Texte zur Kunst, among others. He has been organizing exhibitions of contemporary art since 2004 and has shown mostly thematic exhibitions at kunstbunker forum fü r zeitgenö ssische Kunst, Nuremberg, the Brandenburgischer Kunstverein in Potsdam and for the Berlin art fair Art Forum, among others. Together with the journalist and author Kito Nedo, Hafner deals with cultural-political issues. Vieth studied art history, German and Spanish literature in Hamburg. Her master's thesis on the American artist Agnes Martin was followed by a doctorate entitled " Addicted to walls. Contemporary wall works in the exhibition space" . She completed her traineeship at the Kunsthalle Mannheim, where she then worked as a research assistant to the director. From 2015 to 2016, Vieth held a teaching position at the Freie Universitä t Berlin, and from 2014 she worked at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen in Dresden in the Research and Academic Cooperation department. The artist lives in Cologne and is very active in the Rhine area. In 2023 he has curated a project "Vernissage: Here / There" at the university of Bonn. His main theme is women, life and freedom in Iran. Elisabeth Mangini is an art historian specializing in social and material histories of postwar and contemporary art. Her research interests include modern and contemporary art, postwar Italian art, European art, theories of sculpture, art and labor, art and philosophy, global feminisms, artistic identity, and public art.