Kathy Rae Huffman is a pioneering American media art curator. Since the early 1980s, she has curated, commissioned, and produced artists for gallery and museum exhibition, as well as for broadcast on television and online. She has held curatorial positions at the Long Beach Museum of Art; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; and was Visual Arts Director at Cornerhouse, Manchester. In 1997 Huffman co-founded the online community for women in media art, FACES. She has an MFA in Exhibition Design from California State University Long Beach, where she also earned Museum and Gallery Studies credentials. She is bi-national, working independently between Berlin, London and Los Angeles. Since 2009, she currently curates, collaborates and consults with arts organizations around the world.
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Nika Radić was born in Zagreb, Croatia where she graduated in sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts. She has also earned a degree in art history from the University of Vienna. In her video works and multimedia installations she focuses on the subjects of communication and voyeurism; moments that everyone experiences very similarly, but still percepts and interprets in his own individual way. She participated in a number of solo and group shows internationally and her essays on the subject are published in international art magazines. Radić is frequent guest speaker at seminars and konferences. She is lives and works in Berlin.
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Judit Boenisch was born in Budapest and holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering. She started her career as a manager in international companies like Philip Morris and Kraft Foods in Europe and Asia. She soon found her access to contemporary art as a collector. Her growing personal contacts to artists and gallerists led to a series of exhibitions she first organised in collaboration with the Paris gallery Michel Rein. In 2002 she opened the gallery Traversée in Munich. Based on the exhibition program and the accompanying events Traversée soon became one of the recognised spaces for contemporary art. She represented artists Allan Sekula, Yuri Leiderman, Cyrill Lachauer and Nika Radic, among others. She also collaborated closely with curators of different generations, as Katalin Timar, Anna Schneider. She published the book essence in 2012, reflecting the gallery history with contribution from artists, curators and collectors. In 2014 Judit took another turn in her support for the arts and now works as an independent art consultant testing new possibilities for presentation and mediation of what is happening in the art scene today.
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