Kirsty Ogg is a freelance curator based in London. She is the former Director of The Showroom (London), an exhibition space dedicated to the commissioning of new work by artists at an early stage in their careers. Since joining The Showroom in 1998, Kirsty has worked with artists including Jim Lambie, Claire Barclay, Eva Rothschild, Subodh Gupta, Richard Hughes and Daria Martin on the development and presentation of their first solo show in London. During her time at the gallery Kirsty steered The Showroom through a significant stage in its development, introducing many new initiatives such as the annual conferences that aim to address prescient issues in contemporary and theory and practice and the production of annual publications that provide an overview of the gallery’s work.

After graduating from the Sculpture Department at Edinburgh College of Art in 1990, Kirsty became a member of the organizing committee at the artist-led space Transmission between 1993 and 1996. She then went on to work at Norwich Gallery at Norwich School of Art & Design; and while based in Norwich, she opened up her flat as an independent exhibition space, providing an alternative platform for the presentation of work in the city. Kirsty has also curated freelance projects including High Red Center for the CCA (Glasgow) and Slight for the Collective Gallery (Edinburgh). Kirsty has wide teaching and examining experience at a range of UK academic institutions and is currently one of the External Examiners for the MA Fine Art Course at Wimbledon College of Art, London.

Ilaria Bonacossa (1973) obtained a Master's degree at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York in 2001 and has since been the Curator at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Torino, where she has curated numerous exhibitions like Subcontingent. The Indian Subcontinent in Contemporary Art (2006), and the series of exhibitions D-segni (2004), five solo shows dedicated to the works on paper by Italian and international emerging artists. She co-curated with Cecilia Brunson the exhibition, Arch of Desire, Women Artists in the Hessel Collection, at the Center for Curatorial Studies, NY and the show Magic Mountains, at the Torre del Lebbroso in Aosta as the first part of the cycle Da Cima a Fondo.

She writes as Italian correspondent for Contemporary Magazine, London and collaborates regularly with Label Magazine, Torino and MOUSSE Magazine, Milano. In 2006 she was the author of a monographic volume Marlene Dumas for the series Supercontemporanea, Electa Mondadori. She is a member of the Technical Committee for Acquisitions for the Frac Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur in Marseille.

Charlotte Laubard (b. 1974) is the director of CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux since October 2006 where she recently curated the exhibitions Diego Perrone, David Maljkovic and On Lost Worlds. She has previously worked as a curatorial associate at PS1Contemporary Art Center in New York (1999-2000), Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea in Turin (2002-05), and was the consultant for the Viktor Pinchuk Foundation in Kiev on the opening of its contemporary art museum.

In Turin in 2004, Charlotte co-founded the art space More Fools in Town together with Australian artists Geoff Lowe and Jacqueline Riva, where they have organized many exhibitions. She also curated the 2003 edition of the Fuori Uso festival in Pescara, Italy, and exhibitions in Fondation Ricard in Paris (Cosi va il mondo, 2003; Incipit, 2006), and the Victoria College of Art in Melbourne (Daniel Dewar & Gregory Gicquel, 2006).

From 2001 to 2004 Charlotte was a contributor to www.artforum.com, 02 Magazine, Beaux-Arts Magazine, and the editor of the contemporary art rubric of the magazine Technikart.

Kay Pallister is a free-lance curator based in London and Glasgow, having had experience in both the large commercial gallery and non-profit sectors, in the US, Europe and UK. She studied at the DeAppel Curator Programme in Amsterdam 1995/96. Kay then moved to New York where she became an exhibition director at the Gagosian Gallery in New York from 1997 to 2001, producing exhibitions and catalogues with artists such as Douglas Gordon, Vanessa Beecroft, Richard Wright and the Estate of David Smith. From 2002 to 2004, back in the UK, she formed an on-line initiative www.openfrequency.org for the Arts Council England, Arts Council Wales and Scottish Arts Council, which publishes on-line information about emerging UK contemporary artists.

In 2003 Kay co-curated Zenomap, the Scotland presentation for the 50th Venice Biennale, featuring Claire Barclay, Simon Starling and Jim Lambie, along with further 23 artists in a screening programme, print and web new commissions. She is a board member of Locus+, Newcastle, a contemporary art commissioning and publishing organization, which has recently published a major Chris Burden monograph. Last year she co-curated (with Charles Asprey) ‘As if by magic…’ an exhibition of Internationally acclaimed artists such as Damien Hirst and Lawrence Weiner at the Bethlehem Peace Centre, Palestine.

Rein Wolfs will be artistic director of Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel starting in January 2008. Prior to this, he was director of exhibitions at the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam, and until 2001 he worked as director at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zurich, which was created by Wolfs from the Migros Collection. Both in Zurich and Rotterdam, Wolfs curated numerous exhibitions. He has also been involved with a number of publications and magazines as both author and publisher, creating, amongst others, the German language art magazine, Material.

In recent years, Wolfs has conceived group exhibitions such as PEACE(1999), featuring, among others, Olaf Nicolai, Ceal Floyer and Piotr Uklanski; and DARK (2006), featuring Luc Tuymans, Rita Ackermann, Marc Bijl and others. He curated the official Dutch contribution to the 50th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia with a group show entitled We Are The World. He has curated solo exhibitions with international artists such as Carlos Amorales, Alicia Framis, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Douglas Gordon, Maurizio Cattelan, Urs Fischer, Fischli and Weiss, Bas Jan Ader, Angela Bulloch, John Bock and Sylvie Fleury.

Bénédicte Ramade is an art historian, the topic of both her BA and MA being Gordon Matta-Clark and his legacy. She also prepared a Ph.D. dealing with ecological issues raised by American contemporary art. Since 1999, she has been an associate editor with the monthly French art magazine L’œil, and she also wrote articles about contemporary art for the Canadian magazine Parachute. For three years, she created, edited and produced a weekly program dedicated to the French art scene on national radio France Culture.

Since 2005, Ramade has been a freelance curator. Her next project will take place at the Villa Arson art centre, Nice, in summer 2008. All these activities have provided her with an extended knowledge of the French art scene. It should also be noted that she has been entrusted with the task of granting art fellowships to young artists on behalf of the French Foreign Ministry’s culture department. Although the emphasis of her work has mostly been on landscape, the environment and nature; as well as the art of display; she maintains a broader interest in the study of all art forms.