Gehard Demetz is an artist from Val Gardena. He attended the professional school of Selva di Val Gardena and spent some training periods at the International Academy of Salzburg. He worked as a teacher of sculpture at the professional school of Ortisei and since 2007 has dedicated himself exclusively to his work as a sculptor. In 2005 he began to collaborate with the Rubin gallery in Milan. A report in the newspaper "Herald Tribune" brings him closer to the reality of the USA: his first American show takes place in 2009 at the gallery Greenberg - Van Doren. In 2011, the Jack Shainman Gallery in New York is interested in his work, which offers the works of Demetz in the most prestigious international exhibitions: Art Miami Basel, Armory Show NY, Frieze NY, Art Basel. Since 2011 he has exhibited in several national and international museums including Museum Bochum, MOCA Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art and MACRO of Rome. He lives and works in Selva di Val Gardena.

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Di Pietrantonio was founder of AMACI and from 2003 to 2014 was a member of the Board of Directors of AMACI (Association of the Italian Museums of Contemporary Art) and MUSEION in Bolzano. He was the curator of the Advanced Course in Visual Arts at the Antonio Ratti Foundation in Como from 1995 to 2004. He was the director of I love Museums, the association’s periodical, as well as of the contemporary art magazine Perché/?. In 2005, he was a commissioner at the Quadriennale in Rome and served as a consultant to the MiArt Fiera Internazionale d’Arte in Milan from 2008 to 2010. He was a member of the Advisory Committees of the Center for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci in Prato. He is a member of the Advisory Committees of CIAC (Italian Center for Contemporary Art) in Foligno., Umbria. In 2008 the Rector of the University of Bologna Pier Ugo Calzolari gave Di Pietrantonio a career achievement award promoted by AMA (Associazione Almae Mater Alumni), a university organization. In 2016 he receives the Culture Capitan’s years award.

Guus van den Hout (1960) studied history of art at the University of Leiden. From 1985 thru 2010 he worked for museums, as a director/curator of Museum Our Lord in the Attic in Amsterdam (1990-2001) and as a managing director of Museum Catharijneconvent in Utrecht (2001-2010). In 1998 Van den Hout worked as a visiting director at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. From 2002 thru 2014 he was an advisor to the Papal Commission of Cultural Heritage. Van den Hout cooperated with important institutions all around the world in the field of cultural heritage, creating major exhibitions or backing new initiatives.
Since 2010 Van den Hout has been active as an independent curator, advisor and intermediary in the sale of important works of art. In 2017 he realised the first biennale 'Art in the Holy Triangle' in Oosterhout. For this he worked closely together with 27 contemporary artists who created new work especially for this project. At this moment Van den Hout advises several museums and cultural heritage institutions about their art policy.

Julia Bornefeld (Kiel, 1963) is a German artist, who lives in Berlin and Brunico. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice and at the Akademia Likovna Umjetnost in Ljubljana. Bornefeld expresses himself through painting, photography, installations and video, but his fundamental language of reference is dance. Biographical and mythological references are often linked by Bornefeld to the themes of the feminist debate of the sixties and seventies of the twentieth century. His works are in the collection of the Museion in Bolzano and in the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck.

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Giulia Ferracci (Rome, 1981) is an art curator based in Rome. She collaborated with MACRO-Museo of Contemporary Art of Rome (2004-2006) and Ministry of Cultural Heritage-DARC (2006- 2009). Since 2010 she has been working at the MAXXI-National Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome, where she has curated numerous catalogs, monographic and collective exhibitions including: Gino De Dominicis. The Immortal (2010); William Kentridge. Vertical Thinking (2012); Clemens von Wedemeyer. The Cast (2013); MAXXI AWARD (2012 - 2014 - 2016); MAXXI BVLGARI PRIZE (2018 - 2020); Zerocalcare. Digging ditches - feeding crocodiles (2018). She was co-curator with H.U. Obrist and G.Kvaran of Indian Highway (2011); with E. Motisi of The Indepedent (2013-2020); with H. Hanru of the exhibitions: Huang Yong Ping. Bâton Serpent (2014), Jimmie Durham Sound and Silliness (2016), Home Beirut. Sounding the Neighbors (2017); with Z Badovinac Bigger Than myself. Eroic Voices from exYugoslavia (2021). Among the exhibitions as independent curator Curated By, Vienna 2017, Senza santi Senza Eroi.

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