Bodil Nyboe Andersen

Born 1940.
Since 2005: President at Danish Red Cross and chairman of the board at University of Copenhagen and Laurids Andersens Fond.
1990-2005: Governor of Danish National Bank, chairman of the board of directors since 1995.
1990: Group Managing Director at Unidanmark A/S and Unibank A/S
1981-1990: Director of Andelsbanken A/S
1968-1980: Senior Lecturer at University of Copenhagen
1966-1968: Secretary in The Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs

Nyboe Andersen is also a member of a large number of other boards, funds and comities, such as Danish Film Institute, Danish-Norwegian Fund, Danish Foreign Policy Society and the Globalisation Council.

Kim Foss

Born 1961
Since 2006: Director of The Grand Theatre
Former programme director at NatFilm Festival and co-founder of cph:dox.




Foss has also been a part of the direction board at Magasin Schäfer and written film reviews for the Danish newspapers Det fri Aktuelt and Jyllands-Posten.

Lars Liebst

Born 1956.
Since 1996 :CEO Tivoli A/S
2003-2007: Chairman of the Danish Arts Council.
1996-2004: CEO at Tivoli Artists Management A/S.
1992-1996: Head of Grønnegårds Teatret
1990-1991: Interim Head of Statens Teaterskole.
1983-1990: Head of Dept. at Statens Teaterskole.
1982:Co-founder of Grønnegårds Teatret

Liebst is also a member of American-Scandinavian Foundation, Cultural Advisory Committee, as well as board member of Løgismose-Nimb A/S,
The Confederation of Danish Industries (DI), Holdingselskabet Illum ApS and Industriens Almene Arbejdsgiverforening among others.

Karsten Ohrt

Born 1952.
Since 2007: Director of Statens Museum for Kunst, (The Danish National Gallery)
1993-2007: Director of Ny Carlsbergfondet.
1993-2007: Member of Ny Carlsberg Glyptoteket, chair from 2006.
1988-2007: Director of Kunsthallen Brandts, (Brandts Exhibition Complex).
1979-1988: Curator at Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum.

Orht is a member of a wide range of boards, funds and committees, such as The Art Committee of The Folketing, The Museum Council of the Danish Heritage Agency, Board of Representatives of the Danish Arts Council.
He has also published and edited a large number of exhibition catalogues, books and articles about art.

Henning Kruse Pedersen

Born 1947
1994-2007: Group Managing Director at Nykredit Holding A/S and Nykredit Realkredit A/S.
1992-93: Managing director of A/S Øresundsforbindelsen and Øresundkonsortiet.
1990-91: Director, merchant banking in Unibank A/S
1974-90: Sparekassen SDS, latest as managing director
1973-74: Danske Bankers Fællesrepræsentation

Kruse Petersen is also board member of Den Danske Forskningsfond, The East Asiatic Company Ltd. A/S, Scandinavian Private Equity Partners A/S, Erhvervsinvest Management A/S, LeaseIT A/S m.fl. as well as member of a wide range of other boards, committees and funds.

Leif skov

Born 1946
Founder and former director of Roskilde Festivalen.

Sanne Kofoed Olsen

Born 1970
Since 2005: Head of Funen Art Academy
2005: Curated the exhibition The Impossible Real, in the Danish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
2003 - 2005: employed at The Danish Arts Agency, The Visual Arts Centre
1999 - 2003: Curator at Center for Dansk Billedkunst


2001 - 2003: Co-founder of i-n-k institut for nutidskunst, Copenhagen together with the artists Lars Bent Petersen, Frans Jacobi

Kofoed Olsen has since 1995 lectured at Department of Arts and Cultural Studies , University of Copenhagen, as well as the different Danish Art Academies.
Further more she has functioned as freelance editor, writer and curator since 1994.

Ami Barak
Photo: Gabriele Di Matteo

Born in 1952.
Head of the Visual Art Department, City Council, Paris (Department de l'Art dans la Ville)
2008: curated "Re-Construction" Bucarest Biennial + "Modern Stories" Art Focus Jerusalem
2002-2005: President of IKT - International Association of Contemporary Art Curators


2003+2004: Artistic Director and Coordinator « Nuit Blanche » Paris
2003: Associate Chief Curator of «Trésors publics, 20 ans de création dans les Fonds régionaux d'art contemporain» (Arles, Avignon, Strasbourg, Nantes)
1993-2002: Director of Frac Languedoc-Roussillon (Fonds régional d'art contemporain),
Montpellier

Barak has curated many group and solo exhibitions of contemporary art in the last 15 years, he has published dozens of papers in different art magazines, texts in catalogues and gave lectures and talks at many symposiums in France and abroad. His is also a member of Aica - International Association of Art Critics, France.

Rene Block

Born in Niederrhein in 1942.
2007: Curated The Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennial
1997- 2006: director of Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel.


2006: Art, Life & Confusion, 47. Belgrade Oktober Salon, Serbien.
2004: Love it or leave it, 5. Cetinje Biennale, Montenegro. (with co-curator Natasha Ilic).
2003: In the Gorges of the Balkans. A Report, Fridericianum Kassel
1995: Orient/ation, 4th International Istanbul Biennial.

Block founded his own gallery space in 1964 in Berlin and organized an extensive series of exhibitions, events and concerts. Artists such as Joseph Beuys, John Cage, Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Allan Kaprow, On Kawara, Dan Graham, Nam June Paik, Henning Christiansen and many others got their first shows at Galerie Block in Berlin in the 1960's.
In 1974 he opened his New York gallery with Joseph Beuys' action I like America and America likes me. Both galleries closed in the end of the 1970'ies. (New York 1977, Berlin 1979)

Together with Ursula Block, René Block has also created Sammlung Block.

Maria Hlavajova
photo: Irma Bulkens

Born 1971, lives and works in Amsterdam and Utrecht.
Since 2000: artistic director of BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht.


2007: curated the three-part project Citizens and Subjects for the Dutch Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale.
2004: Curator of Who if not we...?, an international collaborative project across Europe.
1998-2002: faculty member at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York.
2000: co-curator of Manifesta 3, Ljubljana
1994-1999: director of the Soros Center for Contemporary Arts in Bratislava from.

Hlavajova is also founding co-director of the tranzit network, a project that supports exchange and contemporary art practices in Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia, and is a co-editor of the critical reader Citizens and Subjects: The Netherlands, for example (2007).

Vasif Kortun

Born 1958.
Director of Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center.
2005: co-curated the 9th International Istanbul Biennial with Charles Esche
2000-2003: founding director of Proje4L Istanbul Museum of Contemporary Art.


1994-1997: director of the Museum of the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.
1992: chief curator and director of the Third Istanbul Biennial.

Kortun is the editor of an annual contemporary art magazine RG published in Turkish, and he was one of the curators for Fresh Cream: 10 Curators 100 Artists published by the Phaidon Press. He has contributed to exhibition catalogues such as the 48. Sao Paolo Biennial, 2nd Johannesburg Biennial, Manifesta 2, 48. Venice Biennial, 6. Istanbul Biennial, and many other exhibition catalogues.

Maria Lind

Born in Stockholm in 1966.
Since 2005: director of Iaspis (International Artist Studio Program in Sweden) in Stockholm.
2002-2004: director of Kunstverein München.
1997-2001: curator at Moderna Museet in Stockholm
1998: co-curator of Manifesta 2, Europe's biennale of contemporary art.



Lind has also been teaching and lecturing at different art schools since the early 90s, including the University Colleges of Fine Art in Umeå and Stockholm, The Royal College of Art and Goldsmiths College in London.

Lind was one of the curators for Fresh Cream: 10 Curators 100 Artists published by the Phaidon Press, and she has contributed widely to magazines including Index (where she was on the editorial board), and to numerous catalogues and other publications.