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Kadiatou Diallo lives and works in Basel as a freelance curator, mediator and cultural practitioner. Her academic background is in cognitive psychology and the fine arts. In her work, she focuses on artistic practice as a tool for transformative social processes and knowledge generation. Together with Dominique Malaquais, she founded SPARCK – Space for Pan-African Research, Creation and Knowledge in 2008. In 2016, she came to Basel from Cape Town as an Atelier Mondial scholarship holder and guest curator at the Klingental exhibition space. In addition to curatorial and collaborative projects, since 2019 Kadiatou has been working as a research employee at the Centre for African Studies at the University of Basel and as a lecturer for the Master in Arts in Public Spheres (MAPS) at the Valais School of Art in Sierre.

Paul Bernard has been Director of the KBCB, Biel/Bienne's exhibition institution for contemporary art, since 2023. Prior to this time, he spent 10 years as a curator at MAMCO, Geneva's museum of contemporary art, where he was responsible for the concrete poetry collection, among other things. He has also worked for the Centre Pompidou, the Institut d'art contemporain (Institute of Contemporary Art) in Villeurbanne (France) and HEAD Genève (Geneva University of Art and Design). He has a Master's degree from the School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris, and a French national diploma in fine arts from the Fine Arts School of Bordeaux. He has curated some fifty projects, including retrospectives of works by Philippe Thomas, Olivier Mosset and Anita Molinero, as well as the group exhibitions Die Welt als Labyrinth (on the Situationist International) and Zeitgeist. A member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) since 2013, he regularly publishes critical and scientific texts for specialist journals and catalogues. His most recent publications have focused on the work of Julia Scher, Verena Loewensberg and Anita Molinero, and on concrete poetry.

Pauline Boudry works with installations that choreograph the tension between visibility and opacity. Her films (produced in an artists’ duo with Renate Lorenz) capture performances in front of the camera, often starting with a song, a picture, a film or a score from the near past. They upset normative historical narratives and conventions of spectatorship, as figures and actions across time are staged, layered and re-imagined. Their performers are choreographers, artists and musicians, with whom they are having a long-term conversation about the conditions of performance, the violent history of visibility, the pathologization of bodies, but also about companionship, glamour and resistance.
Their work has been recently shown at MUAC Mexico, 35th São Paulo Art Biennal, Crystal Palace/Reina Sofia Museum Madrid, Centre Pompidou Paris, Seoul Mediacity Biennale, Whitechapel Gallery London, New Museum New York, Julia Stoschek Collection Berlin or the 58th Biennale di Venezia (Swiss Pavillon).
Pauline Boudry has been teaching art practice at the Weissensee Kunsthochschule in Berlin, ZHDK Zürich and is currently teaching at HEAD Geneva. www.boudry-lorenz.de