The artists residencies Art Explora – Cité internationale des arts

Magali Arriola is director of the Tamayo Museum in Mexico City. Between 2016 and 2019, she was chief curator for KADIST in Latin America, and curator of the Mexican Pavilion for the 58th Venice Biennale(Pablo Vargas Lugo, Acts of God, 2019). Between 2011 and 2014 she was chief curator of the Jumex Museum, and chief curator of the Tamayo Museum between 2009 and 2011. Arriola has contributed to numerous books and catalogs, as well as publications such as Art Forum, Curare, Frieze, Mousse, Manifesta Journal, and The Exhibitionist.

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Diana Campbell Betancourt is an American curator who has been active in South and Southeast Asia since 2010, mainly in India, Bangladesh and the Philippines. She is committed to the globalization of the art world, and takes a long-term, multi-faceted approach that addresses the concerns of under-represented territories and artists, as well as those of more established artists, in numerous forums.

Since 2013, she has been artistic director and founder of the Samdani Art Foundation, based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and chief curator of the Dhaka Art Summit, whose critically acclaimed 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2020 editions she has directed. She has established the Dhaka Art Summit as one of the leading research and exhibition structures dedicated to art in South Asia, bringing together artists, architects, curators and writers from across South Asia through a primarily commission-based model. Alongside her activities in Bangladesh from 2016 to 2018, Diana Campbell Betancourt was also the artistic director and founder of Bellas Artes Projects in the Philippines, a programme non-profit international residency and exhibition space based in Manila and Bataan.

Emanuele Coccia teaches at the EHESS in Paris. He is the author of La Vie sensible (2010), La Vie des Plantes (2018), Métamorphoses (2021) and Philosophie de la maison. L'espace domestique et le bonheur (2023). His animated videos include Quercus (2019, with Formafantasma), Heaven in Matter (2021, with Faye Formisano) and Portal of Mysteries (2022, with Dotdotdot). He participates in several exhibitions as an advisor. He is currently co-authoring a book on the relationship between fashion and philosophy with Alessandro Michele, Creative Director of Gucci. 

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Artistic director, curator and producer Isabelle Gaudrefroy is currently Deputy Artistic Director of the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain. She began her career at the Théâtre des Amandiers in 1995. From 1999 to 2010, she directed the Soirées Nomades at the Fondation Cartier. In 2011, she joined the Fondation's management team and curated landmark exhibitions such as Junya Ishigami, Freeing Architecture in 2018 and Nous les Arbres in 2019.

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Since January 2023, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikun has headed the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (House of World Cultures) in Berlin. Previously, he was artistic director of the 13th Rencontres de Bamako in 2022, curator of the Finnish pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019, guest curator at the Dakar Biennale in 2018, and member of the curatorial team at Documenta 14, in Athens and Kassel in 2017. In 2009, he founded SAVVY Contemporary, an independent art center based in Berlin.

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Hans Ulrich Obrist, born 1968 in Zürich (Switzerland), is artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries in London. He was previously curator of the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Since his first exhibition, "World Soup" (The Kitchen Show) in 1991, he has organized over 300 exhibitions, and has lectured internationally at art academies and institutions. He is editor-in-chief of Artforum, AnOther Magazine, Cahiers d'Art and 032C, and a regular contributor to Mousse and Kaleidoscope. He also writes columns for Das Magazin and Weltkunst. In 2011, Obrist received the CCS Bard Award for Curatorial Excellence, and in 2015, the Award international Folkwang for his commitment to art. Recent publications include Ways of Curating (2015), The Age of Earthquakes (2015), Lives of the Artists, Lives of Architects (2015), Mondialité (2017), Somewhere Totally Else (2018) and The Athens Dialogues (2018).

Photo credit: Tyler Mitchell.