Jure Kirbiš is a curator of contemporary art at UGM | Maribor Art Gallery. He gravitates toward the libidinal, textural qualities in art. He enjoys art that titillates, arouses, tickles, art that evokes a sense of celebration, joy, a heightened mood in art. He prides himself on his queer sensibility, through which he explores phenomena like artifice, architype, ersatz, mise-en-scène, cultural cross-pollination, pastiche, camp, folklore, storytelling, life online, comedy and horror. He gained his BA and MA in History of Art from the University of York (UK). He worked as an intern at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice (Italy). He has been working as a curator at the UGM | Maribor Art Gallery for over ten years. In 2015 he was the deputy commissioner of the Pavilion of Slovenia at the Venice Biennial. At the UGM he worked as an assistant on several major exhibition projects, such as Heroes We Love (2015) and Slovenia and Non-Aligned Pop (2016), before leading large and small exhibition projects, such as group shows Alptraum (2014), The Great Migration (2016), Even Still Sexy (2019) and Invisible Hand (2023), solo presentations of Yotaro Niwa (2015), Kladnik & Neon (2016), Tanja Lažetić (2021), Matija Bobičić (2021), Alen & Robi Predanič (2022), Borut Popenko (2023), and the major retrospective of Ludvik Pandur (2021). Other projects include exhibitions of Soufiane Ababri (2019) and Jure Kastelic (2021), both at Ravnikar Gallery, Gallery.Delivery: Live, Laugh, Love with Sebastian Schmieg (2021) at Aksioma, and Andrej Brumen Čop (2024) at Bažato Gallery. He was closely involved with the relaunch of the Triennial of Art and Environment EKO 8 (2021) and is the artistic director of EKO 9. He lives and works in his hometown of Maribor.

Dominika Trapp (b. 1988, Budapest) graduated from the painting department of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 2012. Her practice is characterised by a certain twofold type of interest: on the one hand, a sensitive painterly approach that allows for intuition and introspection; and on the other, an outwardly-directed sensitivity that facilitates dialogues between communities in the service of collective self-knowledge. Through image, installation and performance, Dominika Trapp’s work addresses subjects such as the relationship between tradition and contemporary culture, the fate of women in Hungarian peasant communities, and the historical context of eating disorders. More recently, she has taken part in residency programs at Art in General in New York, the Erste Stiftung in Vienna, and FUTURA in Prague. In 2020, her solo exhibition was staged at Trafó Gallery in Budapest and Karlin Studios in Prague. In 2021, she participated at the 14th Baltic Biennale in Vilnius, in 2022, at Manifesta 14 in Prishtina, and in 2023 at EVA International – Ireland’s Biennial in Limerick. In 2023, she was one of three recipients of the Esterházy Art Award. She is currently a multimedia art fellow at the Doctoral School of the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design.

Markus Waitschacher is an art mediator, curator, and cultural anthropologist based in Graz, Austria. He works in a host of contexts, most of them site-specific and site-sensitive. The main object of inquiry in his curatorial practice is the magnificent lure of the local, its curiosities and legends, its human and non-human relationships and the entanglements and interconnections of all this to and with a larger historical context. The larger projects he has curated include Kunstverein Kärnten, bazament gallery, Centro de Desarollo de las Artes Visuales, viennacontemporary, Le Cube – independent art room, haaaauch-quer, Kunstverein < rotor >, Art Sonje Center, and ZETA Galeria, among others. At present, Markus works as an art educator at the Universalmuseum Joanneum. He edits the annual publication covering the art collection of the municipality Graz, where he engages artists in rethinking new and alternative forms of presenting collections. Since 2021, Markus has served as the main curator for visual arts at Forum Stadtpark (Graz).