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Arzu Yayıntaş
Arzu Yayıntaş is a curator based in Antakya and Istanbul. Since 2002 she has co-curated several international exhibitions in public space and non-profit spaces in several cities in Turkey and in Rotterdam and Sofia. She taught contemporary art history as a part-time lecturer at the Yeditepe University for two years. Besides contributing to the Geniş Açı Magazine as a writer, she took part in the editorial board of the magazine for five years. After working as the associate director at Proje4L-Istanbul Museum of Contemporary Art, she worked as the art exhibition manager of the 11th International Istanbul Biennial. Recently she curated the 2nd International Antakya Biennial, “Thank You for Your Understanding”. She is one of the founder members of the AGUSAD (Antakya Contemporary Art Association) which is an initiative based in Antakya dedicated to supporting the cultural dialogue within the region. She is one of the curators of the 30th Today’s Artist exhibition which will take place in July 2011 in Akbank Sanat, İstanbul.
Arzu Yayıntaş is in residency at vessel thanks to Fondazione Roberto Cimetta

Pieter Vermeulen
Pieter Vermeulen (b. 1983) is a philosopher, writer, and independent curator based in Antwerp, Belgium. He is currently holding a position as a guest professor in philosophy and philosophy of art at University College Ghent – Faculty of Fine Arts and Faculty of Music. His educational background lies in philosophy and cultural studies (MA). After his studies, he started working as a producer-manager, coordinator and art critic. As both a curator and theorist, Pieter contributed to projects such as the new media exhibitions Fantastic Illusions (MOCA Shanghai/Buda Kortrijk) and Resonance (Bund18/World Expo 2010 - Belgian Pavilion, Shanghai), and participated in ICI’s Curatorial Intensive in New York City. He moderated and co-/organized different international conferences, e.g. on Double Take by Johan Grimonprez, Tickle Your Catastrophe! and The Documentary Real (Vooruit, Ghent), and has articles published in many exhibition catalogs.

Raluca Voinea
Raluca Voinea is an art critic and curator, based in Bucharest.
She holds a BA in Art History and Theory from the Arts University in Bucharest (1997-2001) and an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art in London (2004-2006). In 2006 she co-founded E-cart.ro, a non-profit cultural institution based in Romania. Since the beginning of 2009, E-cart.ro is developing a new program of cultural debates and artistic interventions, The Department for Art in Public Space. E-cart.ro was one of the four co-organizers (with Goethe-Institut Warsaw, Polish Institute Berlin, and raumlabor berlin) of the project The KNOT. Linking the Existing with the Imaginary, which took place in 2010, in the public space of Berlin, Warsaw and Bucharest.
Since 2008 Raluca Voinea is co-editor of IDEA. Art + Society magazine, published in Cluj.
She worked as assistant curator for the 5 th berlin biennale, with a RAVE Scholarship. She curated exhibitions such as The Way Politics Influences Art and Vice Versa - Daniel Knorr, Fondazione March, Padua (2008), Provisional Dwellers, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg (2009), As You Desire Me , Contemporary Art Gallery of Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu (2010).

Annette Schemmel
Annette Schemmel is a freelance curator, writer and doctoral candidate in art history at the Freie Universität Berlin (Study of informal professionalization strategies deployed by contemporary artists in Douala, Cameroon). Schemmel’s interests are in context-specific uses of art as a means of voicing social concerns; with this in mind, her work bridges the fields of sociology, (art) history and politics.
Schemmel is an associate curator of Enough Room for Space, NL/BE. In 2007 she was the first recipient of the H+F Curatorial Grant, at FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, France. She is a graduate of the Munich Arts Academy (2005) and De Appel’s Curatorial Programme (2006/07). She publishes in art journals such as On Curating (CH), Savvy Journal (DE) and African Arts (US).

Gerd Elise Mørland
Gerd Elise Mørland (b.1976) is a freelance curator, writer and art critic based in Oslo. She earned her MA in Art History on the changing role of the curator since the 1990s at the University of Oslo (2009), and additionally completed a guest-stay at the MFA curatorial program at Goldsmiths University of London (2008). In 2010 she guest-edited the online journal On-Curating.org issue 4; The Political Potential of Curatorial Practise together with Heidi Bale Amundsen. Through a series of interviews, this issue aimed at researching the critical potential in current curatorial practice; when curators turn curatorial strategies into meaningful and politically charged forms in their own right. Using this work as a starting point, Gerd Elise and Heidi are currently working on a book, together with Kunsthall Oslo and Torpedo Publishing, to be published in 2012. Gerd Elise is a member of the editorial board of the Nordic Art journal Kunstkritikk.no, for which she writes regularly. She also frequently contributes to the page Kunstløftet.no, an initiative of The Cultural Council in Norway, and works as a consultant for Public Art Norway ( KORO ). Her current curatorial work includes an international symposium on knowledge production under the working title "What is knowledge if it’s not production? " at Kunsthall Oslo, in November of this year.

Anna Smolak
Anna Smolak (b.1976) is a curator based in Poland. She graduated from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, with a MA in Art History and Cultural Diplomacy Postgraduate Studies at the Collegium Civitas and Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw. Since 2004 she has been working for the Contemporary Art Gallery Bunkier Sztuki. Previously, she ran the private “Sito” Gallery, which actively promoted young artists. Additionally, she was co-curator of the TRANSKULTURA project (2006-2008). In 2008 she organized an international conference accompanying the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue entitled “Transkultura: Art and Fluid Reality of the XXI Century”. She has taken part in the GeoAIR Collaborative Cultural Project/ Art Residency in Tbilisi (2011), International Summer Seminar for Art Curators “Post Socialism and Media Transformations: Strategies of Representation” (AICA; Yerevan, Armenia, 2007) and “Galicia. Historical region of Europe” seminar (Internacional Cultural Center; Krakow-Lviv, 2001). Her latest projects include Follow the White Rabbit! Exhibition for children (2010) and Katarzyna Krakowiak. Panorama (2011). She is particularly interested in the notions of “transgression” and “exclusion” that she connects with transformational processes which can be observed on a local as well as global level.