Emily Pethick has been the director of the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam since 2018. Her writings have appeared in magazines such as Artforum, Afterall, The Exhibitionist, and Frieze, and she has (co-)edited numerous books, including Artistic Ecologies: New Compasses and Tools, Wendelien van Oldenborgh's monograph Amateur (2016), and Cluster: Dialectionary. Pethick lives and works in Amsterdam.
Pablo Martínez is a researcher and educator. He worked as Head of Programming at the MACBA from 2016 to 2021 where he also directed the Center of Studies and Documentation and its exhibition program, the Independent Studies Program and the et al series of essays. He's part of the editorial board of L'InternationaleOnline (www.internationaleonline.org) as well as of the #Re-visiones (www.re-visiones.net). He is a founder member of Las Lindes, a research and action group working on education and cultural and artistic practices (2009–today).
What, How & for Whom/WHW (established in Zagreb in 1999) is a curatorial collective based in Berlin, Vienna, and Zagreb, whose members are Ivet Ćurlin, Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, and Sabina Sabolović, along with designer and publicist Dejan Kršić. Since 2003 WHW has been running the program of Gallery Nova, a city-owned gallery in Zagreb. In 2018 it launched an international study program for emerging artists called WHW Akademija, based in Zagreb.
