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Natasha Ginwala is an associate curator at the Gropius Bau in Berlin and artistic director of the 13th Gwangju Biennale with Defne Ayas. She is also artistic director of the interdisciplinary arts festival Colomboscope in Sri Lanka and was part of the curatorial team of documenta 14 (2017). Ginwala has curated several international exhibitions and regularly writes on contemporary art and visual culture. She is a recipient of the 2018 visual arts research grant from the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe.

Gal Kirn has a PhD from the University of Nova Gorica in Slovenia. He has since worked, among other places, at the Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Humboldt University in Berlin, GWZO in Leipzig, and the Akademie Schloss Solitude. He is currently a research fellow at TU Dresden, where he researches the Soviet avant-garde and partisan memory. His book Partisan Ruptures was published by Pluto Press (2019), and The Partisan Counter-Archive is forthcoming from De Gruyter.

Niloufar Tajeri is an architect, an activist, and a writer. She teaches in the department of history and theory of architecture and city at the TU Braunschweig, where she is pursuing a PhD. She coedited Small Interventions: New Ways of Living in Post-War Modernism (Birkhäuser, 2016) and Kabul: Secure City Public City (Archis, 2008). She has taught at the Institute of Architectural Design, Art, and Theory at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and has worked as an editor for ARCH+ and Volume.