Paolo Canevari is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Rome. Internationally recognized, he uses various materials and media such as animation, drawing, video, sculpture, and installation. His works explore recognizable symbols to comment on concepts like religion, urban myths of happiness, and the principles behind creation and destruction. Since 2011, he has been developing the series "Monuments of the Memory." Between 1989 and 1990, he lived in New York, where he held his first solo exhibition. In the 1990s, he participated in numerous group exhibitions in places like Los Angeles, Paris, Vienna, Dublin, Taiwan, Bologna, Rome, and Venice. In 1999, he took part in the XIII Quadriennale di Roma. Between 2000 and 2004, he exhibited in Rome, Bangkok, Paris, Siena, and Milan. In 2000, he exhibited in Rome, Bangkok, and New York. In 2007, he exhibited "Nothing for Nothing" at MACRO in Rome, and in 2008 he participated in the 52nd Venice Biennale. In 2010, he presented "Nobody Knows" at the Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato and "Odi et Amo" at GNAM in Rome. In 2011, he exhibited "Decalogo" at The Drawing Center in New York. Between 2015 and 2018, he exhibited at the Triennale di Milano, in Beijing, at the first Bangkok Biennale, and in 2019, he showcased a retrospective of works in Milan. In 2020, he presented "Dark Matter" at the Galleria d'Arte Moderna "Giovanni Carandente" in Spoleto, and in 2021 at the Cardi Gallery in London. Paolo Canevari's works are in public and private collections, including: Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci; MoMA, New York; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami; MACRO, Rome; MART, Trento and Rovereto; Johannesburg Art Gallery; Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica Calcografica, Rome; Perna Foundation, Capri; Olnick Spanu Art Program, Garrison, NY.

Cally Spooner is an artist and writer whose choreographies unfold through various media: on film, in texts, as objects, through sounds, and as drawings. Recent institutional solo exhibitions include the Graham Foundation, Chicago (2024); Cukrarna, Ljubljana (2023); Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens (2021), Sint-Martens-Latem; Parrhesiades, London (2020); Art Institute of Chicago (2019); Swiss Institute, New York; Castello di Rivoli, Turin; Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève (2018); New Museum, New York; and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2016). Her live productions, theatrical works, and events have been staged at, among others, The Centre Pompidou, Paris (2023); Museum M, Leuven (2018); The High Line, New York (2015); Tate Britain and Tate Modern, London (2014); Performa 13, New York (2013); and the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London (2012).

Roberta Tenconi is the Chief Curator at Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan, where she has curated solo exhibitions for artists such as Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Leonor Antunes, Rosa Barba, Neil Beloufa, Maurizio Cattelan, Petrit Halilaj, Ann Veronica Janssens, Eva Kot'àtkovà, Matt Mullican, and Bruce Nauman. Focused on collaborating with artists in the commission and production of experimental projects in unconventional spaces, and highlighting the creation of exhibitions as a means to explore and understand our present, her upcoming curatorial projects include solo exhibitions by artists like Saodat Ismailova and Nan Goldin. Part of the curatorial team for the 55th Venice Biennale "The Encyclopedic Palace" (2013) and the 4th Berlin Biennale (2006), she has collaborated with museums, institutions, foundations, and non-profit organizations such as the Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, the Gwangju Biennale, the Aïshti Foundation, and Manifesta, working with artists like Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Pawel Althamer, Tacita Dean, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Cyprien Gaillard, Pipilotti Rist, and Tino Sehgal, among others. Roberta Tenconi has curated various monographs and volumes on artists and regularly contributes to art catalogs and magazines. She has taught art and curatorial studies courses and is currently a member of the Italian Council, a project of the Ministry of Culture supporting artistic, critical, and curatorial research in Italy and abroad.