the curatorial research team for the 55th Venice Biennale. She is a regular contributor to Art

Papers and holds an M.A. in Philosophy from the Graduate Center of the City University of New

York.

Dhabi Project.

She previously served as curator at the Whitechapel Gallery, London and Hayward Gallery,

London, and at Modern Art Oxford, where she organized monographic and thematic exhibitions

on contemporary artists including Pawel Althamer, Miroslaw Balka, Monica Bonvicini, Angela

Bulloch, Daniel Buren, Cecily Brown, Trisha Donnelly, Wade Guyton, Gary Hume, Jannis

Kounellis, Mike Nelson, Silke Otto-Knapp, Seth Price, Fiona Tan, and Kelley Walker. She has

also curated exhibitions addressing art practices globally, among them, Out of Beirut (2006),

Transmission Interrupted (2009), co-curated with Gilane Tawadros, and the 10th Sharjah

Biennial (2011). A recipient of the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French

Ministry of Culture and Communication in 2005.

Cotter has been a contributor to art publications including Frieze, Parkett and Artforum. Recent

writings include Defining Contemporary Art. 25 years in 200 Pivotal Artworks, published by

Phaidon Press, and Michael Clark, the first monograph on the contemporary British dancer and

choreographer, which she co-authored and edited for Violette Editions. A monographic essay

on the work of Beirut- and Paris-based artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige is

forthcoming with JRP Ringier.

of the Fundacao Bienal de Sao Paulo, he was responsible for the Brazilian Pavilion in the 52a

Biennale di Venezia (Italy, 2007), among other exhibitions. Recent projects as an independent

curator include: Pinta Art Fair (curator of the ‘Solo Projects’ section), New York, USA (2011);

Sismografo, Palacio das Artes, Belo Horizonte, BR (2011); Ponto de equilibrio, Instituto Tomie

Ohtake, Sao Paulo, BR (2010); Arco Solo Projects, Madrid, Spain (2009 and 2010).

PinchukArtCentre. He curated various projects and exhibitions including the Future Generation

Art Prize at the Venice Biennial in 2011. He organized among other solo exhibitions of Candice

Breitz, Damian Ortega, Olafur Eliasson, Jeff Wall, Gary Hume and Anish Kapoor.

Prior to that, he worked together with the Belgian artist Jan Fabre, curating, coordinating, and

organizing exhibitions. From 2004 to 2006, Bjorn Geldhof managed the magazine Janus,

devoted to contemporary art, philosophy, theatre, architecture, literature and science. He also

was a curator and organizer of a number of various art projects.

Chinese art (Manchester, UK).

She has specialist expertise in contemporary Chinese and Asian art in the UK and has an

active interest in international exchange. She has commissioned and curated the first UK solo

exhibitions by artists such as Ming Wong, Song Dong, Birdhead, Patty Chang and Xu Bing.

She has acted as an advisor, spoken at national and international conferences and has written

for art journals. Sally was a fellow on the Clore Leadership Programme in 2005/06. She was

previously a nominator for the Paul Hamlyn Award for Artists and the Samsung Art+ Prize.

Researcher and writer for DOCUMENTA (13) since April 2009. In 2007, she was co-curator of

the Sharjah Biennial 8, and as a freelance curator, she has worked on exhibitions in Germany

and Switzerland. Scharrer is a regular contributor to contemporary art journals such as

Artforum, Modern Painters, Kunst-Bulletin, Spike Art, C Magazine, and Texte zur Kunst.

Projects, instigating the curatorial program now realised annually at Frieze Art Fair. Her most

recent group exhibitions are ‘Dispersion’ for London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts and ‘Still

Life’ for Ireland’s Lismore Castle Arts. Staple was formerly Editor at Large of frieze magazine

and continues as a Contributing Editor. She was a juror for the 2010/11 Maxmara Art Prize for

Women and the 2010 Turner Prize.