Olga de Amaral

Ann Coxon is curator and textile art specialist. She has a long-standing interest and specialism in textile-based practices. She curated the exhibition Magdalena Abakanowicz at Tate Modern in 2022, which traveled to the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne, and the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in Høvikodden, Norway, in 2023. She has curated numerous exhibitions and displays at Tate Modern, including Dorothea Tanning (2019), Anni Albers (2018), Beyond Craft (2017), Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture (2015), and Saloua Raouda Choucair (2013). She has published two books—Motherhood (London: Tate Publishing, 2023) and Louise Bourgeois (London: Tate Publishing, 2010)—and is currently writing a PhD thesis on textile art in Europe from 1960 to 1979.

French-Lebanese architect Lina Ghotmeh graduated from the American University of Beirut and the École Supérieure d’Architecture in Paris. She began working for Foster + Partners in London and Ateliers Jean Nouvel in Paris, before winning the international competition for the Estonian National Museum in Tartu in 2005. The following year, she founded the DGT agency with architects Dan Dorell and Tsuyoshi Tane to bring the project to fruition. Completed in 2016, the Estonian National Museum was awarded the Afex Grand Prix in 2016 and nominated for the Mies Van der Rohe Award in 2017. At the end of 2016, she founded her own practice, Lina Ghotmeh — Architecture, in Paris, through which she has notably designed and delivered the Stone Garden Tower in Beirut in 2020, and the Hermès leather goods workshops in France and the Serpentine Pavilion in London in 2023.

Marie Perennès is an art historian and independent curator, specialized in Latin American art. Her research focuses on women artists and the representation of social and political struggles. She is also interested in the dehierarchization of artistic mediums and in the reconciliation of art and craft. She was Curator at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris from 2017 to 2024, where she curated the exhibitions Southern Geometries, from Mexico to Patagonia (2018), Trees (2019), Damien Hirst (2021), Graciela Iturbide (2022), and Olga de Amaral (2024). She is Artistic Director of the French manufacturer Cristallerie Saint-Louis.

María Wills Londoño is a Colombian researcher and curator. Her work focuses on the instability of contemporary images and a reassessment of official historical narratives in art. From 2020 to 2024, she was Director and Curator at the Banco de la República art museums in Bogotá. In 2019, she curated the MOMENTA Biennale de l’image in Canada, which questioned categorizations of cultural objects as exotic or “non-Western” within the context of a consumer society crisis. In 2019, she received the Simón Bolívar Prize for Journalism for her essay “The Centenary of the Bauhaus: Of Conveniences and Connections”, exploring the connections between the Bauhaus, contemporary art, and handicrafts. Her curatorial projects have been displayed in renowned institutions globally.