The Jury for 2020 was:
Kostas Stasinopoulos is a curator, art historian and Assistant Curator, Live Programmes at Serpentine Galleries, London, working across the institution’s interdisciplinary programme and the General Ecology project. Kostas received his PhD in History of Art from University of York (2016) fully funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the Onassis Foundation, NEON Foundation and the Department of History of Art at University of York. He obtained his MA degree in History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2011, holds an MA in Cultural and Creative Industries from King's College London, 2008 and graduated with a BSc in Biochemistry with Management from Imperial College London, 2004. He has collaborated with the Whitechapel Gallery, Frieze and White Cube in London and the Athens Biennale in Greece. Previous exhibitions and projects includeThe Marathon Marathon Project (with Hans Ulrich Obrist and Nadja Argyropoulou, 2010), AWARE: Mona Hatoum, Adela Jušić, Silvia Kolbowski and Paky Vlassopoulou (Syros International Film Festival, 2014), Maria Lassnig: The Future is Invented with Fragments from the Past (with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Peter Pakesch and Denys Zacharopoulos, 2016-17) and The Athens Dialogues (with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Karen Marta and DESTE Foundation, 2017). Kostas is also currently a researcher at the Centre of New Media & Feminist Public Practices at the University of Thessaly.
Ioli Tzanetaki is an independent curator, interdisciplinary researcher and writer born in Athens and currently living in Berlin. She holds an MA in Art & Politics from Goldsmiths, University of London. Her work focuses on the relationship between art, politics, and social issues more specifically looking at issues of democracy, political economy, human rights and the socio-political impact of art labour. From 2016 to 2018, she was assistant curator of the 1st Riga Biennial, Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More, Riga. In 2019, she was assistant curator of the Croatian Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale and Klosterruine, a communal gallery in Berlin focusing on site-specific contemporary art projects. Since 2017, she has been assistant curator of the exhibitions organised by the Munich-based Schwarz Foundation and curated by Katerina Gregos, including: 13,700,000 km3 at Art Space Pythagorion and Anatomy of Political Melancholy, Athens Conservatoire & Art Space Pythagorion. She co-founded the project WeHybrids which consists of a series of collaborative workshops, taking place in various UK cities (2016-present). From 2015 to 2016, she was director's assistant at Siegfried Contemporary, London. She has edited and written for various art publications and is a co-editor at MAGMA a printed and online journal exploring the relationship between art and politics.
Portrait © Kristine Madjare
Kevser Güler is a curator based in Istanbul. She was a member of the Istanbul Biennial team between 2007 and 2014. Kevser been conducting researches on Arter collection since 2014 while pursuing her curatorial practice. Recent projects she took part in include Rocks and Winds, Germs and Words, Kerem Ozan Bayraktar Solo Exhibition, Sanatorium, Istanbul, 2019; Magnet and the Moon, Nilbar Güreş Solo Exhibition, Galerist, Istanbul, 2019; Potato Growers, Books and Research with Wapke Feenstra, Istanbul, Nevsehir and Rotterdam, 2019; flesh and bone, first exhibition, Operation Room, Istanbul, 2019; The Future of Ecology, Corridor Project Space, Amsterdam, 2018; Colony, Kaos GL 2nd Contemporary Art Exhibition, Istanbul, 2017; Ways Out From the World, Cappadox, Nevsehir, 2017; Let Us Cultivate Our Garden, Cappadox, Nevşehir, 2016; Living/Matter: In and through, Proto5533, Istanbul, 2016.
Milo Keller (born 1979, Lugano, Switzerland), photographer and professor, is known for his photography works in the field of architecture and design. His personal projects have been exhibited at venues such as; the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, The Aperture Gallery in New York and the Museum für Gestaltung in Zürich. Aside from his professional career as a photographer he has been teaching at ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne since 2007 where he became Head of BA Photography in 2012 and launched the Master Photography in 2016. With the new Master's degree, Keller launches and directs the Augmented Photography research program (augmented-photography.ch) questioning the influence of new technologies in the materialization and dematerialization of the photographic image. Since 2012 he has curated for ECAL numerous exhibitions and publications in Switzerland and internationally while offering conferences on his pedagogical and research activities.
Mariama Attah is a photography curator and editor, with a particular interest in the power of photography to re-present visual culture. Mariama is currently Assistant Editor for Foam Magazine. Previously she was Programme Curator at Photoworks and was responsible for developing and programming exhibitions and events, including Brighton Photo Biennial and the Jerwood/Photoworks Awards. She was also commissioning and managing editor of Photoworks Annual, published yearly.
Nikolas Ventourakis is an artist living and working between Athens and London and is the first artistic director of the Lucy Art Residency. He is a non-voting member of the Jury. His practice situates in the threshold between art and document, in an attempt to interrogate the status of the photographic image. Ventourakis completed an MA in Fine Art (Photography) with Merit at Central Saint Martins School of Arts (2013) and is the recipient of the Deutsche Bank Award in Photography (2013). He was selected for Future Map (2013), Catlin Guide (2014) and Fresh Faced Wild Eyed (2014) in the Photographers Gallery as one of the top graduating artists in the UK. In 2015 he was a visiting artist at CalArts with a FULBRIGHT Artist Fellowship and is a fellow in New Museum’s IDEAS CITY. He was shortlisted for the MAC International and the Bar-Tur Award. Recently he has exhibited in FORMAT Festival, Derby; the NRW Forum, Düsseldorf, the Mediterranean Biennale of Young Artists 18, the parallel program of the Istanbul Biennale , Hors Pistes 14 at Centre Pompidou, and The Same River Twice, at the Benaki Museum. He is the co-curator of the project “A Hollow Place” in Athens.
