Emily Newman was born in Singapore in 1977 and studied Fine Art at Bard College, Goldsmith's College and the California Institute of the Arts where she received her MFA in 2004. She has exhibited video and sculpture internationally and most recently at the Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery in New York. Her work has been reviewed in Artforum, Art Review and the Los Angeles Times. She is a regular contributor to Artforum and in 2008 curated "Akklimitizatsia", with works by young artists from Los Angeles and St Petersburg at the G18 Gallery in Helsinki and CAG Gallery in St Petersburg. She has taught at Smolny and the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki (KUVA). She is head of the program for practicing artists at Smolny, director of the Open Studio project and the director of Forumak Leto.
http://www.vcopenstudio.org/Members/emily

Liisa Roberts

Now living in Helsinki, Liisa Roberts was born in Paris in 1969 and studied sculpture at Chelsea School of Art, London and the Rhode Island School of Design, USA. Since the early 1990s, Roberts has exhibited internationally, including group exhibitions at Artists Space, New York; P.S.1, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England; Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland; Bildmuseet Umea, Sweden and Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy. Solo exhibitions have taken place at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and the Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL as well as private galleries in New York and Paris. She has also participated in Documenta and the Venice Biennale as well as the Sydney and Seville Biennales in 2006. Recently she has exhibited with the workgroup " What's the Time in Vyborg?" in the 3 Berlin Biennale, The Whitney Biennale, as well as in the permanent exhibition: Three Karelian Cities at the Lappeenranta Museum, Finland. Her film " What's the Time in Vyborg?" was featured in the Helsinki Documentary Film Festival- Doc Point in 2005. Roberts has also participated in a number of international residency programs including ArtPace, Austin TX; DAAD, Berlin, Germany and most recently she was artist-in-residence at the Camden Arts Center, London, England. Liisa Roberts is a lecturer in the General Studies Department at KUVA-The Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki.

Mark Coetzee

Mark Coetzee is Program Director of PUMAVision and Chief Curator of puma.creative. He is originally from Cape Town, South Africa. Before joining PUMA, he was the director of both the Contemporary Arts Foundation and the Rubell Family Collection (RFC) from 2000 to 2009. He is was adjunct curator at the Palm Springs Art Museum from 2008 to 2009. Committed to education, he served as an adjunct faculty member at the New World School of the Arts, was co-director of the New World School of the Arts Honors Program, and from 2001 to 2009 the director of the Curatorial Training Program. He is a recognized artist in his own right as well an art historian and writer. Coetzee has published extensively on art, writing for journals including the Mail & Guardian, Revue Noire and the Sunday Independent, and publishing over 30 monograph catalogs on various artists. His latest publications include monographs on Hernan Bas, Keith Haring, Eberhard Havekost, and John Stezaker. 

He has received various grants and awards for his work from foundations such as the Arts & Business Council of Miami of Americans for the Arts, Business & Arts South Africa (BASA), Harry Crossley Foundation, Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa, Maggie Laubscher Foundation, Miami Design Preservation League, Ruth Prowse Foundation, Irma Stern Foundation, Montague White Trust, National Arts Council of South Africa and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Coetzee studied at the University of Stellenbosch, the University of Cape Town, and the University of Paris-Sorbonne. 

Michael Rakowitz (резюме) (некоторые работы)

Michael Rakowitz (b. 1973, New York) is an artist based in Chicago and New York City. In 1998 he initiated paraSite, an ongoing project in which the artist custom builds inflatable shelters for homeless people that attach to the exterior outtake vents of a building's heating, ventilation, or air conditioning system. His work has appeared in venues workldwide including P.S. 1, MoMA, MassMOCA, Castello di Rivoli, the 10th Istanbul Biennial, Sharjah Biennial 8, Tirana Biennale, National Design Triennial at the Cooper Hewitt, and Transmediale 05. He has had solo exhibitions at Lombard-Fried Projects in New York, Alberto Peola Arte Contemporanea in Torino, and Stadtturgmgalerie/Kunstraum Innsbruck. His recent public project, "Return," was presented by Creative Time in New York. He is the recipient of a 2008 Creative Capital Grant for a collaboration with Emna Zghal, the Sharjah Biennial Jury Award, a 2006 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Grant in Architecture and Environmental Structures, the 2003 Dena Foundations Award, and the 2002 Design 21 Grand Prix from UNESCO. Upcoming exhibtions include the 16th Biennale of Sydney in June, 2008. His work is in many private and public collections including the Museum of Modern Art (MOMa), Architecture and Design Collection, UNESCO, Paris, and the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago. Rakowitz is also Contributing Editor for Surface Tension: A Journal on Spatial Arts.

Piotr Shvetsov

Петр Швецов родился в 1970 году в Ленинграде. Окончил Среднюю Художественную Школу при Академии Художеств. Участвует в выставках с 1991 года, член Союза Художников с 1992 года. В течение нескольких лет жил и работал за границей (художественные резиденции — Школа Шербурн, Англия, 1994; Печатная мастерская Оденсе, Дания, 1995 — 1996; Центр печатной графики, Художественный музей Ювяскала, Финляндия, 2004 — 2005).