Marta Kuzma is an independent curator who presently resides in San Sebastián, Spain for the duration of Manifesta 5 (2003-2004). Kuzma has served as the Artistic Director of WPA, in Washington, DC (2000-2002) where she reinitiated the programme with The Mutable Monument, an international project approaching revisions in the notion of monument. From 1991 – 1999, she served as Artistic Director of the Soros Center for Contemporary Art in Ukraine where she curated numerous exhibitions including Boris Mikhailov: A Retrospective (1996); Alchemic Surrender aboard the nuclear battleship Slavutych in Sevastopol (1994); and The Crimean Project in Livadia Palace (1998). Prior to Kyiv, she head the International Exhibitions Programme at the International Center of Photography, NYC. Kuzma studied at Barnard College/Columbia University, NYC, and completed her post graduate degree in Aesthetics and Art Theory at the Centre for Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University, London. She has served on the jury of the DAAD panel for artist residency for 2003 and 2004 and is a visiting lecturer to the postgraduate programme at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. At present, she is curating a project with Dan Graham entitled Passaic to open in NYC in 2004.

Massimiliano Gioni is the Artistic Director of Fondazione Nicola Trussardi in Milan. In 2003 he has curated "The Zone" for the 50th edition of the Venice Biennial. He is also part of the curatorial team for the presentation of the recent acquisitions of the Dakis Joannou Collection (Athens, 2004). Former US editor of Flash Art magazine (2000-2002), Gioni has worked on numerous exhibitions among which: Uniform. Order and Disorder (PS1, New York, 2001); The Fourth Sex. Adolescent Extremes (Pitti Discovery, Florence, 2002); Yesterday Begins Tomorrow (Deste Foundation, Athens, 2003). Together with Maurizio Cattelan and Ali Subotnick he directs the New York based magazine"Charley", and the no profit space “The Wrong Gallery”.