Attilia Fattori Franchini
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    Attilia Fattori Franchini is an independent curator and writer based in Vienna. She is a guest professor of Curatorial Practice at Kunstuniversität Linz (2025−27), director of the curated by festival, and founder and director of KUNSTVEREIN GARTENHAUS, Vienna. Fattori Franchini conceived and established the BMW Open Work by Frieze commission program (2017−23), realizing solo presentations by Camille Blatrix, Olivia Erlanger, Nikita Gale, Madeline Hollander, Sam Lewitt, and Sara Sadik, and has shaped the Emergent section of miart Milan since 2018. She curated the exhibition Rebecca Ackroyd: Mirror Stage, a Collateral Event of the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2024) and she is the curator of the Austrian Pavilion at the 16th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea, with a project by artist Birke Gorm (2026). Her writing has appeared in publications such as Artforum, Camera Austria, CURA., Flash Art International, Mousse, and Spike Magazine and she has authored catalog essays for monographs.


    Fanny Hauser
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    Fanny Hauser is a curator and the director of Kunsthalle Zurich. Previously she worked as deputy director at the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst in Aachen. In 2015, together with Carolina Nöbauer, Denise Helene Sumi and Franziska Sophie Wildförster, she founded the Vienna-based Kunstverein Kevin Space, where she was responsible for numerous exhibitions and new artistic productions. Before becoming a curatorial fellow of the Gebert Stiftung für Kultur in Rapperswil together with Viktor Neumann from 2019 to 2021, she worked as a curatorial assistant for documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel. She studied art history and comparative literature in Vienna and Paris and worked as a lecturer at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna from 2021 to 2022.


    Ursula Pokorny
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    Ursula Pokorny is a curator from Vienna, Austria. Currently, she is writing her dissertation on artist Ceija Stojka and curating the art collection of Oesterreichische Nationalbank. Previously, Ursula has worked for Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Kunsthalle Basel, Galerie Martin Janda, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Ursula holds an M.A. from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, New York and a B.A. from the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.


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    Yael Salomonowitz
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    Yael Salomonowitz is a curator, producer, and cultural practitioner working at the intersection of contemporary art, performance, and social engagement. She is the co-founder of Basel Social Club and the founder and artistic director of The Performance Agency, a platform dedicated to developing site-specific and interdisciplinary performance projects. Her practice focuses on creating immersive, participatory experiences that bring together artists across disciplines, collaborating with leading international institutions and cultural organizations to develop new models of public engagement.