Martin Germann lives and works as an exhibition maker and author, dividing his time between Belgium, Germany, and Japan. He served as adjunct curator at Mori Art Museum in Tokyo until 2025, and from 2012 to 2019, he headed the artistic department of S.M.A.K., the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art in Ghent, Belgium. Earlier in his career, he was a curator at the Kestner Gesellschaft Hannover (2008–2012) and worked on the 3rd and 4th Berlin Biennale (2003–2006). He received an AICA award for best exhibition in Belgium in 2016 for Lili Dujourie: Folds in Time. Together with Heike Eipeldauer, he curated James Welling’s retrospective Metamorphosis, which has been presented at S.M.A.K. Ghent and Kunstforum Vienna in 2017. After writing about Kazuna Taguchi’s work for her solo show at Fondation D’Enterprise Hermes in Tokyo in 2022, he collaborated with the artist by inviting her for Stories from the Ground, the 9^th Biennale of Painting at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens (Belgium).

Heike Eipeldauer is deputy director and curator at mumok in Vienna, where she is currently presenting Kazuna Taguchi’s solo show I’ll never ask you. Previously, she curated the trans-epochal exhibition Medardo Rosso: Inventing Modern Sculpture (2024–2025), which won numerous awards, including the ART Curator Award for the best exhibition of 2024, and was subsequently shown at the Kunstmuseum Basel (where it was co-curated by Elena Filipovic). During her twenty-year career as a curator, she has realized over forty exhibitions in collaboration with various artists, colleagues and institutions, including Meret Oppenheim (2013–2014), Georgia O’Keeffe (2016–2017, with Tanya Barson and Georgiana Uhlyarik), Love in Times of Revolution. Artist Couples of the Russian Avant-garde (2015–2017), as well as James Welling: Metamorphosis (2017), which she curated together with Martin Germann. Alongside her teaching commitments, Eipeldauer regularly sits on international juries and is the editor and author of numerous publications on modern and contemporary art.