Alexander Apóstol (Barquisimeto, Venezuela 1969)
Alexander Apóstol is one of the most outstanding artists on the Latin American scene. His international presence has earned him monographic exhibitions at the CIFO Foundation in Miami, the MALBA in Buenos Aires, the CAPC in Bordeaux, the Siqueiros Public Art Gallery in Mexico City, the MUSAC in León and the 2 de Mayo Art Center in Madrid. . His work has also been presented at relevant international events, such as the Shanghai, Venice, Gwangju, São Paulo, EVA International, Manifesta, Canarias, Havana, Prague, Cuenca, Istanbul, etc. biennials. His works belong to important public and private collections, such as the Tate Modern, in London; the Guggenheim Museum, in New York; the Center Pompidou, in Paris; the Pérez Art Museum and the Cisneros Fontanals CIFO Art Foundation, in Miami; the Banco de la República Museum, in Bogotá; the Patricia Phels de Cisneros Collection in Caracas, the CA2M Museum and the ARCO Foundation, in Madrid.
Cuauhtémoc Medina (Ciudad de México, 5 de diciembre de 1965.)
Critic, curator and art historian. Doctor in Art History and Theory (PhD) from the University of Essex and Bachelor of History from the Autonomous University of Mexico. He has been a full-time researcher at UNAM's Institute for Aesthetic Research since 1993, and between 2002 and 2008 he was the first Associate Curator of Latin American Art in the Tate Modern Collections. Since 2013 he has been Chief Curator of the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) at UNAM where he has curated exhibitions by artists such as Andrea Fraser, Carlos Amorales, Harun Farocki, Jill Magid, Jeremy Deller, Vicente Rojo, Jan Hendrix, Ai Weiwei and el Raqs. Media Collective, among others.
In 2012 he curated Manifesta 9: The Deep of the Modern in Genk, Belgium and was awarded the Menil Foundation's Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement. In 2018 he curated the 12th Shanghai Biennale titled “Proregress” at the Power Station of Art. His books include Mutual Abuse. Essays and Interventions on Post-Mexican Art (1992-2013) (Cubo Blanco and RM, 2017) and An Ideal City: Dr. Atl's Olinka (National College, 2019).