Founders
Arnaud Cohen
Portugal/France/Spain
Visual artist and a performer, Arnaud Cohen's is the head and founder of two concrete utopias: the Babel Mallorca Project and the ArtSpeaksForItself Foundation. His work is extensively presented in international biennials and institutions.
Aline Vilallonga
France/Spain
Architecture photographer, head and founder of A place, a book, former art director, Aline Vilallonga is in charge of Babel Mallorca's Architecture and Digital communication departments.
They support and have participated in the ASFI/Babel project since 2014
Alicia Knock
France
Curator at Centre Pompidou, formerly curator at the National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow.
Anne Barlow
UK
Artistic Director of Tate St Ives, former Director
of New York’s Art in General.
Bénédicte Samson
Senegal
Artistic director, curator and executive producer
at theMatter, Dakar, Senegal.
Chantal Pontbriand
Canada
Independant curator, former Head of Exhibition R&D at London's Tate Modern, former CEO of the new Museum Of Contemporary Art of Toronto.
Christine Athenor
France
Director of HS Projets/ Head curator of Festival International du Textile Extraordinaire (FITE).
Damien Brachet
France/Asia
Has been curating exhibitions and producing cross-cultural works for 25 years between Asia and the West, for galleries, art foundations, institutions and brands.
Diana Wechsler
Argentina
Artistic director of BIENALSUR and head of contemporary art at the UNTREF Museum in Buenos Aires.
Enrico Lunghi
Luxemburg
Art critic and independant curator, Head of the national Museum of Modern Art in Luxembourg (MUDAM) from 2009 to 2016.
Florence Derieux
USA/France
Independent curator, former exhibition director at Hauser & Wirth NYC and former head curator of the Centre Pompidou Foundation.
Fondation Elyx
France
Digital ambassador of the United Nations. The Elyx Foundation represents the 2030 agenda with institutions and civil society.
François Salmeron
France
Treasorer of the french branch of Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art, journalist for Quotidien de l’Art, co-director of la Biennale de l’Image Tangible.
Hafida Jemni
France
Director of the Contemporary Art of Africa & Diaspora departement at the IESA school in Paris.
Henry-François Debailleux
France
Art critic and journalist
for Journal des Arts, Liberation and the Art Newspaper.
Isabelle de Vasconcellos
UK
Director of Sculpture for the Messums Wiltshire Art Center, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London.
James Porter & Shelly de Vito
USA/France
Founding directors of Les Moulins de Paillard contemporary arts center and art residency, France.
Jean-Hubert Martin
France
Independant curator, former director of Musée national d’art moderne Centre Pompidou, former Head Curator of Kunsthalle Bern.
Jean-Pierre Biron
France
Former special advisor to the French Minister of Culture Frederic Miterrand, former director at Centre Pompidou.
Khai Hori
Singapur
Director of Chan + Hori Contemporary, Singapore, former Deputy Director of Artistic Programming at Palais de Tokyo, Paris and Senior Curator at the Singapore Art Museum.
Koyo Kouoh
Cameroun/South Africa
Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town, South Africa.
Zhang Lexing
China/Latin America
Independent curator and founding director at ART LEXÏNG, a creative agency and gallery space in Miami, Florida.
Laura Smith
UK
Curator at Whitechapel Gallery. Prior to this she was curator at Tate St Ives from 2012-18, and also curated the Turner Prize 2016 at Tate Britain.
Marie-Caroline Chaudruc
France
Managing director of Château de Montsoreau - Museum of Contemporary Art, since 2016.
Maxence Alcalde
France
Art critic and journalist, professor of aesthetics and digital culture at ESADHaR, Le Havre, co-founder of the academic journals Marges and Radial.
Moataz Nasr
Egypt
Founder of Something Else Cairo Biennale and head of Darb 1718 Art Center. Multimedia artist, he represented his country at the Venice Biennale in 2017.
Mounir Fatmi
Morocco/Spain/Germany
Visual artist living in Mallorca. Exhibitions at Centre Georges Pompidou, Brooklyn Museum, Mori Art Museum, Mathaf, Victoria & Albert Museum.
Paul Ardenne
France
Independant curator, art historian, writer and journalist for Art press, Archistorm, INTER.
Sandra Hegedüs
Brasil/France
Founder of SAM Art Projects, member of the board of the Palais de Tokyo since 2016 and winer of the Montblanc Prize for Arts and Culture in 2018.
Sarina Basta
USA/France
Independant curator, director of the invisible hours bureau (bhi), formerly head curator at the Sculpture Center in New York.
Simon Njami
Cameroun/Switzerland
Writer, and independant curator. Former head of Dakar Biennale, founder of Bamako Encounters, curator of the first African Pavilion at the Venice Bienniale.
Stephanie
Seugmin Kim
UK
Independant curator, former founding curator for London's Korean Cultural Centre, founding director of Sleepers Summit and Iskai Contemporary Art.
Valérie Duponchelle
France
Art critic and journalist for the French daily Le Figaro.
Vassiliki Tzanakou
Greece/UK
Independent curator and member of the Gallery Climate Coalition initiative in London.
Li Zhenhua
China/Germany
Curator of FILM at Art
Basel in Hong Kong, since 2014.