Roger M. Buergel (b.1962 in Berlin) is a curator and critic. He is the Director of the Johann Jacobs Museum in Zurich. After research stays at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at UC Berkeley, California (with focus on the historiography of American post-war art), he held a lectureship in Visual Theory at Leuphana University of Lüneburg, and a Visiting Professorship of Art History at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe. Buergel is the first recipient of the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement (The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas). Between 2003 and 2007, Buergel was artistic director of documenta 12, Kassel (for which he was awarded the Hessian Culture Prize in 2015) and, in 2012, also of Busan Biennale 2012, South Korea. Among the exhibitions he curated: Mobile Worlds or the Museum of our Transcultural Present, with Sophia Prinz and Julia Lerch-Zajączkowska, at Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg (2018); Ai Weiwei: Barely Something at Museum DKM, Duisburg (2010); How do we want to be governed? at Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (2004); The Subject and Power (The Lyrical Voice) at Central House of Artist, Moscow (2001); Governmentality. Art in Conflict with the International Hyperbourgeoisie and the National Petty Bourgeoisie at EXPO2000, Hanover (2000); and Things We Don't Understand, with Ruth Noack, at Generali Foundation, Vienna (2000). In addition to numerous articles, essays, and reviews, Buergel authored the Monografie über Peter Friedl (1999, Verlag der Kunst) and, together with Stefanie-Vera Kockot, edited Abstrakter Expressionismus. Konstruktionen ästhetischer Erfahrung (2000, Verlag der Kunst).

Benjamin Buchloh (b. 1941 in Cologne) is an American art historian and critic. Professor of the History of Modern Art at Harvard since 2006, he specialises in American and European post-war art, focusing on French Nouveau Réalisme, some leading exponents of German art, Fluxus developments in the United States, Pop Art, Minimalism and Post-Minimalism, and Conceptual Art. His interests also include institutional critique and theorising the museum institution. He is a leading expert on the work of Gerhard Richter. Since 1990 he has been co-editor of October. His essays and monographs are an indispensable reference for art historians and theorists. Among his volumes: Formalism and Historicity: Models and Methods in Twentieth-Century Art (2015); Art Since 1900 (2011, with Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, and Yve-Alain Bois); Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry (2000); and monographs on Gerhard Richter, Sarah Sze, Gabriel Orozco, Hans Haacke, and Thomas Hirschhorn. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2007 he was awarded the Golden Lion for Art Criticism at the 52nd Venice Biennale