Eugenio Viola, Ph.D. is the current Chief Curator of MAMBO – the Bogotá Museum of Modern Art, in Colombia. He has curated more than 80 exhibitions around the world, including the Estonian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015, and the Italian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022, both of which were critically acclaimed. Viola previously served as the Senior Curator of PICA - The Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts in Perth, Australia, from 2017 to 2019, where he curated, among others, the first Australian institutional exhibitions of Kimsooja, Amalia Pica, and Cassils; and Curator at the MADRE Museum in Naples, Italy, from 2009 to 2016, where he curated, among others, the first major institutional exhibitions in Italy of Boris Mikhailov and Francis Alÿs, and a complex site-specific installation of Daniel Buren.
He has collaborated with numerous international institutions, curating exhibitions devoted to artists such as Regina José Galindo (Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, 2016); Karol Radziszewski (CoCA - Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, Torun, 2014); Mark Raidpere (EKKM - The Contemporary Art Museum of Tallinn, 2013); Marina Abramović (PAC - Milan, 2012); Francesco Jodice (MSU - The Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, 2011), ORLAN (MAMC - Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Saint Etienne, 2007).
Viola has a Ph.D. in "Methods and Methodologies of Archaeological and Art Historical Research" and is a scholar of the experiences related to performance and the body. On this subject, he has edited the monographs dedicated to Teresa Margolles (Edizioni MAMBO, Bogotà, 2019); Regina Jose Galindo (Skira, Milan, 2014); Hermann Nitsch (Morra Editions, Naples, 2013); Marina Abramović, (Sole 24 Ore Cultura, Milan, 2012); ORLAN (Charta, Milan-New York, 2007). Over the years he has edited over 50 catalogs and books and has been a long term collaborator of the magazine Artforum and Italian Arte. His writings have also been published in Flash Art, Exit Express, Enciclopedia Treccani, and many other international magazines and publications.
SU (Su Hui-Yu) obtained an MFA from Taipei National University of the Arts in 2003, and has remained active in the contemporary art scene and the film society ever since. His “Re-shooting” series(補拍) centers around Taiwanese and East Asian history, memory, re-imagination and transgression. His recent projects engage collective memories and ideologies while exploring the mechanism of oppression and liberation tied to Taiwan cultural values.
SU’s works have been exhibited at renowned festivals, exhibitions and art institutes, including the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, Singapore International Film Festival, the Videonale (Germany), PERFORMA (New York, USA), RISING (Melbourne), Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture(China), Curitiba International Biennial of Contemporary Art (Brazil), MoCA TAIPEI, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, San José Museum of Art (California, USA), Casino Luxembourg, Bangkok Arts and Culture Center, Kunsthalle Winterthur (Switzerland), 1646 Art Space (Den Haag, The Netherlands) and Power Station of Art (Shanghai, China). In 2017, IFFR dedicated a retrospective to SU’s video works, while his video work Super Taboo had its world premiere in the Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films. Su returned the competition twice after that in 2019 and 2021. In 2019, Su won the 17th Taishin Arts Award- Visual Art Award. In the summer of 2023, Su’s new project The Space Warriors series will be exhibited at Hyundai ArtLab in Seoul for the finalist of the 5th VH Art Award, and at Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz in Germany.