Mahnaz Jarchi

Screenwriter and audiovisual producer

Said Ahmed Mohamed Alhassan

Visual artist, Tunis/Khartoum

Secretary General, PEN International

UNESCO (Paris)

Performance artist, Nicaragua (also in Venice Biennial exhibition)

Tessa Giller

Prince Claus Foundation

Elisabeth Goula

Head of the Debates Programme, CCCB

Director, ERIAC

Marja Karttunen

Saastamoinen Foundation

Nikita Kravtsov

Artist, Paris/Kyiv

Director, UNESCO Office Venice

Theresa Lekberg

SWAN - Swedish Artist Residency Network

Activist-poet and human rights defender, Zimbabwe

Co-founder State of the Art(ist), a project by Ars Electronica and Austrian Foreign Ministry

Finnish Minister of Science and Culture

Marita Muukkonen

Co-Founder and Co-Director of Artists at Risk (AR), Ecologists at Risk (ER) and Perpetuum Mobile (PM)

Ernesto Ottone Ramirez

Assistant Director General for Culture, UNESCO

Director General of the Swedish Arts Council

Chairperson, Finnish Arts Promotion Centre (Taike)

Head of Collections, Archives and Reserach at ZKM | Karlsruhe

Barış Seyitvan

Artist and curator, Berlin/Diyarbakir

Filmmaker and writer based in Berlin

Ivor Stodolsky

Co-Founder and Co-Director of Artists at Risk (AR), Ecologists at Risk (ER) and Perpetuum Mobile (PM)

Issa Touma

Photographer and filmmaker, Aleppo

Actor and dancer, Verscio/Bethlehem