Curators

Krist Gruijthuijsen, Director, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Krist Gruijthuijsen (b. 1980, NL) is a curator and since July 2016, Director of KW Institute for Contemporary Art. At KW, he has curated exhibitions with, among others, Hanne Lippard, Ian Wilson, Adam Pendleton, Ronald Jones, Hiwa K, Willem de Rooij, Beatriz González, David Wojnarowicz, Hreinn Friðfinnsson, and Hassan Sharif. Gruijthuijsen was Artistic Director of the Grazer Kunstverein in Graz (AT, 2012–16) and Course Director of the MA Fine Arts Department at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam (2011–16). He is one of the co-founding directors of Kunstverein in Amsterdam and has organized numerous exhibitions and projects over the past decade.

Salma Lahlou, Independent Curator and Founder, ThinkArt, Casablanca
Graduate in both curatorial studies and law, Salma Lahlou has a solid knowledge of cultural project management. After working as the Vice President of the National Museums Foundation of Morocco, she founded Thinkart in the fields of visual arts and curatorial practices in 2015. She has curated various exhibitions, including, most recently, The Whole World a Bauhaus—Breaking the Wave, from the Bauhaus to Mohamed Melehi and the Casablanca School to Nassim Azarzar at the ZKM Karlsruhe, DE (2019–20); Loading… Casa during the Dubai Design Week (2017) and in Brussels (2018); In the Carpet/Über den Teppich at the ifa Galleries in Stuttgart (2016) and Berlin (2017); and The Casablanca School of Fine Arts: Belkahia, Chabâa, Melehi and the Fabrication of Art and History during the 6th edition of the Marrakech Biennale in 2016.

Inka Gressel, Director, ifa Gallery Berlin
Inka Gressel currently heads the ifa Gallery Berlin (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen). She has researched global narrative forms in textiles since documenta 12 (2007). Prior to this work, she held a curatorial position at Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe (DE). She also co-developed the education program for The Art of Enlightenment exhibition in Beijing on behalf of the Pinakotheken in Munich. She joined the ifa in 2012, with a focus on international art exchange in exhibitions, and co-curated the ifa touring exhibition The Event of a Thread.