Enzo Cucchi (*1949, Morro d’Alba, Italy) currently lives and works in Rome and Ancona, Italy. In 2004, he received the Premio Artista dell’Anno from the Comuni di Belluno e di Cortina d’Ampezzo, and, in 2008, alongside Ettore Sottsass, he was awarded the PAALMA: Premio Artista + Architetto La Marrana Arte Ambientale. Cucchi has had solo exhibitions at MAXXI, Rome (2023); Museo Correr, Venice (2007); Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo (1996); Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1986); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (1986); The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (1984); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1983), among others. His work has been featured in Documenta 7, Germany (1982 and 1987); the 39th Venice Biennale (1980); Biennale de Paris (1980); and Bienal de São Paulo (1979).
Enrico David (*1966, Acona, Italy) currently lives and works in London. He received his BA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins in 1994. A retrospective of his work will open at Castello di Rivoli, Turin in October 2025. He has had recent solo exhibitions at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2023); Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, D.C. (2019); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2018); UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2013); New Museum, New York (2012); Museum Für Gegenwartskunst, Basel (2009); Seattle Art Museum (2008); Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh (2008); Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2007); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2007); and Tate Britian, London (2005). In 2019, David represented Italy in the 58th Venice Biennale in a co-presentation with artists Liliana Moro and Chiara Fumi.
Leonor Fini (1907–96) was born in Argentina but lived and worked in Paris, France. During her lifetime, Fini was included at an important Surrealist exhibition Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism at The Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1936, and the landmark exhibition 31 Women, organized by Peggy Guggenheim at her gallery Art of This Century in 1943. She was the subject of retrospectives at Lilley Museum of Art, Nevada (2021); Museum of Sex, New York (2018); Bildmuseet, Sweeden (2014); Museo Revoltella, Trieste (2009); Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan (2005); Museo Teatrale alla Scala, Milan (2005); Panorama Museum, Germany (1997); Musée du Luxembourg, Paris (1986); Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Turin (1983); and Seibu Museum, Japan (1972). Recently, her work was included in The Witch’s Cradle, one of five historical sections embedded within The Milk of Dreams, the main exhibition of the 59th Venice Biennale (2022) and Surrealism Beyond Borders at Tate Modern, London (2021).
Anne Imhof (*1978, Gießen, Germany) lives and works in Berlin and Los Angeles. Selected solo exhibitions include Armory Park Avenue (2025), Kunsthaus Bregenz (2024), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2022), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2021), Tate Modern, London (2019), Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2016), Kunsthalle Basel (2016), MoMA PS1, New York (2015), Carré d’Art – Musée d’Art Contemporain de Nîmes (2014), and Portikus, Frankfurt am Main (2013). Her work has also been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including at Aichi Triennale, Aichi Prefecture (2022), Kunstmuseum Winterthur (2022), Tai Kwun, Hong Kong (2019), La Biennale di Venezia (2017), where she was awarded the Golden Lion, La Biennale de Montréal (2016), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2015), Centre Pompidou, Paris (2015), and Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main (2014).
Alexej von Jawlensky (1864–1941) was a key figure in the influential Der Blaue Reiter artist collective and, later, Die Blaue Vier. His work is included in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Museum Wiesbaden, Germany; Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid; Cincinnati Art Museum; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, among others. Jawlensky is currently the subject of a major monographic exhibition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark.
Conny Maier (*1987, Berlin, Germany) currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Baleal, Portugal. She was awarded Deutsche Bank’s Artist of the Year Prize in 2021. Her work has been exhibited at Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (2024); Société, Berlin (2024); Villa Schöningen, Potsdam (2023); Ruttowski;68, Paris (2022); KÖNIG GALERIE, Seoul and Berlin (2021 and 2020, respectively); BOLD Room, Los Angeles (2016), among others. In 2023, Maier was the subject of an institutional exhibition at the Langen Foundation in Neuss, Germany, curated by Udo Kittelmann.
Rosemarie Trockel (*1952, Schwerte, Germany) lives and works in Berlin. Solo exhibitions include MMK – Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (2022–23), Moderna Museet Malmö (2018–19), Pinacoteca Agnelli, Turin (2016), Kunsthaus Bregenz (2015), traveling exhibition at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, at the New Museum, New York and Serpentine Gallery, London (2012–13) and Wiels, Brussels, Culturegest, Lisbon and Museion Bozen, Bolzano (2012–13). In 2005, a major retrospective of her work opened at Museum Ludwig Köln, Cologne and traveled to MAXXI, Rome. In 1999, Trockel became the first woman artist to represent Germany at La Biennale di Venezia. Her work was also included in Documenta 10 (1997) and Documenta 13 (2012) in Kassel, as well as La Biennale di Venezia (2022).
Andro Wekua (*1977, Sukhumi, Georgia) lives and works in Berlin. Solo exhibitions include TANK Shanghai (2022), Kunsthalle Zürich and Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (both 2018), Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2016), Benaki Museum, Athens (2014), Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Kunsthalle Friedericianum, Kassel (both 2011), Wiels, Brussels, Museion Bolzano (both 2010), Museum Bojmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2007), and Kunst Museum Winterthur (2006). Selected group exhibitions include: Fondation Beyeler, Basel (2023), Haus der Kunst, Munich (2019), Fondation Vincent van Gogh, Arles, Albertina Museum, Vienna (both 2018), Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland (2016), the High-Line Art, New York (2015), Pinakothek der Moderne & Brandhorst Museum, Munich (2015), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2014), Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva (2013), New Museum, New York, 54th Venice Biennale (both 2011), Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich (2008), Centre Pompidou, Paris (2006), and 4th Berlin Biennale, Berlin (2004).