Mohamed Almusibli is Director and Chief Curator of Kunsthalle Basel, a position he has held since March 2024. Previously, he co-founded and curated the independent art space Cherish in Geneva. His curatorial practice is shaped by a close engagement with contemporary artistic practices, an interest in emerging technologies, and an approach that fosters dialogue between local and international art scenes.

François J. Bonnet is a Franco-Swiss composer, electroacoustic musician, and theoretician based in Paris. He is Director of INA GRM (Institut national de l’audiovisuel / Groupe de Recherches Musicales) and the author of several books published by Urbanomic, as well as The Music to Come, published by Shelter Press in 2020. He also co-edits the SPECTRES publication series, a collaboration between INA GRM and Shelter Press.

As a musician, Bonnet often works under the name Kassel Jaeger and has collaborated with artists including Oren Ambarchi, Giuseppe Ielasi, Stephen O’Malley, Jim O’Rourke, Akira Rabelais, James Rushford, and Gisèle Vienne. His work has been presented internationally, and he has worked closely with pioneering composer Éliane Radigue, regularly performing her music in concert.

Vanessa Cimorelli is a Geneva-born curator based in Switzerland. She studied visual communication at HEAD – Genève and literature, linguistics, and social sciences at the University of Lausanne (UNIL), before completing the CCC Master’s program at HEAD. She is currently a curator at La Becque and a member of Extra.Collective.

Her curatorial practice explores questions of embodiment, storytelling, and virtual spaces at the intersection of artistic, political, and curatorial perspectives. Through exhibitions, events, and collaborative formats, she fosters dialogue across disciplines while examining how affects, technologies, and power structures shape the reception of artworks and the production of collective narratives. Her research draws on cultural studies, feminist theory, and critical approaches to technology.

Jessica Ekomane is a French-born, Berlin-based electronic musician and sound artist. Her work creates situations in which sound acts as a transformative element for both space and audience. Her quadraphonic performances explore the physical and cathartic potential of sound through psychoacoustics, rhythmic structures, and the interplay between noise and melody.

Her immersive sonic environments investigate the relationship between individual perception and collective dynamics, as well as listening expectations and their social and cultural foundations. Her work has been presented internationally at festivals, music venues, and contemporary art institutions including Radio France, CTM Festival, Berghain, Cafe OTO, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museo Reina Sofía, Art Basel, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, and Villa Massimo.

Stefanie Hessler is a curator, writer, editor, and Director of Swiss Institute in New York. At Swiss Institute, she has co-curated solo exhibitions by artists including Ali Cherri, Lap-See Lam, and Raven Chacon, and initiated Spora, a curatorial project exploring “environmental institutional critique.”

Previously, Hessler was Director of Kunsthall Trondheim, where she co-led the exhibition Sex Ecologies and edited its accompanying publication on queer ecologies, sexuality, and care in more-than-human worlds (MIT Press, 2021). Her independent curatorial projects include the 17th MOMENTA Biennale in Montreal, Joan Jonas: Moving Off the Land II at Ocean Space in Venice, and Tidalectics at TBA21–Augarten in Vienna. She is the author of Prospecting Ocean (MIT Press, 2019) and has edited numerous publications.

Deborah-Joyce Holman is a multidisciplinary artist and curator based between London and Basel. Their practice examines the relationship between popular visual cultures, capital, and the politics of representation, exploring forms of artistic and cinematic subversion, repetition, and refusal across video, sculpture, and painting.

Their work has been presented internationally at institutions including Kunsthalle Bern, Oregon Contemporary in Portland, Centre culturel suisse in Paris, the Athens Biennale, La Quadriennale di Roma, and Auto Italia in London. From 2020 to 2022, Holman worked at Auto Italia as Associate Director and was previously the founding director of 1.1, a Basel-based platform and exhibition space for emerging practitioners in art, music, and writing. Their curatorial projects also include the 2018 and 2019 group exhibitions of Les Urbaines in Lausanne.

Nora Nahid Khan is a curator, editor, and author whose work focuses on digital visual culture, software politics, and the philosophy of emerging technologies. She is the former Executive Director of the Project X Foundation for Art and Criticism in Los Angeles, publisher of X-TRA Contemporary Art Journal.

Her curatorial projects include Manual Override at The Shed in New York, featuring Sondra Perry, Morehshin Allahyari, Simon Fujiwara, and Martine Syms, as well as the 2024 Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement at the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, co-curated with Andrea Bellini. Her writing has appeared in publications including Artforum and Art in America, and she has contributed essays to exhibitions at the Serpentine Galleries, Chisenhale Gallery, and the Venice Biennale. A former resident of La Becque, Khan also collaborates with artists on screenplays, librettos, and films.

Samuel Leuenberger is a curator with over 25 years of experience across the visual arts. He is the founder and director of SALTS, a non-profit exhibition space in Birsfelden and Bennwil, Switzerland, dedicated to fostering interdisciplinary exchange and supporting emerging artistic practices.

Leuenberger curates Art Basel’s Messeplatz Project and the Art in Public Space Project with Globus in collaboration with Fondation Beyeler, and previously curated Art Basel’s Parcours sector from 2016 to 2023. His curatorial projects and collaborations include Centre Pasquart in Biel, Salon Suisse – Pro Helvetia in Venice, Les Urbaines in Lausanne, and 14 Rooms in Basel. His previous roles include positions at Kunsthalle Zürich, Christie’s in Zurich, and Stephen Friedman Gallery in London. He is currently an external mentor at the Institute Art Gender Nature (HGK Basel).

Luc Meier is Director of La Becque, a position he has held since 2018. After studying international relations in Geneva, he spent over a decade abroad working on cultural projects in Japan and the United States. From 2008 to 2012, he developed and directed an art and technology program jointly initiated by swissnex San Francisco and the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.

Upon returning to Switzerland, Meier coordinated the curatorial development of ArtLab at EPFL in Lausanne and served as its Director of Programs until 2018. Designed by architect Kengo Kuma, ArtLab brings together art, science, and technology through exhibitions and interdisciplinary projects.

Anthony Pateras is an Australian composer, pianist, and electronic musician based in Djaara/Castlemaine. Since 1999, he has developed an extensive body of work spanning contemporary composition, improvisation, electronic music, and spatial sound. His practice explores polytemporality, psychoacoustic phenomena, electroacoustic ensembles, and rule-based improvisation through solo performances, collaborations, and ensemble projects.

His music has been performed internationally by ensembles and institutions including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and International Contemporary Ensemble. He has received commissions from INA GRM, Südwestrundfunk, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Festival Archipel, and Apartment House. A recipient of the ZKM Giga-Hertz Production Prize and a Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship, Pateras has undertaken residencies at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Cité internationale des arts, and La Becque.

Anne-Catherine de Perrot is a sociologist specializing in cultural evaluation and policy. After studying sociology and anthropology at the University of Zurich, she held positions at Pro Juventute Switzerland and the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health before joining Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council in 1999. There, she served as Head of International Exchange and later as Deputy Director, developing evaluative approaches within the foundation and co-authoring Evaluation in Culture: Why and How to Evaluate (2008).

In 2009, she founded evalure, a Zurich-based centre for cultural evaluation, which she continues to direct. Alongside conducting evaluations and advising institutions on cultural policy and organizational development, she serves on the boards of several cultural foundations and associations in Switzerland, including the Fondation Françoise Siegfried-Meier.