Based in Berlin, Gloria Aino Grzywatz works internationally as a freelance curator. She holds a master's degree in philosophy, art studies, and cultural education and was a fellow at the Sorbonne University in Paris. Her work focuses on identity, feminism, cultural politics, and architectural theory.

As a freelance art educator, she has been working intensively on the issues of diversity, accessibility, and participation within the art and culture sectors since 2015. In addition to her work as a project manager for the exhibition platform peer to space, she currently works at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, the 12th Berlin Biennale, and Radiance VR, a research platform for VR art. She is currently researching the topic of contemporary architecture in Eastern Europe.

Holger Beier is Head of Bungalow Agency, a Cultural Agency based in São Paulo, specialized in cultural, educational and sustainable events. In the mid 90ies he started Bungalow Records in Berlin, home to Stereo Total, Pop Tarts a.m.m., which release 125 records.

After moving permanently to Brazil, he has since been involved in a wide range of projects in South and Central America for several institutions, i.E. the Goethe-Institut, the German Federal Foreign Office, the Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).

He's been responsible Projectmanager for the German Year in Brazil, Games of the South during the 2016 Rio Olympics and Paralympics, and recently for the Virtual German Year in Russia.

Jim Avignon is notorious for his unconventional approach to art. In his paintings, he reduces complex issues to their essentials and blends political, social, and pop-cultural themes with fairy tales and cartoons. His work does not fit into any specific genre. Avignon wants to make art accessible to everyone. Jim Avignon attempts to break the rules of the art market. By his own account, he is producing an average of 4.37 artworks per day – speed is central to his work process. During the 1992 Documenta in Kassel, he painted one artwork every day, only to destroy it afterward. His painting at the East Side Gallery in Berlin is another well-known work. 2013 he overpainted it without permission in a highly publicized event, even though it had previously been placed under monument protection.

Julie Walsh is a Chicago-based curator with a focus on contemporary Asian art and immersive technologies. She was the founder and director of Walsh Gallery in Chicago, which from 1993 - 2011 exhibited contemporary work from China in all mediums. She has curated numerous exhibitions in her own space and in others around the world. Since 2016, she has focused on the fine art applications of immersive technologies.

She is a co-founder of MIRAA Mixed Reality Academy for the Arts and artistic director of the Chicago Virtual Art Museum. She has presented at international venues including VREurope, VRHAM!, Virtual Worlds, and SAIC (Chicago). In 2021 Ms. Walsh curated the grand opening exhibition for MEET Milan’s virtual center and conducted a series of workshops on art on social VR platforms.

Peggy Schoenegge is an independent curator, writer, and project manager at peer to space as well as chairwoman of the media art association in Berlin. She holds a B.A. and M.A. in Art History by Humboldt-University Berlin and Technical University Berlin and spent a year at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto (JP). Her work deals with the conditions and challenges of digitalization and its effects on our everyday life, society, and culture. Specifically, she addresses gender, performance, and artificial intelligence by curating digital art, internet art, and art with new media such as VR or AR in both real and virtual exhibition spaces.

She gives lectures and participates in panel discussions internationally at conferences and events such as the VRHAM! Virtual Reality & Arts Festival, WISE Conference, or for the Goethe-Institute. Currently, she teaches at the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt in expanded reality. Selected curatorial projects include SPECULATIVE CULTURES. A Virtual Reality Art Exhibition (Parsons Gallery/ New School, New York), TOUCHING FROM A DISTANCE. Transmediations in the Digital Age (Literaturhaus Berlin), PENDORAN VINCI. Art & Artificial Intelligence Today (NRW Forum, Düsseldorf) as well as the online exhibitions CAT HEROICUS SUBLIMIS, Claiming Needles and Mirror, Mirror as part of peer to space’s online screening series PARS PRO TOTO.

Philipp is the founder and director of WISE.

Within four years Philipp, who has lived in China for over a decade, built WISE from a one day conference at Beijing´s prestigious art institution UCCA to a four-day-multidisciplinary-festival spanning various cities across the globe with editions in Beijing, Shanghai, Berlin, Hamburg, Chengdu and the Metaverse.

Since its foundation in 2018 WISE hosted more than 120 speaker, 80 artists/musicians in 15+ venues and, together with its partner the Reeperbahn Festival, facilitated over 300 matchmakings between european and chinese music professionals.

Philipp has a unique insight into the chinese music & creative industry and is also consulting Western businesses, creatives and government organizations on the chinese and asian market and vice versa.

Priska Pasquer specializes in contemporary and 20th-century art, focusing first and foremost on art in times of change and upheaval – the 1920s, the 1970s until today – exploring outstanding artworks in a wide variety of techniques and forms including paintings, watercolors, photographs, sculptures, installations, and videos.

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