Ei Arakawa (b. 1977, Fukushima, Japan) lives and works in LA. Arakawa works in performance, sculpture and installation, often elaborating hybrid and multimedia works which are situated within or spun off from live, choreographed events. His complex performance works are typically collaborative and subvert performative conventions by breaking the boundaries between audience and performer, resulting in spontaneous live actions. Sometimes incorporating works from other artists as source material, his multilayered projects rethink traditional notions of authorship, subjectivity and temporal context.
Arakawa’s selected performances and exhibitions have taken place at: Kunstverein, Düsseldorf (2018); Skulptur Projekte Münster (2017); Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2017); 9th Berlin Biennale (2016); Museum Brandhorst, Monaco (2015); Gwangju Biennial, Gwangju (2014); Whitney Biennial, New York (2014); Carnegie International, Pittsburgh (2013); Pavilion of Georgia, 55. Venice Biennale (2013); Tate Modern, London (2012); 30th São Paulo Biennial (2012); The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2012).

Nora Schultz (b. 1975, Frankfurt/Main, Germany) lives and works in the USA. Schultz studied at the Städelschule, Frankfurt, and Bard College, New York. Her works are sculptural installations often including video, sound and performance as equal elements that complement one another. She uses industrial and everyday materials to create abstract sculptures. Schultz engages with language and writing systems and explores how cognitive processes influence objects and images.
Schultz’s work has been exhibited in relevant institutions worldwide, among which: Secession, Vienna (2019); Renaissance Society, Chicago (2014), Portikus, Frankfurt (2012), Kunstverein, Cologne (2009); and performances at the Whitney Museum, New York (2017), Tate Modern, Performance Room (2014) and at MoMA, New York (with Ei Arakawa, 2012). Her work has been included in Skulptur Projekte Münster (2017), Some End of Things, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel (2013) and Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language at MoMA, New York (2012).

Kasper König (b. 1943, Mettingen, Germany) Professor Dr. König was only twenty-three years old when he curated a Claes Oldenburg exhibition for the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. In 1985, König became Professor of Art and the Public at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf. Three years later, he accepted a professorship at the Städelschule Frankfurt, where he served as president from 1989 until 2000. During this same period he was Founding Director of Portikus, an exhibition hall in Frankfurt.
König has organized several large exhibitions, including Westkunst in the Messehallen, Cologne (1981); von hier aus in the Messe, Düsseldorf (1984); and Der zerbrochene Spiegel in Vienna and Hamburg with Hans Ulrich Obrist (1993). Together with Klaus Bussmann, he co-initiated and organized the Skulptur Projekte Münster in 1977 and the following editions (1987, 1997, 2007, 2017). From 2000 to 2012 he served as Director of the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. Kasper König was also Chief Curator of Manifesta 10, which took place in St. Petersburg in 2014 and recently served as Artistic Director of Skulptur Projekte Münster in 2017.

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