Byrne studied at the National College of Art & Design in Dublin and The New School in New York City.                                                                                         

He works primarily with photography, video and live art, often making use of archival media. His artistic work explores the mediation and construction of images.

Recent projects include solo exhibitions at secession, Vienna; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; ACCA, Melbourne; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen; and FRAC Pays de la Loire, France. He represented Ireland at the 52nd and 54th Venice Biennale, in 2012 he was a participant in dOCUMENTA 13 in Kassel and in 2017 he is exhibiting at the Skulptur Projekte in Münster. Other major presentations of his work at international biennials include the Gwangju and Sydney Biennials in 2008, Lyon in 2007, the Tate Triennial in 2006 and the Istanbul Biennial in 2003.

 2007-2016 Byrne was Professor of Time-Based Media at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art in Copenhagen. Since 2018 he teaches as professor of the Film Class at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main.

Zippora Elders is Senior Curator at the Van Abbemuseum, Netherlands. 

Previously, she was Chief Curator and Head of the Curatorial Department and Outreach at the Gropius Bau in Berlin. She was Director of Kunstfort and Director of Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen in the Netherlands, where since 2016 she has raised the visibility of this UNESCO heritage site as a thriving retreat for contemporary art and ecological exchange under the themes of science fiction and enchantment, healing, fertility. In 2019, she also became co-curator of “Sonsbeek 20-24: Force Times Distance - On Labor and its Sonic Ecologies”. Previously she was curator at Foam, Museum of Photography in Amsterdam and as such editor of Foam Magazine. She studied art history, curatorial practice and museum curation, as well as public administration and philosophy.

Zippora Elders has had a number of solo exhibitions, including with Leonardiansyah Allenda & Serena Lee, Catherine Biocca, Esteban Cabeza de Baca, Roe Ethridge, Rachel de Joode, Jan Robert Leegte, Ann Lislegaard, Sophie Lee, Katja Novitskova and Miloš Trakilović. Her most recent group exhibitions include “Plural Fertilities” with Mehraneh Atashi, Lisa Gliederpuppe, Susanne Kriemann, Mire Lee, Dorine van Meel, Kevin Osepa, Eric Peter, Lotte Lara Schröder and Müge Yilmaz as well as “Enchant embrace them you odd peninsula...” with Maria Barnas, Kent Chan, Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze, Astrit Ismaili, Rabi Koria, Sophie Lee, Thomas van Linge, Finn Maätita, Isabel Marcos, Outi Pieski, Sally von Rosen, Dion Rosina, Arin Rungjang, Jennifer Tee, Anna Uddenberg, Dan Walwin, and Joeri Woudstra. For the exhibition of “Force Times Distance” in 2021, she worked closely with Sam Auinger, Ellen Gallagher, Anne Dukhee Jordan, Violet Kudzanai-Hwami, Ibrahim Mahama, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Laure Prouvost, Farkhondeh Shahroudi, Werker Collective, Willem de Rooij, Omer Wasim and many others.

Christian Fausch is artistic manager and managing director of Ensemble Modern Frankfurt.

Fausch studied music, majoring in cello, at the Conservatory for Music and Theater in Bern and at the Music Academy of the City of Basel, graduating in 1997 with a concert diploma. He then went on to study cultural management at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

From 2000 to 2004, he worked for the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, where he worked in press and public relations and then as project manager and assistant to the artistic director. In 2005, he took over the artistic direction and management of the Collegium Novum Zurich for five years. After serving as Managing Director of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie from 2012 to 2019, Fausch was also appointed Artistic Manager and Managing Director of Ensemble Modern Frankfurt in 2016.

Dr. Brigitte Franzen is president of the Offenbach University of Art and Design (HfG). She was up to curator and director of the Senckenberg Nature Museum in Frankfurt till October 2024.

Franzen studied art history with a focus on architecture and modern art, cultural anthropology, sociology and literature in Karlsruhe, Vienna and Marburg an der Lahn. She completed her doctorate on the history of ideas of nature and its reflection in contemporary art. The accompanying book “Die Vierte Natur” is now out of print.

After completing her studies, she initially taught at the University of Wuppertal and the Technical University of Graz. From 2004 to 2008, she worked at the Westfälisches Landesmuseum in Münster and curated Skulptur Projekte Münster 07 together with Kasper König.

From 2009 to 2015, Franzen was Director of the Ludwig Forum for International Art. Following this, she was the sole director of the Peter and Irene Ludwig Foundation until she took up her post as the new director of the Senckenberg Nature Museum in Frankfurt am Main on January 1, 2021.

Franzen has overseen around 100 exhibition projects over the last three decades, both as a curator and museum manager.

In addition to her museum work, Franzen has published a large number of books. These include 20th and 21st century art, architecture, landscape theory and the cultural history of nature.

Bettina Korintenberg holds a doctorate in cultural studies and is the director of the ifa galleries.

From 2016-20 she worked as a curator at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. Her curatorial and academic practice focuses on critically questioning the digital and global media ecology as well as Western-influenced paradigms of modernity against the backdrop of current social and ecological transformations.

Her particular research interest lies in the investigation of alternative space-time configurations and forms of social collectivity through interdisciplinary and collaborative processes. In addition to her curatorial work in institutions and independent projects, she is the author of various contributions to catalogs and academic text volumes. She lives and works in Stuttgart and Berlin.

Matt Packer is Director / CEO of EVA International - Ireland's Biennial of Contemporary Art.

He was previously Director of the CCA Centre For Contemporary Art Derry-Londonderry (2014-2017), Deputy Director of Treignac Projet (2013-2016) and Curator of Exhibitions and Projects at the Lewis Glucksman Gallery at University College Cork (2008-2013). In his independent capacity he has curated numerous exhibitions and projects including: They Call Us The Screamers, TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, Galway (2017); and Disappearing Acts, Lofoten International Art Festival, Norway (2015) (with Arne Skaug Olsen). He was part of the selection committee for the UK representation at the Venice Biennale 2017 and is an advisor for the education program What Could / Should Curating Do? in Belgrade.

He is co-founder of Occasional Groundworks - a network partnership of EVA International, GIBCA (Gothenburg International Biennial for Contemporary Art) and LIAF (Lofoten International Art Festival) and the Contour Biennale - which rethinks the model of smaller biennials in a regional European context. He is a graduate of Goldsmiths College, London, and writes a regular column on internationalism for VAN (Visual Artists' News Sheet), Ireland.

Christiane Riedel studied art and architectural history as well as literature. She headed the Deutscher Werkbund Baden-Württemberg and the Lower Saxony Research Association for Women's and Gender Studies in Science, Technology and Medicine and was Managing Director of the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe from 2002 to 2020. Since 2020, she has been a board member of the Crespo Foundation, for which she established the Glenkeen Garden ArtNature/NatureArt artist-in-residency program in Ireland.

Prof. Dr. Klement Tockner is an aquatic ecologist and Director General of the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung.

Tockner studied botany and zoology at the University of Vienna, where he completed his doctorate in 1993 with a dissertation on the ecology of the banks of the Austrian Danube.

From 2007, Tockner was head of the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries in Berlin and held a chair in Aquatic Ecology at the Free University of Berlin. After being appointed President of the Austrian Science Fund FWF in 2016, he took up the post of Director General of the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung in Frankfurt am Main on January 1, 2021. Tockner is also Professor of Ecosystem Science at Goethe University Frankfurt.

His research focuses on the dynamics, biodiversity and sustainable management of water bodies. He conducts research at the interface of various disciplines, such as ecology, geomorphology and hydrology, linking natural and social science issues. Tockner is an elected member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Mainz Academy of Sciences and the German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina.