Pablo Martínez is a researcher and educator. He worked as Head of Programming at the MACBA from 2016 to 2021 where he also directed the Center of Studies and Documentation and its exhibition program, the Independent Studies Program and the et al series of essays. He’s part of the editorial board of L’InternationaleOnline (www.internationaleonline.org) as well as of the #Re-visiones (www.re-visiones.net). He is a founder member of Las Lindes, a research and action group working on education and cultural and artistic practices (2009-today).
Emily Pethick is the director of the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam. She was the director of The Showroom, London, until 2018; she was also the director of Casco, Office for Art, Design and Theory, in Utrecht, The Netherlands (2005-2008) and the curator at Cubitt, London (2003-2004).
What, How & for Whom/WHW is a curatorial collective. Its members are Ivet Ćurlin, Ana Devic, Natasa Ilic and Sabina Sabolovic, and designer and publicist Dejan Krsic. Since 2003 WHW collective has been running the program of Gallery Nova, a city-owned gallery in Zagreb. In 2018 WHW initiated an independent, educational program WHW Akademija based in Zagreb. In 2019 members of WHW Ivet Ćurlin, Natasa Ilic, and Sabina Sabolovic were appointed as artistic directors of Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna. WHW activities in Zagreb, WHW Akademija, and Gallery Nova are led by Ana Devic.