Gregg Smith, Founder
Gregg Smith (Born in Cape Town, 1970) lives in Paris, France. Following studies at the Michaelis School of Art (University of Cape Town), The Rijksakademie (Amsterdam) and Le Fresnoy (Tourcoing), his work is equally visible in contemporary art and cinema circuits. These include screenings and exhibitions at The Tate Modern (London), Videobrasil (Sao Paulo), Le Centre Pompidou (Paris), Rotterdam International Film Festival, Le Plateau FRAC Ile-de-France (Paris), and the Dakar Biennale (Senegal). He has taught extensively, presently at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'architecture de Versailles, ESA Tourcoing and the French Institute of Fashion (IFM, Paris).
Cinthia Marcelle, Director
Cinthia Marcelle (Born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 1974) lives and works in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and graduated in Fine Arts from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (1999). Marcelle uses video and photography to document the effects that her interventions have on the usual order of things. Marcelle has had recent solo shows at Modern Art Oxford (2017); Logan Center Exhibitions, Chicago (2017); MoMA PS1, New York (2016); Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro (2013); among others.
Monique Hansen, Director
Monique Hansen (born 1996 in Atlantis), is a youth facilitator and journalist based in Atlantis, following the completion of a BA in Journalism at Cape Peninsula University of Technology. She has been a youth ambassador on programs like The International Congress of Youth Voices and Democracy Works Academy (DWA) and the Youth@Work (Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy). At present she is Regional Youth Coordinator for Gunfree South Africa.
Pieter Hugo, Director
Pieter Hugo (born 1976 in Johannesburg) is a photographic artist living in Cape Town. Working primarily as a portraitist, he is equally well-known as a contemporary artist and a fashion photographer for international magazines. Major museum solo exhibitions have taken place at Museu Coleção Berardo; the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg; Barbican Art Gallery, Tate Modern and the São Paulo Biennale. His work is represented in prominent public and private collections, among them Centre Pompidou, Rijksmuesum, the Museum of Modern Art, V&A Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art. Bridget Baker, Director
Bridget Baker is a visual artist based in Cape Town. Her work intersects documentary and memory-construction, filmmaking, installation, object-making and performed re-stagings. She has produced work for various solo presentations including; The National Arts Festival (Grahamstown, ZA), Centro des Artes Contemporanea (Burgos, ES), The Wapping Project (London), MAMbo (Bologna, IT), Diet Gallery (Miami, USA), and Casa Cavazzini (Udine, IT). Her works have been curated onto numerous group exhibitions including; Dak’art 2012 (Senegal, SR), US (South African National Gallery & JAG, ZA).
Sung Hwan Kim, Director
Sung Hwan Kim (born 1975 in Seoul, South Korea) is a contemporary artist who grew up in South Korea and is currently based in Honolulu. He also worked in the Netherlands for four years serving as a fellow at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (Amsterdam). He has had solo exhibitions at the Moma, Tate Modern, London, the New Museum, New York, the daadgalerie, Berlin, and Kunsthalle Basel, amongst others.