The artists were selected after the gallery's
international curation team conducted multiple in - depth studio visits and relationships were cultivated with the artists and understanding achieved of the artist's cultural perspectives and medium choices and application, according to the gallery.
Italian architect Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, partner at OMA working on preservation, scenography and
curation, is both leading OMA Urban Studies, as well as the
team of creative mediators, which includes the Swiss contemporary art curator Mirjam Varadinis, who works in Kunsthaus Zurich and was co-curator of TRACK, a large scale city - wide
international exhibition in the tradition of «Chambres d'amis» in Ghent, Belgium; Spanish architect, artist and scholar based in New York and Madrid, Andrés Jaque, the founder of the Office of Political Innovation, working on the intersection of research, politics and design; and Dutch filmmaker and journalist Bregtje van der Haak, who has been directing
international documentaries and transmedia projects on long - term social change with a special focus on urbanisation and technological culture.