Awards & Jury

Elvira Dyangani Ose

Elvira Dyangani Ose is Director of the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona. Previously, she was Director of The Showroom, London. She is affiliated to the Thought Council at the Fondazione Prada. She has previously been Curator of the Göteborg International Biennial of Contemporary Art; Curator of International Art at Tate Modern, London; Artistic Director of Rencontres Picha – Lubumbashi Biennial, Democratic Republic of the Congo; Curator of Contemporary Art at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Seville; Senior Curator at Creative Time in New York; and Curator of Contemporary Art at the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM) in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria. She recently joined Tate Modern Advisory Council. Her curatorial projects are of a multidisciplinary nature aimed at observing the telling of history as a collective experience, intervention in public space, and the recovery of non-Western narratives and epistemologies, including Carrie Maes Weems: A Great Turn in the Possible (2022), A Story Within A Story… (2015), Ibrahim El-Salahi: A Visionary Modernist (2013), Across the Board (2012–2014), Carrie Mae Weems: Social Studies (2010), Arte Invisible (2009, 2010), and Olvida Quien Soy/Erase Me From Who I Am (2006). 

Andrea Lissoni

Andrea Lissoni, PhD, is since April 2020 Artistic Director of Haus der Kunst, Munich. Formerly Senior Curator, International Art (Film) at Tate Modern (since 2014) and previously curator at HangarBicocca (2009/13), Milan, he co-founded and co-directed the international festival Netmage (2000-2013) and co-curated the Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Genève (OGR Torino, 2019). He launched his programme at Haus der Kunst with the sound and music residency series “Tune” and a series of interconnected exhibitions by Fujiko Nakaya, Dumb Type, Carsten Nicolai, Christine Sun Kim, Tony Cokes, Karrabing Film Collective (2022), followed by “Inside Other Spaces. Environments by Women Artists 1956-1976′, (currently on) alongside projects by WangShui, Martino Gamper and Meredith Monk. The series will continue in spring 2024 with a solo exhibition by Pan Daijing, Liliane Lijn and Rebecca Horn. Haus der Kunst programme is based on a transdisciplinary and transgenerational approach in which all areas are closely interlinked.

Benjamin Weil

Benjamin Weil is the artistic director of the Centro Botín (Santander, Cantabria, Spain) since the beginning of 2014. The Centro Botín opened its doors during the summer of 2017, giving a new dimension to the Visual Arts program that the Botín Foundation had been developing for 25 years. Before his arrival to Cantabria, Weil was the artistic director of the Laboral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial (Gijon, Asturias, Spain), a production, research and dissemination platform for contemporary art and new cultural forms resulting from the creative deployment of novel technologies. Born and raised in Paris, Benjamin Weil developed his career in the United States, where he worked as an independent curator, art critic, conservator and director for several institutions; he held the position of director of the Media Art department at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA, San Francisco, USA), and of executive director of Artists’ Space (New York, USA). He also started the video art programme H BOX at the Fondation d’Entreprise Hermès (Paris, France), being its artistic director from 2005 to 2011.

Daniela Zyman

Daniela Zyman is chief curator and artistic director of Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21), a private foundation established in Vienna by Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza in 2002. The organization’s multi-tier mission is to commission, collect, and present the best of contemporary art through an ambitious program of exhibitions and events and to pursue urgent social, political, and ecological issues, especially since 2011 via its oceanic research platform TBA21–Academy. Since 2018, TBA21 collaborates with the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid on a 4-years exhibitions program. Daniela joined TBA21 in 2003 and has played an instrumental role in shaping its exhibition and commissions program. Between 1995 and 2001 Daniela was chief curator of the MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art in Vienna, which included the founding and programming of the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles. From 2000 to 2003 she worked as the artistic director of the Künstlerhaus, Vienna and as director of A9 Forum Transeuropa, a program of Q21 in Vienna’s Museumquartier.
Daniela earned a PhD on forms of artistic counter-research under the framework of political ecology. She has taught at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and is currently lecturing at the University of Art and Industrial Design in Linz, and frequently authors essays for art publications.

Last update: 11th November 2020

Dirk Snauwaert

Dirk Snauwaert (b. in Tielt, Belgium, in 1963) has been involved with WIELS Contemporary Art centre since July 2004; he was appointed Artistic Director in January 2005. Before joining WIELS, Dirk Snauwaert was Co-Director of the Institut d’Art Contemporain Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alps, in France, where he was in charge of the exhibition programme and of the development of the FRAC Rhône-Alpes collection. He was Director of the Munich Kunstverein from 1996 to 2001, and, from 1989 to 1995, he was in charge of the contemporary art programme of the Société des Expositions of the Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels. He has organised and coordinated numerous exhibitions, both monographic and thematic, and he lectures and publishes regularly on art and visual culture. He has been a member of several boards, including the Flemish Community’s Visual Arts Advisory Board, and he was also in charge of the acquisitions for Belgium’s Flemish Community from 2003 till 2006. He was a member of AFAA’s think tank, in Paris, and has sat on several juries, among them the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogram, Munch Prize Oslo, Blue Orange and the Prix Marcel Duchamp. He’s also on the board of acquisitions for the FRAC des Pays de la Loire, in Carquefou, France, APT Berlin, the Kuratorium der Allianz Kulturstiftung and the Generali Foundation, both in Vienna. For Wiels, he has curated exhibitons by Anne Mie Van Kerckhoven, Bruno Serralongue, Luc Tuymans, Andro Wekua and Francis Alÿs, and groups shows such as Expats-Clandestines (2007) and Rehabilitation (2010). He was also the curator of Jef Geys’ exhibition at the Belgian Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennial.