Mark Manders was born in 1968 in Volkel, Belgium, and he currently lives and works in Ronse, Belgium. His work has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2021); 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa (duo exhibition with Michaël Borremans), (2020); Bonnefanten, Maastricht (2020); at Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela (2014); Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia (2014); De Vleeshal, Middelburg (2014); Carré d’Art – Musée d’art contemporain, Nîmes (2012); IMMA, Dublin (2005); The Art Institute, Chicago (2003); Renaissance Society, Chicago (2003); Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (2003); amongst others. His solo show ‘Parallel Occurences / Documented Assignments’ travelled from the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (2010) to Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (2011); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2011); and Dallas Museum of Art (2012). ‘The Absence of Mark Manders’ toured from Kunstverein Hannover (2007) to Kunsthall Bergen (2008); S.M.A.K. in Ghent (2008) and Kunsthaus Zürich (2009). In 2013 Manders represented the Netherlands at the Venice Biennial. He was also included in the Ateliers de Rennes (2016), Athens Biennial (2007), Manifesta (2004) and the Venice Biennial (2001).

Mohammed Sami was born in Baghdad in 1984, and lives and works in London. Having completed studies at the Institute of Fine Arts, Baghdad, he worked at the Ministry of Culture before emigrating to Sweden in 2007. Sami graduated from Belfast School of Art in 2015, and earned an MFA at Goldsmiths College, London, in 2018. Recent solo exhibitions include: Blenheim Palace, Woodstock; Fondazione Sandretto re Rebaudengo (both 2024), Camden Art Centre, London; De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea (both 2023); and Modern Art, London (2022). He has participated in group exhibitions at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2022); Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art (2022); the Whitechapel Gallery, London (2022); the Hayward Gallery, London (2021). His paintings are held by the Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo; Arts Council Collection, London; the Government Art Collection, London; SF MoMA, San Francisco; ICA Miami; MAMCO; Geneva; MoMA, New York; The Carnegie Institute of Art, Pittsburgh; the Imperial War Museum, London; LACMA, Los Angeles; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Tate, London; and York Art Gallery. In 2025, Mohammed Sami will present large-scale solo exhibitions at KM21, The Hague and Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin.

Michael E. Smith was born in 1977 in Detroit, Michigan, and lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island. He received his BFA from the College for Creative Studies, Detroit (2006), and completed his MFA at Yale School of Art (2008). His work has been the subject of institutional solo exhibitions at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (2023); the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (2021); Secession, Vienna (2020); Kunsthalle Basel (2018); MoMA PS1, New York (2017); S.M.A.K., Ghent (2017); and Kunstverein Hannover, Hanover (2015) Most recently he showed at Modern Art, London (2023) Smith has participated in international group exhibitions including the Whitney Biennial (2022 and 2012); the 58th Venice Biennale (2019); and the 13th Baltic Triennial (2018). He has shown in recent group exhibitions at Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham (2022); Fondation Carmignac, Hyères (2021); The Power Station, Dallas (2019); and Kunsthaus Zürich (2018). Smith’s sculptures are held in collections including the Columbus Museum of Art; Ludwig Forum für internationale Kunst, Aachen; MCA Chicago; Mudam, Luxembourg City; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Eva Rothschild was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1971. She lives and works in London. She received her BFA in 1993 from the University of Ulster, Belfast, and her MFA in 1999 from Goldsmiths College, London. Rothschild has mounted solo exhibitions at Modern Art, London (2022); the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2018); the Nasher Sculpture Centre, Dallas (2012); the Whitechapel Gallery, London (2012); Kunstverein Hannover, Hanover (2011); Public Art Fund, New York (2011); and Kunsthalle Zürich (2004). In 2009, she became the sixth artist to be awarded the prestigious Duveens Commission at Tate Britain, London. Her 2011 solo Hot Touch was the inaugural exhibition at The Hepworth Wakefield. In 2019, she represented Ireland at the 58th Venice Biennale. Rothschild’s works are held in public collections including the Arts Council Collection, London; the Columbus Museum of Art; the Dallas Museum of Art; MoMA, New York; Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar; Tate, London; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. In 2026 Fruitmarket in Edinburgh will host a solo exhibition. In 2027, Rothschild will be the subject of a major retrospective at IMMA, Dublin, Ireland.

Walter Price was born in Macon, Georgia and lives and works in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Greene Naftali, New York (2025; 2022; 2020); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, (2024); David Zwirner, Los Angeles, (2024); Modern Art, London, (2024); Camden Art Centre, London (2021); Aspen Art Museum (2019); MoMA PS1, New York (2018); and Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2018). His work was included in the 2019 Whitney Biennial, and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Tate, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale- on-Hudson, New York; Aïshti Foundation, Lebanon; and Rollins Museum of Art, Orlando, among others.

Phillip Lai was born in Kuala Lumpur in 1969 and moved to London in 1979, where he continues to live and work. He holds both BA and MA Fine Art degrees from Chelsea School of Art & Design, completing his studies in 1994. Lai has been a lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London since 2001. In 1997, he presented his first solo exhibition at The Showroom, London. His work has been the subject of subsequent solo exhibitions at Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong (2023); Modern Art, London (2021); Galleria Franco Noero, Turin (2019); Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong (2018); Camden Art Centre, London (2014); and Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (2009). Lai has participated in group exhibitions at Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre (2023); Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London (2022); Modern Art, London (2021); Nottingham Contemporary (2014); Tate Modern, London (2010); Artists Space, New York (2006); CCA, Glasgow (2005); MoMA, New York (1998); and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (1994). In March 2018, he was shortlisted for the Hepworth Prize for Sculpture, and from 2017-2019 was awarded the Sculpture Fellowship at the Kenneth Armitage Foundation, London. His works are held in collections including the Arts Council Collection, London; Museo Jumex, Mexico City; Nomas Foundation, Rome; Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing; and Tate, London.

A cult figure in Germany and throughout the Caucasus, Karlo Kacharava (b. 1964, Samtredia – d. 1994, Tbilisi) was a fixture of Georgian artistic and intellectual circles before his untimely death from a sudden brain aneurysm at the age of thirty. From 1981 to 1986, he studied art history at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, afterwards joining the Chubinashvili Institute of the History of Georgian Art as a researcher. Alongside and between his visual art and activities with Tbilisi’s Tenth Floor Group, he produced numerous works of poetry and critical theory. In 1990, he left the USSR for the first time, relocating briefly to Cologne. During his lifetime, Kacharava participated in up to 40 exhibitions. In 1997, he was posthumously awarded the Giorgi Chubinashvili State Prize for his contribution to Georgian art history. In 2017, a major retrospective was organised by Irena Popiashvili at the Georgian Nation- al Museum. Kacharava’s works are held in collections including the George Economou Collection, Athens; the Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi; He Art Museum, Shunde; Kolodzei Art Foundation, Highland Park; MARe/ Muzeul de Arta Recenta, Bucharest; and The Rachofsky Collection, Dallas. In December 2023, S.M.A.K Ghent mounted the first museum exhibition of Kacharava’s work outside of Georgia.