Aylin Vartanyan Dilaver is an expressive arts practitioner working in the area of social change with communities in Turkey and elsewhere. She is a member of Parrhesia Collective, an Armenian women’s collective, that opened up an intellectual and creative platform through social media posts, webinars and written work. Her doctoral work concentrates on exploring intergenerational trauma of Armenian women through photography and storytelling in Istanbul.

Nilüfer Ovalıoğlu Gros is a contemporary theatre-maker and performance studies researcher from Istanbul, based in Paris. She pursued her artistic and academic career in the United States, England, Turkey and France. Her artistic work focuses on gendered resistance and memory. She pursues sonorities, myths and testimonies that challenge state-nation narratives of the Near East. She has published articles in Journal of Embodied Research and Performance Research Journal. She is currently a doctoral researcher at the National Academy of Dramatic Arts (CNSAD-PSL) in Paris.

Nicola Kuhn is an art critic and a features editor of Tagesspiegel. She studied art history and modern history and has taught at the Free University and the University of the Arts in Berlin. In 2013, she was awarded the Critics’ Prize from the hbs Cultural Foundation, Hannover. In 2016, she coauthored the biography Hitler’s Kunsthandler: Hildebrand Gurlitt, 1895–1956. She became acquainted with Galerie Zwirner while studying in Cologne and met Rudolf Zwirner in her role as a journalist in Berlin.