Art Brussels

Katerina Gregos

Artistic Director, EMST | National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens

Athens-born Katerina Gregos is a curator, educator and writer. Since the summer of 2021 she is artistic and general director of the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMΣT), Athens. She has curated numerous critically acclaimed large-scale international exhibitions and nine international biennials including – as chief curator – the 1st Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA1), Manifesta, E V+ A Ireland’s Biennial, the Göteborg International Biennial, among others.

Gregos has also curated three National Pavilions at the Venice Biennale, Denmark (2011), Belgium (2015), Croatia (2019). She is the recipient of the 2025 Nancy Regan Prize awarded annually by the New-York based Culture Animals Foundation for her current exhibition at ΕΜΣΤ, Why Look at Animals: A Case for the Rights of Non-Human Lives.  

Sofia Lemos

Curator of Contour Biennale 11 (Mechelen), Curator & Writer, Barcelona

Sofia Lemos is a curator and writer whose work engages the intersections of art, performance, and discourse, with a sustained focus on ecology and critical practice. She is the curator of Contour Biennale 11 in Mechelen, Belgium, in 2026. 

From 2021 to 2024, Lemos was Curator at TBA21—Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, where she launched a programme centred on ecological and community-based practices, commissioning new work and convencings artists, performers, and thinkers. Between 2018 and 2021, she served as Curator of Public Programmes and Research at Nottingham Contemporary, where she developed live and collaborative projects, including the multi-year Sonic Continuum, exploring the sonic and social change. 

Lemos was associate curator of the 2nd Riga Biennial (2020), a visiting curator at Galeria Municipal do Porto (2017–18), and part of the curatorial team for Contour Biennale 8 (2017). She edited Reluctant Gardener (Bom Dia Books, 2025), Meandering: Art, Ecology, and Metaphysics (Sternberg Press, 2024), Sonic Continuum (Nottingham Contemporary, 2021), and Metabolic Rifts (Anagram, 2019, with Alexandra Balona). Lemos lectures regularly and contributes to international publications, including e-flux criticism, Frieze, Mousse, and Spike. 

Gabi Ngcobo

Director, Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam

Gabi Ngcobo joined Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, as director in 2024. In this role, she has curated solo exhibitions by Jabu Arnell, Ola Hassanain, Marilyn Nance, Paulo Niemer Pjota, and Simnikiwe Buhlungu, among others.

Between 2020 and 2023 she was Curatorial Director at the Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria (Javett-UP), where she organised the group exhibitions Handle with Care (2021) and SCENORAMA (2022). Gabi was critical in positioning the Art Centre as a “living academy” bringing to South Africa Frequencies, a project by Oscar Murillo, and facilitated an activated space for Another Road Map for Artistic Education – Africa Cluster. She worked on new commissions supported by the Hartwig Art Foundation (NL) with artists Nolan Oswald Dennis and Luana Vitra.

In 2022 Gabi curated The Show is Over at the South London Gallery and co-curated The ‘t’ is Silent at the Museum Dhondt-Dhaenes in Deurle, Belgium.

Since the beginning of her curatorial career, Gabi has worked on independent curatorial projects, collaborated with various institutions in different parts of the world, and for eight years lectured in the art department of the Wits School of Arts in Johannesburg.

In 2018, she curated the 10th Berlin Biennale titled We Don’t Need Another Hero and was one of the co-curators of the 32nd São Paulo Bienal titled Incenteza Viva (2016). She is a founding member of the Johannesburg-based platforms NGO — Nothing Gets Organised (2016-) and the Center for Historical Reenactments (2010–14).