Ticio Escobar is graduated in Philosophy, Law and Social Sciences, professor, art critic, lecturer and juryman of international spaces of art. He was the trustee of Paraguay representation in the 2a, 3a and 6a Bienal Mercosul / Porto Alegre. General trustee of the 2a and 3a Mostra de Artes Visuais Integração da América Latina ((Latin America Integration Visual Arts exhibition) - VentoSul. He held the position of secretary of culture of Asunción and director of the Centro de Artes Visuales/ Museo Del Barro, and one of the trustees of the Bienal de Valência, Spain, in 2007. Author of several publications about his specialties, received awards in several countries, among them, the prize of Crítico Latino- Americano da Seção Latina (Latin American critic - Latin section), of the Associação Internacional de Críticos de Arte (Art critics International Association). He is member of the Cloister of the Doctor degree in Philosophy, Aesthetics and Art Theory by Chile University.

Fábio Magalhães, museum expert and former chief-curator of the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (São Paulo Museum of Art) - MASP, held several positions in the public administration, among them he was adjunct secretary in the Secretaria do Estado da Cultura (Department of Culture) (2005 to 2007), director of the Pinacoteca of São Paulo (São Paulo Picture gallery) ( 1979/1982), Secretary of Culture of the county of São Paulo (1983), special aid of the Secretaria de Estado da Cultura (Department of Culture)(1984/1985), secretary of Support to Cultural Production of the Ministério da Cultura (Ministry of Culture) (Minc), president of Embrafilme (1988) and president of Fundação Memorial da América Latina (Foundation Latin America Memorial) (1995/2003). He held the trustee position in the II and III biennals of Visual Arts of Mercosul, in Porto Alegre (1998/2001). Margalhães has integrated the counsels of Fundação Padre Anchieta (Padre Anchieta Foundation), of Fundação Bienal de São Paulo (São Paulo Biennal Foundation), among others, and is member of the ABCA - Associação Brasileira de Críticos de Arte (Brazilian Association of art critics)  and of the ICOMUS - UNESCO. He studied Art History in the Institut D’Art et d’Arquéologie de Paris. 

Fernando Cocchiarale works as art critic,  Aesthetics professor of the Department of Philosophy (PUC/RJ), since 1978, he is also professor  of t he course of specialization in Art History and Brazil architecture, in the same university (1983-2006), and of Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage (Parque Lage School of Visual Arts) since the 80s. He is author of the book Abstracionismo Geométrico e Informal (Informal and Geometrical Abstractionism), with Anna Bella Geiger, and he also wrote hundreds of texts which were published in catalogs, magazines, and art books. He was member of several juries and commissions of selection of events like 10o(1988) and the 15o (1995) Salão Nacional de Artes Plasticas (National Salon of Plastic Arts) and trustee, among others, of the exhibitions O Moderno e o Contemporâneo (The Modern and the Contemporary) - Gilberto Chateaubriand collection, at MAM / RJ in 1981 and of 2a (1994) and 3a (1996) Mostra de Artes Visuais Integração da América Latina (Latin America Integration Visual Arts exhibition) - VentoSul. He was the trustee of the Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (Museum of Modern Art) - MAM(November 2000 - August 2007), coordinator trustee of Rumos Itaú Cultural - Artes Visuais (Itaú Cultural Trend - Visual Arts) ( 1999/2000 and 2002/2003) and coordinator of visual arts of the Fundação Nacional de Arte (Art National Foundation) - FUNARTE between 1991 and 1999.

Ivo Mesquita, journalist, art critic, master´s degree in arts, has a large experience as a researcher, curator, director and consultant of museuns, not only in Brazil but also in North America and Europe. He has developed works as a director of the Museum of Modern Art, curator of the Pinacotheca of São Paulo and the Biennial Exhibition of São Paulo. He is a member of the Graduate Committee of the Center for Curatorial Studies (New York) and the International Council of Museums and he is a member of the board of directors of the Internatinal Committee of Museums of Modern Art.

Andrea Giunta, art critic, doctor in Philosophy and Languages, professor of the History of Art at the University of Buenos Aires. She is the author of these books: León Ferrari - Retrospectiva - Obras 1954-2006, Vanguardia, Internacionalismo Y Política, Candido Portinari y el Sentido Social del Arte (Arte y Pensamiento), among others.  She is a fromer director of the Recoleta Cultural Center, was a curator of national and international exhibitions such as: ‘Poeticas e Politicas, 1954-2006’ and ‘Forum Arte das Américas’.

Berta Sichel, curator, writer and researcher, is graduated in journalism and has a master’s degree in Systems of Commucation, Media Ecology and a doctor’s degree by the University of New York with this paper: The Idea of Innovation in Art and Technology. Her area of interest is the relationship between art and technology and science. Professor of the New School for Social Research em New York and also a director of the audio visual departament of the Reina Sofia National Museum and Center of Art, in Madrid, were she was a curator for exhibitions such as ‘Brazil Festival’. (2008) , ‘First Generation: Art and the Moving Image’ (2006/2007), ‘Art on TV’ (2005), among others. In 1998 she was awared with ‘Translocal: Twenty Five Years of Video Production by Latinos and Latin Americans’ by the Guggenheim Fellowship. She was a consultant  for exhibitions at the Andaluz Contemporary Art Center, Spain (2004) coordinator and representative of United States of América a the Biennial Exhibition of Istambul (1997), Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo (1989/90).

Fernando Castro Flórez is Professor of Aesthetics, Art’s Theory and Contemporary Art at the Autonomous University of Madrid, is Professor of Theory and Practice of Contemporary Art at the University Complutense of Madrid, and Contemporary Art at the National Museum Center of Art Reina Sofia, in Madrid. He is critic of Arts and Letters in ABCD, regular employee of the magazines Arte y Naturaleza, Revista de Occidente, Contrastes, Dardo and Exit Express. Flórez is a member of the Steering Committee of Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, the Advisory Committee of the Iberoamerican Museum Extremeño and Iberoamerican of Contemporary Art, the Advisory Committee of the Second Biennial of the Canary Islands, one of the curators of the Triennial of Contemporary Art from Chile and part of the Curatorial Council of the 5th Biennial VentoSul of Curitiba.

Simone Landal, curator, is graduated in Industrial Design, degree Visual Programation and master’s degree in Communication and Languages. Currently she is the co-ordinator of the Solar do Barão Cultural Center in Curitiba and a professor of Centro Universitário Positivo and Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná. She has experience in the visual arts areas and participated in the organization of the Salão Paranaense in 2007 and works with history of art, curatorship and the design of exhibitions.

Maria Tornaghi, works since 1963, in arts and teaching of art, she has kept a questioning attitude regarding arts and the pedagogical practice. Acting in diversified ways in the field, she has coordinated the Núcleo de Crianças e Jovens da Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage (Center for Children and Youngsters of the Visual Arts School of Lage Park), between 1992 and 2006, and the educational department of the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, between 1999 and 2006. Since 1999, particularly interested in issues involving art learning resulting from the relationship between the audience and the works exposed, she has been coordinating educational activities of exhibits at the very MAM and other venues. Some of the exhibits offering educational activities coordinated by Maria Tornaghi are: "Picasso – War Years", “Indigenous Arts/Brazil + 500”, "Rio Engraving Exhibit" and "Brazil Rediscovered".