Vasyl Cherepanyn, Mahmoud M. Al-Shaer and Skye Arundhati Thomas

Vasyl Cherepanyn is curator of the 14th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, opening June 2027. He is co-founder and head of the Visual Culture Research Center (VCRC), which organises the Kyiv Biennial and is a founding member of the East Europe Biennial Alliance. Alongside his curatorial work, he has lectured widely across Europe, and he holds a PhD in philosophy. 

Mahmoud M. Al-Shaer is a Palestinian writer, poet, and cultural organiser from Rafah. Editor-in-chief of 28 Magazine and founder of 28 Gallery, he works across literary and visual practices to explore memory, collaboration, and cultural resistance. He has coordinated projects with institutions including the Goethe-Institut and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, co-curated the New Alphabet School at HKW Berlin, and presented work at the 12th Berlin Biennial. His recent book I Am Still Alive: Dispatches from Gaza (K. Verlag, 2025) reflects on writing as an existential and political act under siege. 

Skye Arundhati Thomas is a writer, editor, and curator from India. She is Associate Curator at TBA21 and editor of Palestine is everywhere and its digital platform (palestineiseverywhere.tba21.org/). Her books include: Pleasure Gardens: Blackouts and the Logic of Crisis in Kashmir (with Izabella Scott) (MACK); Lalitha Lajmi (Sternberg Press); Remember the Details (Floating Opera Press).