Söntgen, BeateBeate Söntgen ist Professorin für Kunstgeschichte an der Leuphana. Neben freier Mitarbeit im Feuilleton der FAZ, Mitwirkung an Ausstellungen, zuletzt als Ko-Kuratorin zu "Matisse. Figur Farbe Raum" (K20, Düsseldorf). WS 2009/10: Flaubert-Gastprofessorin am Flaubert-Zentrum der LMU München/Venedig.

Kuhn, HolgerHolger Kuhn works as postdoctoral researcher at the DFG research training group "Cultures of Critique" at Leuphana University Lüneburg. He is currently working on a book project on "Liquidity: The Cultural Logic of Governmentality in Contemporary Video and Film." From 2012 to 2016 he worked at the Department of Art History at Leuphana University. Recent publications include a book on the "holy kinship" and the construction of family in early capitalism, Die Heilige Sippe und die Mediengeschichte des Triptychons (Emsdetten and Berlin: Edition Imorde, 2018), and a book on the depiction of merchants in paintings from the sixteenth century, Die leibhaftige Münze. Quentin Massys' Goldwäger und die altniederländische Malerei (Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, 2015).

Lochner, OonaOona Lochner is a research assistant at the Institute of Philosophy and Sciences of Art and a PhD candidate in the research training group "Cultures of Critique," both at Leuphana University Lüneburg. Her PhD project focuses on forms of feminist art criticism since the 1960s, asking how writing about art can contribute to a negotiation of subjectivity. Together with Isabel Mehl, she founded the collaborative "From Where I Stand" which addresses the current conditions and possibilities of writing feminist art histories. She was an editor of Texte zur Kunst and writes about contemporary art.

Khatib, SamiSami Khatib is professor of visual arts at the American University in Cairo (AUC) and member of the Mellon Foundation research group "Extimacies: Critical Theory from the Global South."

Mehl, IsabelIsabel Mehl is a writer and an art critic. Since 2016 she is part of the research training group "Cultures of Critique" and researches on the function of fiction for art criticism. Her texts have been published in frieze, Texte zur Kunst, and elsewhere. Dialogue is at the core of her work - collaborators include: art historian Oona Lochner, artist Grazyna Roguski and Susan Funk (as DJ DUO). In 2012 she co-founded the Feminist Working Collective (FAK) and co-edited their publication Body of Work. She is developing a radio play for WDR with opera singer Pauline Jacob and musician Georg Conrad; and plans an anthology on digiphrenia with critic Masha Tupitsyn.