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Cecilia Alemani is an Italian curator based in New York City. Since 2011, she has been the Donald R. Mullen, Jr. Director & Chief Curator of High Line Art, the public art program presented by the High Line in New York City. She is also the curator of the 12th SITE Santa Fe International, which opened in June 2025. From 2020 to 2022, she served as artistic director of the 59th Venice Biennale, where she curated the acclaimed exhibition The Milk of Dreams, which was visited by over 800,000 visitors. She also served as artistic director of the inaugural edition of Art Basel Cities: Buenos Aires in 2018 and was the curator of the Italian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017. Over the past twenty years, Alemani has developed an expertise in commissioning and producing ambitious artworks for the public space and unusual sites. 

Sabine Eckmann is a German art historian based in St. Louis. She is the William T. Kemper Director and Chief Curator at the Kemper Art Museum. Her research interests are focused on twentieth- and twenty-first-century art, with an emphasis on German and European art as well as art and politics, medium aesthetics, and critical theory. She has curated numerous award-winning projects, including Reality Bites: Making Avant-garde Art in Post-Wall Germany (2007), for which she received the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation award for curatorial innovation. In 2015 she co-edited New Objectivity: Modern German Art in the Weimar Republic, which won the College Art Association Alfred Barr Jr. Award and the Association of Art Museum Curators’ Award for excellence. Her most recent exhibitions are Ai Weiwei: Bare Life (2019) and Katharina Grosse: Studio Paintings (2022).  

Originally from Ahmedabad, India, Komal Shah migrated to the US in 1991 to study computer science in California. After completing a master’s degree at Stanford University, she earned an MBA from the Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley, eventually holding executive positions at Oracle, Netscape, and Yahoo. In 2008 Shah left the tech industry to focus on philanthropic pursuits. She then began developing the Shah Garg Collection with her husband and tech entrepreneur Gaurav Garg, solidifying a vision for the collection’s emphasis on women artists in 2014. Today they are focused on amplifying the voices of women artists and artists of color through the Shah Garg Foundation.