Hugo Hopping is an artist from Los Angeles whose work spans art, design, and education projects. He has exhibited widely as an artist and curator or through hybrid contexts that support the blend of both disciplines. Notable examples include Nature as Infrastructure at Manifesta 13 Les Parallèles du Sud in Marseille, France (2020) and 10-part exhibition programs such as Memoirs of Saturn (2021–2022) at SixtyEight Art Institute in Copenhagen. From 2003 to 2009, Hopping co-founded and organized the Los Angeles-based peer-review, debate, and artistic space ESL | Esthetics as a Second Language in collaboration with Mario Garcia Torres and Nate Harrison. Since 2010, he has served as the director of THE WINTER OFFICE, a work group he co-founded with architects Johanna Ferrer Guldager and Sara Armento to explore the intersection of art, architecture, and design through artistic and knowledge-based projects. His writings address art, architecture, politics, and cultural history. Based in Copenhagen, Hugo Hopping is currently developing two exhibition and publication projects focused on artist-led curatorial knowledge connecting Denmark and Mexico.

Mario Garcia Torres (b. 1975, Monclova, Mexico) is an artist currently living in Mexico City. Some of the most important solo exhibitions of his work have been held at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2007), Kunsthalle Zürich (2008), Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley (2009), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2010); Museo MADRE, Naples (2013), Perez Art Museum, Miami (2015), TBA21, Vienna (2016), Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2016), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2018) and Wiels Art Centre, Brussels (2019) MARCO Monterrey (2021). He has also participated in such international exhibitions as the Desert X (2023), Sharjah Biennial 13,Tamawuj, Emirates (2017), Manifesta 11, Zurich, the Berlin Biennale (2014); the Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2013); Documenta 13, Kassel (2012); the São Paulo Bienal (2010); and the Venice Biennale (2007) to name a few. Garcia Torres' work is part of many private collections around the world. His works could be found in public collections such as the MoMA, New York, the Pompidou Centre, Paris, MUAC and Museo Tamayo in Mexico City, the Hammer Museum in LA and the Tate Modern, London. A survey of his work is currently open at the Fridericianum Museum, in Kassel, Germany.