Meet The Scene

Jennifer Braun is a Cologne-based art critic, art educator, social media strategist, and certified plain-language translator. She publishes weekly exhibition reviews on her Substack, The Gen Z Art Critic, read in 87 countries, focusing on standout graduation shows and Eastern European and Balkan art scenes. With Lars Fleischmann, she co-hosts the German podcast A Bigger Schnack, covering the Rhineland art world. She writes the column POV GEN Z for KUNSTFORUM INTERNATIONAL and contributes to Monopol Magazin, CRISP, Frieze, and Stadtrevue. She was nominated for the 2026/27 Jürgen Pronto Foundation/AICA Germany art criticism fellowship.

She has lectured at institutions including Kunstverein Hamburg, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, University of Bonn, LabK NRW, and Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, and led guided tours for La Biennale di Venezia’s Educational Department for five editions since 2021. She currently leads Social Media at WESTSTERN, directs short-film artist portraits, and has translated for major art institutions. She has also juried several prestigious art prizes.

Henriette Bretton-Meyer is Senior Curator at the New Carlsberg Foundation, a private and independent foundation for the arts based in Copenhagen. Previously, she worked as Curator at Kunsthal Charlottenborg (2013–2026), where she was responsible for critically acclaimed solo exhibitions with Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, Aleksandra Domanović, Thao Nguyen Phan, Jeremy Deller, Cao Fei, Mohamed Bourouissa, Laure Prouvost, Miriam Cahn, Eva Koťátková, and others. Prior to this, she was Director of Overgaden (2006–2012), where she carried out an extensive transformation of the institution into a professional art centre.

Henriette Bretton-Meyer holds an MA in art history from the University of Copenhagen and Humboldt University in Berlin, as well as an MA in Fine Art Administration and Curatorship from Goldsmiths College, London.

Joseph Chen (he/him, they/them) is a Hong Kong-based curator, researcher, and artist currently serving as Director of Culture at Eaton HK. In this role, he leads cultural programming and impact-driven partnerships, collaborating with institutions such as Art Basel Hong Kong, M+, Tai Kwun, Queer East Festival, and Nowness Asia. Previously, Chen curated and managed exhibitions and public programs at leading Hong Kong art institutions, Para Site and Videotage. Throughout his curatorial career, he has partnered with hundreds of artists to organize exhibitions, stage performances, and commission new works, with recent collaborators including Joshua Serafin, Xavier Le Roy, Natasha Tontey, Young Boy Dancing Group, and Melati Suryodarmo.

Alongside his institutional work, Chen maintains an independent artistic practice. As the co-founder of Virtue Village and a founding member of Video Cypher, he actively explores self-organized models and collaborative artmaking.

Anna Kuznetsova is an art historian and lecturer with more than 25 years of international experience across the US, China, Europe, and Central Asia. She serves on the board of directors of several organizations and is actively involved in developing cultural initiatives around the world. An Ambassador of Amsterdam Art, she is also a guest lecturer at Sotheby’s Institute of Art (London), Webster University (Geneva), and Tashkent Architecture and Construction University, where she lectures on the art business, contemporary art practices, and the intersection of art with social and political issues.

She is also a collector, with a publicly accessible multimedia collection in Amsterdam. She holds a BA in Art History (Summa Cum Laude), an MA in International Relations, an LLB, and an MBA in Art Business.

Anna Meinecke is a Berlin-based curator, journalist, and digital strategist working in contemporary art. She studied cultural studies, theology, and archaeology in Berlin, and media studies in Amsterdam. She used to be the editor-in-chief of gallerytalk.net, an online magazine covering contemporary art, and also writes as a journalist for ZEIT ONLINE and Hessischer Rundfunk. Through gallerytalk.net she used to regularly write about emerging artists, reviewed exhibitions, and reported on art-world events across Europe, including Brussels Art Week and Prague Art Week.

Katia Porro is a curator, writer and translator. She is currently the director of In extenso (Clermont-Ferrand) and editor and chief of the French contemporary art magazine La Belle Revue. Katia develops research around the social and political dimensions of the built environment (domestic; urban); interiors and architecture (physical; psychological); the absurdity of dominant systems (administrative, governmental), the object as a vehicle for affects; language and translation; as well as regression and vulnerability as forms of power.

Gregorio Lucena Scarpella leads the Global Cultural Districts Network (GCDN), a membership organisation of more than 70 cultural districts worldwide, with a mission to improve the quality of urban life through the arts, culture and creative industries. He is responsible for the network’s strategy and development, the stewardship of its members, and its year-round programme of activities and research, as well as its flagship annual convening, of which he has curated and overseen multiple editions in cities around the world.

Greg is interested in cultural districts as instruments of governance, diplomacy, and connection, and in what it takes to lead them well in a complex and contested world. His work centres on convening, facilitation, and the relationships that let a peer network function across very different international contexts. Greg holds an M.A. in Arts & Cultural Management from King’s College London and a B.A. in Communications and English Linguistics & Literature from the Université de Neuchâtel. Born in Brazil into a multicultural family and raised in Switzerland, he is fluent in English, French, Portuguese, and Italian.

Wang Shuman is a curator and writer, born in Nanjing and currently based in Hong Kong, where she serves as Associate Curator at Tai Kwun. Her recent research and curatorial interests centre on the micro-temporality of moving image spaces, power dynamics and the politics of desire embedded in digital technology, and the plasticity of language. She has curated exhibitions both independently and collaboratively, including the first institutional solo exhibitions in Hong Kong of video art pioneers Bruce Nauman and Zhang Peili, and has participated in research-based group exhibitions such as Stay Connected: Art and China since 2008 and The New Survivors, among others.

From 2017 to 2023, she worked at OCAT Shanghai, where she oversaw the planning and implementation of exhibitions, including several of her own curation. Her writing and curatorial practice have long focused on moving image and media art. She has initiated and organised several screening programmes, and has worked on the research, writing, editing, and archiving of media art-related publications and exhibition catalogues.

Patrik Steinhauser is an art professional, curator, gallerist and advisor working at the intersection of contemporary art, institutions and the international art market. Since July 2026, he has served as Artistic Director of the Slovak National Gallery (SNG) in Bratislava, focusing on artistic strategy, international cooperation and strengthening the institution’s position within the European art landscape.

Together with his wife, Bonni Steinhauser, he co-founded Steinhauser Gallery, evolving from their earlier activities as collectors and art advisors in Munich. Originally trained in finance, Steinhauser became increasingly interested in the wider ecosystem of art — artistic positions, market structures, institutions and the relationships connecting them.

In 2020, the couple relocated to Bratislava, driven by the conviction that Central and Eastern Europe’s artistic potential remained insufficiently connected to the international art world. Steinhauser Gallery opened its permanent space in 2023, developing an internationally oriented programme and collaborations with artists and institutions across Europe.