Regine Ehleiter is a Berlin-based art historian, writer, and curator with a focus on contemporary art and exhibition history. She studied cultural studies, art history, and journalism in Leipzig and London and received her PhD from the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. She currently works as a research associate at the Chair for Digital Arts and Cultural Communication at Witten/Herdecke University. Previously, she was a Senior Fellow at the University of Münster, a postdoctoral researcher at the Cluster of Excellence "Temporal Communities" at Freie Universität Berlin, and held teaching positions at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig and the University of Hildesheim. She has lectured widely across Europe and internationally, most recently in Chile.

Friederike Schäfer is an art historian and currently a postdoctoral researcher at the EXC Temporal Communities at Freie Universität Berlin, where she is working on her project "Earth(ly) Matters. How Exhibition Spaces Capture Natural Environments."She studied art history and North American Studies in Berlin and Seattle, and holds a doctorate from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Schäfer has held various teaching positions, including at Bard College Berlin and the COOP Design Research program (Bauhaus Dessau/Anhalt University), as well as being an academic associate at HfG Karlsruhe. Her research has been supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art, CAA, and Fulbright, among others, and she has been a research fellow at UC Berkeley and at Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice. She has also worked on international exhibitions, and is the co-founder of the working group Exhibition Ecologies.