Prior to his appointment as Director of the Centre for Icelandic Art in March 2010, Dorotheé Kirch (b. 1974 - German) worked as a freelance curator and cultural worker.

Lives and works in Berlin Benandsebastian's work is based on a need to explore, scrutinize and question the world around them - using architectural constructions.

Aleksandra Mir was born in Poland, raised in Sweden and lived in New York City for 15 years and in Sicily for 5, before settling in London, where she now resides. She has dual Swedish-American citizenship.