Participants Visiting Critics Vienna 2025

Soukaina Aboulaoula (Morocco) is an independent curator and researcher based in Marrakesh, Morocco. Her practice and interests engage with themes of memory, history, narration, flexible artistic pedagogies, and modes of knowledge transmission. Her curatorial work spans exhibitions and collaborative projects. She curated Right on Time for Sheffield Doc/Fest (2021), co-curated If A Tree Falls In A Forest at Les Rencontres d’Arles (2020–2022), and most recently co-curated May Our Song Be Worthy of Those Who Listen at La Casa Encendida in Madrid (2024), a reading room and exhibition on the Raw Académie program.
Soukaina holds an MRes in Advanced Practices (Visual Cultures) from Goldsmiths, University of London. From 2020 to 2024, she was a recipient of The CAORC/Andrew Mellon Art History Fellowship in affiliation with the American Center for Maghrebi Studies in Tunis (CEMAT).
Soukaina is currently a curatorial fellow with the ARAK Collection, where she is developing an exhibition drawn from the collection, scheduled to take place in Johannesburg in 2026. She is also the co-founder and co-director, alongside Yvon Langué, of Untitled Design Agency, a Morocco-based multidisciplinary platform for editorial design and art direction launched in 2017.

Gabriel Bogossian (Brazil) is an independent curator, art writer and translator based in São Paulo. His curatorial practice addresses some of the present consequences of the colonial system, frequently articulating artistic productions with other fields of contemporary culture, such as journalism and social activism. Curator at Galpão Videobrasil (2016-2020), Bogossian was invited curator of the 21st Contemporary Art Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil | Imagined Communities(São Paulo, 2019), of VideoEx Festival (Zurich, 2019) and of Screen City Biennial 2019 – Ecologies: Lost, Found and Continued (Stavanger, 2019). He has curated solo shows by Minerva Cuevas (2018), Virginia de Medeiros (2018), Akram Zaatari (2017) and Cinthia Marcelle (2016) and produced, with filmmaker Ariel Kuaray Ortega and artist Victor Leguy, the multimedia project Caminhantes, exhibited in São Paulo (2022), Montevideo (2024) and Tenerife (2024). Bogossian was one of the coordinators of the independent art space Casa Tomada (2015-2016).
He is the author of essays on works by Hrair Sarkissian, Ícaro Lira and Richard Mosse and of translations of Americanism and Fordism, by Antonio Gramsci, The Vexations of Art, by Svetlana Alpers, and other books on art history and literature. Bogossian is PhD candidate in Philosophy and collaborates with the magazines Traço, Artelogie and arte!brasileiros, as well as with academic journals. He is currently editing Campo da Fome, a book on the work of Matheus Rocha Pitta.

Eugene Yiu Nam Cheung (Australia/Hong Kong) is a writer, cultural worker, and founding editor of Decolonial Hacker. He is particularly interested in anarchist and dissident publication practices, utopian thresholds in language, and literary expressions of the revolutionary consciousness. In 2023, Eugene was the Asymmetry Curatorial Fellow at Whitechapel Gallery, where he curated the exhibition ‘Anna Mendelssohn: Speak, Poetess’. Eugene has been a curator-in-residence at Delfina Foundation, and was part of the curatorial and public programme teams at the Julia Stoschek Foundation and documenta fifteen, respectively.
As an independent curator, Eugene has mounted exhibitions and public programmes at Rockbund Art Museum, transmediale at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Antenna Space, and more. His writing appears in places such as e-flux Criticism, Third Text, ArtReview, Griffith Review, Art+Australia, and elsewhere. In 2021, he won the International Award for Art Criticism (IAAC). Eugene holds degrees in art history, gender studies, and law from the University of Sydney, and currently teaches critical theory and curatorial practice in the Department of Information Design, Design Academy Eindhoven. His debut collection of short stories is under contract with Nightboat Books.

Miona Muštra (Croatia) is an art critic, historian, lecturer and researcher based in Zagreb. Since 2014, she has taught at the Academy of Fine Arts, training students in diverse formats of writing about visual art practice, and examining the global/local tensions in art histories. Beyond the institutional, her practice centres on expanding engagement with contemporary art past specialist circles and jargon – through workshops and discursive programs with independent culture organizations, such as Kurziv’s School of Journalism (since 2019) and most recently, AICA Croatia’s How to Write and Talk About Contemporary Art? (2024). Her critical writing (Kontura Art Magazine, Kulturpunkt.hr) analyses contemporary exhibition practices and art phenomena, with particular attention to how they register societal concerns of our time. One current focus is on examining the changing realities of art writing: the decline of traditional platforms and formats, and the redefinition of what it means to be an art writer – through rapidly evolving AI tools and (a return to?) oral forms of conversation about art. As formats evolve, she remains committed to the fundamental question: who gets to participate in the art discourse – and under what material circumstances.
Verein K is an independent arts and cultural organization from Vienna, founded in 2017. Verein K focuses on projects in the field of contemporary art and culture connecting diverse cultural and social interests: critical approaches to contemporary art, creating curatorial platforms as well as enabling innovative cultural practices including diverse social groups.