The Venice Biennale

Season 1, Episode 1

About the Guests

• Andrew Berardini is a writer based in Los Angeles. A finalist for the Premio Bonaldi and winner of an Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Grant for Art Writers in 2013, he has a book forthcoming from Mousse on artist Danh Vo, and is currently at work on another about color. Berardini is the co-founder of the Art Book Review, and edits for numerous other publications, including Artslant and Mousse. He has been a regular contributor to Art Review, LA Weekly, and Artforum.

• Kimberlee Córdova lives and works in Mexico City, DF. She received her BA in painting from the University of California at Santa Barbara (2007), and is a graduate of Soma’s postgraduate art program in Mexico City (2014). Solo exhibitions include The Dodo’s Verdict, Casa Mauuad (Mexico City, DF), and Brief Encounters with Tezcatlipoca at Bikini Wax (Mexico City, DF). Group exhibitions include exhibitions in Guadelajara, Mexico; Bogotá, Columbia; Los Angeles; and the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art in San Francisco.

• Saelan Twerdy is a writer, editor, and cultural worker living in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. He is currently the Managing Editor of RACAR, the official journal of the Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC), and is pursuing an MLIS degree at McGill University.

• Catherine G. Wagley.

  Catherine G. Wagley is a critic and journalist based in Los Angeles. She has a forthcoming book, She Wanted Adventure: Five Gallerists Who Gave Their Lives to Art in 1960s (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2027). She led the Momus Residency for Emerging Arts Journalists in 2022 and has been an Editor at Momus since 2020.

• Alison Hugill is an editor, writer, and curator based in Berlin. She is managing editor of Berlin Art Link magazine and contributes to Sleek Magazine, AQNB, uncube, Rhizome, and Artsy. Hugill has an MA in art theory from Goldsmiths College, University of London (2011). Her research focuses on Marxist-feminist politics and aesthetic theories of community, participatory art, and architecture. She is one half of the collective anti-forum and a host of Berlin Community Radio show Hystereo.

• Mitch Speed is based in Berlin. His writing has appeared in Frieze, Camera Austria, Turps, and Canadian Art. Speed has an MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, at Rutgers University, and a BFA from Emily Carr University, in Vancouver. While at Rutgers, he was a part-time lecturer at the undergraduate level, and founder of a reading group called The Obsolete Juror, focusing on the relationship between contemporary art and writing. From 2011 until 2014, he was founder and co-editor of Setup, a journal of contemporary art and writing published by Publication Studio.