Michel van Dartel is curator at V2, where he coordinates public events and is involved in a variety of artistic R&D projects. He also works as a freelance curator for a.o. the Dutch Electronic Art Festival, art center TENT, MU gallery, the Energize festival, and ARTICLE biennial. Besides curating, Michel is an author, tutor at Luca Brussels University College and CODARTS University for the Arts, researcher at Hanze University of Applied Science, associate editor of the Journal for Artistic Research, advisor to a.o. the Mondriaan Fund and Creative Industries Fund NL, and professional advisory board member at Piet Zwart institute and Willem de Kooning Academy. Michel holds an MSc in Cognitive Psychology and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and currently lives in Rotterdam and Brussels.

1646 is an artists’ initiative/project-space in the centre of The Hague, which promotes the exchange between local, national and international artists and art spaces. The aim is to create an active research for current developments in the shifting landscapes of art, culture, and theory.

1646’s Residency offers artists & curators the possibility to stay and work/research at 1646 for a period of up to two months. The residency proceeds parallel to the development of other projects and because it is not only addressed at artists as such, it is not strictly intended to the realization of a show. The focus is put on research rather than working towards a final result and in the presence and interaction with the context of 1646 and with the context in Den Haag and The Netherlands at large.

Valentina Desideri trained in contemporary dance at the Laban Centre in London, she did a MA in Fine Arts at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam, she does Fake Therapy and Political Therapy, she co-organizes Performing Arts Forum in France, she speculates theory with Prof. Stefano Harney, she writes biographies by reading people's palms, she sometimes dances and does other things too.

Initiated and run by artists, theoreticians, practitioners and activists themselves, PAF is a user-created informal institution. It is a platform for anyone who wants to expand possibilities and interests in his/her own working practice. PAF is located in a former convent school (6.400 m2), in a 1.2 hectare garden in the village of St. Erme, France, approximately 130km northeast of Paris, between Laon and Reims. www.pa-f.net

Since 2011 Sofie Dederen (°1976, B) is the director of the print art centre and residencies Frans Masereel Centrum

She started in 1999 as freelance projectmanager with Muziektheater Transparant (Antwerp) and graduated from Vrije Universiteit Brussel (B) as Master in Communication in 2000. During her education and after her graduation from the Kunsthochschule Berlin (D) as Diplomante Freie Kunsten in 2007, she curated the exhibitions: Ik zie ik zie. (Storm op Komst /vzw Festivalitis, De Warande, 2009), Man with the movie camera (vzw Open Doek - De Warande, 2009), and was involved in collaborations like Entree> Exit (Middelheim Museum, Antwerpen in collaboration with bolwerK, 2010), Flat files (Artforum Berlijn, D, 2006), Lokale (Schwerin, D, 2005).

For the Frans Masereel Centrum she programmed and developed projects like DOCUPRESS Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Jan Kempenaers, Gowara Minsa, the exhibitions Exhibition Copy and More (MORE Publishers), E IL TOPO (2014), iN KASTERLEE (2012), PRINT ART FAIR 2012-2013-2014-2015, Show your Colour (Dutch Design Week Eindhoven NL, 2012) and the performative exhibition with Z33 "All the knives, any printed story on request" (Åbäke, curator).
She's a founding member of the Foundation 'Workspaces Nederland en Vlaanderen' and is a board member for 0090 and for Greylight Projects