Chair of the Jury:

Sylwia Krupa – together with her husband Piotr Krupa, founder and Member of the Board of the Krupa Art Foundation.

Through her work with the Krupa Art Foundation, she is committed to establishing a new, independent centre dedicated to contemporary art. A key aspect of the Foundation’s mission is the dissemination of knowledge about art through educational activities, debates, and lectures on contemporary culture. The Foundation promotes collaboration between the worlds of business and art, including through the ART PARTNER programme.

She served as Chair of the Jury for the first edition of the KAF Young Art Prize and its most recent edition.

She is a philanthropist and co-initiator of the charitable foundation Zobacz Mnie, which supports children who are ill or living with disabilities. Sylwia Krupa graduated from the Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences at the University of Wrocław and completed postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Management and Computer Science at the Wrocław University of Economics. She is a licensed tax advisor.

Christelle Havranek (born 1971) is Chief Curator at Kunsthalle Praha, a non-profit art institution founded in Prague in 2015 and open to the public since 2022. She previously worked as a curator at the National Gallery in Prague and at the French Institute in Prague, where she developed an extensive programme of exhibitions, lectures, and residency projects in collaboration with numerous international art institutions and festivals. As part of Kunsthalle Praha’s pre-opening programme, she curated several site-specific projects, including TransFormation: Pešanek/Díaz (2017), Adela Součková’s Exit the Loop (2018), Aliona Solomadina’s Lightness (2020), Joël Andrianomearisoa’s Translations of All Our Lost Passions and Our Future Desires (2021), Mark Dion’s Cabinet of Electrical Curiosities (2021), as well as the night-time performance programme Living Kunsthalle (2019). Together with Peter Weibel, she co-curated Kunsthalle Praha’s inaugural exhibition, Kinetismus: 100 Years of Electricity in Art (2022). She has edited and co-edited several publications, including Kunsthalle Conversations (2020), Field Guide – Cabinet of Electrical Curiosities (2021), and Kinetismus: 100 Years of Electricity in Art (2022).

Lucía García has served as Director of iMAL – Center for Digital Cultures and Technology in Brussels since 2021. Continuing the vision of its founder, she is shaping the institution as a leading European platform for digital and new media art. With over twenty-five years of experience in the cultural sector, she previously held the position of Deputy Director of ARCO, the International Contemporary Art Fair in Madrid, and joined LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial in 2006. From 2011 to 2021, she served there as Managing Director. Her extensive international experience across institutions such as ARCO, LABoral, and iMAL has equipped her with the expertise to foster environments that support experimentation, research, and interdisciplinary practices within digital culture.

Katarzyna Młyńczak-Sachs (b. 1980) – a graduate of the Wrocław University of Economics and the Dutch Philology program at the University of Wrocław. She earned her PhD at the University of Wrocław, conducting her doctoral research at the University of Amsterdam. Professionally, she is engaged in cultural promotion and arts management. For many years, she conducted training programs in democracy and human rights for institutions such as the Krzyżowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe, the Robert Bosch Foundation, the European Academy in Berlin, and the Institute for German Studies at the University of Amsterdam. She has collaborated with the Ossolineum (National Ossoliński Institute) and the ART TRANSPARENT Foundation.

As part of Wrocław’s European Capital of Culture 2016 program, she coordinated the international events program. Since 2017, she has been the director of Krupa Gallery, and since 2019, she has served as President of the Krupa Art Foundation.

Filip Rybkowski (born 1991) is a visual artist whose practice centres on acts of critical reconstruction, accompanied by reflection on the political dimensions of restoration, reproduction, and conservation. His work extends beyond the traditional medium of painting into mosaic, objet trouvé, and installation. Rybkowski intertwines a poetics of fragmentation with iconographic frameworks, juxtaposing original artefacts and their reconstructions with image-based quotations. His works have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, the Central Museum of Textiles, Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery in Krakow, KODE Art Museum in Bergen, and Krakauer Haus in Nuremberg, among others. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow and a co-founder of the Piana Gallery Foundation, which supports emerging Polish artists. In 2024, he was awarded the Main Prize in the KAF Young Art Prize. Originally from Szczecin, he lives and works in Krakow.

Livia Klein (b. 1996) is an independent curator based in Vienna. Her curatorial and discursive practice centers on speculative aesthetics for possible future realities. Through her exhibitions, Klein consistently engages with contemporary sociopolitical dynamics, while also forging new pathways for artistic expression. Klein brings a diverse range of experience spanning the commercial gallery sector (Galerie Eva Presenhuber), institutional frameworks (WIELS, Brussels), and editorial expertise in art publications (Collectors Agenda), reflecting her multifaceted engagement with contemporary art and its discourses. Klein holds a BA in Art History and Education Science from the University of Vienna and is currently pursuing her Master’s in Art and Culture Studies at the University of Applied Arts.

Selected projects include Metamorphosis at Sussudio, Vienna (AT), Rule of Thumb (2025) at Polansky Gallery, Prague (CZ), Casting Currents (2025) at M10, Berlin (DE), Lobby Poems (2025) at Sotheby’s Artist Quarterly (AT), Soft Liquids, Hard Shells (2024) at Kunstraum Konrad (AT), Looping Tongues (2024) at Galerie Kandl (AT), HATHOS (2024) at Vienna Collectors Club, memory selec+ by Gerwald Rockenschaub at Casino Bregenz (AT) (2024), SPECULATIVE SPECULUM (2023) at Galerie Raum mit Licht, BK FOTO #2 (2023) at LLLLL (AT), and Torn Bodies (2022) at Parallel Vienna (AT). Accompanying the exhibitions, several publications have been produced by Livia Klein in collaboration with writers, thinkers, and artists in the corresponding fields. In 2026, Klein is curating at the Slovak Institute, Vienna (AT), VUNU Košice, Košice (SVK), and Studyia Gallery, Seoul (KR).