Thiago Gomide worked with Bernardo Paz in the initial process of building and creating Instituto Inhotim, in Minas Gerais, where he served as exhibition manager between 2002 and 2007. He then worked with Jones Bergamin at Bolsa de Arte, in São Paulo, where he was for six years at the head of the contemporary art, photography and design department. In 2013, he partnered with Antonia Bergamin and together they opened the Bergamin & Gomide gallery, which operated until 2021. He is currently a founding partner of Gomide& Co.

Daniel Rebouço has been active in the art market for 26 years and has worked in the auction segment for the past 18 years as an official auctioneer in the states of Minas Gerais and São Paulo. This role has allowed him to closely engage with the work of countless artists — from academic art to popular culture — navigating the rich diversity of Brazilian artistic production from North to South. He is currently the commercial director at Blombô Leilões.

James Green is a Senior Director and Head of London at David Zwirner, where he instigated the first solo exhibition of Polish artist Andrzej Wróblewski’s work in the UK; the first exhibition of the late Brazilian painter Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato outside Brazil; the first solo exhibition of Indian modernist Benode Behari Mukherjee outside India; and Brazilian artist Maxwell Alexandre’s first solo exhibition in the UK. He is a member of the Studio Voltaire Capital Project Committee and a Trustee of Gasworks.

Laymert Garcia dos Santos is a professor in the Sociology/IFCH department at the State University of Campinas. He was an advisor to the CNPC of the Ministry of Culture and Director of the São Paulo Biennial Foundation. His work focuses on the Sociology of Technology and Contemporary Art, mainly on topics such as technology, biotechnology, contemporary art, politics and Brazil.

Manoel Macedo is the gallerist at the head of Manoel Macedo Arte, founded in 1981, an important art gallery located in Belo Horizonte, capital of the state of Minas Gerais. His extensive experience and seriousness in dealing with new values have made the gallery an outpost of the most contemporary art production in Brazil and around the world.

Pedro Mendes is a founding partner of Mendes Wood DM gallery, based in São Paulo, Brussels, and New York. In 2019, the gallery presented the solo exhibition “Lorenzato” in its space in New York.

Rodrigo Moura is chief curator of the Museo del Barrio in New York. He has worked as an assistant curator at MASP (Museu de Arte de São Paulo) and curator at Inhotim, where he contributed to acquisitions for the institute. As curator of the Museu da Pampulha (2004–2006), in Belo Horizonte, he organized individual exhibitions by artists such as Fernanda Gomes, Renata Lucas, José Bento, among others. Rodrigo Moura is the organizer of the book “Lorenzato”, about the work of Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato, published by Ubu in 2022.

Rodrigo Ratton is founding partner of Galeria de Arte Rodrigo Ratton, focused on contemporary and popular artists from Minas Gerais, which presented the exhibition “Noites e Noturnos: 120 anos de Lorenzato” (2020).

Rui Terenzi Neuenschwander is a doctor and poet, third cousin of Amadeo Luciano Terenzi Lorenzato. The owner of a collection created from family paintings given to him by the artist, he is currently responsible for the Imprudentemente Poéticos project in Gonçalves, Minas Gerais, which seeks to unite art and literature.

Sabrina Sedlmayer is a professor and researcher at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), and has published books on Literature and Philosophy.

Vilma Eid is founding partner of Galeria Estação, in São Paulo. Over more than 40 years, she has traveled around Brazil in search of legitimate and qualified popular production, and has built one of the most important collections of Brazilian non-erudite art. She has edited publications and held exhibitions curated by renowned art critics in Brazil, France, Italy and the United States. As president of the Instituto do Imaginário do Povo Brasileiro, she received the Jabuti Prize in 2019 for the best art publication of the year with the book “Arte Popular: Olhares Contemporâneos”.