Nicole Ruppert studied German language and literature and history at the Freie Universität Berlin. Her career path led from the cultural office of the city of Wolfsburg, to the Empore theatre in Buchholz in der Nordheide, to a post as the Commercial Manager of the Estate of Sigmar Polke. In her many years as a cultural manager, she has conceived and carried out countless events.

Sophia Stang studied art history, German philology, as well as culture, communications, and management in Münster and Berlin. She has previously held positions such as at the Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf, the Estate of Sigmar Polke in Cologne, and as a research assistant at the Chair for Art History at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena under Prof. Dr. Verena Krieger within the framework of a research project sponsored by the German Research Association, DFG. She is doing her doctorate, also in Jena, on Giorgio de Chirico’s art-theoretical and autobiographical writings in the context of the magazine Valori Plastici.

Kathrin Barutzki studied art history, German language and literature, and modern history in Cologne, Bonn and Rome. After finishing her studies in 2011, she worked among others at the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst in Aachen, at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, for the Estate of Sigmar Polke, as a freelance author and curator, and as a lecturer at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. She is doing her doctorate at the Universität zu Köln on the subject of photographic strategies and multiple exhibition concepts in art around 1970.

Nelly Gawellek studied art history and general rhetoric in Tübingen. She was gallery director at Schmidt & Handrup and a research associate for the Estate of Sigmar Polke in Cologne, among others. She is also a freelance author focussing on German post-war art and current artistic positions.

Charlotte Lang completed her Master’s degree in art history in Düsseldorf focusing on art education at museums and in the art trade. She was involved for a long time in jungekunstfreunde, an initiative by Freunde des Wallraf-Richartz-Museum und des Museum Ludwig e.V., where she also worked as a project manager from 2014 to 2016. She has supported the women’s network And She Was Like BÄM! as an assistant and has realized various exhibition projects as a freelance curator.

Jacqueline Burckhardt is an art historian and curator. Before studying art history in Zurich, where she completed her doctorate, she received training as a conservator at Istituto Centrale del Restauro in Rome. She was the cofounder and editor of the magazine Parkett (Zurich/New York), published between 1984 and 2017. Jacqueline Burckhardt taught at the Accademia di Architettura – Università della Svizzera italiana and from 2008 to 2016 was the director of the Sommerakademie im Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern. From 2006 to 2009 she curated Sigmar Polke’s stained-glass -window project in Grossmünster Zürich and from 2006 to 2015 site-specific art at Novartis Campus in Basel.

Bice Curiger is an art historian and curator. She has been the artistic director of the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles since 2013. She was cofounder and editor-in-chief of Parkett, a book series on contemporary art that was published from 1984 to 2017 in English and German in Zurich and New York. From 1993 to 2013 she was a curator at Kunsthaus Zürich and in 2011 the director of the 54th Biennale di Venezia. She has published numerous books, catalogues and essays on contemporary art. The first of many essays she wrote on Sigmar Polke was published in 1977, and she subsequently organized a number of exhibitions that were devoted to his work or included works by the artist in a thematic context.

Carola de Decker is a lawyer. For quite some time art has been a special focus of her work. As a member of the Board of Trustees, she counsels the Anna Polke Foundation on legal matters.

Petra Lange-Berndt has been chair of Modern and Contemporary Art in the Art History department, Universität Hamburg, since 2015. She previously taught as lecturer/reader from 2007 to 2015 in the History of Art department, University College London. She is the author of numerous publications on art theory and modern and contemporary art; her research focuses in particular on materiality, gender studies, interactions between art and natural sciences, animal studies and countercultures. Among the various projects that she has (co-)curated, some have been devoted to Sigmar Polke’s work, including the influential exhibition Sigmar Polke: We Petty Bourgeois! Comrades and Contemporaries, The 1970s, which was shown in 2009–2010 in three consecutive parts at the Hamburger Kunsthalle.