Ulrike Goeschen is an art historian whose primary research has been into the art of East Germany. Her publications include From Socialist Realism to Art in Socialism: The Reception of Modernism in Art and Art History of the GDR, published in German in 2001. She is currently co-curating an exhibition on Odilon Redon for the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt. Her current book project is a biography of Alfred Kurella, the German communist and GDR cultural functionary.

Piotr Piotrowski is Professor of Modern Art History and Chair of Art History Department at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland. His research interests are in the history of art and politics of the 20th century and Central and East European modern art. During the 1990s he was Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Museum in Poznan, his exhibitions including ‘The 'Thaw.' Polish Art ca. 1956.’ He is the author of Avant-Garde in the Shadow of Yalta. Art in Central-Eastern Europe, 1945-1989 and has contributed essays to numerous publications on East European art.

Tamás St.Auby (Szentjóby) is a Hungarian artist, who in the mid-60s made happenings and environments, and was involved in both conceptual art and fluxus. In 1968 he established IPUT, the International Parallel Union Of Telecommunications, adopting a confrontational approach to the communist authorities, and was forced to leave Hungary in the mid-70s. He returned to Budapest in 1991 to join the newly-founded Intermedia Department of the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts. In 2003 he established the Portable Intelligence Increase Museum, to expose the flaws in official accounts of Hungarian art of the 1960s and 70s.

Alina Serban is a curator and art historian. She is the editor of Arhitext, a monthly review of art and architecture published in Bucharest, and a curator at the Kunstahalle Fridericianum, Kassel. She has contributed to several international publications, including the catalogue of the exhibition ‘Interrupted Histories’ at Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, and has given papers on contemporary Central European art at conferences across Europe.