Theory of Seeing

Anton Vidokle is an artist and Founding Director of e-flux.

Liam Gillick is a New York based artist known for contributions in sculpture, video, architecture, and text. His work focuses on contemporary management of labor, time, and aesthetics extended through a distinctive conception of exhibition as a medium in its own right. His work is divided between abstraction based on social and political structures of the present and texts, films, and graphics that often appear to contradict and comment upon the apparent clarity of his structures. Gillick’s work has been included in numerous important exhibitions including documenta and the Venice, Berlin, Shanghai and Istanbul Biennales — representing Germany in 2009 in Venice. Solo museum exhibitions have taken place at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Tate in London.

Agnieszka Polska (b. 1985, Lublin, Poland) is a visual artist, film and theatre director based in Berlin. Polska employs computer-generated media to explore themes of individual agency, social responsibility, and the shaping of historical narratives within environments driven by rapid technological changes and the flow of information. Her work bridges the past and the digital present, using hallucinatory animations and poetic storytelling to delve into the ethical ambiguities of contemporary society. Polska’s art has been showcased internationally, including exhibitions at the New Museum and MoMA in New York, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Tate Modern in London, and the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. She has held solo exhibitions at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, M HKA in Antwerp, Frye Art Museum in Seattle, Nottingham Contemporary, and Salzburger Kunstverein. She participated in the 57th Venice Biennale, 11th Gwangju Biennale, 19th and 24th Biennale of Sydney, 14th Shanghai Biennale, and 13th Istanbul Biennial. In 2023, she premiered her first theatre play, The Talking Car, in the frame of BoCA Biennale, Lisbon. 

R. H. Quaytman (b. 1961, Boston) lives and works in Guilford, CT and New York. Quaytman studied at Bard College and at the Institut des Hautes Études en Arts Plastiques in Paris, and received the Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in 2001. In 2005, she co-founded Orchard, a cooperatively-run exhibition and event space that concluded its three-year run on the Lower East Side in 2008. Quaytman’s work was featured in the 15th Shanghai Biennale (2025), documenta 14 (2017), the 54th Venice Biennale (2011) and the 2010 Whitney Biennial. Recent solo exhibitions of her work have taken place at Glenstone, Potomac, MD (2022), WIELS, Brussels (2021), a two-part exhibition at the Serralves Museum, Porto (2020) and Muzeum Sztuki, Lódz (2019), Museum Brandhorst, Munich (2019), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2018), Galerie Buchholz, Berlin and Cologne (2018, 2011), Secession, Vienna (2017), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2016), Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York (2025, 2015, 2008), Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2015), Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels (2014, 2012), Renaissance Society, Chicago (2013), the Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach (2012), the Kunsthalle Basel (2011), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2010), and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2009), among others.

Laura Pawela is a Polish visual and video artist, sculptor, film editor and lecturer at Lodz Film School. Born in 1977 in Upper Silesia, she lives and works in Warsaw, Poland. Pawela graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw (2004, Sculpture). She recently defended her PhD in art in Lodz Film School, where she conduct classes in video art and found footage films. She is a member of both Polish and European Film Academy.