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Fabrice Flahutez is professor of Art History at the Université Jean Monnet in Saint-Etienne (France), co-director of the ECLLA research lab (Contemporary Studies in Languages, Literature, and the Arts) and Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF, Academic Institute of France). His research focuses on the avant-garde with particular emphasis on Surrealism and artist collectives after 1945. He has published many books on a variety of subjects and has curated international exhibitions. The most recent, Surréalice: Lewis Carroll et les surréalistes, at the Musée d'art moderne et contemporain in Stras- bourg, received the distinction of "national interest." He was also a member of the advisory committee for Surrealism Beyond Borders at the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the Tate Modern in Lon- don. His latest publications include Slavko Kopac: Shadows and Material (Paris: Gallimard, 2022), and he was co-editor for Networking Surrealism in the United States: Artists, Agents, and the Market, vol. I, (Paris: German Center for Art History, 2019, https://doi.org/10.11588/arthistoricum.485), and Le surréalisme et l'argent, vol. 2 (Paris: German Center for Art History, 2021, https://doi.org/10.11588/ arthistoricum.612). He has authored texts for numerous museums and exhibitions, such as "Surrealism, a "Feminist" Movement?" in Surréalisme au féminin?, (Paris: Musée de Montmartre, 2023, and "Charles Fourier and Surrealism," forthcoming in the exhibition catalogue for the 100th anniversary of Surrealism at the Musée national d'art moderne/Centre Pompidou in 2024. He will be co-organizer of ISSS Paris 2024 (International Society of the Study of Surrealism), the annual congress of Surrealist studies and research worldwide. https://www.flahutez.org

Seit über 30 Jahren steht das Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien für viel beachtete Erstpräsentationen, neue Zugänge zum Ouvre bedeutender Künstlerinnen und innovative Wege in der Kunstvermittlung. Das Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien ist das Flaggschiff des kulturellen Engagements der UniCredit Bank Austria und das erfolgreichste privatwirtschaftlich geführte Ausstellungshaus in Österreich mit ausgeprägter Service- und Dienstleistungsorientierung. Unter der Leitung von Ingried Brugger pflegt das Haus enge Beziehungen zu renommierten Institutionen wie Tate Modern (London, UK), Royal Academy (London UK), Guggenheim Museum (New York City, USA), Staatliches Russisches Museum (St. Petersburg, Russland), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam, Niederlande), Kunsthaus Zürich (Zürich, Schweiz) oder Fondation Beyeler (Basel, Schweiz) und realisiert multinationale Ausstellungen. Der inhaltliche Schwerpunkt liegt auf der klassischen Moderne und Avantgarden sowie Künstlerinnen der Nachkriegszeit.

Susan L. Power is a Franco-American independent scholar and affiliated member of the ECLLA research lab (Contemporary Studies in Languages, Literature, and the Arts), translator, and curator specializing in modern and contemporary art. She holds a doctorate in Art History from the Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and has lectured and published internationally on the reception and dissemination of Surrealism in the Americas as well as the postwar abstraction of Cuban sculptor Agustín Cárdenas and American painter Sam Francis. Her recent publications include: "The Sculpture of Agustín Cárdenas at the Confluence of Surrealist and Latin American Currents," Cahiers d'études des cultures ibériques et latinoaméricaines (CECIL), forth- coming 2024; "Through the Door into Dorothea Tanning's Pictorial World," in SurréAlice, exh. cat., ed. Barbara Forest and Fabrice Flahutez, (Strasbourg: Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, forthcoming 2022); "Liat Yossifor: Communicating Vessels" in Liat Yossifor: Recent Paintings, exh. cat., (New York: Miles McEnery Gallery, 2021); "Rendering the Shadows of the Unconscious: Agustín Cárdenas's Works on Paper" in Agustín Cárdenas: Mon Ombre Après Minuit, exh. cat. (Paris: Éditions Hermann/Maison d'Amérique Latine, 2020); "La réception de Victor Brauner aux États-Unis: Entre Chien et Loup," in Victor Brauner, 1903-1966, exh. cat., (Bucharest: Arta Grafica, 2019). As a translator of art publications from French to English, she has worked for Éditions Gallimard, Par- is-Musées, Jeu de Paume, Atelier EXB, among others. She has worked in curatorial and educational roles at the Musée d'Art moderne de la ville de Paris, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Marciano Art Foundation, and most recently as a researcher for the Sam Francis Foundation. www.susanlpower.com