Julia Mercurio - A freelance art and cultural manager based in Berlin, born to a German mother and an American father. She studied political and cultural sciences at the University of Maastricht (the Netherlands) and at vthe St. Kliment Ohridski University, Sofia (Bulgaria). She has worked for the cultural department of the Goethe-Institute in Osaka (Japan), the Bulgarian Pavilion at the 52nd Biennale di Venezia, and more recently with independent artist projects in Berlin.