Allison Grimaldi Donahue (1984, Connecticut, USA) is the author of Body to Mineral (Publication Studio Vancouver, 2016) and the co-author of On Endings (Delere Press, 2019). She is translator of Carla Lonzi’s Self-portrait (Divided, 2021) and Blown Away (Fomite, 2021) by vito m. bonito. Her writing and translations have appeared in places like Flash Art, NERO, The Brooklyn Rail, Words Without Borders, Prairie Schooner, BOMB, Evergreen Journal, Mousse and Tripwire, and she has recently performed at Guggenheim Venice, Kunsthalle Bern, Cabaret Voltaire, MACRO, MAMbo and Short Theatre Rome. Together with Giada Olivotto she curates Bambine, an annual translation residency around the work of Swiss Italian author Alice Ceresa at Sonnenstube, Lugano. From 2021-2022 she was a resident at the Sommerakademie Paul Klee in Bern. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from European Graduate School and teaches literature and gender studies at Spring Hill College Italy Center. She lives in Bologna.

Ilare (1994) is an artist based in Rome. They hold a Master’s degree in New Languages of Art from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and also participated in an exchange program at the Escola Massana in Barcelona. Their work has been exhibited in institutions such as RAVE East Village Artist Residency, Trivignano Udinese (2024); Spaziomensa, Rome (2024); Roma Smistamento, Rome (2023); MAD – Murate Art District, Florence (2023); Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome (2022); Istituto Centrale per il Restauro, Rome (2022); and AAL’S Experimental Space PILOT, Riga (2021). Since 2024, they have been a resident of the artist-run space Porto Simpatica in Rome. They have also been collaborating with WPS Multimedia, an artistic research lab specializing in audiovisual design, video installations, and museum itineraries, since 2018.

Hunter Longe (1985, California) and lives and works in Geneva. He is a current resident at the Istituto Svizzero in Rome. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from California College of the Arts, San Francisco, and a Master of Fine Arts from Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam. Recent group and solo exhibitions have been at 427, Riga (2024); Centre d’art de Neuchâtel (2024); Soft Opening, London (2024); Kunsthaus Langenthal (2023), Last Tango, Zurich (2023); Sonnenstube, Lugano (2023); Espace 3353, Geneva (2023); Istituto Svizzero, Rome (2022); Krone Couronne, Biel/Bienne (2022); Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève (2021); Musée Cantonal de Géologie, Lausanne (2019); NoMoon, New York (2019); Et al. Gallery, San Francisco (2018); LambdaLambdaLambda, Pristina (2017); Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen (2017). In 2021, a book of his writing and drawings entitled DreamOre was published by Coda Press and he was a winner of the Swiss Art Awards.

Clovis Maillet (1981, he/they) lives and works between Paris, Rome and Geneva. Clovis Maillet is a historian and artist, lecturer at the Geneva University of Art and Design, and fellow at Villa Medici 2024-2025.  As an artist, his work with Louise Hervé are held in public collections (FNAC, FRAC MECA, FRAC Lorraine, etc), their solo shows include : Le Credac, Centre (Ivry), Kunsthaus Glarus, et Kunsthal Aarhus, group show include : Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery,  Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Nouveau Musée de Monaco. He is the author of La parenté hagiographique XIIIe-XVe s., 2014, Les Genres Fluides, de Jeanne d’arc aux saintes trans, 2020, Un Moyen âge émancipateur (with Thomas Golsenne), 2021, Ecotransféminismes (with Emma Bigé), 2025. He co-wrote and performed in Medieval Crack (Belluard Bollwerk, Fribourg, ADC, Genève, 2023).

Andrea Mauti (1999, he/they) lives and works in Rome, Italy. Graduated in Fine Arts – Painting, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome in 2022 (Bachelor), following an exchange program at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste München. His recent and upcoming exhibitions include: (Upcoming) 29th May at BSR British School in Rome (2025). In The Sight of a Man, Hong Kong (2025), Solo exhibition “ÆND”, at the ADA Rome gallery (2023/2024); The Milky Way 7, curated by Damiana Leoni, Galleria Continua – San Gimignano (2025); Group show BIG BANG! Basement Roma Studio, CURA, Rome (2023); Post Energy – Visions from the future, curated by Spazio Taverna, Gazometro, Rome (IT) (2023); Collective #2 Monitor, Pereto, Rome, Lisbon (2022); Scoppio Terzo, Terni (2022); sublimation_simulation, ADA, Rome (2022), Masters Salon’s paintings, in collaboration with European Academies of Fine Arts (2021), Hétérotopie, edited by Edoardo Monti Bubble’n’Squeak, Brussels (2021), Selected in the first edition of the Degree Show, at Palazzo Monti, Brescia (2020), INSIEME, curated by Gianni Politi, Via di Porta Labicana, Rome (2020). Awarded by the Francesco Fabbri Foundation, in the “Emerging Art” section for the 2023 edition, with the work Untitled (2022). In 2023 they were selected for the New Grand Tour 2023 residency project, at the Cité International des Arts de Paris.