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Irene Campolmi is a curator, art historian, and researcher whose practice is rooted in decolonial thinking and interdisciplinary inquiry across art, science, technology, and performance. She is the Curator for Art, Technology and Society at Amos Rex and the Co-founder and Curator at Large of Yonder Art•Science Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen. Irene Campolmi has a strong track record of building strategic interdisciplinary networks and examining humanity’s evolving relationship with technology; her recent work includes Yet it moves, a major survey at Copenhagen Contemporary in collaboration with Arts at CERN, DARK at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, and the Interacting Minds Centre at Aarhus University, exploring motion as an omnipresent phenomenon. Prior to joining Amos Rex, Campolmi served as Senior Curator at MAPS, Museum of Art in Public Spaces (Denmark) and as Head of the Art Program at Enter Art Fair (2019 to 2023). With more than fifteen years of experience, Campolmi has curated the Estonian Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia, and exhibitions at TANK Museum, Shanghai; MAAT, Museum of Art Architecture and Technology in Lisbon; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; The Power Plant in Toronto; Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art in Winnipeg; Musée d’art de Joliette and l’UQAM Galleries in Montreal; and the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh. Campolmi is a faculty member of the Master for Curatorial Studies at IED, Institute of European Design in Florence, and is concluding her PhD on curatorial ethics at Aarhus University in Denmark.

Campolmi has curated projects and exhibitions with institutions including The Estonian Pavilion at the 2019 La Biennale di Venezia, MAAT Lisbon, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen Contemporary, TANK Museum Shanghai, among others. Her award-winning exhibition Yet, It Moves! received the Bikuben Vision Award for its pioneering dialogue between art and astrophysics.

Jens Hjorth is a Professor of Astrophysics at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, and the Principal Investigator and co-founder of Yonder | Art•Science. In the study of cosmic explosions, he has spent his career investigating some of the most violent and luminous events in the universe, including supernovae, and the mergers of neutron stars, and what they reveal about the origin of the heavy elements, the expansion of the universe, and the nature of time. In 2003 he led the team that established the definitive link between long gamma-ray bursts and the explosive deaths of massive stars, and in 2017 he took part in the discovery of the kilonova accompanying the first neutron-star merger detected in gravitational waves, a landmark in multi-messenger astronomy. As Villum Investigator now leads a research project exploring the theme of Time in astrophysics. He initiated Yonder using funds from this work, envisioning a shared space where artists and scientists can meet as fundamental thinkers of our time and pursue the largest questions of our universe on equal terms.

Jo Verwohlt is an astrophysicist and artist based in Copenhagen, where she is the ArtScience Lead at Yonder where she curates the residencies and facilitate dialogue between artists and scientists. Her scientific research probes the nature of dark matter exploring how the unseen matter that makes up most of the universe shapes galaxies and the universe. Alongside her research, she creates large-scale light and sound installations that translate astrophysical phenomena into sensory experiences, drawn to the interplay between scientific knowledge and human perception. Through both art and science, she explores how we come to experience and interpret the universe at the edge of the known and unknown.

Judit Prat Martí is an astrophysicist and artist currently based in Copenhagen, where she is an ArtScience Fellow at Yonder. Her research probes the nature of dark energy and dark matter through weak gravitational lensing and large-scale structure measurements as a long-standing member of the Dark Energy Survey. She is also involved in preparations for the Vera Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time, one of the next generation of large-scale cosmic surveys. She has published a photography book called Chicago in Color, which finds beauty in the everyday and invites a sense of awe for the world around us. She is also exploring how art and science synergies might unlock new ways of discovery.

Clara Ferreira Cores is a transdisciplinary artist and researcher exploring the nature of time as a relational force that shapes how we act, imagine, and relate across human, ecological, technological, and cosmological scales. Her work weaves scientific inquiry and embodied practice, grounded in a background in physics ranging from Cosmology to Quantum Mechanics and a lifelong practice in dance, performance, and voice-based practices. She is currently pursuing a PhD through the Yonder platform at the Niels Bohr Institute, under dual supervision in the Arts and Physics. Her research examines scientific models of time alongside the cultural, political, and epistemological structures that shape our shared temporal imaginaries, with a focus on how other knowledges may become visible and defended. This inquiry is rooted in the plural gazing practices of intersectional feminism and the world-building capacities of performance and scientific frameworks. Through collective experimental performance events and other modes of research, she explores how we might reclaim time through our own meaning-making capacities. In doing so, she seeks to expand our capacities to bear complexity, and so our capacity for the otherwise.