Selectors 1998

Adrian Searle (b. 1953) has been art critic for the Guardian since 1996. Trained as a painter, he began writing in 1976 for Artscribe magazine and continues to contribute to art magazines and journals.

His publications include a recent Phaidon monograph on Peter Doig (2007). He has curated several exhibitions in the UK, Europe and the USA, including shows for the Hayward in 1994 and the Reina Sofia in Madrid in 2003. Most recently he curated the first retrospective of Brazilian sculptor Lucia Nogueira (1950-98), for the Serralves Museum in Porto, Portugal. He was a Turner Prize juror in 2004. Searle has taught at many art colleges in Britain and Europe and is currently a visiting professor at the Royal College of Art in London

Christine Hohenbüchler (b. 1964) is part of an artistic duo with her twin Irene.

In 1984 they began their study of sculpture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna . After graduating in 1989, they studied at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht with Guillaume Bijl and Henk Visch .

Since 1990, the twin sisters have been active as an artist couple. In the 1990s, they mainly worked with marginal social groups : prisoners, the mentally ill, people with increased needs. Cooperation with the art workshop in Lienz led to the presentation at Documenta X in Kassel in 1997.

Eddie Berg is a specialist in film, media and the arts with a successful track record of establishing the vision for and leading major cultural venues, projects and programmes. He was Director of Partnerships at the British Film Institute from 2011-2014 leading the BFI’s lottery investment and strategic partnerships in film exhibition, education and skills across the UK.

He is also the Founder and former Chief Executive of the £11m FACT Centre in Liverpool, which opened to popular and critical acclaim in 2003, and is Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In the summer of 2016 Eddie became the CEO of Rich Mix, the independent arts centre located in the heart of Shoreditch in London.

Phyllida Barlow CBE RA (b. 1944) is a British artist. Barlow studied at Chelsea College of Art (1960–63) and the Slade School of Art (1963–66). After joining the staff in the late 1960s, Barlow taught at the Slade School of Art for more than forty years before retiring in 2009 and is now Emerita Professor of Fine Art.

In 2011 Barlow became a Royal Academician and in 2015 she was made a CBE for her services to the arts in the Queen's New Year's Honours. In 2017, Barlow represented Great Britain at the Venice Biennale.

Photo: John Spinks