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Christopher Kulendran Thomas, whose 2023 work The Finesse is part of the Collection Hartwig Art Foundation (promised gift to the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed / Rijkscollectie), has been incorporating AI technologies into his practice for the past decade. He is interested in how history and reality are mediated and questions foundational ideas such as nationhood and modernism's preoccupation with individualism.

Beatrix Ruf is the Director of Hartwig Art Foundation, where she oversees the vision and realisation of its new contemporary art museum in Amsterdam, which is currently under construction. Ruf served as the Director of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam from 2014 to 2018. Her previous roles include Director of Kunsthalle Zürich, Director of Kunsthaus Glarus, and Curator at Kunstmuseum Thurgau in Warth. In 2006, Beatrix curated the third edition of the Tate Triennial in London, and in 2008, she co-curated the Yokohama Triennial in Japan. From June 2019 to February 2022, she was the Counseling Strategic Director at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow. Additionally, from 1995 to 2014, Beatrix curated the Ringier Collection, and from 2006 to 2021, she was a core member of the think tank group for the LUMA Foundation in Arles.

Beatrix has curated numerous exhibitions, collaborated with many renowned artists, and published extensively on contemporary artists, including Isa Genzken, Joan Jonas, Seth Price, Jana Euler, Ian Wallace, Laura Owens, Tino Sehgal, Wade Guyton, Avery Singer, Yang Fudong, Tony Cokes, Philippe Parreno, Kai Althoff, Jordan Wolfson, Rosemarie Trockel, Sturtevant, and Wu Tsang, among many others.