Nicole Ex & Sarah Knigge

Nicole Ex is an editor-in-chief, writer and art historian. After years of working in the field of art and magazine publishing including as editor of Dutch culture magazine Hollands Diep, Nicole founded See All This art magazine in 2015; an award winning quarterly print magazine and online platform which serves as a guide to living with art and nature. In 2019 Nicole launched her foundation Pretty Brilliant; an initiative which aimed to shine light on the work of women artists, in which she pledged to create an anthology of work by female artists which would consist of as many pages as the first print of Janson’s History of Art (the first print of which contained zero women). Nicole has built a constant readership through her work with See All This, in part due to her Wednesday morning columns which give a personal glimpse into her life always through the lens of art.

Sarah Knigge first walked through the doors of See All This Art Magazine as an intern on issue #5—and never left. Eight years and 33 issues later, she’s now the magazine’s managing editor, working closely with editor-in-chief Nicole Ex and an ever-changing lineup of inspiring guest curators. With a background in art history and editing, she is involved in the curation and coordination of issues that explore themes at the intersection of life and art — lately, taking a deep dive into the goddesses and archetypes that shaped history.

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Catherine de Zegher

Catherine de Zegher, the visionary Belgian curator, championed Frida Kahlo long before the artist achieved international recognition. She maintained close professional relationships with icons like Louise Bourgeois and Nancy Spero, and played a pivotal role in the rediscovery of pioneering abstract artist Hilma af Klint. Her distinguished career includes curating both the Sydney and Moscow biennials, and serving as director of New York’s Drawing Center and later the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent. Throughout her influential international career, Catherine has consistently advocated for the visibility of women artists. Her groundbreaking 1996 exhibition Inside the Visible—an elliptical traverse of 20th century art in, of, and from the feminine became a landmark event, traveling from Boston to London to Perth. In 2014, she further cemented her legacy as a feminist art historian with her comprehensive collection of essays, Women’s Work Is Never Done, which examines the overlooked contributions of women to art history. Since 2020, she has been working together with See All This Art Magazine as guest curator of its Pretty Brilliant Women in the Arts series.

Cecilia Vicuña

Cecilia Vicuña is a poet, artist, activist and filmmaker whose work addresses pressing concerns of the modern world, including ecological destruction, human rights, and cultural homogenisation. Born and raised in Santiago de Chile, she has been in exile since the early 1970s, after the military coup against the president Salvador Allende. In London, she was a co-founder of Artists for Democracy in 1974. She coined the term “Arte Precario” in the mid-1960s in Chile, as a new independent and non-colonized category for her precarious works composed of debris, structures that disappear in the landscape, which include her quipus (knot in Quechua), envisioned as poems in space. Cecilia has re-invented the ancient Pre-Columbian quipu system of non-writing with knots through ritual acts that weave the urban landscape, rivers and oceans, as well as people, to re-construct a sense of unity and awareness of interconnectivity. These works bridge art and poetry as a way of “hearing an ancient silence waiting to be heard.” Her poetry and Palabrarmas (word-weapons) stem from a deep enquiry into the roots of language. Her early work as a poet in the 60’s was simultaneously celebrated by avant-garde poetry magazines as El Corno Emplumado, Mexico City (1961–1968), and censored and/or suppressed for many decades in Chile and Latin America.

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Sutapa Biswas

When Sutapa Biswas arrived at the University of Leeds in the 1980s to pursue her art education, she was the first South Asian person to study art at the university and the first person of colour to graduate from this department. Sutapa’s family had immigrated to the UK a decade earlier as a result of the endangered political status of her father — a Marxist and an academic — in their home country of India. Her father’s daughter, Sutapa was not afraid to speak her mind and set about creating art which would combine iconography that fell outside of the Eurocentric curriculum’s reference points. In 1985 Sutapa completed her widely renowned mixed-media piece Housewives with Steak-knives in which the ­multi-limbed Hindu goddess Kali wields an angular weapon and is adorned with a necklace made of dictators’ heads. Composed upon a stark white background, Sutapa nods to Robert Raushenberg’s white paintings as a metaphor for the white institutional spaces of the British university and gallery system, a stark contrast to the goddesses captivating presence: “What I love about Kali is that she’s so transgressive. It is still considered fearful for women to be possessive of themselves – sexually, powerfully, intellectually – but a figure like Kali gives us permission to be and do just that. She’s the goddess of war, but also peace, and I love that she’s both feminine and masculine. I find her liberating, and the density of melanin in her skin just makes her even more so.”

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Lidewij Edelkoort

Co-Founder World Hope Forum

Li Edelkoort is a trend forecaster, publisher, humanitarian, design educator and exhibition curator. From 2015-2020 she was the Dean of Hybrid Design Studies at Parsons in New York where she founded a Textile Masters and the New York Textile Month festival. Her thought-provoking writings and podcasts have become increasingly popular at a time when she is regarded as an activist and champion for change. In 2020, she co-founded the World Hope Forum with Philip Fimmano as a platform to inspire the creative community to rebuild a better society. Launched in 2020, PROUD SOUTH is a mesmerising visual book that celebrates the creative forces from the southern parts of the planet. Through the colourful and expressive lens of contemporary fashion, photography, styling and art, Edelkoort and Lili Tedde bring together emerging and established talents from wide and far, illustrating that the axis of global creativity has indeed dramatically shifted. In 2025, Edelkoort is launching a second edition of PROUD SOUTH focusing on craft and design. Of the movement, she says, “A southern generation of creatives is standing up, expressing local craft, embracing regional materials, recognising ancestral practices and cherishing indigenous values.”

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