Barnabás Bencsik, born 1964, curator, lives and works in Budapest. He graduated in literature and history, and later in art history, from ELTE University in Budapest. He has been involved in the transformation of the Hungarian post-communist art scene since the early 1990s. From 1990 to 1999 he ran the Studio Gallery, Budapest, the exhibition space of the Studio of Young Artists Association. In parallel, he was the visual arts program coordinator at the Soros Center for Contemporary Arts- Budapest between 1993 and 1995, when the CEE network was established. He worked as the director of Trafó Gallery, Budapest (1999-2001) and as the chief curator of Műcsarnok|Kunsthalle, where he contributed to the project of the Hungarian Pavilion of the 49th Venice Biennale. In 2001 he started working as the artistic director of the first private collection to run an exhibition space in a former industrial building, the MEO-Contemporary Art Collection, Budapest, and from 2002 to 2008 he worked as an independent curator. Since then he has been involved in various visual art projects and exhibitions. In 2006 he curated the inaugural exhibition of MODEM, Debrecen and designed the exhibition strategy of the new institution. He initiated and has been the director of ACAX | Agency for Contemporary Art Exchange since 2006, an office that supports and develops various kinds of cooperation between the local and international art scene. He was director of the Ludwig Museum-Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest between 2008 and 2013, but was not reappointed due to the radical change in Hungarian cultural policy. After years of freelancing and working on non-profit projects (e.g. contributing to the realization of the first edition of OFF-Biennale, Budapest, initiating the online platform East Art Mags <www.eastartmags.hu>), in 2017 he started running a commercial gallery in Budapest called Glassyard with a joint business partner, with the aim of creating a sustainable platform for the international visibility of the regional art scene. From 2022 as the Head of Institutional Partnership he involved the development of “virtual curating” and AI based guided tour feature on the Walter's Cube platform. In 2023 he co-curated the first international group exhibition titled SUPERLUMINAL at the Light Art Museum, Budapest, a private initiative focusing on light art and the intersection of contemporary art and science.