Nadim Samman is a curator and art historian with a PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art. He was the Co-founder of the 1st Antarctic Biennale (2017) and the Antarctic Pavilion (Venice, 2015–2017). In 2016, he curated the 5th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, and in 2012 the 4th Marrakech Biennale (with Carson Chan). Other major projects include Treasure of Lima: A Buried Exhibition (a unique site-specific exhibition on the remote Pacific island of Isla del Coco) and Rare Earth (at Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna). In 2016 he traveled to Bikini Atoll with Julian Charrière.