Aimée Labarrère de Servitje is an art collector and cultural manager. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Art History, with a thesis on “Origins and Cuban Avant-Garde” in 1998, which promoted and structured the exhibit with the same title in Modern Art Museum (Museo de Arte Moderno Mexico City, 2000). She also has a master’s degree in Art Studies (Universidad Iberoamericana).

Since 2000 she is an active member of several boards on museums and independent spaces. She has been a member of the board of Museo de Arte Moderno at Mexico City; Vice President of the Board of the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City; member of the Acquisitions Committees of both the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA) in Argentina and the Museo de Arte de Lima (MALÍ) in Perú. Currently, she is Board President at: Patronato de Arte Contemporáneo, A.C., Fundación Olga y Rufino Tamayo; SOMA; and InSite/Casa Gallina. She is part of the board of Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Patronato de Innovando la Tradicion in Mexico City, the Latin American - Caribbean Committee Fund at MoMA, Latin American Acquisitions Committee at Tate, Dia Art Foundation. Aimée Labarrère de Servitje is Founding Patron and President of the Board of Directors of Casa Gallina.

Ortega holds a Masters’ Degree in Art History, a B.A. in Social Communication, with a Specialization in Teaching History of Mexico. She has collaborated with Casa Gallina since 2012, where she was a curator (2012 to 2017) and general coordinator (2018); she has served as director since January 2019. Both in her practice in Casa Gallina as well as in other projects, she has shown an interest in conceiving art as factor of social transformation, in curatorial exercises such as Urban Deliriums (El cuarto de las máquinas, 2017); Tlaxotlali. Alternating Cycles, Harmful Feasts and The Vertigo of Abundance (Casa del Lago, 2017, 2014, and 2013); Alleged Guilty and Broken Animal (Modern Art Museum, 2009); among others. She has also curated exhibitions of individual artists, including Perla Krauze. Lithic Matter. Memory/Processes/Accumulations (Museo Amparo, 2017). Between 2016 and 2018, she served as a curatorial consultant for the postgraduate course in Curatorial Studies of the Institute for Aesthetic Research at the UNAM. Since 2012, she has been part of the Seminar Workshop on Restoration of Modern and Contemporary Art in the ENCRyM, teaching in the area of History.

Hans Schoepflin is an entrepreneur and philanthropist. He studied in France and in the United States and has both successful business and investment careers. Today he is the founder and President of Schoepflin Investment Company. In 2001, he founded the Panta Rhea Foundation in the United States and the Schöpflin Stiftung in Germany. Through all of the foundations’ respective wide-ranging initiatives, there is a consistent philosophy to develop personal awareness and empower individuals and organizations to tackle major social challenges. Hans Schoepflin is presently engaged in a new initiative, titled Spore: a cultural platform aimed at re-defining the relationships between contemporary daily life, art and nature. Hans Schoepflin is Founding Patron and Honorary Member of the Board of Directors of Casa Gallina.

Hans Schoepflin is an entrepreneur and philanthropist. He studied in France and in the United States and has both successful business and investment careers. Today he is the founder and President of Schoepflin Investment Company. In 2001, he founded the Panta Rhea Foundation in the United States and the Schöpflin Stiftung in Germany. Through all of the foundations’ respective wide-ranging initiatives, there is a consistent philosophy to develop personal awareness and empower individuals and organizations to tackle major social challenges. Hans Schoepflin is presently engaged in a new initiative, titled Spore: a cultural platform aimed at re-defining the relationships between contemporary daily life, art and nature. Hans Schoepflin is Founding Patron and Honorary Member of the Board of Directors of Casa Gallina.

Pineda is a Certified Public Account, with a degree from the College of Commerce and Management Tepepan Unit of the National Polytechnic Institute. She has 16 years of experience of professional development in institutions such as the company Comercializadora Mexicana de Inmuebles, SA de CV (2003-2005) and the firms Castro Cerda y Asociados, SC (2006-2007), Bravo Urrutia y Asociados, SC (2007-2013) and Rocha Camarillo y Cía. (2013). Her work has focused on different areas, such as accounting, taxes, auditing, and human resources. She has been responsible for the administrative part of Casa Gallina since 2013. 

Aimée Labarrère de Servitje is an art collector and cultural manager. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Art History, with a thesis on “Origins and Cuban Avant-Garde” in 1998, which promoted and structured the exhibit with the same title in Modern Art Museum (Museo de Arte Moderno Mexico City, 2000). She also has a master’s degree in Art Studies (Universidad Iberoamericana).

Since 2000 she is an active member of several boards on museums and independent spaces. She has been a member of the board of Museo de Arte Moderno at Mexico City; Vice President of the Board of the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City; member of the Acquisitions Committees of both the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA) in Argentina and the Museo de Arte de Lima (MALÍ) in Perú. Currently, she is Board President at: Patronato de Arte Contemporáneo, A.C., Fundación Olga y Rufino Tamayo; SOMA; and InSite/Casa Gallina. She is part of the board of Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Patronato de Innovando la Tradicion in Mexico City, the Latin American - Caribbean Committee Fund at MoMA, Latin American Acquisitions Committee at Tate, Dia Art Foundation. Aimée Labarrère de Servitje is Founding Patron and President of the Board of Directors of Casa Gallina.

Lisl Schoepflin is a mother, historian and author. She has a great experience with performance arts; scholarly and creative writing; education; and social and environmental justice efforts. Her research and publications focus on indigenous and colonial history of the Americas, particularly the Andean region. Lisl received the Foreign Language and Areas Studies (FLAS) fellowship to study Quechua in Cusco, Peru; the Fulbright-Hays Dissertation fellowship to conduct archival research in Peru; and Getty Research Institute’s Scholar Fellowship. She completed her BA in Anthropology and Theater Arts at the University of Pennsylvania and MA and PhD in Latin American History at UCLA. Lisl joined the Panta Rhea Foundation board in 2008 and became Chair and President in 2017. She is also a board director on the Solidaire Network, Schöpflin Stiftung and Co-Chair for the Spore Initiative. Her philanthropic experience includes managing Panta Rhea’s discretionary family giving; founding the Qinti Fund with her sister; and participating in donor organizing and training networks, including Solidaire Network, Thousand Current’s Collaborative Leaders’ Academy, and Seventh Generation Fund’s Indigenous Funder cohort. Lisl Schoepflin has formed part of Casa Gallina board of directors since 2019.

Intercultural manager trained at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of UNAM. She also pursued studies in Social Communication at UAM-X and Agricultural Development and Management at FES Aragón. She has over ten years of experience in community work and the facilitation of educational processes. She specializes in project development—from design to implementation and evaluation—and has led various popular education initiatives both in Mexico and abroad. Her work includes territorial engagement with Me’phaa, Tu’un Savi, and Nahua communities in the Montaña region of Guerrero, Mexico, as well as intercultural educational promotion projects with youth and adolescents in Peru and the Caribbean. Since February 2025, she coordinates the Development and Strategic Alliances area at Casa Gallina.

Is a curator and art critic. Co-founder of the Patronage of Contemporary Art in Mexico. He was Director of the Carrillo Gil Museum of Art (1997-2000) and Director of the Rufino Tamayo Museum of Contemporary Art. He was co-curator of the international public art project inSite 2000-01. Professor in the Master of Cultural Contexts at the Universidad Iberoamericana of Mexico City. He was Artistic Director and Curator of inSite / Artistic Practices in the Public Domain, between 2001-2006, in Tijuana-San Diego. From 2007 to 2012, he was Director of the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City. He was a member of the Curator Selection Committee of Documenta 14, Kasel; and of the Advisory Committee of Haus der Kulturen der Welt, in Berlin (2008-2016). Guest professor of the Yucatan Superior School of Art (2013-2014). He was Director of inSite / Casa Gallina (2013-2018). He is currently an Honorary Member of the Board of Directors of Casa Gallina.

Iwadare is a member of ICOMOS Mexico, where he participates in the international committees on Twentieth Century Architecture and Intangible Patrimony. He specializes in the study and investigation of sites of agri-food production, the evolution of kitchens as productive spaces, and recording and documenting Mexico’s regional cuisines. He has published four books about regional cuisines. Iwadare has been an active participant in Casa Gallina, teaching several cooking courses and editing the book Sabores del barrio (Tastes of the neighborhood) (2018). Since 2019 he forms part of Casa Gallina´s board of directors. 

Hernández has a degree in Art History from the Universidad Iberoamericana. In 2007 he participated in the research for the re-adaptation of the curatorial script for the reopening of the José Luis Bello and González Museum in the city of Puebla. In 2009, he joined the educational team of the Jumex Contemporary Art Foundation, taking over the coordination of community programs. Since 2011, he has participated in that institution’s area of school and academic programming, in which he collaborated in designing the public program and educational experiences for teaching and developing the arts with groups of middle and higher education and independent professionals. Since 2015, he has worked in the educational area of Casa Gallina, designing and programming educational dynamics and community integration activities.  

Vargas Santiago is a Mexican art historian and curator. His curatorial work and publications about Latin American modern and contemporary art and about U.S. Latinos have been presented in the United States, Europe, and Latin America. His projects have been internationally supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Fulbright Program, the Fundación Jumex, and Open Society Foundations, among others.

He is a full-time researcher and academic secretary at the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and confounder of AURA, a consultancy firm specialized in high-impact strategies for art, culture and creative industries in the Americas. Additionally, at UNAM he was deputy director for Public Programs at the University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC) and head curator of M68, the 1968 student movement memorial and social movements museum at CCU Tlatelolco. Vargas Santiago has been close to Casa Gallina as an interlocutor of artist projects and has formed part of its board of directors since 2019.

Holds a BA in Visual Arts from the Faculty of Arts and Designs at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), with a specialization in Cultural Management. She has collaborated with different institutions, managing projects that concern educational processes, linkage with publics and art mediation with the National Museum of Anthropology, the Jumex Museum and the Cultural Border Center. She co-directed the project for Visual Arts Mediation for the UNAM's Casa del Lago and has also coordinated the public program Open Art Foundation. She has continuously collaborated with Casa Gallina in certain educational and mediation programs in Casa Gallina since 2018 and is now active within Casa Gallina's educational programs and local alliances areas.

Ortega holds a Masters’ Degree in Art History, a B.A. in Social Communication, with a Specialization in Teaching History of Mexico. She has collaborated with Casa Gallina since 2012, where she was a curator (2012 to 2017) and general coordinator (2018); she has served as director since January 2019. Both in her practice in Casa Gallina as well as in other projects, she has shown an interest in conceiving art as factor of social transformation, in curatorial exercises such as Urban Deliriums (El cuarto de las máquinas, 2017);Tlaxotlali. Alternating Cycles, Harmful Feasts and The Vertigo of Abundance (Casa del Lago, 2017, 2014, and 2013); Alleged Guilty and Broken Animal (Modern Art Museum, 2009); among others. She has also curated exhibitions of individual artists, including Perla Krauze. Lithic Matter. Memory/Processes/Accumulations (Museo Amparo, 2017). Between 2016 and 2018, she served as a curatorial consultant for the postgraduate course in Curatorial Studies of the Institute for Aesthetic Research at the UNAM. Since 2012, she has been part of the Seminar Workshop on Restoration of Modern and Contemporary Art in the ENCRyM, teaching in the area of History.

Arribas is a visual artist who graduated from the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving, La Esmeralda. He has participated in different exhibitions at the national and international level, such as the Festival Transitio MX, Gallery Sokei, Academy of Fine Arts Japan, Alberta College of Art + Design Calgary, Alberta Canada, the video festival CLOSE UP “a riesgo” (“At Risk”), Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad del Carmen (Autonomous University of the City of Carmen), Campeche, México. His work is carried out between visual arts and music with the production of events and festivals, as well as installation and sculptures; he has collaborated and assisted different artists, directing the production of their pieces as well as mounting exhibitions in different museums and galleries. Since 2015, he has collaborated with Casa Gallina in the area of production, which he has been in charge of since 2019

She holds a Bachelor's degree in Development and Intercultural Management from UNAM, with a pre-specialization in Science, Technology, and Society. Since 2010, she has promoted knowledge related to maguey and traditional campesino mezcal, through a practice that combines research, community engagement, and conscious consumption. She has completed workshops and diploma programs in cultural project development, film and literature, copyediting, Mexican herbalism, and oral history and memory. She coordinated the Center for Experimentation and Production of Contemporary Music (CEPROMUSIC) during its first three years of operation (2012–2015), and later joined the Cultural and Social Interaction Program (PICS) of FONCA/SACPC (2020–2023), where she was responsible for programming, outreach, and follow-up in various regions across the country. Since 2015, she has coordinated the Tianguis Mezcalero, a solidarity-based distribution platform based in Mexico City. She has contributed to the Mexican Portal of Traditional Knowledge and participated in publications such as Markets and tianguis in the 21st century (UAEM, 2021) and Feminine perspectives from mezcal (CIATEJ/Ed. Viandante, 2021). Since February 2025, she has been part of Casa Gallina’s team, working in the area of Community Engagement.

Gabriela Cruz studied Design and Visual Communication at the Faculty of Arts and Design at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and Editorial Design Management at the Academia de San Carlos. She has a technical qualification in photography and has collaborated in the Archive Museum of Photography in the areas of research, photographic restoration and mounting of exhibitions. Her professional experience includes marketing and design for Correos de México (the Mexican Post Ofiice) among other design, social media, digital marketing and project management roles for institutions and enterprises within the graphic arts industry. She has collaborated with Casa Gallina on specific projects since 2018, since 2021 she works in the area of graphic design.

Gómez studied Communication Sciences at ITESO and Museum Studies at the ENCRYM. In Guadalajara, he collaborated with the Directorate of Visual Arts and Directorate of Aesthetic Investigations of the Jalisco Ministry of Culture. In Mexico City, he has worked in several spaces, including the Museum of Modern Art and Casa Vecina. Later he served as the Head of Department of Diffusion at the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving, La Esmeralda. He is interested in the development of digital technologies for the benefit of the cultural sector. He collaborates with Casa Gallina in the recording and diffusion of projects.