Esther Niebel is owner of gallery The Grass is Greener at Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei, which was the largest cotton spinning mill in continental Europe at the beginning of the 20th century. It was transformed into a new building at the beginning of the 21st century and is now one of the most interesting production and exhibition venues for contemporary art and culture in Europe. Christian Lechelt is a German art historian and has been director of the Museum Schloss Fürstenberg since October 2016. Lechelt has written several art-historical monographs, essays in exhibition catalogues as well as reviews and contributions for the journals Keramos, Kunstform and Neue Keramik.