CPVA Founder & Co-Director Harald den Breejen is an artist, curator and philosopher.

CPVA Founder & Co-Director Sacha Golob is a philosopher whose main interests are in continental philosophy and the philosophy of art.

CPVA Co-Director Aaron Wendland is a philosopher whose main interests are in phenomenology and the philosophy of art.

Co-Director Ben Ware is Philosopher in Residence at the Serpentine Galleries, London and a Visiting Research Fellow in Philosophy at King’s College London. His work explores the intersections between philosophy, aesthetics, ethics, politics and psychoanalysis. He is the author of Dialectic of the Ladder: Wittgenstein, the ‘Tractatus’ and Modernism (Bloomsbury, 2015); Living Wrong Life Rightly: Modernism, Ethics and the Political Imagination (Palgrave, 2017); and editor of Francis Bacon: Painting, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis (Thames & Hudson, 2019), a collection of essays specially commissioned by the artist’s Estate. He is currently completing work on a new book, Modernism and the Art of the Negative, which will be the final work in his trilogy on modernism and philosophy.

Contributing Editor Vanessa Brassey is a PhD candidate in philosophy whose main interests are in the philosophy of art and aesthetics.