Kerstin Baudis was born in East Berlin in 1956. After completing evening studies at the Weissensee University of the Arts in East Berlin, from 1980 to 1985 she studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig. She is involved in artistic projects such as the communication space Frankfurt (Oder)/Slubice (Poland) and the art project Zementwerk Rüdersdorf in Brandenburg. Baudis lives and works near Berlin.

Hans Bellmer was born in Kattowitz (today Katowice, Poland) in 1902. In the 1920s he began studying engineering in Berlin and came into contact with protagonists of the Dada movement. During a stay in Paris in 1925–26, he was present in Dadaist circles. In 1938 he moved to Paris and became acquainted with the Surrealists around André Breton. After the war years he lived in the south of France. 1949 saw him return to Paris. He participated in documenta as well as in II. documenta. Bellmer died in Paris in 1975.

Christa Dichgans was born in Berlin in 1940. From 1960 to 1965 she studied at the University of the Fine Arts, West Berlin. With a scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, she came to New York and then settled in Rome. Between 1984 and 1988 Dichgans was assistant to Georg Baselitz at the University of Arts, West Berlin. In the 1990s she found inspiration on several extensive trips through Russia and Asia. She is considered a pioneer of German Pop Art. Dichgans died in Berlin in 2018.