Aesthetic Confessions: The Campus

Timo Kappeller is a curator and gallerist based in Brooklyn, NY, with an MFA from Potsdam University of Applied Sciences. He has worked with institutions such as Documenta 11, KW Berlin, Andrew Kreps Gallery, and Hauser & Wirth. Currently Kappeller is the Director and Curator of The Campus, a new exhibition space founded by six NYC galleries in upstate NY, where he curated the inaugural show in June 2024. He is also the Founder of Artists Advisory.

Chiara Repetto co-owns Kaufmann Repetto, a contemporary art gallery based in both Milan and New York, alongside her sister Francesca Kaufmann. The gallery is one of the founding members of The Campus, an abandoned school building from the 1950’s in Upstate New York which was recently repurposed into a contemporary art exhibition space. Chiara received her Bachelor’s degree in Italian Contemporary Literature and a Master’s in Publishing, and worked as a freelance writer as well as in a literary agency in Milan, all before joining Francesca Kaufmann Gallery in 2005. In 2013, Chiara moved to New York to open Kaufmann Repetto’s American outpost and second space in Chelsea. The gallery now proudly resides in Tribeca.

Jesse Willenbring is an artist, curator, and creative producer with 20 years of experience in art, publishing, advertising, and film. He earned his MFA from Hunter College in 2010. In 2024, he co-curated the inaugural exhibition at The Campus in upstate NY and has been a partner at Artists Advisory since 2023.

Artist, curator, and critic Andrew Woolbright is based in Brooklyn, New York, and is an MFA graduate from RISD in painting. Woolbright is the founder and director of the gallery Below Grand located on the Lower East Side in New York. In addition to curating, he is an Editor-at-Large at the Brooklyn Rail. In 2021, Woolbright curated the show Density Betrays Us with Angela Dufresne and Cash Ragona at the Hole; and curated shows at Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and Hesse Flatow in the summer or 2022. He currently teaches at School of Visual Arts and Pratt Institute and is a 2021-2022 resident at the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program in Dumbo.