Visitor Programme 2024

An overview of Frame’s Visitor Programme in 2024

João Mourão & Luís Silva
Co-Directors of Kunsthalle Lissabon
21-25 October

João Mourão and Luís Silva have been working as a curatorial duo since 2009. They currently serve as Co-Directors of Kunsthalle Lissabon, which they founded in 2009.

They were the curators of the Portugal Pavilion in the 59^th edition of the Venice Biennale (2022) with “Vampires in Space”, a solo project by Isadora Neves Marques.

A selection of recent projects they curated includes solo shows by Jonathas de Andrade (CRAC Alsace, Altkirsch, France and MAAT, Lisbon, Portugal), Manuel Solano (Pivô, São Paulo, Brasil), Pedro Barateiro (Fundação Carmona e Costa, Lisbon, Portugal) and Carla Filipe (MAAT, Lisbon, Portugal). They are preparing solo shows by Inês Zenha (CA2M, Madrid) and Mounira Al Solh (Serralves Museum, Porto).

While co-directors of Kunsthalle Lissabon they have presented solo shows by Teresa Solar, La Chola Poblete, Sara Sadik, Gabriel Chaile, Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe, Ad Minoliti, Zheng Bo, Laure Prouvost, Caroline Mesquita, Sol Calero, Petrit Halilaj and Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, to name a few.

Besides their curatorial practice João Mourão and Luís Silva contribute regularly to various publications and have edited several monographs. They were the curators of ZONA MACO SUR (2015 – 2017), the solo projects section of Mexico City’s contemporary art fair and Artissima’s Disegni section (2017 -2019), in Turin.

Larisa Zmud
Curator, Argentina
7-8 October

Larisa Zmud (Argentina) As a curator based in Argentina, Zmud uses curating to explore gender and food politics to address social justice and equity. Zmud grew up nomadic, living between coastal city of Mar del Plata and Patagonian Steppe, where her father was a rural teacher in Mapuche communities.

Currently, she lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where experiences of multi-diverse ways of living influence her practice. Zmud has a Degree in Art Curating (BA), a Master’s degree in Politics and Gender Studies (BA).

In 2014, Zmud attended the Artists, Critics, and Curators Program of Torcuato Di Tella University by Ines Katzenstein. She founded Sin Destino Aparente, critical thinking groups with gender perspective. From 2020-21, Zmud was a member of Argentine National Directorate of Cultural Policies Ministry for Equality for Women, Gender and Diversity.

Zmud is part of feminist collective Belleza y Felicidad Fiorito where she coordinates Comedor Gourmet, an artistic and gastronomic space that redefines nutrition as a way of thinking about politics of bodies and desire.

Zmud coordinates Mapa Contemporáneo de Arte Argentino en Construcción, created in CIMAM 2023 Annual Conference. She was resident of 2024 KADIST program. Through exhibitions, public lectures, curatorial projects, she creates new methodologies of access to knowledge.

Her curatorial practice focuses on First Nations photographic, moving image and archival practices with a particular interest in how artists are reclaiming the colonial
tool of the camera. She has curated exhibitions for organisations such as Primavera for the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Singapore International Photography Festival, IMA, UTS Gallery, Ballarat Foto Biennale and Cement Fondu among others.

Her writing has appeared in various publications such as Memo Review, Art New Zealand and artist catalogue essays and books, in 2022 she was nominated for Best Art Writing by a New Zealand Maori or Pasifika in the AAANZ awards.

Talia was chair of Runway Journal 2017-18 and is currently a board member at Bus Projects and on the editorial committee for Un Projects. She has completed research residencies in Singapore and Germany and currently works as the
Coordinator of Programming at Blacktown Arts.

CPR 2024: WIBH brings up to 8 international curators to Finland, Norway, and Sweden in September-October 2024 to research the regional art scene with the ambition to get a better understanding of the complex history and current political situation in the Nordics.

Samuele Piazza
Curator, Italy
7-8 October

Samuele Piazza (Italy) is Chief Curator at OGR Torino. For the institution he has been responsible for the visual arts program and he has commissioned and curated several projects: he curated solo exhibitions by artists Mike Nelson, Maria Hassabi, Monica Bonvicini, Nina Canell, Sarah Sze as well as group shows like “Vogliamo Tutto”, “Mutating bodies, imploding stars” and “Dancing is what we make of falling”.

He is currently working on “Retinal Rivalry”, a solo show by Cyprien Gaillard and on a new publication on the work of P Staff, on the occasion of their solo show “Full Rotation”.

Piazza received a MA in Visual Arts from Iuav University in
Venice and a MA in Aesthetics from CRMEP, Kingston University in London. He was 2015-16 Helena Rubinstein Fellow of the Whitney Museum ISP.

CPR 2024: WIBH brings up to 8 international curators to Finland, Norway, and Sweden in September-October 2024 to research the regional art scene with the ambition to get a better understanding of the complex history and current political situation in the Nordics.

Tīna Pētersone
Curator, Latvia
7-8 October

Tīna Pētersone (Latvia) is an independent curator with an MFA in Curating from Goldsmiths, University of London. In 2020, Pētersone received the “Young Curator!” prize at the Riga Photography Biennial, and in 2021 she co-founded TUR, where her exhibition program included two shows nominated for the Purvītis Prize.

In 2022, she undertook a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, selected by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia, followed by a residency at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, USA. In 2023, Pētersone was
awarded the Baltic Fellowship to contribute to the Performa Biennial in New York City.

Her most recent projects include a guest curator role for ETC. Magazine and an exhibition at the Ljubljana Art Weekend, showcasing artists from the Baltics to the Balkans. Pētersone continually enhances her expertise through participation in short-term curatorial programs at institutions such as the Salzburg Summer Academy, Stockholm University of the Arts, the University of Gothenburg, International Summer School of Photography in Riga, and Lokomotiva Skopje,
among others.

Her ongoing focus is on facilitating opportunities and increasing visibility for
artists and art professionals, emphasizing cultural exchanges that connect the Baltics with global artistic communities.

Among her projects are multi-chapter program of moving image practices, Sensible Grounds, including Inhale (Fundación Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona), That’s How We Undo It (Lux, London), Tuning into the Rhythms of the Chronic (Nida Art Colony, Neringa/Lithuania); Communities of Oblivion (Bétonsalon, Paris); Tectonics of Camaraderie (Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm), the exhibition and conversation series When Legacies Become Debts (The Mosaic Rooms, London), program of seminars, residencies and production grants, Shifting Panoramas (TMOCA and various off-spaces in Tehran, KW, DAZ and feldfünf, Berlin).

She was part of the curatorial team of 11th Gwangju Biennial. She initiated and directed a shape-changing art school between Tehran, Armenian mountains, and other rural places in the region and co-organised kaf, a collective study space in Tehran. Both platforms refrain from having an online presence.

She has been a lecturer at art academies in Iran and internationally, and is currently PhD fellow at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.

Kholisile founded afrOURban, a non-profit organization dedicated to documenting and celebrating Black culture in the diaspora and on the African continent. At afrOURban, he is the curator of Black Diasporas, an oral-narrative mapping project documenting spaces that have meaning to Black people. Black Diasporas has won awards from the Victorian Government (Australia), the New School Good Interventions (USA), and ArchiTeam (Australia) for its innovation and social contributions.

Kholisile is a 2023-24 Cheng Fellow with the Social Innovation Change Initiative – Harvard Kennedy School, and a 2023 Center for Architecture Lab Resident, where he curated ‘Making Home: Affirming Black Diasporic Agency’. He co-curated the award-winning Melbourne Design Week exhibitions SAY IT LOUD Naarm-Melbourne (2022) and Perspectives (2023).

He is also the artist behind the Brooklyn Bronzes sculptures at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art (MOCADA), honoring Black Brooklyn community leaders. As a built environment professional, Kholisile has contributed to projects in Australia, Canada, and the USA, including La Guardia Airport Terminal B, The Javits Center, The Canadian Senate Building, and David
Geffen Hall at the Lincoln Center.

CPR 2024: WIBH brings up to 8 international curators to Finland, Norway, and Sweden in September-October 2024 to research the regional art scene with the ambition to get a better understanding of the complex history and current political situation in the Nordics.

Rose Bouthillier
Curator, Canada
7-8 October

Rose Bouthillier (Canada) is a contemporary art curator and writer based in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Throughout her career, her focus has been on working closely with artists to develop and present new projects, promoting under-recognized voices and creating thoughtful inter-generational dialogues.

Bouthillier joined Bonavista Biennale as Artistic Director in April 2022, and co-curated the 2023 edition, Host, with Ryan Rice. The Biennale takes place on
Newfoundland’s Bonavista Peninsula, embedding contemporary art in the landscapes, historic spaces and daily places of rural communities.

Previously, Bouthillier served as Curator (Exhibitions) at Remai Modern, in Saskatoon, Canada, where she programmed solo exhibitions by Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), Zadie Xa, and Walter Scott, and the presentation of new works by respectfulchild, Julie Oh, Jeneen Frei Njootli, Faye HeavyShield
and Laurie Kang.

Her writing has been published in monographs on artists including Tony Lewis, Xavier Cha, Kirk Mangus and Michelle Grabner, as well as in magazines and journals including CURA., C Magazine, BlackFlash, Foam Magazine, esse, and frieze. She is the editor of a forthcoming monograph on Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), co-published by moCa Cleveland, Remai Modern, and Kunsthaus Glarus.

CPR 2024: WIBH brings up to 8 international curators to Finland, Norway, and Sweden in September-October 2024 to research the regional art scene with the ambition to get a better understanding of the complex history and current political situation in the Nordics.

Isra Al Kassi
Curator, UK
7-8 October

Isra Al Kassi (Iran / UK) is a London based curator, writer and co-founder of T A P E collective; a cross-art curatorial collective on a mission to demystify the industry and to represent could-be-cult classic moving image work through special curation, production and distribution.

With a background in events & marketing Isra is also an outreach and audience development consultant, and has a particular interest in mindful audience growth and creating accessible spaces for mixed-heritage storytellers and audiences. Her practice heavily explores spaces, and being inventive in the ways of how things can be displayed and presented.

Isra’s passion is cross-arts curation centering moving image work and playing with the boundaries of the archive, with the main intention to make it more accessible. Her curatorial background is primarily self-taught, and comes from a desire to create inclusive and alternative spaces and to present experiences and events in alternative spaces.

Since co-founding T A P E Collective, Isra continues to develop her practice by always wishing to try new things, and to experiment; pushing the boundaries of traditional ways of curating, and developing ways of curating collaboratively, with peers and a local and global community.

CPR 2024: WIBH brings up to 8 international curators to Finland, Norway, and Sweden in September-October 2024 to research the regional art scene with the ambition to get a better understanding of the complex history and current political situation in the Nordics.

Evelyn Simons
Curator, Belgium
17 September – 16 October

Evelyn Simons (b. 1989, Halle, Belgium) is a curator and writer based in Brussels. She holds a Masters in Art History (University Ghent) and a Postgraduate in Curatorial Studies (School of Arts, Ghent).

From 2019 till 2023, she ran the visual arts and performance programming at Horst Arts & Music – an initiative blending art and electronic music on an abandoned military site in Brussels. She programs the artists-in-residence for the Fondation CAB Bruxelles and Saint-Paul-de-Vence.
As a freelance curator, she is laureate of Curate Award by Fondazione Prada & Qatar Museums (2014). She curated “Driftwood, or how we surfaced through currents” (2017) in Athens, and is currently developing “The Never Never”, an itinerant exhibition and short movie with artist Jeremy Hutchison.
Evelyn curated exhibitions in Luxemburg, Germany, France, Greece and Belgium.

She was curator-in-residence previously at Beirut Art Residency (Lebanon, 2015), and at Villa Lena (Italy, 2021).

HICP 2024: During her residency, she will delve into the art scene of Helsinki, more precisely by conducting studio visits and visiting Helsinki’s vast collection of public art commissions. She also uses this time and isolation to work on her first novel.

Malena Souto Arena
Curator, Argentina
17 September – 16 October

Malena Souto Arena (Buenos Aires, 1989) holds a degree in Cinema Art from the University of Cinema of Buenos Aires. She is curator, teacher and researcher specialized in film, sound, audiovisual, electronic and digital art, experimenting on physical and virtual exhibitions. Malena is interested on proposals that links exhibition curation, strategic communication and academic programs related to philosophy and art theory.

She currently is associate curator at Espacio Pla, a platform of cultural management and production focused on electronic digital art.
In 2013 she launched the audiovisual department of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Buenos Aires.

She has been jury of the Itau Visual Arts Award 2019-20 in the special category art with robotic technology. She was also juror of the Biennial of Moving Image Award of Tres de Febrero National University in 2022 and of the Osde Foundation Arts Awards.

She curated exhibitions at the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires, San Martin National Art Center, Recoleta Cultural Center, Museum of Cinema of Buenos Aires, Pla Space, Palace of Glace, National House of the Bicentennial, Fine Arts Pavilion of the Catholic University of Argentina, Mar de Plata Museum of Contemporary Art, TABAKALERA, Center of Contemporary Art of Spain, among others.

Malena is professor at the University of Cinema, teaching in the subjects of History of electronic visual and the seminar multimedia art. She also offered seminars and talks at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, International Festival of Audiovisual Appropriation of Lima, Peru; International Festival of Digital Culture Plus Code, Study Group on Medial Arts of the National University of Arts.

Malena has published critical essays at the Argentinian and Latin American Art Critical Contest of Proa Foundation and the Argentine Association of Art Critics; La Fuga, academic journal of film studies of Chile; Siegen Museum of Contemporary Art; Elisava. School of Design and Communication of Pompeu Fabra University, among others.

HICP 2024: She works on a research project about installations and expanded image shows. She examines the transformation of the nature of the image through the installation device as well as exhibition designs conceptualizing the symbolic, narrative, and material aspects of the artworks. She will document this process to create a digital publication and a public presentation for the institutions involved.

Kevin Bellò
Curator, Italy
13 August – 13 September

Kevin Bellò is a curator and researcher in the arts, food and ecology. While completing his MA in Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art (London, 2021), he researched and promoted cognitive justice and practices of care within artistic and food systems.

Such interests converged in the founding of the pan-European art collective Sympoietic Society and joining the international food and art educational platform The Gramounce. With the first, he coordinated the project ICE * In Case of Emergency: a series of site-sensitive art residencies and public programs to research glaciers and storytelling in the Capitalocene. With the latter, they are researching food via political, philosophical and artistic lenses within and beyond academic systems.

He have also worked with museums, gallery spaces, universities, NGOs (like UNESCO), city municipalities, environmental organisations, permaculture farms, cultural associations and local communities.

Other university-level courses he took include: “Art and Business” at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art (London), “Curatorial Practices in Music” at ArtEZ (Netherlands), “Food Cosmogonies” with The Gramounce, and my BA in Economics and Management for Art, Culture and Entertainment at the UniCatt (Italy).

HICP 2024: He has departed from the mutualistic exchange between human animals, ecosystems, and living yeast to research Nordic bread-making practices and forest foraging traditions. Developing a network among local bakers, artists, storytellers and bacteria, he has reflected on ecological kinship via convivial gatherings and moments of co-creation. Additionally, a collection of poetic and curatorial field notes on bodies of water, food rituals, and more-than-human encounters accompanied his research.

Gantuya Badamgarav
Curator, Mongolia
15 August – 15 September

Gantuya Badamgarav (Ulan Bator, Mongolia) holds an MA in macroeconomic policy from Williams College, MA, USA.

Gantuya established 976 Art Gallery and Mongolian Contemporary Art Support Association in 2012, to support and promote contemporary art in Mongolia. She has worked actively to support contemporary art, uniting organizations and people to channel their resources and passion.

She organized and curated over 100 exhibitions in her home country and abroad, including all four editions of Mongolia participation in Venice Art Biennale (2015, 2017, 2019, 2022). She also supported Mongolian artists’ participation in other internationally known exhibitions such as Documenta, Gwangju Biennale, Busan Biennale, Yinchuan Biennale and Asia Pacific Triennial.

For A Temporality, Mongolia Pavilion at Venice Art Biennale 2019, she collaborated with internationally renowned German artist Carsten Nicolai and Mongolian throat singers. The idea and experimental quality of the exhibition was recognized internationally, received award from the Goethe International Co-Production Fund and more than 30 articles and interviews were dedicated to this exhibition.

She also curated exhibitions, performances and events with the participation of internationally renowned artists such as Dias & Riedweg, Kaffe Matthews, Sainkho Namtchylak, Shu Lea Cheang, Diana Chester, Fabian Cohn, Nathalie Daoust and other artists from Italy, Czech Republic, France, Taiwan, USA, Bulgaria, Austria, HK, Germany.

The 976 Art Gallery, which she founded, is known for its conceptually appealing experimental exhibitions, and has become crossing point for the artists and intellectuals alike, marking it as a cultural hub of Ulaanbaatar city. She has initiated the “Nomadic Red Corner” project to make art closer to the Ger Districts of Ulaanbaatar city, where majority of rural migrants live. Three important projects were implemented together with Mongolian artists, creating artistic neighborhoods in different locations of the capital city. Later “Ger Residency” was established for the international artists,

HICP 2024: Her residency in Helsinki aims to facilitate intercultural exchange between local and international artists and the community.

Orlando Maaike Gouwenberg
Director of Sonsbeek, Amsterdam/Arnhem (NL)
21-25 August

Orlando Maaike Gouwenberg is a curator, initiator and producer based in the Netherlands, currently director of Sonsbeek, Amsterdam/Arnhem (NL)

She specialises in working with artists to extend their practices into new territory and has often been involved in interdisciplinary projects that bring together contemporary art, film and theatre. Gouwenberg has worked on exceptional large-scale projects with LAS, Berlin; If I Can’t Dance Its Not My Revolution; Amsterdam; Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, and Performa, New York. In 2022 she was co-curator of the Dutch Pavilion of the 59th Venice Biennial, supporting Melanie Bonajo’s installation ‘When the body says Yes.’

She was also artistic director of Jester, Genk, Belgium in 2022. Gouwenberg served on the short and mid-length selection committee for the International Film Festival Rotterdam from 2012-2021 and was co-founder (with Joris Lindhout) and director of the multidisciplinary residency program Deltaworkers in New Orleans from 2014-2021. She has served on supervisory boards and artistic committees and curated several graduation exhibitions. Gouwenberg was a participant in the De Appel Curatorial Programme in 2006, under Ann Demeester.

Francesca Verga
Co-artistic director of Ar/Ge Kunst
3-6 June

Francesca Verga is currently co-artistic director of Ar/Ge Kunst, Kunstverein in Bolzano-Bozen, with Zasha Colah. She works on curating, management and research in visual, sound and performing arts.

Currently, she is Assistant Curator at the Italian Pavilion (Venice Biennale, 2024). She holds a PhD in Art and Culture at the University of Amsterdam (2022), with a thesis on Mike Kelley’s early performance and video works. With a master’s degree in Museums Management (Milan, 2013), she held the position of General Coordinator for Manifesta 12 (Palermo, 2018) and was Curatorial Coordinator at the biennial Manifesta 13 (Marseille, 2020). She was granted the Italian Council’s curatorial fellowship (2020) and had been part of Archive Books (Berlin/Milan) since 2021.

Previously, she founded the online cultural platform Liaux (liaux.org) and collaborated at cultural institutions and universities such as: Savvy Contemporary (Berlin), NEMO – The Network of European Museum Organisations (Berlin), Barnard College (Columbia University), IED (Florence), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), MACRO (Rome), IMT Schools for Advanced Studies (Lucca).

Alice Hinrichs
Curator Gallery Watson, Hamburg
10-14 June

Alice Hinrichs (based in Hamburg, Germany) is a curator, cultural manager, communications expert and since 2023, co-founder and managing director of Galerie Watson in Hamburg.

The focus of her curatorial work is on site-specific light and installation art, where she constantly renegotiates and expands the genre boundaries in close collaborations with artists. She is interested in the transformation of existing art practice into new spaces; like a medium between the artist, the work and its presentation. Her interdisciplinary degrees from King’s College London (BSc in Business Management) and SDA Bocconi in Milan (Master in Arts Management) lay the foundation for her networked and transdisciplinary thinking and work.

She co-curated the EVI LICHTUNGEN light art biennial in Hildesheim in 2020 and 2022 and is Chairwoman of the T.W. Foundation in Hamburg. In 2019, she founded the non-profit light art platform L.U.C.E. (then: Arte Luce) with the aim to increase visibility for artists with the medium light.

Throughout her career, Hinrichs has already worked with internationally renowned artists such as Anthony McCall, Regine Schumann, Keith Sonnier and Fabricio Plessi.

Borbála Soós
Curator OFF-Biennale Budapest
26-30 May

Borbála Soós (1984, Budapest) is a London-based curator and an active advocate, participant and organiser of artistic and ecological research.

Borbála’s practice responds to, disrupts and enriches environmental thinking and related social, political and decolonial urgencies. She is currently Curator at the Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University,
London and co-curator of the next edition of the OFF-Biennale Budapest (forthcoming in 2025). 2022–23 she was Artist Caretaker at Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK and 2012–19 Director/Curator at Tenderpixel, London.

She curated projects in collaboration with the Kunsthalle Bratislava and the Botanical Gardens of Bratislava; tranzit, Bratislava; FUTURA, Prague; Trafó House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest; Rupert, Vilnius; ICA,
London; Camden Arts Centre, London; Horniman Museum and Gardens, London; Wysing Arts Centre, UK; CCA Derry-Londonderry.

She has been visiting lecturer at Goldsmiths College, the Royal College of Art, Central Saint Martins, Kingston University, Vilnius Art Academy and Edinburgh College of Art, among others.

Alessandra Bergamaschi & Rudá Babau
Visiting Artist & Curator duo – Videobrasil
26 April – 2 May

Alessandra Bergamaschi, Ph.D., is an artist and researcher based in São Paulo. Her research in the field of Social History of Culture delves into media archaelogy and the material-virtual continuum through different case studies.

In 2023-2024, she co-curated ‘The Archive in Performance’, a research project focused on the Videobrasil historical video archive. Commemorating Videobrasil’s 40 Years, the exhibition aimed to create a rizomatic space for activating the association’s collection of video works from the Global South.

Her previous projects include three editions of OLHO (2015-2019), a program designed for movie theaters that showcased video works challenging cinematic language. Her videos have been displayed at the Hélio Oiticica Cultural Center in Rio de Janeiro, Skånes Konstförening in Sweden, Doclisboa, the ‘É Tudo Verdade’ Documentary Festival, Cine Iberê at the Iberê Camargo Foundation in Porto Alegre, and the CICV International Festival of Urban Multimedia Arts in France.

Her essays on contemporary art and visual culture have been featured in periodicals including Ars (São Paulo), Revista Rosa, Aniki: Portuguese Journal of the Moving Image, and Concinnitas.

Rudá Babau is a Brazilian artist based in São Paulo, blending video production with digital exhibition platforms. His work explores the ephemeral nature of digital mediums, using everything from websites to video games and PDFs to challenge traditional art exhibition norms. Babau has curated exhibitions at the Index Gallery in Brasília and for Homeostase, a Brazilian digital art platform. His film “Gaia,” which delves into digitality and artificial intelligence, is featured in the permanent collection of the Sesi Lab Museum in Brasília.

Anaïs Lepage
Curator, France
21-25 February

Anaïs Lepage is an independent curator, writer and art historian based between Mexico City, Mexico, and Paris, France.

Through a multidisciplinary approach, she researches feminist and proto-queer historiographies, as well as sentimental, mystical, fantastic, and care practices, to explore the intersection between art and affects. In parallel, she reflects on situated ways of writing about art by blending theoretical, fictional, and intimate references in her texts, performance readings, and genre-bending curatorial projects.

She has initiated projects with Madison Bycroft, Julien Creuzet, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Rachel Rose, and Daniel Otero Torres; and has collaborated with the Palais de Tokyo, the Louis Vuitton Foundation, the Museum of Modern Art in Paris (MAM), the Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) in Chengdu, and the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art. From 2019 to 2022, she teached curatorial studies at the Panthéon-Sorbonne University in Paris.

www.anaislepage.com

Sonia D’Alto
Curator, Italy
21-24 February

Sonia D’Alto is an interdependent curator, researcher, and writer. She is pursuing a practice-based Ph.D. at the HFBK in Hamburg that revolves around Italian historical feminist collectives and gender mythologies, devoted to commonalities across struggles and, intergenerational continuities of nonlinear memories.

She has collaborated with art institutions, artistic residencies, and collective formations including the Venice Biennale, Museo Madre (Naples), Fondazione Pini (Milan), documenta studies (Kassel), Villa Arson (Nice) and Casino Luxembourg (Luxembourg). She has served Fondazione Como Arte (Como) as curator and scientific committee, collaboratively commissioning works to artists such as Marwa Arsanios, Slavs and Tatars, and Alice Visentin.

Her curatorial practice is grounded in intergenerational methodologies experimenting with a political imagination of the future based on unsettled temporalities as exemplified by her work addressing the relation between superstition and modernity, folktales and power discourses through feminist gestures, decolonial-magic practices and subaltern constellations (winner of the 11th Edition of the Italian Council).

Her writing has appeared in NERO, Flash Art, Mousse, e-flux Journal, and Critique d’Art. A book she has curated is coming soon for Archive Books. Currently, she is a lecturer in the curatorial studies program postgraduate program of KASK in Ghent.

She will be at the Villa Vassilieff, from January 2024 to April 202, in the frame of the AWARE residence programme.

Elena Sorokina
Curator and Art Historian
21-24 February

Elena Sorokina is a curator and art historian with a particular focus on sustainable curating. She co-curated the Armenian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2022 and served as curatorial advisor of documenta 14 in Athens/Kassel.

She was chief curator of the High Institute of Fine Arts (HISK), Belgium in 2017-2018. Alumna of the Whitney Museum of American Art ISP in New York and the Friedrich Wilhelm’s University in Bonn, Germany, Sorokina has curated projects at BOZAR, Art Brussels and WIELS (Belgium); Centre Pompidou and Musée d’Art Moderne (Paris); SMBA/Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Pera Museum Istanbul and other institutions.

Her recent exhibitions include “fragilités” at Rudolfinum, Prague, 2023 and “Crystal Clear: Travels in Sustainable Exhibition Making” at Pera Museum Istanbul, 2021.