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Young Curators Residency Programme
Since 2020, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo promotes the Young Curators Residency Programme Madrid. The project aims to support emerging curatorial practice while spreading knowledge of the Spanish art scene on an international level. The YCRP Madrid stems from the experience of the Young Curators Residency Programme Torino, that takes place every year in Italy since 2007.
Young Curators Residency Programme 2024 Coordinated by hablarenarte
Sala Anselma (Ateneo de Madrid): Calle del Prado 19 5.06.2024 - 3.07.2024
La Sagrada Familia is Under Construction
The most famous building in modern Spain looms over Barcelona like a gargantuan anthill. Unfinished. Incomplete. A blueprint evolving in superslowmotion. La Sagrada Familia is under construction. It’s been for a while now and it will be tomorrow. Millions gather here to gaze at the building. Are they here to see a church or a historical monument or a construction site? What do they make of the scaffoldings on the facade, the cranes along the spires, the bustle of workers, the beams and the safety nets. Do they erase them from their mind’s eye, forget their presence, get mildly annoyed or temporarily tunnel-visioned? Does the sun blind this activity when they tilt their necks upwards and squint at the steeples? Or do they accept it all as work. That people actually go there to see the scaffolding. That the monument merely stages the real work of embodying the present. Building not as a noun but a verb. That is the work. Construction as a render of life as it unfolds in real time. A building that swells, ripples and erupts, takes Sundays off and sometimes bunks Mondays, nurses hangovers and heartbreaks, exceeds affordances; that accommodates all sorts of silhouettes, figures, appearances and cameos; La Sagrada as a framework for disassemblance. La Sagrada Familia is under construction. A proposition in finding ease within unfinished things.
Curators
Nikki Nita Ramírez
Nikki Nita Ramírez is an art advisor, gallerist, and curator based between New York and London. Ramírez is the co-founder and co-director of Danuser & Ramírez, a contemporary art gallery based in London championing emerging artists with underrepresented voices. Ramírez holds a Masters Degree in Curating Contemporary Art from The Royal College of Art.
Her previous positions have been at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, The Peggy Guggenheim Collection, and most recently, The Studio Museum in Harlem. Her bachelor’s degree being in Art History and Conservation in Florence, Italy opened a new way of looking at curation in a transhistorical approach. Ramírez’s practice is based on bridging the gap between the ancient antiquities of the Baroque and the contemporary art scene today.
Phokeng Setai
Phokeng Setai is a cultural scholar and independent curator. He recently completed his doctoral dissertation at the University of the Western Cape (South Africa), conducting his research through the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) and Anthropology Department. Setai’s research focuses on African and African diasporic artistic modes of knowledge production, with a specific emphasis on curatorial practice as an expanded field of intellectual inquiry and creative expression. He is an alumnus of RAW Material Company and Independent Curators’ International (ICI). Previously, Setai worked as a researcher at Zeitz MOCAA, served as a curator at Norval Foundation, and held a board position at the Association of the Visual Arts in Cape Town, South Africa. Setai is also the co-founder and co-curator of Exhibition Match, an ongoing artistic project and socio-cultural intervention aimed at fostering collaboration, communal engagement, community-building, and play within the art world.
Kaushal Sapre
Kaushal Sapre is an artist/curator based in Delhi. His work has to do with rethinking the self and the social in everyday technics. He develops web servers, manages an internet radio station, writes software, teaches at a university, stages images, organises gatherings, makes and performs with experimental sound instruments. Previous appearances include Watermans Art Center, London (2023); Kunsthalle Bern (2023); Hangzhou Triennale for Fiber Art (2022); Rockbund Art Museum,Shanghai (2022), Five Million Incidents, Delhi (2020)
Coordinator
hablarenarte
Written in lower case and in constant mutation, hablarenarte is a non-profit organization based in Madrid that has been working since 2002 in the field of cultural mediation, artistic education, expanded curating and contemporary creation.
Emma Brasó is a curator at the contemporary creation team of hablarenarte and Visiting Lecturer at the Fine Arts Department of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She holds a PhD from Royal College of Art (London) based on her research on the intersection of fiction and authorship since the 1980s. Before that, she obtained a master’s degree in Curatorial Studies at Columbia University (New York) with a grant from ‘la Caixa’ Foundation.
Artists
- Assoukrou Ake
[Paris, France / Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire]
Born in 1995 in Bonoua, Côte d’Ivoire, Ake lives and works between Paris and Abidjan. Graduating with honors from the Lycée d’Enseignement Artistique d’Abidjan in 2014, Assoukrou pursued further studies in France, earning degrees in art history and archaeology from Université Paris 10 Nanterre la Défense and graduating with honors from the École supérieure d’art et design de Tours in 2021. Ake’s work explores the intersection of personal and collective history, striving for a unique expression that transcends to a critical space where allegorical references and African sacred traditions meet. By navigating the iconography of the Enlightenment, the artist in his artwork aims to distance us from the world’s painful history and constructing narratives of healing. This narrative does not merely respond to suffering but discovers the world through a lens that observes violence and its capacity for mutation.
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- Daniel De La Barra
[Madrid, Spain / Lima, Peru]
Born in 1992 in Lima, Peru, De La Barra’s work explores the crisis of viewing nature, portraying landscape representation as an extractive process and highlighting the friction between image, history, and modernity. This approach delves into colonial conflicts that have relegated nature to exploitation, creating counter-visual narratives that reflect on landscape representation as a power exercise. These anti-landscape exercises examine socio-environmental violence from political and historical perspectives.
De La Barra has exhibited solo and group works in various cities, including London (Delfina Foundation, 2023; Frieze London, 2022), Madrid (La Casa Encendida, 2024; Arco Madrid 2024), and Barcelona (Arts Santa Mònica, 2023; Joan Prats Gallery, 2022). Residencies include the Delfina Foundation (London), Miró Foundation (Palma), and the Royal Academy of Spain (Rome). Awards and scholarships include the Barcelona Crea Prize (2023), the Collezione Taurisano Art Nou Prize (2022), and the Generalitat de Catalunya (2023).![]()
- Esther Merinero
[Madrid, Spain]
Born in Madrid in 1994, Esther Merinero is an artist whose practice focuses on the small details that give meaning to everyday events, turning them into memories and proposing parallel narratives based on specific realities. Her work embodies weight, intimacy, and cherished personal objects, creating complex relationships between formally separate but emotionally connected volumes through fantastic scenarios. Esther’s work explores notions of accident, encounter, love, and fragility, responding to contemporary urgencies. She develops these ideas through various media, including images, objects, and words, tending towards a sculptural, narrative, and scenic materiality, often activated by concrete agents. Esther graduated in Fine Arts from Chelsea College of Arts and holds an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art. Her work has been exhibited internationally at Centro Centro (Madrid), CCCC (Valencia), Saatchi Gallery (London), Dada Post (Berlin), and Charsoo Honar (Tehran). Recently, Esther held a solo exhibition at Can Felipa Arts Visuals (Barcelona) and participated in ARCO 2024 with Pradiauto in the Opening section.
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- Lizette Nin
[Barcelona, Spain]
Lizette Nin, a queer Black artist based in Barcelona and Santo Domingo, channels her Afro-descendant roots into a multidisciplinary artistic practice. Utilizing video, food, drawing, and printing, Lizette amplifies marginalized voices and highlights overlooked struggles. Her extensive exhibition record spans Barcelona, Panama City, Madrid, and Berlin, reflecting her commitment to art and advocating for the inclusion of Black women in Spain. Lizette’s work serves as a conduit for connection and reflection, inviting viewers to explore diverse experiences.
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- Lumbung Press
Lumbung Press is a collective printing practice developed by the artists of documenta 15. It is based on the Indonesian tradition of lumbung, which is the deposit of common resources for redistribution for the long-term benefit of the members of a community. Lumbung Press is born as a mechanism for direct and raw energy transmission from the invited artists and groups during the 100 days of exhibition in Kassel in 2022 and beyond. This “beyond” arrives, and Hangar (Barcelona) is the first organization to host the collective and its workshop.
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- María Eugenia Diego
[Madrid, Spain]
María Eugenia Diego (Zamora, 1989) is an artist and architect based in Madrid. She graduated from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid in 2014. Her diverse experiences as an architect, set designer, and florist have profoundly shaped her artistic vision. Her work explores interspecies connections between the botanical, the human, and space through sculpture, installation, and performance. With references to craftsmanship and nature, her art questions anthropocentrism and the boundaries of identity, engaging viewers through tactile and sensory experiences within the space. In 2022, María Eugenia Diego won 1st prize at the International FLORA Festival for her site-specific installation “Ovidio.” Her work has been exhibited at Twin Gallery and La Casa Encendida, and she has conducted performative workshops in Madrid and Córdoba. In 2020, she founded KOKON, a botanical studio creating scenographic projects internationally. Since 2023, she has been a full professor of Interior Styling at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
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- Youssef Taki
[Madrid, Spain]
Born in Uchda, Morocco in 1995, Youssef Taki is an artist and researcher. He graduated in Fine Arts and later obtained a Master’s degree in Research in Artistic and Visual Practices. His recent work focuses on the interpretation, representation, and self-representation of cultural bodies with borders. He has shared his research through lectures, exhibitions, workshops, and publications at institutions such as the Fundación Juan March, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, and Espacio Cultural Serrería Belga. Notable exhibitions in Youssef’s career include “Postcard from the Edge” (2024) in New York, “Land, Safety and Grief” (2023) at Oyoun in Berlin, the Larnaca Biennial with “Home Away from Home” (2023) in Cyprus, and the upcoming Dakar Biennial with “The Wake” (2024).
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- Candela Sotos
[Madrid, Spain]
Candela Sotos is an artist who works at the intersection of the archive, moving image, and botanical practices. Her artistic practice incorporates diverse methodologies, including oral transmission, collaborative practice, and the creation of images and stories about memory. Her work manifests as installations, editions, and films. She has exhibited and screened her work at venues such as CRA Matadero Madrid, Cineteca, Sala de Arte Joven, Jardín Botánico Carlos Thays de Buenos Aires, Centro Cultural de la Memoria Haroldo Conti, Fundación Cerezales, and the Festival Internacional de Cine Punto de Vista. Candela has received support from the Community of Madrid, the Ministry of Culture, the National Fund for the Arts of Argentina, and the Madrid City Council. Currently based in Madrid, she co-directs lacalor, an independent art space and workshop specializing in silkscreen and graphic works.
- Bruno Del Giúdice
[Madrid, Spain / Chaco, Argentina]
Based in Madrid, Bruno del Giudice is an artist and graphic designer with a degree from the Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Argentina. He has attended several workshops in photography, art direction, and audiovisual direction, including the “Estonoesunacademia” art workshop led by Diego Figueroa. In 2016, Bruno received a grant from the CCF (Colectivo Coleccionismo Federal) to participate in the FFAN Program, a follow-up and production clinic led by Cuauhtémoc Medina, Santiago Villanueva, and Alejo Ponce de León. He joined the Artists Program at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in 2018/19 and was a resident artist at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de la Boca. In 2019, he joined the Artists X Artists Program at Fundación el Mirador. His work has been exhibited at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de la Boca, Centro Cultural de la Memoria Haroldo Conti, Museo Caraffa, EAC Bienal Sur, and internationally. Since 2020, Bruno co-directs lacalor, a graphic art production studio and independent exhibition space in Madrid. He has participated in the Crater Program of the Sala de Arte Joven de Madrid and other independent projects, and has received grants from the Community of Madrid and the city council of Madrid.
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Jury
Javier Hontoria
Javier Hontoria is the director of the Patio Herreriano Museum in Valladolid. Since the late nineties he has dedicated himself to art criticism, regularly collaborating with the magazines El Cultural and Artforum. He has also organized numerous exhibitions as an independent curator in museums such as the Reina Sofía, the CAAC in Seville, the CGAC in Santiago, Artium in Vitoria, CA2M in Móstoles, La Casa Encendida in Madrid and the MAMbo in Bolonia, among others.
Nuria Enguita
Nuria Enguita is an art historian and curator. Former director of the Valencian Institute of Modern Art (IVAM) and the Bombas Gens Art Center, promoted by the Fundació Per Amor a l’Art. Previously she was responsible for projects at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies. Likewise, she has been co-editor of the magazine Afterall and a member of the management team of the art and thought program of the International University of Andalusia – UNIA, as well as founder and co-editor of the magazine Concreta.
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