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 2025 Coordinated by hablarenarte
Henriette has a particular interest in topics related to the sense of place and space, the concept of landscape and the notion of interiority. In her curatorial projects, she examines from a historical and ecological perspective how we come to know spaces and how we might live with their evolving conditions.
She holds a Master’s degree in Art History and Archaeology from the VUB, Brussels (2021) and a Master’s degree in Curating from Goldsmiths College, London (2023). During her studies, she was assistant curator for the 2nd edition of the Dunkirk Triennial (2023) alongside curators Anna Colin and Camille Richert. The following year, she worked as a curatorial fellow at the Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) (2024). In parallel to these institutional positions, she has collaborated on small-scale artist projects in London and Belgium.
Elias Rizek is a Palestinian curator from Jerusalem, and the founder of Al-Mustawda3, an independent cultural space in Ramallah. At Al-Mustawda3, Elias curated a number of exhibitions and collaborated with many in developing a public programme that spanned visual arts, music, theatre, cinema, and education. Elias’s curatorial practice is grounded in decolonial methodologies that reconsider conventional institutional frameworks. He employs a speculative approach to explore how enmeshed colonial structures shape contemporary artistic production, proposing collective-first modes of instituting instead. In 2024, Elias completed his MA in Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art, UK.
Congolese born Chadrack Kakule is a researcher and curator. The main strands of his practice are primarily concerned with alternative epistemologies, non-extractive curatorial/artistic practices and contemporary art from Africa. His work examines the role of curatorial research in addressing the histories that have been affected by extractivism.
He has participated in various curatorial and educational programs, including the Independent Curators International (ICI) Curatorial Intensive in Kampala, Uganda (2022) and the Zeitz MOCAA & the University of the Western Cape Museum Fellowship program (2024). He participated in Documenta Fifteen as member of Centrer d’art Waza -a group of artists and curators based in Democratic Republic of the Congo as well as a member of Another Roadmap Africa Cluster – an international network of practitioners and researchers who are working toward art education as an engaged practice in museums, cultural institutions, educational centers, and grassroots organizations.
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.
Sergio Rubira is the artistic director of the TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes museum and has been the deputy director of collections and exhibitions at the Valencian Institute of Modern Art (IVAM) in Valencia. He was a professor of Contemporary Art History at the Complutense University of Madrid for 16 years, where he was the academic secretary of the Master’s in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture, a program organized by the university in collaboration with the Reina Sofía Museum and the Autonomous University. He has been a collaborator for El Cultural and deputy director of all publications of the EXIT group. He has co-directed the Madrid45 training program of the Community of Madrid, the Image Study Sessions of the Community of Madrid, and the course Curating the Present at La Casa Encendida. He was part of the curatorial office RMS La Asociación. He has curated exhibitions at CAAC, MUSAC, CGAC, CA2M, La Panera, Temporary Gallery, Centre d’art Santa Mònica, among others. He has written for numerous publications from institutions such as MUDAM, Centre Pompidou-Metz, the Venice Biennale, PS1-MoMA, Tranzit, FRAC Bourgogne, among others.
Amanda de la Garza Mata (Mexico, 1981) Lives and works in Madrid, Spain.
She is currently Deputy Artistic Director at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid. From 2020 to 2024, she was General Director of Visual Arts and of the University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC) at UNAM, one of the most important art museum in Latin America. Trained in Curatorial Studies, Art History, Anthropology and Sociology, between 2012 and 2019 she worked as an associate curator at the MUAC. She has curated and coordinated more than 30 exhibitions of modern and contemporary art, as well as archival exhibitions and solo shows of renowned artists, including Harun Farocki, Hito Steyerl, Vicente Rojo, Jeremy Deller, Isaac Julien, Jonas Mekas, José Dávila and Chantal Peñalosa for museums in Latin America, Europe and the USA. She has published essays, interviews and reviews in catalogues, books and specialized magazines. She has been awarded the Emerging Curators Award at the Borders Biennial and various research grants. She was a member of the board of ICOM Mexico from 2021 to 2024. She is currently a member of AAMD (Association Art Museum Directors) and is part of the board of CIMAM (International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art).
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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.