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Young Curators Residency Programme
Every year since 2007 Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo promotes the Young Curators Residency Programme Torino. The project aims to support emerging curatorial practice while spreading knowledge of the Italian art scene on an international level.
Young Curators Residency Programme 2008 Coordinated by Ilaria Bonacossa
Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene, Italy May 25 – July 27, 2008
Dai tempo al tempo
The exhibition Dai tempo al tempo is the fruit of three months work by the three young curators Fiona Parry (UK, 1980), Joseph del Pesco (USA, 1975) and Pelin Uran (Turkey, 1975). Invited by the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo and by the Fondazione Edoardo Garrone, the three curators have spent three months in Italy to get a deeper insight into the contemporary art scene, contacting and meeting artists, curators, museum directors, gallerists and critics.
Focusing on the physical experience of time, the exhibition will begin with a daylong series of time-based projects by the 13 artists. Responding to the selected artists’ project-oriented practices, the exhibition will be composed of ephemeral, transient, momentary, and impermanent artworks. The artist projects will include: performances, artists’ talks, installations, video presentations, interventions, and participatory constructions. Some works will have specific durations, possibly lasting from a matter of minutes to the whole six hours. Some will, in more ephemeral ways, give form to the temporal structure and experience of the whole event. Installations will be born out of the series of events and will be on show to the public for the entire exhibition period. Francesco Arena will inscribe a quote by Fenoglio along the walls of the exhibition space, encouraging the public to interact with the space and reflect on the history of the Partisans of the Langhe and Roero regions. Federico Pietrella will present an installation of a room illuminated by lit torches that will go out one by one as their batteries die, setting an unpredictable turn of events for both the spectators and the artist. In the performance of Wolfgang Berkowski, 5 actors will read a work by Godard Le Mepris in blocked off spaces, hence creating a deaf conversation.
Curators
Joseph del Pesco
Joseph del Pesco (USA, 1975) is an American curator, writer, organizer, and perennial collaborator living in the SF Bay Area. For the past 15 years, he’s been part of the leadership of KADIST, a globally networked institution founded in Paris in 2006. In 2011, he established KADIST’s fast-paced program of residencies, events and exhibitions in San Francisco, where he served as Director. In 2016, he became International Director, helping KADIST transition into an international program of collaborations with art centers, collections and museums around the world. del Pesco has facilitated numerous collaborations, expanded the organization’s network of advisors, and regularly contributed to the growing collection of 2800 artworks from 120 countries. Among his many projects and exhibitions with leadings artists, del Pesco created the first international residency for art magazines, reimagined an historic artist contract to fund a charity chosen by the artist, created a free-school by aggregating events across a city, and has co-organized events at the New Museum and Museo Tamayo and co-curated an exhibition at the Centre Pompidou. His sold-out collection of short stories about imaginary museums, The Museum Took a Few Minutes To Collect Itself, was published by Fogo Island Arts and Art Metropole in 2018.
Fiona Parry
Pelin Uran
Pelin Uran is an Istanbul based curator. After she completed her studies at Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies in 2005, she has worked at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin. Now, working as a free-lance curator, Uran recently curated Character 1: Let’s talk about y/our anger, Character 2: But what do you mean by “anger”? (Bilsar, İstanbul, 2025), Among Friends: One Chapter of a Long Story (Galerist İstanbul, 2023) Also Your Wound, Rosa (Kurtulus Greek Primary School, İstanbul, 2022), we do not know this to be so (Galeri Nev İstanbul, 2018), Endgame (Loop Alternative Space, Seul, 2009), a forest and a tree (Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, 2007), An Artist Who Cannot Speak English is No Artist ( Artists Space, New York, 2006), a forest and a tree (Newbourg, New York, 2005), co-curated This Story is not ready for its Footnotes (ex ellectrofonico, Rome, 2010), Transit (Madre Museum, Napoli and Pist Istanbul, 2009), Dai Tempo al Tempo (Guarene, Torino, 2008), the night program: nightcomers for the 10th Istanbul Biennial (Istanbul, 2007). She has contributed to art magazines Might be Good, Speech, Insight, Art in America, domus and UOVO. Alongside her curatorial practice, she has been giving private contemporary visual art classes since 2010.
Coordinator
Ilaria Bonacossa
Ilaria Bonacossa (Milan, 1973) is a curator, art critic and the current Director of Palazzo Ducale, Genoa. She previously served as director of the National Museum of Digital Art in Milan from 2023 to 2024. She earned a BA in Contemporary Art History from the Università Statale di Milano and an MA in Curatorial Studies from Bard College, New York. She has worked as a research assistant for the 2003 Whitney Biennial and as curatorial assistant for Manifesta 3, Ljubljana. For seven years, she was curator at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, and from 2012 to 2017, she was the artistic director of the Contemporary Art Museum of Villa Croce, Genoa. In 2013, she curated the Icelandic Pavilion with the solo project of Katrin Sigurdardottir. She has been a member of the technical committee for acquisitions of FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur of Marseille (2007–2013), member of the scientific committee of PAC Milan (2013–2016) and Head of Italy for the Artist Pension Trust. In 2007, she was a member of the Golden Lion Jury at the Venice Biennale and in 2013 a member of the nominating committee for the Inamori Foundation Prize, Kyoto. She was a founding member of Art@Work, a collective that develops contemporary art projects in the non-profit sector and for private collections. Since 2016, she has been the artistic director of La Raia Foundation. From 2017 to 2021, she was director of Artissima, the International Fair of Contemporary Art in Turin, and, since 2019, she has been Course Advisor Leader for the Master’s programme in Arts Market at NABA – Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan. From 2021 to 2024, she served as Arts and Culture Liaison for Riyadh Art, the Public Art programme of the Royal Commission of Saudi Arabia.
Artists
- Giorgio Andreotta Calò
Born in Venice in 1979, Calò lives and works between Italy and the Netherlands. He studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice and the Kunsthochschule Berlin, graduating in 2005 with a thesis on Gordon Matta-Clark. Between 2001 and 2007 he was assistant to Ilya and Emilia Kabakov. In 2008 he moved to the Netherlands, where he was artist in residence at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam (2009–2011). In 2011 his work was presented at the 54th Venice Biennale, directed by Bice Curiger. In 2012 he won the Premio Italia for Contemporary Art, promoted by MAXXI Museum in Rome, with Prima che sia notte (Before Night Falls). Between 2012 and 2013 he was artist in residence at Villa Arson, Nice. In 2014 he received the Premio New York, awarded by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2017 he was one of three artists representing Italy in the pavilion curated by Cecilia Alemani at the 57th Venice Biennale. That same year he won the second Italian Council grant with Anastasis, realized in 2018 at the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam. In 2019 he presented the exhibition CITTÀDIMILANO at Pirelli HangarBicocca. In 2024 he inaugurated a solo exhibition dedicated to sculpture at the Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna di Ca’ Pesaro.
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Senza titolo, 2008
Video of the performance, series of 80 diapositives, variable dimensions (installation view)
Courtesy of Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo - Francesco Arena
Francesco Arena (b. 1978) lives and works in Cassano delle Murge, Bari, Italy. Arena’s practice unfolds along two intersecting trajectories: collective history and personal history. These parallel narratives continuously converge, overlap, and intersect. In his work, stories “in-form” objects, whether everyday items—such as diaries, cigars, furniture, and other domestic objects—or sculptures made from traditional materials such as marble and bronze. His solo exhibitions include: Trenta Altalene, XXVI Premio Pino Pascali, Fondazione Pino Pascali, Polignano a Mare; Il fulmine governa ogni cosa, Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio, Rome; Measured Stones, NoguerasBlanchard, Madrid; Otto angoli, Studio Trisorio, Naples; Terza mostra: tre cose, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan; Cubic metre of seawater as a diagonal, Sprovieri, London; Posatoi, Olnick Spanu Art Program, Garrison, New York; Onze mille cent quatre-vingt sept jours, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims; Trittico 57, Museion, Bolzano; Cratere, De Vleeshal, Middelburg. Selected group exhibitions include: After Image, MAXXI L’Aquila; Le Futur derrière nous. L’art italien depuis les années 1990. Le contemporain face au passé, Villa Arson, Nice; The Paradox of Stillness. Art, Object and Performance, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Utopia Distopia, Museo MADRE, Naples; The Humans, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen; Ennesima, Triennale Milano; Ritratto dell’artista da giovane, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Rivoli; Vice Versa, Italian Pavilion, 55th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.
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Senza Titolo (Guarene), 2008
Engraving on wall and wooden bench - A portrait of Francesco Arena in the space of his installation Senza Titolo (Guarene) at Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene d’Alba, Cuneo, Italy (installation view)
Courtesy of the artist - Elisabetta Benassi
Elisabetta Benassi was born in 1966 in Roma, where she lives and works.
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Nevermore, 2008
Performance - Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene d'Alba, Cuneo, Italy (performance view)
Courtesy of the artist - Wolfgang Berkowski
Wolfgang Berkowski was born in 1960, Salzkotten, Germany. He lives and works in Roma.
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Lateral Dissection, 2006
Performance
Courtesy of the artist - Rossella Biscotti
Rossella Biscotti was born in 1978, Molfetta, Bari, Italy. She lives and works in Brussels.
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The Undercover Special Agent, 2008
Still of the film - Dafne Boggeri
Dafne Boggeri was born in 1975, Tortona, Alessandria, Italy. She lives and works in Milano.
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Untiled (LOST), 2008
Lamba print - 60 x 45 cm
Courtesy of the artist - Stanislao Di Giugno
Stanislao Di Giugno (Rome, 1969) is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Rome. Since 2014, he has devoted himself primarily to abstract painting, developing a coherent body of work characterized by a recognizable formal language. Before focusing on painting, Di Giugno developed a practice based on the reuse and transformation of everyday images and objects, creating collages and abstract sculptures that alter their original meaning. Between 2008 and 2011, he produced a significant series of collages through the deconstruction and recomposition of images into new formal structures. His research combines theoretical reflection and formal rigor. His painting investigates the physical qualities of materials, focusing on color, surface, and spatial relationships within the pictorial field. Through the layering of color, his works create a synthesis of different temporalities, experiences, and emotional states. As the artist states: “The choice is not to represent reality, but to investigate it.” His work has been presented in institutional and gallery exhibitions, including projects at Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome, Triennale Milano, Sammlung Lenikus in Vienna, and Galleria Tiziana Di Caro.
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happy ending resistenza: history did't teach me anything at all, 2008
Grill
Courtesy of the artist - Domenico Antonio Mancini
Domenico Antonio Mancini was born in Naples in 1980. He lives and works in Milan. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples and through participation in various residences including the Antonio Ratti Foundation (Como, 2004) and the Mountain School of Art (Los Angeles, 2006). Interested in the transformation of daily life and historical memory into a synesthetic experience, Domenico Antonio Mancini combines sophisticated media analysis, chosen from time to time, to reflect on socio-political and bio-political issues. For the artist, the practice of art always responds to the urgent need to intervene, individually and collectively, in everyday life. Even in the most recent pictorial series related to the historical memory of specific sites, the landscape painting comes as an alienating experience not only on a linguistic level: Domenico Antonio keeps suggesting mediums to flip the relationship between things, intended as both aesthetic categories and pieces of information. Mancini has exhibited in numerous institutional and independent contexts, including the MADRE Museum in Naples, Fondazione Merz in Turin, MAXXI Museum in L’Aquila, MART in Rovereto, GNAM in Rome, the Italian Cultural Institutes in New York and Berlin, and galleries such as Lia Rumma (Naples and Milan).
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Move South, 2008
Courtesy of the artist - Federico Pietrella
Federico Pietrella (b. 1973, Rome) lives and works in Rome. His work has been displayed in several locations in Italy and abroad, including: MACRO, Rome; MART, Rovereto; Villa Romana, Florence; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin/Guarene; American Academy in Rome; Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne; Stadtgalerie, Kiel; Kunstlerhaus, Graz; ZKM Museum, Karlsruhe; Assab One, Milan; Villa Manin, Passariano di Codroipo; Galleria Civica d’Arte Contemporanea di Trento; National Gallery, Praha; Galleria Nazionale di Arte Moderna, Bologna; Fondazione Adriano Olivetti, Rome; Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome; Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome; Guang Dong Museum of Art, Guangzhou; Istituto Italiano di Cultura, London; Fondazione Smart, Rome; Fondazione Del Monte, Bologna; Collezione Farnesina, Rome; Ambasciata Italiana in Berlin; Serlachius Museum Gösta, Mänttä.
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25 maggio 2008, 2008
Performance at Palazzo Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene d'Alba (installation view)
Courtesy of the artist - Cesare Pietroiusti
Cesare Pietroiusti was born in 1955 in Roma, where he lives and works.
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Permanent attribution of ideas to others, 2008
Performance realised in the Teatro Colosseo in Rome, in Tempo reale (2007) (frame from the video)
Courtesy of the artist - Giulia Piscitelli
Giulia Piscitelli (b. 1965, Naples) lives and works in Naples. Piscitelli explores themes of labor, value, identity, and collective memory, transforming everyday objects and situations into critical narratives on contemporary society. Selected solo exhibitions include: Short Films, Palazzo Diedo – Berggruen Arts & Culture, Venice (2025); Chiave Terrestre, MUNAV, Venice (2025); Una Nuvola Come Tappeto, Museo del Tesoro di San Gennaro, Naples (2024); Anime, Casa Masaccio, San Giovanni Valdarno (2019); Nella Società, in Gesellschaft, Kunstmuseum Luzern (2019); Wide Rule, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles (2015); Intermedium, MADRE, Naples (2013); Contested Zone, CUBITT Gallery, London (2011); Rischi Minori, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome (2011); Beige, Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples (2010); and Ballhaus, RISO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Palermo (2008). Her work has been featured in major international exhibitions, including the Lagos Biennial (2024); documenta 14 (2017); the 16th Quadriennale d’Arte, Rome (2016); the 54th Venice Biennale (2011); the 5th Berlin Biennial (2008); and 50 Lune di Saturno, T2 Torino Triennale (2008).
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Furore, 1996
Video, 6'20''
Courtesy of the artist - Anna Scalfi
Anna Scalfi was born in 1965, Trento, Italy. She lives and works in London.
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Always half full, 2008
Installation view at Palazzo Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene d'Alba
Courtesy of the artist
Jury
Francesco Bonami
Francesco Bonami (Firenze, 1955) has been senior curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, from 1999 to 2008. He also was artistic director of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino (Italy) since its foundation (now honorary director), Fondazione Pitti Discovery, Firenze (Italy) and the contemporary art center Villa Manin, Udine (Italy). He was the director of the 50th Venice Biennial of Visual Arts in 2003, and he was the first Italian curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial. He curated several international exhibitions like The Universal Experience at the Hayward Gallery, London, the Whitney Museum of America Art Biennial in 2010, and of the first edition of the T-Torino Triennale Tremusei. He is a regular contributor to the Italian daily Il Riformista, Zero and Vanity Fair Italy. Until 2013 he was director of Tar, a magazine of art and culture. In 2010 he received the Légion d’honneur of the Franch Republic. He published several books among which Lo potevo fare anch’ io. Perché l ‘arte contemporanea è davvero arte (2009), Dopotutto non è brutto (2010), Si crede Picasso (2010) and Maurizio Cattelan. Autobiografia non autorizzata (2011). Among his last exhibitions, the Takashi Murakami’ s solo exhibition, Il Ciclo di Arhat, (Milan, 2014) and The see is my land–Artisti dal Mediterraneo, at the Milan Triennial with Emanuela Mazzonis (Milan, 2014 and MAXXI, Rome, 2013 ).
Teresa Gleadowe
Teresa Gleadowe (London) is a curator, writer, and editor with extensive experience in contemporary visual arts, both nationally and internationally, and Chair of Nottingham Contemporary. She was a member of the Furla Prize 2015. She worked for the Visual Arts Department of the British Council, London, and the Tate Gallery, London, as head of information. In 1992 she joined the academic staff of the Royal College of Art, London, to develop and lead the curating course. She was head of the Curating Contemporary Art department until the summer of 2006, when she left the college to work freelance. From 2006 to 2012 she was Research Consultant and Series Editor for the Exhibition Histories series published by Afterall. She has also taught on curatorial programmes at California College of the Arts, San Francisco; de Appel, Amsterdam; the London Consortium MA Film Curating; the MA Curating at Chelsea College of Art and Design; and on the Curatorial Intensive run by Independent Curators International in New York in July 2011. She has co-convened two conferences with Kitty Scott for the Banff International Curatorial Institute and a symposium, On Remoteness in March 2013. She is a member of the Advisory Board of PEER, a member of the ICA’s Artists Advisory Committee, a specialist adviser to The John Lyon’s Charity and a member of AICA and ICOM. She is also Chair of CAST (the Cornubian Arts & Science Trust), a new charity based in Helston, Cornwall (UK), created in 2012.
Francesco Manacorda
Francesco Manacorda (Torino, 1974) is an independent curator based in London. He graduated from the University of Turin, Torino (Italy) and received a MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art, London, in 2003. He was appointed artistic director of Artissima in 2010, the International Fair of Contemporary Art in Turin, and since 2012 artistic director of the Tate Liverpool (UK). He worked as a curator at the Barbican Art Gallery, London, (2007–09), and his freelance practice has included curating Subcontinent: The Indian Subcontinent in Contemporary Art, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino (2006) and national pavilions at the 52nd Venice Biennial (Tobias Putrih, Slovenian Pavilion, 2007 and Francis Upritchard, New Zealand Pavilion, 2009). He has written extensively for Domus, Flash Art Italia, Flash Art International, Frieze, Metropolis M, Piktogram, Untitled, and Art Review.
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