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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 2022 Coordinated by Michele Bertolino
Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene, Italy May 14 - July 24, 2022
Camminiamo sul ciglio di un istante
Camminiamo sul ciglio di un istante, the exhibition of the sixteenth edition of the Young Curators Residency Programme, brings together eleven Italian artists who employ characteristics of the carnival to imagine, create, or critique temporary utopias. They disturb the galleries of the Palazzo Re Rebaudengo with defiant laughter, chaos, and collectivity, creating spaces that encourage the subversion of traditional norms and hierarchies of society. These finite interventions, much like the carnival itself, momentarily suspend normativity and provide release from conformative states of being. The exhibition takes its title from a drawing by Lisa Ponti, which suggests the fleeting sensation of teetering on the brink of something new. The exhibition considers how the habitual repetition of gestures can bring meaningful change. Camminiamo sul ciglio di un istante thus creates a constellation of ephemeral experiences and spaces as strategies of relief and resistance.
Lisa Ponti, through her drawings, and Elena Radice, through her sound-based practice, create space for the ineffable by collaging images, texts, and sounds culled from everyday activities. These artists allow access to generative interstices and unspoken understandings, finding new and optimistic possibilities within the status quo. Roberto Fassone reimagines the structures that underlie our daily lives by infusing banal situations with his own idiosyncratic logic. Dispersed throughout the Guarene galleries, Fassone presents a series of artworks in disguise that create unlikely and playful encounters. The work of Piero Gilardi and Effe Minelli explore how art can be used as a prop in challenging social institutions. Together in the space of the gallery, Gilardi and Minelli defy normalised ways of being through performance and revelry. Enrico Floriddia and Industria Indipendente create moments of collectivity through their reading and performance-installation practices. By defining new parameters for being together, these artists ask participants to reconsider their position in relation to others, centring abundance within shared spaces. Cleo Fariselli transforms the gallery into an immersive environment that leaves the viewer inert amongst moving fragments of light. Fariselli relishes the contradictory sensations of this experience, celebrating the expansive and multiplicitous while underlining the risk inherent in escapism. Enej Gala and Federico Tosi collapse binaries by rendering the grotesque and profane with delicately crafted imagery. Casting aside typical rules and etiquette, Gala and Tosi construct new realms of existence that critique current society. Allison Grimaldi Donahue utilises comic poetry as a form of release. By rewriting and queering a mediaeval text, Grimaldi Donahue inserts herself into mediaeval literary tradition and transgresses its hierarchical, and sometimes misogynistic, implications.
The artists in Camminiamo sul ciglio di un istante create encounters with the carnivalesque to temporarily suspend customary norms, providing moments of relief from within the banality of daily life. Mindful of the limitations of this model, they seek to understand how art can hold space for both celebration and rebellion, and how one can sustain these ideals in the face of reality.
A publication produced in collaboration with Oreri accompanies the exhibition. It contains a curatorial essay alongside a range of visual and text-based contributions from artists in the exhibition.
Curators
Sukanya Baskar
Sukanya Baskar is a curator and researcher, with a focus on photography and moving image. Her practice, involving graphic design, spatial design and curatorial research has evolved alongside archives. She has worked on a number of magazine and book design projects including Witness / Kashmir 1986–2016 / Nine photographers, featured on the New York Times’ list of Best of photobooks of 2017. As a researcher, she has been with organizations such as the Museum of Art and Photography, Bengaluru, Alkazi Foundation for the Arts, New Delhi, Light Industry and the UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art, New York. Her current research involves studying the overlapping histories of photography and magazine culture in India. She is a graduate from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad and the Center for Curatorial Studies, (CCS) at Bard College, New York.
Shaelyn Hanes
Shaelyn Hanes is a curator, writer, and researcher based in San Francisco. She has collaborated on curatorial projects at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaundengo (Turin), CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (San Francisco), the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley), and the di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art (Napa). In 2022, she co-founded Off Hours—a nomadic curatorial practice producing artist-first exhibitions. Hanes is currently Curatorial Researcher for Zlot Buell + Associates, an art advisory firm specializing in contemporary art. She earned a Master of Arts in Curatorial Practice from the California College of the Arts in 2021 and a Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Field Studies from the University of California, Berkeley in 2010.
Eunice Tsang
Eunice Tsang is a Hong Kong-based cultural worker whose practice is rooted in community-building and the power of collective experience. As the founder and director of Current Plans, a nonprofit art space established in 2020, she has been highlighting playful and cross-disciplinary dialogues, from performance parties to communal cooking, to foster a social ecosystem where emerging creatives and the public interact beyond the passive gaze of the gallery. Tsang’s institutional experience includes her role as Associate Curator at M+, where she spearheaded the Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival and curated the museum’s Live Art program, spanning music and large-scale public events. Her international footprint is marked by curatorial research at Fondazione Prada (2025) and the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Young Curators Residency (2022). Recent projects include the inaugural exhibition for Octone Foundation (2026), Colours of Humanity Arts Prize at the Goethe-Institut (2024-ongoing), the Trieste Biennale (2023), and BOOKED: Art Book Fair at Tai Kwun Contemporary (2015-2020).
Coordinator
Michele Bertolino
Michele Bertolino (Savigliano, 1992) is Adjunct Curator at Centro Pecci, Prato, and tutor of CAMPO – a course in curatorial studies and practices at the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, Turin. From 2022 to 2026, he collaborated with Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo as coordinator of the Young Curators Residency Program. He has collaborated with various Italian and international institutions, including MAMbo (Bologna), Last Tango (Zurich), Modern Art Institute (Glasgow), HEAD (Geneva), Palazzo Gucci (Florence), among others. In 2025, he curated VIVONO. Arte e affetti, HIV-AIDS in Italia, 1982-1996, the first institutional exhibition to reconstruct the forgotten history of Italian artists affected by the HIV-AIDS crisis, and in 2026, together with Alessandra Acocella and Monica Gallai, he co-curated Verita Monselles. CARNALE, both exhibitions were presented at Centro Pecci, Prato. He edited Tongue on Flames and Porpora, photographic books by Lina Pallotta. He teaches in Italy and abroad. His writings have appeared in NERO Magazine, Flash Art and Mousse Magazine, and his essays have been published in several monographic volumes, including the most recent Satura on Louis Fratino (Mousse). In 2022 he published L’Ano Solare. A Year-Long Programme on Sex and Self-display with Il Colorificio and Albe e tramonti a Praiano with Giulia Crispiani. In 2020, he was visiting lecturer in the LAB.ZONE PETROLIO, class led by Lili Reynaud-Dewar at HEAD Genève. Between 2019 and 2021 he worked as assistant curator of the 2020 Art Quadriennale FUORI, held at Palazzo delle Esposizioni. In 2018-2019 he was Junior Curator at The Institute of Things to Come, with which he continued collaborating in 2020-2021 as curator of the research project Guerrilla against the Uncessing Hostilities of the Livings. In 2016 he founded, with Bernardo Follini, Giulia Gregnanin and Sebastiano Pala, the curatorial collective Il Colorificio. He graduated in philosophy of art at the University of Turin and in 2015-2016 he participated in the CAMPO15 edition.
Artists
- Cleo Fariselli
Cleo Fariselli (Cesenatico, 1982) lives and works in Turin. Her practice questions habitual ways of seeing and representing the world, opening up new perceptual and imaginative possibilities. Working across sculpture, installation, video, drawing, sound, performance and text, she creates works in which subjective experience and external conditions intertwine, generating images and forms that move between personal and collective dimensions. Her research engages with liminal and imaginative states, exploring their generative, destabilising and transformative potential. Her work has been presented at MAXXI, Rome (2024); Centro Pecci, Prato (2023, 2017); CAC – Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (2022); OGR Torino (2022); Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene (2022); Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome (2021); Italian Cultural Institute, Tokyo (2021); Palazzo Fortuny, Venice (2017, 2018); EACC, Castelló (2013); and Palazzo Reale, Milan (2011, 2008). In 2021–22 she received an Italian Council production grant. In 2026 she was commissioned by Fondazione Mirafiori to create a public artwork for the programme Mirafiori dopo il mito.
- Roberto Fassone
Roberto Fassone (1986) is a music lover and a fan of Pamela Colman Smith. His practice explores the limits of imagination, creative processes, and existence. In 2023, he received the MAXXI BULGARI Prize for Digital Art for a trilogy created in collaboration with an artificial intelligence fed with magic mushrooms. In 2025, he won the Termoli Prize with a documentary dedicated to his basketball team. In 2026, I’ve Seen the Future, a project exploring the combination of neural networks and tarot cards, nominated by Sineglossa together with Waag Futurelab, was selected as one of the winning projects of the 15th edition of the Italian Council. In recent years, he has exhibited and presented his work at numerous national and international institutions and venues, including Current Plans (Hong Kong), MAXXI (Rome and L’Aquila), the National Museum of Cinema (Turin), MACTE (Termoli), Palazzo Collicola (Spoleto), MAMbo (Bologna), Ars Electronica (Linz), Visions du Réel (Nyon), ICA Milano, MACRO and Mattatoio (Rome), Lo schermo dell’arte (Florence), the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris, and Fanta-MLN (Milan). While he was writing this biography, the sun was shining over Groningen.
- Enrico Floriddia
Enrico Floriddia was born in Catania in 1984. His practice cycles existing matter as much as existing texts, often leaning towards relational works. As an educator, Floriddia creates situations for the building of common knowledge through collective readings; as an art worker, he tends to contexts of wellbeing by organising art residencies; as a person, he tries to uplift kinships. Reciprocity, equity and agency are his constant preoccupations. His research travelled with the Zines of the zone nomad library throughout the European continent in 2014. Later, it participated in the Trauma&Revival (Bozar, ZKM, Cittàdellarte, Pushkin Museum, kim?) and ENGAGE (Viafarini) programmes in 2017. In 2018, it moved towards Decolonizing Architecture (Kungl.Konsthögskolan), passing through School of waters (Mediterranea Biennale, 2021). It resided at the Coopérative de recherche (ESACM Ph.D in practice 2019-2023). Between 2019 and 2022, together with Jérôme de Vienne, Ewa Sadowska and Angeliki Tzortzakaki, he organised bi-, a tentative residency favouring care and loitering. He is currently part of salmastra and paru paru, an art residency and reading room, both operating in Eastern Sicily. Since 2020, he has been building a pirate library through collective readings.
- Enej Gala
Enej Gala lives and works between London, Venice, and Nova Gorica. In 2014, he was on an exchange at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. He accomplished his B.A. in 2013 and his M.A. in 2015, both in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, and graduated from the Royal Academy Schools Postgraduate Programme in London in 2023. Since 2019, he has been running studio Tridol in Dolanci, where free improvisation, videomaking, and theater productions collide in unexpected scenarios. He has founded or been actively involved in artistic collectives such as Rotora, Jalovo and Fondazione Malutta. His practice, based on an acute awareness of thinking through making, is an attempt to grasp the experience of otherness. The medium of puppetry serves as a conceptual tool for an ontological exploration of materiality. Through a constant oscillation between demystifying its own mechanism and generating aesthetic illusion, this approach subverts established hierarchies between art and craftsmanship, while questioning the very conditions of artistic production through sustainable, socially conscious, and collaborative processes.
- Piero Gilardi
Piero Gilardi was born in Turin, Italy, in 1942. He died in Turin in 2023.
- Allison Grimaldi Donahue
Allison Grimaldi Donahue (Connecticut, USA, 1984) is a poet and artist. Through her practice she is interested in collective reading and writing experiences and the multiplicity of literature. She is the author of Comporci/Composing Ourselves (2026, ensemble), Becawse Becawse Becawse (Isola, 2026), The History of Breathing (Diaphnes, 2025), Body to Mineral (Publication Studio Vancouver, 2016), and On Endings (Delere Press, 2019), and translator of Self-portrait by Carla Lonzi (Divided, 2021). She has recently performed poetry and created installations at the Museo Madre, Guggenheim Foundation Venice, Luci d’Artista Torino, Kunsthalle Bern, Cabaret Voltaire, Sonnenstube Lugano, Short Theatre, MACRO, and MAMbo. Since 2022 she is co-curator of Bambine, an artist residency in Ticino dedicated to Alice Ceresa. In summer 2026 she curated a series of poetry events at Società delle Api in Rome with the title Langue Lost, Language Found. She was nominated for the 64th Termoli Prize at the MACTE Museum and she is winner of the 28th Premio Gallarate. She was a recipient of the 2025 Italian Council Talent Development Prize. Her collection A Bond That Needs Not/ Un legame che non ha bisogna is forthcoming from Pungitopo’s remedia imprint. She lives in Bologna.
- Industria Indipendente
Erika Z. Galli (b. 1983, Civitavecchia; lives in Rome) and Martina Ruggeri (b. 1986, Civitavecchia; lives in Rome) began Industria Indipendente, a research collective dedicated to the performing and visual arts, in 2005.
- Effe Minelli
Effe Minelli was born in 1986, Naples. He lives and works in Naples.
- Lisa Ponti
Lisa Ponti (1922-2019, Milan).
- Elena Radice
Elena Radice was born in 1987, Milan. She lives and works in Milan.
- Federico Tosi
Federico Tosi was born in 1988, Milan. He lives and works in Milan.
Jury
Antonia Alampi
Antonia Alampi is currently the director of Spore Initiative in Berlin. Her professional practice as a cultural organizer, curator, and director, has been defined by working collaboratively with artists and professionals from different fields and backgrounds, and within rather small-scale socially sensitive, politically engaged and structurally vulnerable organizations. She has been the artistic co-director of SAVVY Contemporary from 2016 to 2020, in the curatorial team of sonsbeek20-24, curator of Extra-City Kunsthal from 2017 to 2019, and curator of Beirut in Cairo from 2012 to 2015, among other things that go further back in time. She co-founded projects with strong positions, erratic lives and little to no funding, such as Future Climates (with iLiana Fokianaki), or Toxic Commons (with Caroline Ektander and Simone Müller, a.o.). Within and outside of institutions she has curated or been involved in many types of cultural and artistic projects, researches, movements, publications and actions pursuing social, political and environmental justice and supporting nonconformist forms of reading and interpreting the earth and its lives that have often been historically repressed or erased. She occasionally teaches, writes essays, edits books and talks in public. She is the mother of a girl and lives in Berlin.
Zoé Whitley
Dr. Zoé Whitley is Director of Chisenhale Gallery in London’s East End. A leading non-profit space founded by artists, Chisenhale produces and commissions new works of art with emerging British and international artists. Previous exhibitions to her credit include Frieze London’s special themed section, Possessions (2020), co-curating Elijah Pierce’s America at the Barnes Foundation (2020), the British Pavilion presentation of Cathy Wilkes at the Venice Biennale (2019) and co-curating the award-winning international touring exhibition Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power. She writes widely on contemporary artists and 20th century designers, including children’s books on Frank Bowling and Sophie Taeuber-Arp. She collaborated with Sharna Jackson on the Thames & Hudson book for young readers, Black Artists Shaping the World (2021).
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