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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 2025. Coordinated by Michele Bertolino
Deltitnu
Deltitnu is a young artist from Sardinia. He studied painting at the academy but has not exhibited his works often. In fact, this is the first time that Deltitnu exhibits at a museum. For this occasion, he shows some of his best paintings and drawings. They are portraits of people and other animals, both real and fictional. The people are ghosts that frequently appear to the artist. The animals, on the other hand, represent specific artists, curators, and directors that Deltitnu personally knows and works with. It is important for Deltitnu to reflect his position as an artist in the art world. He conducted in-depth research on the history of modern art in Sardinia. Out of this research stem the abstract paintings and sculptures in the show as well as its exhibition design. In order to present his works within a larger context, Deltitnu invited two other artists to exhibit their pieces alongside his. The Penguin’s works on paper in the large space deepen the engagement with portraiture and its representational character. The last gallery is dedicated to performances by the monkey. They suggest considering an artwork not as a singular object but as part of a larger surrounding with a story and architecture.
Deltitnu is an exhibition by Montecristo Project, Cagliari
Curators
Ursula Pokorny
Ursula Pokorny is a curator from Vienna, Austria. Her research focuses on architectural heritage and artists’ estates. Until recently, she was Assistant Curator at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf, overseeing a retrospective of Yoko Ono in collaboration with Tate Modern in London. Previously, Ursula has worked for the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Kunsthalle Basel, Galerie Martin Janda, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Ursula holds an M.A. from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, New York and a B.A. from the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.
Coordinator
Michele Bertolino
Michele Bertolino (he/him) is a curator and researcher living between Turin and Rome. He currently collaborates with Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo as coordinator of the Young Curators Residency Program. He is editing the publication Porpora – a photographic book of Lina Pallotta’s work. He curated exhibitions in several institutions, among those: MAMbo, Bologna; Last Tango, Zurich; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino. 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. His writings have been published in Nero Magazine, Flash Art and other magazines. In 2022 he published Albe e tramonti in Praiano*, written together with Giulia Crispiani. He graduated in philosophy of art at the University of Turin and in 2015-2016 he participated in CAMPO15, a course of curatorial studies and practices of the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation.
Artists
- Montecristo Project
Deltitnu is the protagonist of a research project initiated in 2022 by Montecristo Project. Under the title Deltitnu (Meta-Exhibitions): Free Thoughts of Animals on the Origin of the Work of Art and Vice Versa, Montecristo Project develops a series of experimental exhibitions that weave together visual and narrative elements, addressing questions such as the origin of the artwork, its relationship with the art system, and the figures that inhabit it. The project unfolds through exhibitions accompanied by texts written as dialogues between the works, where the narrative begins with a mysterious murder.
Montecristo Project is an artist-curator duo founded by Enrico Piras and Alessandro Sau in 2016. Over the years, they have created several exhibition spaces in Sardinia as extensions of their artistic and theoretical research: among them, a white cube on a small deserted island originally conceived to host the works of Salvatore Moro; an open structure for exhibitions set in the mountains of southern Sardinia; and an archive space in the city of Cagliari, accessible by invitation.
Jury
Eva Fabbris
Art historian and critic, born in 1979, Eva Fabbris is currently the Director of the MADRE Museum in Naples. She holds a PhD in Humanities and has worked in the curatorial departments of Fondazione Prada, Milan (2016–23); Galleria Civica di Trento (2009); and Museion, Bolzano (2008–09). As an independent curator, she has organized exhibitions in Italian and European institutions, including the MADRE—where in 2021 she co-curated with Andrea Viliani Diego Marcon. The Parents’ Room—as well as Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan; Chiostri di Sant’Eustorgio, Milan; Triennale Milano; Fondazione Morra, Naples; Nouveau Musée National de Monaco; and Galerie de l’erg, Brussels. She teaches at NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan, and has been invited as a guest lecturer to deliver talks and conversations at institutions such as the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Daimler Foundation, Berlin; HEAD – Haute école d’art et de design, Geneva; KHiO – Oslo National Academy of the Arts; GAM – Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Turin; and numerous Italian universities. Fabbris has contributed to several contemporary art magazines, including Mousse Magazine, Cura, and Flash Art. She has also edited numerous artist monographs, among them Tomaso Binga. Euforia (Lenz, 2024), co-edited with Lilou Vidal and Stefania Zuliani—a volume accompanying the eponymous exhibition curated by Eva Fabbris with Daria Khan, currently on view at the MADRE.
Krist Gruijthuijsen
Curator and art critic Krist Gruijthuijsen has been the director of KW Institute for Contemporary Art from 2016 until 2024. At KW, he has curated exhibitions by Hanne Lippard, Ian Wilson, Adam Pendleton, Ronald Jones, Hiwa K, Willem de Rooij, Beatriz González, David Wojnarowicz, Hreinn Friðfinnsson, Hassan Sharif, Leonilson, and Peter Friedl, Michel Majerus, Martin Wong, Enrico David, Jimmy DeSana and Paul P. among others, and has edited numerous publications.
Krist Gruijthuijsen is internationally well-connected and has many years of experience as curator and director of leading international institutions for contemporary art. Gruijthuijsen was artistic director of the Grazer Kunstverein from 2012 until 2016 and held the position of course director of the MA Fine Arts Department at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam from 2011 until 2016. He is one of the co-founding directors of the Kunstverein in Amsterdam and has organized many exhibitions and projects over the past 15 years, including Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven, NL), Arnolfini (Bristol, GB), Project Arts Centre (Dublin), Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (Salt Lake City, US), Institute of Modern Art (Brisbane, AU), Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (Gateshead, GB), Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery (Vancouver, CA), with MoMA PS1 (New York), CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux (FR), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève (CH), Sharjah Art Foundation, Malmö Konsthall (SE) , and Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves (Porto, PT).
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