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
Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene, Italy May 24 – July 20, 2025
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
Ursula Pokorny is a curator from Vienna, Austria. She is currently the curator of the Austrian central bank’s art collection and is writing her dissertation on artist Ceija Stojka. In 2025, Ursula participated in the YCRP at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin. Previously, she was Assistant Curator at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf, where she oversaw a retrospective of Yoko Ono in collaboration with Tate Modern in London. During her graduate studies, Ursula was a fellow in the Department of Media and Performance at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She also assisted director Elena Filipovic at Kunsthalle Basel, curator Adam Szymczyk at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, and worked for Galerie Martin Janda in Vienna. Ursula holds an M.A. from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College in New York and a B.A. from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.
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.
Montecristo Project is an artistic-curatorial duo founded in Sardinia in 2016 by artists Enrico Piras and Alessandro Sau. Blurring the lines between artistic creation and curatorial practice, the project manifests through artworks, exhibitions, essays, and custom-designed spaces. Central to their research is the creation of unique exhibition environments across Sardinia. Their debut space—a white cube housing the works of outsider artist Salvatore Mor—was built on a secluded islet off the Sardinian coast, its exact location kept secret. The duo also runs a “mountain department” set within an open structure in southern Sardinia, specifically dedicated to hosting artists who also run exhibition spaces. Expanding their practice into narrative territory, Montecristo Project created Deltitnu, a conceptual character whose wanderings through the art system capture the trials and experiences of an aspiring artist. Together, these physical and conceptual spaces serve as the visual and theoretical extension of the duo’s practice.
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.
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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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.