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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 2023 Coordinated by Michele Bertolino
Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene, Italy May 6 – July 23, 2023
I live in constant fear of the Western descent into . But I digress. [...]
When thinking of ‘political time’, what often comes to mind is a momentary convergence of bodies in a specific space: rallies, protests, uprisings, with stillness and quietude rarely treated as part of the same cycle. The latter states are often regarded as individualistic retreats from ‘politics’, when in fact they allow for various attempts at regrouping and organising. With oppressive power structures having effectively stripped active, assembled bodies of their potency—and even rest itself becoming co-opted to make capitalism more efficient—radical action is left as a hollowed-out site.
I live in constant fear of the Western descent into . But I digress. The club is bumping, the alcohol is flowing, everybody looks good. There is much pain in the world but not in this room. is a two-fold manifestation: an exhibition with six Italian artists centred around the re-eroticisation of (political) bodies, and a publication with texts and visual works by six other Italian artists focusing on a revitalisation of language through poetry.
The exhibition is situated within moments of quietude, in the valleys of political time. Embodied by a sense of dormancy, the artists find potentiality in exhaustion and see stillness charged with the prevailing hum of eroticism. They evade framing stillness as rest, refusal or inactivity, instead grounding quietude within the body—be it social, collective, machinic, of images—and envisioning it as a mode of resistance.
A collection of poems, essays, and other textual and visual interventions, the book expands on the revitalisation of language as a method of resistance to constant hegemonic appropriation. The structures of capitalism have reduced language to an exchange of information, stripping it of its affective—and therefore political—power and potential. The contributions to this publication frame poetic language as an “excess” beyond informational circulation and exchange, reinvigorating our social and political imagination.
Enrico Boccioletti considers tenderness and vulnerability between the digital and physical world. His work isolates intimate and accessible actions like stick-and-poke tattooing or a contentious figure dancing in an empty club to expose the soft underbelly of power structures.
Through her anthropomorphic sculptures—concrete limbs and skin-like structures—Sara Enrico locates the potentiality of exhaustion within the body. Although fragmented and unshackled, Enrico’s corporeal figures simultaneously resist coherence and collapse.
Stefano Faoro interacts with social habits formed from the tension between public and private spaces, as well as the peculiarities of daily interpersonal relations and exchange. The subjects of his paintings are evanescent, ghostly remnants of individuals stripped of their context and community, reduced to archetypes.
In her video works, Benedetta Fioravanti drifts through seemingly empty cities, familiar places from which she feels alienated. These works portray an in-between state, a blue hour that could be dusk or dawn, foregrounding both exhaustion and potentiality.
Rebecca Moccia explores the institutional structures that shape our emotive lives. By rendering them in intimate spaces, she underlines the illusion of their authority and exposes their tenuous formations. The specificity of news stories no longer holds, instead collapsing into sensory stillness and ambience.
Valentina Parati gives voice to machinic bodies. She places microphones on the surfaces of cars, surveillance cameras and office furniture and, through audio processing, translates their testimonies into sonic poetic language.
In conjunction with the exhibition, the book published by AXIS AXIS (Turin) will be celebrated with a public program on May 26th, at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin. The launch will feature readings by several of the book’s contributors. More information about the programme to follow.
Contributors include:
Riccardo Benassi, a video artist and poet whose work defines subjectivity through collective experience in the face of ubiquitous violence.
Giulia Crispiani, a writer who maps romance and embarrassment as vulnerable sites of political potential.
Ilenia Caleo, an artist, poet and activist advocating for the re-eroticisation of globally collective and interconnected bodies through convergence and poetics.
Sandra Cane, a writer investigating how the structures of language form and break down when grounded in the body.
Andrea Lo Giudice, an artist and community organiser whose poetic practice repurposes found language and reclaims authoritarian signage.
Flavia Tritto, a visual artist using concrete poetry to explore how human and non-human bodies converge.
Curators
Katherine Jemima Hamilton
Katherine Jemima Hamilton is a curator, writer, and educator born and raised on unceded Ligwilda’xw territory. In 2014, she moved to Treaty 13 territory, aka Tkaronto, to pursue a degree in art history at the University of Toronto, only to move again in 2019 to unceded Chochenyo Ohlone, then Ramaytush Ohlone territory, known by settlers as the Bay Area, to learn more about contemporary art and curating. She is grateful to have been a guest on these lands.Her research interests include feminism and technology, craft and ritual in contemporary frameworks, repatriation and unsettling practices for colonial institutions, and exploring sound as a framework for making, working, and living together. She has held various positions at institutions such as Collecteurs, The Wattis Institute, KADIST, SFMOMA, California College of the Arts, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Art Metropole, and The Museum at Campbell River, to name a few.
Christy Eóin O’Beirne
Christy Eóin O’Beirne (Bradford, UK, 1997) is a curator whose work investigates entanglements between land, labour and language. Currently, O’Beirne is Exhibitions Curator at Metroland Cultures (2023–), where he is producing Rushes, an iterative exhibition programme illuminating local migrant and working-class histories of resistance. In 2025, O’Beirne was Postdoctoral Research Associate on an AHRC-funded project whose research into textile mills spanned Bradford, UK and New Jersey, USA, and culminated in an international symposium. He was nominated for the 17th edition of the Young Curators Residency Programme at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, IT, where he co-curated a major group exhibition featuring over ten commissions, and published an accompanying book, I live in constant fear of the Western descent into— (Axis, axis, 2023). Previously, O’Beirne co-ordinated the 25th Anniversary edition of Deptford X festival, which included over 150 artists (2023). He also received a Curatorial Fellowship from Goldsmiths CCA (2021-22), where he assisted with several major exhibitions. O’Beirne holds an MFA in Curating from Goldsmiths, University of London (2019-21) and a BA (Hons) in English Literature, Art History & Visual Culture from University of Exeter (2015-2018).
Ariane Sutthavong
Ariane Sutthavong is involved in curation, writing and translation projects at the intersection of art and politics in Bangkok. She co-founded the ‘inappropriate BOOK CLUB’, an ongoing initiative centred around the collective reading and writing of texts, supporting a third view of contemporary art in Thailand beyond both the confines of the state and the interests of capitalism. She is also a member of the London-based collective ‘tent’, exploring practices and theories that re-envisage dominant structures through temporary and tentative configurations and solidarities.
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
- Riccardo Benassi
Riccardo Benassi – visual artist born in Cremona (IT) – lives and works in Berlin (DE), Bergamo (IT), and online. He uses text and sound to question the limits of technology from an existentialist perspective, creating time-based environmental installations, video essays, performances, and spatial interventions. His multidisciplinary work reflects on how technological devices have radically altered daily structures of living, from architecture to politics, to cultural production and consumption. Traversing 1990s subcultures and the underground music scene, he employs new media to focus on the millennial generation, serving as a point of reference both in theory and practice. His work has been presented among other venues at MAXXI (Rome, L’Aquila), Museion (Bolzano), Palazzo Grassi (Venice), Fondazione ICA (Milan), ZKM (Karlsruhe), and CAC (Geneva), among others. He was a finalist for the MAXXI Bvlgari Prize 2024. Benassi has been Professor of Sound Design at Politecnico delle Arti in Bergamo since 2013 and Visual Art lecturer at NABA in Milan since 2019. He has published several books, including Attimi Fondamentali (Mousse Publishing 2012), Techno Casa (Errant Bodies 2015), Morestalgia (NERO Publishing 2020), and Daily Dense Dance Desiderio (Distanz 2023).
- Enrico Boccioletti
Enrico Boccioletti (b. 1984, Pesaro) lives and works in Milan. Boccioletti operates at the fringes of current artistic research and practices, resisting and deconstructing what is conventionally recognised as such. Embracing indeterminacy as a method, his output spans a variety of media, including installation, performance, writing, moving image and sound. He has exhibited, performed and collaborated with artist-run initiatives and institutional spaces such as ZKM (Karlsruhe), MUSEION (Bolzano/Bozen), Gelateria Sogni di Ghiaccio (Bologna), Threesound Expo (Berlin), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Torino/Guarene), TILE (Milan), Ludwig Museum (Budapest), La Plage (Paris), Istituto Svizzero (Rome/Milan), XING and MAMbo (Bologna) and OGR (Turin).
- Ilenia Caleo
Ilenia Caleo (b. 1974, Livorno) is a performer, activist and researcher. Since 2000 she has been working as an actress, performer and dramaturg in the contemporary scene, collaborating with various companies and directors. A philosopher by training, she deals with corporality, feminist epistemologies, experiments in the performing arts, new institutions and forms of cultural work.
- Sandra Cane
Sandra Cane (b. 1990, Milano) is a writer and independent researcher of queer studies and Palestinian contemporary culture. Through her research, she examines radical imagination and futurity as cultural practices of queering normative narratives of the present. She writes for magazines and online platforms.
- Giulia Crispiani
Giulia Crispiani was born in 1986, Ancona, Italy. She lives and works in Roma.
- Sara Enrico
Sara Enrico (b. 1979, Biella) lives in Turin. She has exhibited her works in numerous venues, including: Fondazione Furla and GAM – Galleria d’arte Moderna, Milan; Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea; Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto; OGR, Turin; 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia; Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna; American Academy in Rome; Národní galerie Praha, Prague; Mart, Rovereto; Centrale Fies Art Work Space, Dro; OFF Biennale Cairo, Cairo; Marsèlleria, New York; PAV, Turin; IX Biennale Internazionale Arte in Memoria, Parco di Ostia Antica; Les Instants Chavirés, Montreuil; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin and Palazzo Rebaudengo, Guarene; Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como; and Galleria d’arte moderna e contemporanea di Turin, among others. She has received several production grants and awards, including the Italian Fellowship in Visual Arts from the Fondazione Sviluppo e Crescita CRT at the American Academy in Rome (2021); Cantica21 (2021); the Italian Council (2018); and the New York Prize (2017–2018), among others. She is the co-founder of Laboratorio del Dubbio, a cross-disciplinary residency platform launched in Turin (seven chapters, 2016). From 2008 to 2012, she was part of Progetto Diogene, an artist-led collective exploring shared artistic identities. She is currently a professor at the Politecnico delle Arti in Bergamo.
- Stefano Faoro
Stefano Faoro’s (b. 1984, Belluno) lives and works in Bologna, Italy. Recent exhibitions include: Mondo Congelato, A Sud, Pescara (2026); Titanic, Rue Américaine 13, Brussels (2026); Affiliate, Brussels (2025); Fellow Travelers, Empire, New York (2025); No sleeper seats, that’s a mattress, Cherry Hill, Cologne (2024); Files, Backrooms, Kunsthalle Zurich (2024); Students, Caravan, Oslo (2023); Your new room, Fanta, Milan (2022); The young fascist militant, Kunstverein Nürnberg (2022); The One and Only, Etablissement D’en Face, Brussels (2024); Carefully Unplanned, dépendance c/o Conceptual Fine Arts, Milan (2023); E / G# / D / A# /, NOUSMOULES c/o L’Etoile Endettée, Berlin (2021); Soft Knees, Wiels, Contemporary Art Center Brussels (2019). Since 2021, he has directed the traveling exhibition program News from Europe, which has been held in Bari, Frankfurt, and Bologna. Since 2016, he has been a member of the temporary bookstore and public program Publikationen + Editionen, which took place at Felix Gaudlitz in Vienna, Shanaynay in Paris, and in a former butcher shop in Brussels.
- Benedetta Fioravanti
Benedetta Fioravanti (Ascoli Piceno, 1995) is an artist based in Italy. Her practice primarily takes the form of moving images and site-specific works that draw on her personal archive of images as source material, exploring, juxtaposing and recomposing them to construct new narratives. Her work has been presented in numerous exhibitions, talks and screenings, and is held in several public and private collections. In 2026, she participates in the group exhibition A Slant Of Light at Casa Flash Art, Milan, and is awarded a research and residency grant by the Italian Council of the Italian Ministry of Culture for a project developed in collaboration with the Fondation Claudia Cardinale in France and Art House in Shkodër, Albania. She takes part in the Alchemilla and MARES artistic residencies and presents her work in screenings at MART – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto and Fondazione Elpis, Milan. In 2025, she participates in Windows at Authorized Dealer Gallery, Los Angeles, with Now Instant, and Machine Wreckers: 20 Acts in One Day at Spazio Punch, Venice. Her work is also presented by Microclima within Cinema Galleggiante in Venice. In 2024, she creates the opening title for the 17th edition of Lo Schermo dell’Arte Film Festival in Florence and participates in the 15th Havana Biennial. She is selected for the Wonderful! Art Research Program and participates in exhibitions and screenings in Florence, Milan and Rome. In 2023, she is selected for the Nuovo Grand Tour by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture and participates in group exhibitions at Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Fondazione Stelline, Milan, and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene.
- Andrea Lo Giudice
Andrea Lo Giudice (b. 1994, Roma) is a visual artist whose research focuses on the semantic redetermination of places and words. Through tools such as drawing, installation and performative action, he recontextualises the environment in which he intervenes by providing new poetic visions where the Subject blurs its boundaries until it merges with the Other and with the surrounding space.
- Rebecca Moccia
Rebecca Moccia (b. 1992, Napoli) transdisciplinary practice explores the materiality of perceptive and emotional states that can emerge from specific social and spatial characteristics. In her installations, she combines moving images, photography, and sculptural elements. These works are developed through situated research, which often involves collaborative practices. Rebecca Moccia’s recent solo projects have been presented at Italian Pavilion 15th Gwangju Biennale (South Korea), Temple Bar Gallery + Studios (Dublin), OGR Torino, ICA Milano, Fondazione Zegna (Trivero), Mazzoleni (Turin), Jupiter Woods (London), IIC Bruxelles, Cripta747 (Turin), among others.
Between 2021 and 2023, she received the Careof – ArteVisione Prize, and the Italian Council X international research grant issued by the Italian Ministry of Culture for a project developed in collaboration with Magazzino Italian Art (New York), Nanzan University (Nagoya), the Italian Cultural Institute in Seoul, and Seoul Institute of the Arts, among other partners. Since 2026, she has been a PhD researcher in Visual Arts and Creative Practices at the Naples Academy of Fine Arts. Moccia is also an activist and a founding member of AWI – Art Workers Italia. - Valentina Parati
Valentina Parati (b. 1996, Bergamo) is an Italian film director and screenwriter working across fiction and hybrid cinema. She holds an MA in Cinema from ECAL / HEAD Genève. Her current research focuses on the family as the first system of authority, examining intimacy within abusive contexts and the silent traces trauma leaves behind. Sound plays a central role in her work, often treating machines as emotional organisms and mechanical orchestras as ritual devices capable of transforming memory and violence. Her films have been presented at festivals including Queer Lisboa, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, NIFF, Festival Aux Courts, and the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market, as well as in exhibitions at CAC Genève, Ciaccia Levi, and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. Her work has been featured in Flash Art Italia, with an upcoming screening in collaboration with Mousse Magazine. She has given guest lectures at the AA Architecture School in Berlin, collaborated with ZKM and ECAL, and recently pitched her latest feature project at ECAM in Madrid.
- Flavia Tritto
Flavia Tritto (b. 1994, Bari) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice unfolds across installation, video, social action, and curatorial work. Currently based in Rome, she is a PhD candidate in Visual Arts and Creative Practices at the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples. She is co-founder and co-curator of VOGA Art Project in Bari. After completing a degree in Political Science (2015) and a Master’s in International Law (2017), she began her artistic career with an MA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London (2019). Since then, she has participated in several international research-based artistic residencies. Among the most significant are Nuovo Grand Tour, promoted by the Italian Ministry of Culture at Dos Mares (Marseille, France, 2024); The Interference Summer Project (Tunis, Tunisia, 2023); Trainings for the Not-Yet at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (Canada, 2019); and The European Academy of Participation, organised by the Goethe-Institut at La Friche Belle de Mai (Marseille, France, 2018). From 2020 to 2025, she was based in Bari, where she was involved in queer activism with MIXED LGBTQIA+ and where she also curates the Puglia edition of “Una Boccata d’Arte”, a nationwide project by Fondazione Elpis.
Jury
Sepake Angiama
Sepake Angiama praxis stems from radical pedagogies, black feminist thought, rethinking human/non-human relations rooted in how we might reimagine and inhabit the world otherwise. Through continued and sustained dialogues and collaborations with artists she initiated under the mango tree – a gathering of artist-led schools centring unlearning, decolonising and indigenous practices. She has developed educational programmes for various institutions, including Tate Modern, documenta 14 and Manifesta 12. She is the artistic director of the Institute of International Visual Arts (iniva), dedicated to building community by making space for artistic research through radial education practices, collective study, residency, publishing and community-led commissioning that reflects on art and social justice.
Bart van der Heide
Bart van der Heide is an art historian, curator, and the director of Museion in Bolzano, where he initiated the multidisciplinary research project TECHNO HUMANITIES. The three-year project (2021-2023) includes exhibitions, publications, roundtable discussions, and art mediation programs. The exhibition series focuses on pressing existential questions concerning human beings at the intersection of ecology, technology, and economy. In TECHNO HUMANITIES, external international research teams delve into and develop the addressed themes, while simultaneously providing a platform for young talents to realize their aspirations. An important aspect of the project is the involvement of local initiatives.
The exhibition “Kingdom of the Ill” represents the second chapter of the three-year project that Van der Heide launched in 2021 with the exhibition “TECHNO” (September 11, 2021 – March 16, 2022).
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