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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 Bertolinoq
Residency
In 2025, YCRP Torino introduces a new format to critically reflect on past editions of the residency while maintaining and adapting its function to better respond to the needs of an ever-changing landscape of curatorial practice and artistic research. This new chapter of YCRP Torino will be tailored to the specific interests and research topics of the selected curators, providing an updated platform for them to develop meaningful relationships with art professionals working in Italy.
The new format of YCRP will consist of three interconnected stages. The first month of the programme will be dedicated to in-depth research, including portfolio reviews, online studio visits, and lectures with Italian curators, art historians and critics, introducing participants to the local context. Conceived of as a “toolbox,” this first stage will prepare the curators for the second stage: the travel-residency, during which they will spend more than two months travelling across the country. Each trip will be organised according to the interests of each curator and overseen by the Italian coordinator of the programme, who will advise their research. During this period, participants will meet with artists and art professionals while visiting key institutions in order to construct a broader perspective of the art ecosystem in Italy. Finally, YCRP will culminate in three exhibition projects—each organised by an individual curator-in-residence—to offer three distinct perspectives of the Italian art scene.
With this new format, the Young Curators Residency Programme is designed to encourage a closer and deeper collaboration between emerging international curators and emerging Italian artists, fostering an ongoing dialogue structured around shared interests within a site-specific context.
The curators selected for the 19th edition of YCRP Torino are: Kittima Chareeprasit (Thailand), Yueh-Ning Lee (Taiwan), and Ursula Pokorny (Austria). The coordinator of this edition is Michele Bertolino. The curators were selected by a jury consisting of Eva Fabbris, director at MADRE – Museum of Contemporary Art Donnaregina, Naples, and Krist Gruijthuijsen, curator and art critic, Berlin.
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.
Kittima Chareeprasit
Kittima Chareeprasit (Mahasarakham, Thailand, 1989) is a curator at MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum in Chiang Mai and MAIELIE in Khon Kaen, Thailand. Since 2016, she has co-founded Waiting You Curator Lab, an experimental curatorial workshop and artists’ book publishing house. Her interests lie in contemporary art and culture, with a focus on critical history, social, and political issues. She explores how art can be made accessible and widely distributed to the public, emphasizing its role as a process of collecting and preserving both personal and collective memory. Through her work, she collaborates with emerging and established artists, engaging with the cultural and historical contexts of Southeast Asia.
Her selected recent curatorial work includes MUE: Deracinated Land at Fondazione Sandretto re Rebaudengo, Guarene, Torino (2025) Art for Impact at Asia-Pacific ministerial conference on the Beijing 30 review, United Nation ROAP (2024) Dreamworld #dreammantra at MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum (2023) and Dreamday at Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok (2022) both solo exhibitions by Mit Jai-inn. Additionally, A Minor History by Apichatpong Weerasethakul at MAIELIE, Khon Kaen (2022), Watch and Chill: Streaming Art to Your Homes, a free subscription-based art streaming platform curated in collaboration with the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Korea, the Contemporary Art and Design Museum in Manila, and M+ West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong (2021), Solo exhibitions of Pinaree Sanpitak include House Calls at 100 Tonson Foundation, Bangkok (2020), and Breast Stupa Cookery: The World Turns Upside Down at Nova Contemporary, Bangkok (2020), Temporal Topography: MAIIAM’s New Acquisitions; from 2010 to Present at MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum (2019), and In Search of Other Times: Reminiscence of Things Collected at JWD Art Space in Bangkok (2019). Kittima also runs a publication series, The Museum of Unfortunate Events (2017-), an open-ended volume of artist books featuring works from Thai and international artists whose creations are related to personal and collective memories of society from different events. She received her MA in Curating and Collections from Chelsea College of Arts, London.
Yueh-Ning Lee
Yueh-Ning Lee is an independent curator and researcher based between Taipei and London. She holds an MFA in Curating at Goldsmiths, University of London (2023), where she later worked as a Junior Fellow in the MFA Curating programme (2023–2024). Lee’s background is shaped by her work experience of exhibition-making in public art and off-site projects in Taiwan. Her curatorial practice engages with time-based media, performance, and installation, approached by the methods of interdependence, care, and slowness. Her current research investigates the intersections of body politics, ecology, and technology, with a particular focus on vulnerability and precarity as regenerative capacities within the fluid self. She is also interested in how technological acceleration and Capitalism reshape emotional landscapes and the relationships between humans and more-than-human agencies.
Recent projects include: Welcome to my Crib (GUTS PROJECTS, London, 2024); Lavender, Hibernation and Neon (The Crypt Gallery, London, 2024); and Those Who Dream, Dine (Upper Ankyle, London, 2023). As part of the curatorial duo Otherwise, she co-curated With(out) Language: In conversation with Karin Keisu and Josse Thuresson (Art/Work Association, Auto Italia, London, 2023) and (…) Forgot to Remember to Forget (…) (Gerald Moore Gallery, London, 2022). Lee is also the co-initiator of Exhausted Feminist Hybrid Species reading group, a peer-led platform that fosters collective learning and critical review centred around eco- and cyberfeminism.
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.
Jury
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).
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.
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