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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

Have you ever seen two animals fighting?

Have you ever seen two animals fighting? Valentina Furian’s solo exhibition opens with the disquieting title, inviting viewers to become protagonists within a speculative scenario where instinctual and the constructed, visible and the submerged, day and night, collide.
The exhibition takes its title and inspiration from Giorgio De Maria’s novel “The Twenty Days of Turin,” (1977) in which collective insomnia alludes to the intense socio-political climate in the 1970s. Furian transforms the ghostly evocation of the phenomenon, infusing it with cinematic and literary references to draw parallels with contemporary anxieties. Surveillance, silent violence, and social, biopolitical control over humans and more-than-human agents emerge as undercurrents running through the exhibition.
Newly commissioned site-specific works form the core of the exhibition, manifesting Furian’s posthuman approach and narrative fiction as methodology. Featuring time-based media installations, photography, and large-scale drawings, Furian intends to reshape the spaces into a porous, affective body, where portals, monitors, and a mirroring lake serve as thresholds for transformation. Within them, boundaries blur, and senses of tension and tenderness fuse.
Lights evoking night vision used in hunting and military operations function as sensory signals and conceptual threads guiding viewers through the spaces. Here, the roles of predator and prey interchange. As viewers navigate in the disoriented, multi-sensory terrain, power dynamics oscillate between domination and submission, mirroring the shared vulnerability inscribed in the bodies of monuments, animals, and humans. In this opacity, where gazes, voices and bodies resist fixed meanings, a loop turns quietly —an end and a beginning—hovering at ever-open thresholds where they continuously meet.

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.

Artists

Valentina Furian

Valentina Furian (b. 1989, Venice) is a visual artist whose practice unfolds primarily through moving images and time-based installations. In 2025, she took part in the main program of ArtCity at MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, curated by Lorenzo Balbi and Caterina Molteni. In 2024, she inaugurated her solo exhibition Notti Bianche, curated by Paola Nicolin, at XNL, Piacenza. That same year, she presented her film Ciacco within Cinema Underground, curated by Irene Calderoni for Gallerie d’Italia in Turin, and Centauro at the Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, as part of a program curated by TBD Ultramagazine.
Also in 2024, she participated in the Biennale Gherdëina, curated by Lorenzo Giusti with Marta Papini, and was awarded the New York Prize with ISCP – International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York (USA). In 2023, she was artist-in-residence at Proa21, Fondazione PROA in Buenos Aires (AR), in collaboration with GAMeC, Bergamo, and was selected for the Nuovo Forno del Pane program at MAMbo. Her works have also been exhibited at Fondazione Stelline in Milan (IT) and MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century Arts in Rome (IT). In 2022, she took part in the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin festival (FR).
In 2021, she exhibited in Encounter the Imagination at Pearl Art Museum, Shanghai (CN), presented a video work in Re-Creatures at Mattatoio, Rome (IT), and took part in the group exhibition Resisting the Trouble – Moving Images in Times of Crisis within the framework of VISIO and Lo Schermo dell’Arte in Florence (IT).
She has collaborated with numerous institutions and experimental spaces, including ISCP – International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York (USA); Fondazione Proa, Buenos Aires (AR); Pearl Art Museum, Shanghai (CN); Rencontres Internationales | Paris/Berlin, IIC Paris (FR); Sunaparanta Center for Contemporary Art Goa, IIC Mumbai (IND); Collezione Farnesina, MAXXI, MUSE – Museo delle Scienze di Trento, MAMbo, The Blank Contemporary Art – Bergamo, Casa Capra – Vicenza, Fondazione Stelline, Chez PLINIO, Case Chiuse, CareOf, ViaFarini – Milan, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Microclima – Venice, Cinema Visionario – Udine (IT); Goyki3 Art Inkubator, Sopot (PL); and Graz (AT).

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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